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Seattle, Wa, Us

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

▪ Startup with Series B funding. Executive leading cross-functional team of Product Managers, Designers and Product Operations.▪ Spearheaded a new 2-sided marketplace product strategy, re-organized the product organization, recruited new leaders and shipped new user acquisition, search, web and mobile applications that drove increases in key growth and retention metrics

Irvine, Ca, Us

▪ VP-level role leading 7 directors and a 130-member cross-functional organization of product managers, designers and developers responsible for the Battle.net game platform supporting Activision and Blizzard game portfolio delivering $750m+ AAR▪ Re-vamped player acquisition and engagement/retention experiences across web , mobile and desktop applications that drove 10+% increase in revenue and player retention.▪ Responsible for a website portfolio of 10+ sites with greater than 100m MAU. Developed new x-site design, shared navigation and development framework that drove increased SEO, marketing campaign effectiveness, player acquisition and E-commerce conversion delivering double-digit increases across multiple OKRs..▪ Designed new E-commerce experiences on the web and in-game, that drove 10-20% increase in in purchase conversion.▪ Fostered new agile methodologies and results-driven culture that delivered increases in team performance across all key metrics including greater than 10% improvement in player engagement, reliability/up-time metrics, operational costs and monetization metrics▪ Achieved mobile app store ratings > 4.5, demonstrating high customer satisfaction.

Irvine, Ca, Us

▪ Led multiple Battle.net Product Management teams responsible for E-Commerce, Desktop Game Launcher, Social Experiences, Identity & Mobile Applications ▪ Led a re-design of Blizzard Identity, Social & Communication experiences resulting in +10% increase User Engagement & Retention and a +15% reduction in operation and support costs▪ Built new E-commerce online shopping and check-out experience (on web & in-game), including the first personalized product recommendation engine for the store that drove +15% increase in purchase & check-out conversion. ▪ Introduced new Product Planning and Product Management culture including developing product vision, goals and planning structure, data-driven KPI/OKR framework and A/B testing approach that delivered >10% increase in all every teams core KPIs

Redmond, Washington, Us

▪ Successfully guided and directed special projects focused on scaling and expanding OEM phone market for Windows Phone across diverse and emerging markets, including China.▪ Spearheaded hardware and silicon strategy for Windows Phone, specifically targeting affordable handset solutions, resulting in improved cost-effectiveness and enhanced product offerings.

Redmond, Washington, Us

▪ Led 2 product management teams building innovative x-app user experiences across document collaboration, meetings and sharing capabilities across Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and other Office applications.▪ Built new teams from ground up, defining goals & objectives and drove new scenarios across the Office and Office 365 organization▪ Co-invented groundbreaking cloud-based synchronization experience and protocol for Office 365, enabling offline/asynchronous cloud-save and real-time co-authoring in Microsoft Office applications.

Redmond, Washington, Us

▪ Responsible for leading multiple, world-wide team, that designed end-user experience in Windows and platform APIs for printing, scanning, color management and camera acquisition. ▪ Spearheaded groundbreaking innovations within worldwide printing and imaging industry, forging strategic technology acquisitions and partnerships with industry leaders such as Hewlett-Packard, Adobe, Xerox, and Canon.▪ Demonstrated proven ability to lead large-scale initiatives, manage complex stakeholder relationships, and drive successful collaboration with strategic industry partners.▪ Shipped key document and printing innovations in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista

Venlo, Limburg, Nl

Start-up acquired by Oce. Led product & engineering teams building document management, printing and visualization software for the construction & engineering markets.

Venlo, Limburg, Nl

Management of the world-wide software partner program. Identifying 3rd party business partner and acquisition opportunities to augment Océ’s industrial document acquisition and production product portfolio.

Founder of a start-up providing CAD & GIS data visualization and mapping products for the environmental, civil & construction market.