Amy Bourne Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

I lead the Product Development team at Brad's Deals, which consists of product management and UX design, engineering, techops, data engineering, data science, and data analytics.I'm responsible for the product strategy and executing our roadmaps to support our commercial and content growth, customer acquisition and retention, and business operations.

We love building great products; whether it’s growing and maturing an existing idea, or launching a brand new one.Our collective experience covers everything you'll need to launch and grow your business. You have the idea; we have the know-how. We come from major companies and markets with extensive background in advertising & marketing, online media, business development, graphic design & illustration, 3D animation, software product development, operations and finance.We can jump in at any stage to help build and launch your product. We're a distributed team of software engineers, UI/UX designers, product managers, project managers, marketing and business development professionals. We'll be there in person as needed, otherwise at your service virtually, which keeps everyone's costs down.Product design through inventive business strategy. Arise Studios - Where Ideas Ascend.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Centro streamlines the facilitation of buying and selling digital media at the local, regional and national levels. Agency and publisher workflow automation through intelligent, intuitive product development helps simplify the fragmented media industry.Led product and technology teams through the development of the industry’s first media buying platform for external agency consumption in four months. Transis was launched at the national 4A’s conference in February 2010 and exceeded goals for the number of agencies projected to use the application. Transis is still used today and continues to grow revenue for Centro Media Inc. Recipient of InfoWorld’s Top CTO and Inc.’s CIO 100 Awards in 2010 for product development and launch of Transis. Led development of Centro’s internal application used for media buying and business automation. This application supported organizational growth of fewer than 30 employees to over 250 and revenue growth from $5mm-$120mm over five years.

Zurich, Canton Of Zürich, Ch

Led development and launch of a new content template across 11 markets including Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. Centralized software development to Chicago and championed the "agile" movement of the engineering team.

Austin, Texas, Us

Led team at Unicast in development and launch of the industry’s first large-format ad products available at the time. Built proprietary ad serving application to support the innovative new products and automated the workflow across business units. Responsible for the due diligence and application review for strategic partnerships and acquisition targets.Pivotal member of the executive team for capital investment and eventual sale of the company. Post sale, stayed on to lead the application and product integration between the two companies.

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Helped develop one of the industry’s first ad serving platforms. Led relationships with GM and P&G to develop and achieve strategic digital marketing solutions. Championed the joint venture with InterVu (owned by Akamai) to launch the first video banner to run in digital media with the Budweiser “frogs”.