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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for Scantron’s classroom assessment software as well as hardware products in both K-12 and Higher Education markets, for domestic and international use. - Developed vision, strategy, and requirements for innovative market-leading classroom assessment SaaS product following Agile methodology. - Managed requirements and design of IoT assessment product. - Led development and release of industry leading color imaging OMR scanner and was among inventors for patents pending.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed team of 5 Product Managers while maintaining responsibility for Scantron’s full line of OMR/image scanners with their associated utility software. Managed team member strategy, alignment, and product focus.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for the full line of image and Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) scanners sold internationally in over 70 countries, as well as the U.S., along with associated software. Managed product usability, strategy, vision, and focus. - Managed the release of the new 4ES desktop OMR scanners simplifying scanner models, successfully reducing costs, and increasing margins, while maintaining a position as Scantron’s highest revenue generating hardware product. - Led development of the Scantron Score scanner, replacing the market leading 888P+, resulting in 100% customer acceptance. - Developed innovative website for the Scantron Score, leading to increased teacher confidence, increased product usage, and increased revenue.

2,000 employees - $875 million revenueResponsible for 20 corporate wide “Core Services' in an SOA environment utilized across all lines of business with a $6 million budget. Managed employee, channel and B2B loyalty applications marketed to Fortune 500 companies. Managed business analyst team. - Led the creation of a Business Rules Service (BRMS) from idea through business plan, funding, contracts, hardware/software acquisition, software development, implementation, and internal process changes, resulting in savings equivalent to 3 full time positions, increasing “speed to market” from weeks down to a few hours and reducing mistakes through greater visibility. - Evangelized use of Core Services to replace client specific code, leading to an estimated 50% reduction in operating costs. - Developed corporate wide global governance process for international product development and deployment, to increase capabilities and decrease costs through consolidation efforts.

991 employees - $116 million revenueManaged applications for instructors to create custom tests aligned to publisher textbooks, with paper, scanner or online tests and results tracked both locally and online. Managed the core mathematical rendering engine used by other business units. Managed over 15 individuals in software engineering, QA, IT and outside developers. - Participated in successful acquisition of a market competitor, leading to increased market share, revenue, customer base, products and services. - Led development of company’s first fully customizable client/server Macintosh, Windows and Internet application, meeting K-12 and College market requirements. - Analyzed cost of services and developed new pricing, leading to profitability for each service provided, increased revenue and lower average customer project cost.

Developed new Talk n’ Play product line providing internet voice communication for online games. Managed development of Talk n’ Play website to facilitate Internet voice conferences, ecommerce, advertising, on-line community, registration and download services. - Drove Talk n’ Play’s highly successful Internet launch resulting in tripling the corporate stock price with ThrustMaster being the largest mover on NASDAQ that day at a trading volume 15 times greater than any prior day. - Responsible for product financial analysis, advertising budget, press reviews, managing contracts and vendors, retail package design and collateral material.

Master'S Degree, Business Administration (Mba) - Technology Management

Bachelor Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering

Associates, Electronics Engineering Technology