Cindy has more than 20 years of high technology public relations experience. She started at Franson & Associates, one of the Silicon Valley PR agency pioneers, and from there joined the Corporate Communications group at Borland International. While at Borland, she built a customer success story program that served product PR, corporate communications and sales. She was also responsible for all written materials for corporate communications and public relations. She left Borland in 1994 to become an independent consultant. Her clients have included Hewlett-Packard, Adobe, Rational Software, Portal Software, earthmine, Cisco Systems, and BMC Software. Cindy's strengths include writing, speaker program management, Web copy, social media strategy, and competitive analysis. Her current areas of industry expertise are in IT optimization, VoIP, geo-spatial technology and semiconductors.