Leading product for our security/fraud prevention solutions geared toward Account Takeover Prevention/Duplicate Account Fraud, and fraud at checkout for Payment Service Providers. My work involves influencing/guiding our product strategy, identifying new products/markets for expansion, roadmap planning and Go-To-Market in order to drive customer adoption and revenue for the business. More below. Forter has raised more than $500M of capital from top-tier VCs including Sequoia, Bessemer Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Tiger Global Management, Scale Venture Partners, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures.For more info, please see Detailed Product Pages: - https://www.forter.com/trusted-identities/ - https://www.forter.com/forter-element/

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I was brought on to advance the company's Artificial Learning and Machine Learning capabilities, Data/Insights + Reporting, and Recommendation Models for the Personalization Product (formerly Monetate + Certona). I was tasked with driving the unification of the acquisitions of the two personalization platforms. We primarily focus on helping major retail, e-commerce brands, and quick service restaurants (i.e. Adidas, Patagonia, Waitrose, Office Depot, Taco Bell) drive more targeted and personalized user experiences and product recommendations for their customers.

In this role at IBM Cloud, I was responsible for leading the digital vision, strategy, and service integrations for our Data Services products (and creating a culture of 'product-led' growth). I focus on helping our clients discover, onboard, and get started with our data products to help them get faster time to value out of our services and grow usage of our products. I also work on building integrations and specific features that allow clients to better ingest and analyze their data in the Cloud. Finally, my work also includes business development/ecosystem related projects that help put partners (Delphix) into the IBM Cloud ecosystem further driving more value for Global 500 clients (i.e. BNP Paribas)Recipient of the IBM Chief Marketing Office award in 2020 for initiatives around increasing user acquisition and improving user retention of our Data Services products.

In this role at IBM Cloud, I was focused on building out our core product offering Cloud Object Storage (Think Google Drive for businesses). Our service helped major enterprises manage their data on the public cloud (into the petabyte scale) in a secure, scalable, and cost effective manner. I worked on features related to helping enable and integrate our storage service to talk to other services within the Cloud, delivered new versions of our user interface, and helped stand up our initial billing and metering backend service to name a few. - Led business case, user experience, technical requirements and Go To Market launch for Veeam Vendor integration with IBM Cloud Storage. Implementing critical customer feedback back in roadmap to automate purchase experience.- Defined and built business case, performed competitive research, and phased engineering requirements for Data Lake offering- Utilizing data to discover and deliver improved integrations and enhancements with other Artificial Intelligence/Cloud services (Kubernetes, Watson Studio) - Led Agile and SDLC process creation for our development team - Instrumented Segment and Amplitude stack to allow for data informed approach to assist leadership in making strategic business decisions. Led and presented key metrics on a monthly basis to executive stakeholders- Improving operational stability and SLA's of overall Cloud service (Cloud Object Storage) to increase uptime and deliver enhanced customer experience

-Worked on an internal proprietary product building an API to help track user metrics to further inform product + design decisionsFront end work in React and Back end using Java and Spring framework

OrangeWorks (Home Depot's R&D division)-Performed extensive market research on existing Apple Watch apps and studied capabilities of Watchkit OS-Designed features and use cases, prototyped user interface, and worked with team to develop an Apple Watch application to assist customers with locating and purchasing Home Depot products within the retail store-Worked with another developer to implement an algorithm (using Xcode as the IDE and Swift programming language) in the watch app to zoom on a map to locate a specific product-Presented final application and recommendations to leadership at the firm