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Work History
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Accomplishments
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Diana Yanez-Pastor

Los Gatos,CA

Summary

A Customer Advocate leader who focuses on driving strategic priorities, personalized customer experiences, and results.

Helping clients build a bridge to customers. A storyteller who partners with customers to share innovation and thought leadership. Delivering successful marketing programs, to organizations like yours, and by collaborating cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and customer success.

Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Hard-working leaders who deliver results and exceed expectations. Creative and motivated- adept at utilizing exceptional design and planning strengths to accomplish complex projects. Skilled in teaching new concepts and best practice strategies.

Overview

34
34
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Customer Advocacy Leader - Contractor

Zscaler
01.2023 - 10.2023
  • Delivered Customer Advocacy programs by engaging cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and customer success.
  • Applied strong leadership talents to deliver on the customer experience.
  • Optimized customer advocacy by cultivating personalized relationships to drive customer storytelling and brand ambassadors.
  • Creating Brand Ambassadors by sharing customers' business and IT transformation through storytelling.

Achievements: Secured 5 customer stories for webinars and 13 customer assets in 10 months. Conducted 8 onsite customer videos

(50% increase Y/Y). Delivered 20 customer speakers for breakout sessions at Zenith Live conference. Drove Gartner Peer Insights campaigns (76 Reviews (47% increase Y/Y ).

Senior Director, Customer Advocacy

Delphix
01.2022 - 09.2022
  • Built a Customer Advocacy practice with programs to deliver on key strategic priorities, and influence revenue.
  • Developed and drove best-in-class customer marketing campaigns and programs to support adoption, loyalty, advocacy, and storytelling- a customer marketing leader who drives partnerships
  • Formed strategic partnerships and connected with customers to deliver lifetime customer value.
  • Delivered strategic improvements to enhance operational and organizational efficiencies.

Achievements: Secured 9 customer advocates from CXO's to share their innovation at Data Company Summit. Delivered 4 customers for videos & stories to showcase innovation. Implemented a customer advocacy practice and platform.

Director Customer Marketing

Cloudera
01.2019 - 01.2022
  • Drove Customer Marketing and Advocacy across the company to deliver a CX strategy and discipline.
  • Fostered interconnected relationships with customers through their journey.
  • Oversaw interview and preparation of marketing customer storytelling: videos, stories, blogs, and webinars.
  • Devised content strategy to effectively engage target audiences - built up the APAC region of customer assets.
  • Secured long-term accounts by recommending strategies to promote brand effectiveness and highlight product benefits.


Achievements: Delivered 8-10 quarterly customers for storytelling, videos, and webinars. Secured 25 annual customer VIP nominees & 7 award winners for the Data Hero Awards. Implemented a customer reference & advocacy platform. Built a sales incentive plan with 30+ stories created, globally. Drove Americas & APAC region customer advocacy.

Director, Customer Marketing Programs

Hortonworks
11.2017 - 01.2019
  • Led a team of two people in customer experience programs.
  • Built and executed successful customer experience programs driving awareness, relationships, new opportunities, and influenced revenue.
  • Focused on multi-channel customer engagement across social, community, and company internal social share.
  • Established relationships with sales and executives to influence revenue (EBC’s to references).
  • Interacted well with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.
  • Mentored and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.


Achievements: Contributed and oversaw the creation of 10+ quarterly attainment of customer storytelling. Built an annual VIP customer awards program. Implemented a customer advocacy platform for references and to track a spiff program for sales.

Senior Manager, Customer Marketing Experience

DELL-EMC, ECD
11.2014 - 05.2017
  • Led a global team of four people in Marketing to develop a strategic program to grow and strengthen the Customer Experience.
  • Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
  • Managed large-scale projects and introduced new systems, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
  • Recommended and implemented successful strategies to maximize revenue.


Achievements: Delivered 12+ quarterly customer stories, videos, blogs, webinars. 12 customers for webinar participation. Secured customers for annual conference speaking, media and AR/PR opportunities.

Senior Manager, Sales Operations

EMC Corp.
06.2010 - 11.2014
  • Led a global team of six responsible for the customer reference community, EBC, compliance, and customer advocacy.
  • Cultivated positive relationships with customers to promote their innovation and thought leadership through storytelling.
  • Successfully managed budgets and allocated resources to maximize productivity and profitability.


Achievements: Secured 60+ annual EBC's to help close business and new opportunities. Implemented a customer reference and advocacy platform. Delivered 12+ quarterly customers for storytelling.

Implemented a customer advocacy & reference platform. Compliance program drove 5-7M in secured revenue.

Manager, Sales Operations

EMC Corp.
03.2008 - 06.2010
  • Managed a global team of four people responsible for customer references, recruitment, and sales tools.

Reference Manager & Sales Support

EMC Corp.
07.2004 - 03.2008
  • Delivered qualified references to accelerate the sales cycle, influence revenue, and sales support tools (Q&A).

Corporate Sales Account Manager

Documentum
01.2000 - 07.2004
  • Sold enterprise software across Media, Entertainment & Telco customers.


Achievements: Annual quota achievement (105%+) and qualified for Presidents Club four times out of five.

Sales Support Renewals Manager

Documentum
01.1998 - 01.2000
  • Managed global customers for annual support renewals.


Achievements: Exceeded annual quota by 120% for 1998 and 110% for 1999. Precedents Club recipient.

Inside Sales Account Manager Roles

Caere Corporation, Calera Recognition Systems, And Everex Systems
08.1989 - 12.1997

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Management (Honors)

University of Phoenix
07.2019

Skills

  • Process Improvement
  • Strategic Planning
  • Goal-Oriented
  • Business Planning
  • Business Administration
  • Training and Mentoring
  • Complex Problem-Solving
  • Project Management

Accomplishments

Customer Experience Specialist (CES) Certification

Top100 CMA 2023 Award Recipeint


Education Awards

  • Named Top100 CMA, 2023
  • Customer Experience Specialist (CES) | CX University
  • Bachelor of Science in Management (Graduated with Honors) | University of Phoenix
  • Associate Degree in Liberal Arts (English & History) | West Valley College

Organizations Volunteering

  • Customer Experience Professional Association (CXPA) Member, 2014- Present
  • Bay Area Customer Advocacy Member, 2018-Present
  • Center for Customer Engagement Member, 2008-Present
  • EMC Woman Leadership Forum Member, 2012-2017
  • San Jose Animal Care Center (Shelter), Dog socializer, October 2021-2022
  • Martha's Helpers - St. Mary's Church Funeral Volunteer, June 2016-Present
  • Leigh High School Theater, Social Media and PR Lead, August 2017-June 2019

Systems

  • Highspot, Sales Portal
  • Reference View Customer Platform (RO Innovations/Upland Software)
  • Influitive Customer Advocacy Hub
  • Social Platforms: LinkedIn, Twitter, SlideShare, Everyone Social, Social HP, Facebook, Instagram
  • Technologies: Microsoft Suite, Google Platform, Zoom, Webex, MS Teams, and Salesforce

References

References Provided Upon Request

Certification

Customer Experience Specialist (CES) Certification

Timeline

Customer Advocacy Leader - Contractor

Zscaler
01.2023 - 10.2023

Senior Director, Customer Advocacy

Delphix
01.2022 - 09.2022

Director Customer Marketing

Cloudera
01.2019 - 01.2022

Director, Customer Marketing Programs

Hortonworks
11.2017 - 01.2019

Senior Manager, Customer Marketing Experience

DELL-EMC, ECD
11.2014 - 05.2017

Senior Manager, Sales Operations

EMC Corp.
06.2010 - 11.2014

Manager, Sales Operations

EMC Corp.
03.2008 - 06.2010

Reference Manager & Sales Support

EMC Corp.
07.2004 - 03.2008

Corporate Sales Account Manager

Documentum
01.2000 - 07.2004

Sales Support Renewals Manager

Documentum
01.1998 - 01.2000

Inside Sales Account Manager Roles

Caere Corporation, Calera Recognition Systems, And Everex Systems
08.1989 - 12.1997

Bachelor of Science - Business Management (Honors)

University of Phoenix
Diana Yanez-Pastor