Patricia Chowdhury

Biography

Patt Chowdhury is a Senior Manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Enterprise Services Marketing’s Strategic Content and Messaging group. She is the program leader for the Editorial Board that ensures Sales has the right content for each stage of the sales cycle and is co-chair for Enterprise Services for HP's signature customer event, HP Discover-Las Vegas. Patt has overall program management responsibility for key strategic messaging projects. Prior to HP, Patt worked at American Airlines (AA) and Sabre in a variety of Marketing, Field Sales, and IT management roles in product management, sales promotion, operating budget and capital planning, business systems consulting, and applications development. She retired from AA and Sabre in 2000 after 31 years to join EDS which is now HP. Patt earned a Master of Management in Telecommunications and an MBA in International Management from University of Dallas. Patt also holds a BS in Business Administration, with a major in Marketing, from New York Institute of Technology and is a Six Sigma Belt Black. She taught telecommunications, marketing, and project management courses as an adjunct at University of Dallas from 1995-2010. In 1996, she was a member of the team that launched UD's Internet MBA program. Patt received the UD Graduate School of Management Adjunct Faculty Achievement Award in 2006 for excellence in online course development and teaching. Patt returned to UD in Spring 2014 and now teaches Value Based Marketing and Managing Complex Organizations. Patt is a native of Boston, Massachusetts and lives with her husband in Frisco, TX. They have an adult daughter.

Research Interest

Telecommunications,product management, sales promotion, operating budget and capital planning, business systems consulting, and applications development. S