Patrick Spencer

Patrick Spencer

Gig Harbor, Washington, United States
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Passionate, creative, and technically-savvy digital and cyber leader with track record…

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Experience

  • Kiteworks Graphic

    Kiteworks

    Palo Alto, California, United States

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Los Altos, California, United States

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    Los Altos, California, United States

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    Sunnyvale, CA

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    Gig Harbor WA

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    San Francisco, California

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    Mountain View

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    Menlo Park, California

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Education

Volunteer Experience

  • Board Member and Secretary

    Horizon West HOA

    - 3 years 1 month

  • Guest Social Studies Presenter on Ancient Jewish/Israelite History

    Windemere Ranch Middle School

    - 4 months

    Education

    Taught a class on Ancient Jewish/Israelite History.

Publications

  • Time is Money: Opening the Blinds with Suites at KWA Blinds

    The Confident SMB

    Many small businesses have humble origins, and this is true for KWA Blinds, which began in the front bedroom of Founder Ken Wilson's Queensland, Australia home. The company is rapidly growing and relies on technology as a key enabler.

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  • Be Prepared! Checklist for Disaster Preparedness

    The Confident SMB

    Per a recent survey, more than half of SMBs do not have an IT disaster plan in place and 40 percent of them said that disaster preparedness is not a priority for them. The same survey reveals that 44 percent will lose their data in the event of a disaster, and that an average of six system outages a year cost them $12,500 each. This article explores the decisions--or lack thereof--SMBs are making when it comes to disaster preparedness. It also includes a checklist of five things that SMBs need…

    Per a recent survey, more than half of SMBs do not have an IT disaster plan in place and 40 percent of them said that disaster preparedness is not a priority for them. The same survey reveals that 44 percent will lose their data in the event of a disaster, and that an average of six system outages a year cost them $12,500 each. This article explores the decisions--or lack thereof--SMBs are making when it comes to disaster preparedness. It also includes a checklist of five things that SMBs need to consider when building a comprehensive disaster preparedness plan.

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  • From Impediment to Enabler: The Four Pillars of a Comprehensive Information Management Strategy

    CIO Digest, January 2011 Issue

    Information for most organizations is growing at a rate around 50 percent. Deepak Mohan, Symantec's SVP of the Information Management Group, argues that this is an opportunity versus a challenge if an IT organization has the right information management strategy in place. He suggests there are four primary pillars that need to be addressed.

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  • Hear All About IT! Infrastructure Headlines the Business at de Persgroep

    CIO Digest, January 2011 Issue

    Everything in a media company must go fast according to Wim Vanhoff, the ICT Infrastructure Manager at Belgium-based media giant de Persgroep, and IT infrastructure is a primary enabler. Vanhoof has led a three-year IT infrastructure transformation that as addressed everything from green IT, to virtualization, to migration to a next-generation data center environment, to storage management, to high availability.

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  • Setting the Pace for the Business: IT Is Central to NASDAQ OMXs Business Transformation

    CIO Digest, January 2011 Issue

    NASDAQ OMX celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2011 and proudly touts that its myriad of exchanges around the world account for 1 in 10 of securities transactions. This exclusive interview with Anna Ewing, the EVP and CIO at NASDAQ OMX, and Carl-Magnus Hallberg, the SVP of Global IT Services Operations at NASDAQ OMX, delves into detail on how business and IT alignment is at the heart of much of the success the company has achieved over the past decade.

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  • Flipping Burgers and Spinning Shakes: IT Enables Business Growth and Expansion at Iceberg Drive Inn

    The Confident SMB

    When Kelly Christensen and his two partners acquired a small drive inn made out of plywood in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, they bought more than the building and business; they acquired a brand that had become part of the fabric of the surrounding community. Fifteen years later the small plywood drive inn is still there, along with a rapidly growing franchise with restaurants scattered across four states. In addition to good business acumen and great burgers, shakes, and fries, technology has…

    When Kelly Christensen and his two partners acquired a small drive inn made out of plywood in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, they bought more than the building and business; they acquired a brand that had become part of the fabric of the surrounding community. Fifteen years later the small plywood drive inn is still there, along with a rapidly growing franchise with restaurants scattered across four states. In addition to good business acumen and great burgers, shakes, and fries, technology has aided in the company's growth and expansion.

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  • Fast and Innovative: Tuning IT Performance at Vodafone

    CIO Digest

    Vodafone's Group CIO Albert Hitchcock arrived at Vodafone Group Plc in 2007 and embarked a wholesale strategy to transform the IT group into a high-performance business enabler. Overseeing a team of 5,000 IT professionals scattered across 31 countries, he spearheaded efforts to standardize the company's IT infrastructure, rationalizing 200 versions of desktop software down to a single client, creating standard server, storage, network, and security architectures, and consolidating to single…

    Vodafone's Group CIO Albert Hitchcock arrived at Vodafone Group Plc in 2007 and embarked a wholesale strategy to transform the IT group into a high-performance business enabler. Overseeing a team of 5,000 IT professionals scattered across 31 countries, he spearheaded efforts to standardize the company's IT infrastructure, rationalizing 200 versions of desktop software down to a single client, creating standard server, storage, network, and security architectures, and consolidating to single toolsets that provide them with a single view across the entirety of the company's vast IT infrastructure. Get the details on how Hitchcock and his team tackled these different challenges, established priorities, executed on those, and then measured the ongoing results in this exclusive interview with him.

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  • Outfitting Security and Compliance: After Blocking and Tackling Comes Strategic Planning and Communications at Cabela's Inc.

    CIO Digest

    The information security and compliance landscape for Cabela's, Inc., the largest mail-order, retail, and Internet outdoor outfitter in the world, has changed dramatically over the past several years. Recognizing this transformation, Cabela's formed an Information Security Office and appointed James Gill to lead it in 2007. Gill explains in the article how he and his team have designed and implemented a number of IT solutions that are helping Cabela's to protect its brand and achieve rapid…

    The information security and compliance landscape for Cabela's, Inc., the largest mail-order, retail, and Internet outdoor outfitter in the world, has changed dramatically over the past several years. Recognizing this transformation, Cabela's formed an Information Security Office and appointed James Gill to lead it in 2007. Gill explains in the article how he and his team have designed and implemented a number of IT solutions that are helping Cabela's to protect its brand and achieve rapid business expansion. Don't miss the extra sidebars in the article, which touch on topics such as the storied history of Cabela's and why Sidney, Nebraska was known as "Sinful Sidney" in the 1870s and 1880s.

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  • IT is Not a Luxury: From Business Emcumbrance to Enabler at Cambridgeshire Bathrooms

    The Confident SMB

    Symantec Partner Vitality Consulting Services worked with Cambridgeshire Bathrooms to turn IT into a business enabler. The luxury bathroom and kitchen fixture retailer delivers a unique service experience to its customers through 3D design service and years of industry experience on its sales staff. Prior to the managed IT services from Vitality Consulting Services and the introduction of different Symantec technologies, staff at Cambridgeshire Bathrooms was spending 20 to 30 percent of their…

    Symantec Partner Vitality Consulting Services worked with Cambridgeshire Bathrooms to turn IT into a business enabler. The luxury bathroom and kitchen fixture retailer delivers a unique service experience to its customers through 3D design service and years of industry experience on its sales staff. Prior to the managed IT services from Vitality Consulting Services and the introduction of different Symantec technologies, staff at Cambridgeshire Bathrooms was spending 20 to 30 percent of their time dealing with IT issues. This article reveals how Vitality Consulting Services helped Cambridgeshire Bathrooms to turn IT into a business enabler and to refocus their team on selling fixtures and servicing customers.

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  • Roaming in the Stars: IT That Speaks the Same Language

    The Confident SMB

    Starhome is using Symantec technologies and Symantec Partner Spider Solutions to help make all of the right connections. Interview with Yaniv Dinar, the IT and infrastructure manager at Starhome, who discussess the evolution of his 10-year career at Starhome and how IT has become a critical part of the company's focus on delivering the best services in the roaming mobile services market. Without innovators like Starhome and Dinar, mobile roaming would be a completely different experience--or…

    Starhome is using Symantec technologies and Symantec Partner Spider Solutions to help make all of the right connections. Interview with Yaniv Dinar, the IT and infrastructure manager at Starhome, who discussess the evolution of his 10-year career at Starhome and how IT has become a critical part of the company's focus on delivering the best services in the roaming mobile services market. Without innovators like Starhome and Dinar, mobile roaming would be a completely different experience--or not even possible--for those who travel outside of their home network.

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Projects

  • Agent Connections Program

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    The premise of this program is that chat agents are connecting with customers in unique ways using live chat. We believe that other agents and agent supervisors want to hear how their peers are connecting with their customers and to learn from those experiences.

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Honors & Awards

  • Finalist, Best How-to Article (Virtualization) (CIO Digest)

    Western Publishing Association ("Maggies")

  • Finalist, Quarterlies/Trade (CIO Digest, April 2012 Issue)

    Western Publishing Association ("Maggies")

  • Gold, Graphics Excellence (Publication Redesign)

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Honorable Mention, Best Single Issue (CIO Digest, April 2012)

    Tabbies International Editorial and Design Awards

  • Honorable Mention, Feature Article ("Crossing the Virtualization Rubicon: Not If But When")

    Tabbies International Editorial and Design Awards

  • Silver, Editorial Excellence ("Feature Article: Crossing the Virtualization Rubicon")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Award of Excellence, Print Over 32 Pages (CIO Digest, October 2011)

    APEX Awards for Publication Excellence

  • Award of Excellence, Regular Departments and Columns ("Upload Column," CIO Digest)

    APEX Awards for Publication Excellence

  • Finalist, Best Digital Version of a Print Publication

    Western Publishing Association ("Maggies")

  • Finalist, Best Interview or Profile Trade (Article: "Painting an IT Legacy")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Gold, Editorial Excellence (Organizational Profile: "IT Social Togetherness")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Finalist, Quarterlies (CIO Digest)

    Western Publishing Association ("Maggies")

  • Award of Excellence, Electronic and Web Magazines (The Confident SMB)

    APEX Awards for Publication Excellence

  • Award of Excellence, Print Over 32 Pages (CIO Digest)

    APEX Awards for Publication Excellence

  • Finalist, Best Web/Digital Article ("Flipping Burgers and Spinning Shakes" (The Confident SMB)

    Western Publishing Association

  • Finalist, Best Web/Digital Edition of a New Publication (The Confident SMB)

    Western Publishing Association ("Maggies")

  • Gold, Editorial Excellence (Regular Column: "Think Tank: Sustainable IT and Revolution in the Cloud")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Finalist, Best How-To Article ("Endpoint Virtualization")

    Western Publishing Association ("Maggies")

  • Finalist, Best Overall Publication Design (CIO Digest)

    Western Publishing Association

  • Finalist, Quarterlies/Trade (CIO Digest, October 2009 Issue)

    Western Publishing Association ("Maggies")

  • Gold, Editorial Excellence ("Case Study: Making Change")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Gold, Graphics Excellence ("Front Cover: The Changing Security Landscape")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Silver, Editorial Excellence ("Case History: Brand Protection")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Silver, Editorial Excellence ("Individual Profile: Transformational Government")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Silver, Editorial Excellence ("Organizational Profile: Leadership of Values")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • Silver, Editorial Excellence ("Overall Headline Writing: July and October Issues")

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

  • 2008 Marketing Excellence Award (Symantec)

    Symantec Corporation

  • ASPIRE, Certificate of Excellence

    Symantec Corp.

  • Leadership Circle of Excellence

    Symantec Corporation

  • Marketing Executive Mentoring Program, Symantec

    Symantec Corporation

  • Sun STARS Achiever (Marketing)

    Sun Microsystems

  • Texas Newspaper Carrier of the Year

    Texas Newspaper Association

    Recognized as the 1992 Texas Newspaper Carrier of the Year for the use of technology (accounting database) and unparalleled service. Highlighted in a 30-second television spot that ran during primetime.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • German

    Elementary proficiency

  • Ancient Hebrew

    Professional working proficiency

  • Koine Greek

    Professional working proficiency

  • Ancient Aramaic

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • American Society of Business Publication Editors

    Member

    - Present

  • Society of Biblical Literature

    Member

    - Present

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