Andy Schrader Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, NC, US

Morrisville, NC, US

Led the product management team for all software at Metabolon and managed the 2 engineering teams responsible for core lab services and data curation. Took over a team that felt embattled and isolated and quickly built trust and respect across the organization with transparency and collaboration.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Founder of a 0-1 startup, responsible for building a product strategy as well as the day to day management and execution of the engineering team, the customer success team and the sales engineering team.

Durham, NC, US

- Responsible for managing the roadmap and strategy for RTB and Data Infrastructure- Work closely with the Data Science team to develop a vision and requirements that can be executed by the engineering teams- Work with the agile engineering teams as a Product Owner to execute the roadmap and build out the RTB and Data Infrastructure technology stack.

Durham, North Carolina, US

• Joined Adzerk as first key employee prior to funding to develop product roadmap, go-to-market strategy and sign up early adopters
• Developed long-term product strategy and prioritized new feature requests with bugs/issues
• Engineering practiced continuous deployment so I used feature flags to slowly enable new features for a subset of customers before releasing to all customers.
• Designed and implemented marketing automation infrastructure using Loopfuse and Salesforce. Prospects were nurtured through various lead flows until they became customers or qualified leads for the sales team
• Wrote product requirements and worked with engineers to make sure new features passed acceptance tests
• Negotiated contracts and setup Salesforce, Loopfuse Marketing Automation, Kiss Metrics, OnSip VOIP, HipChat, Dropbox and other tools needed to operate Adzerk

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed a product management team of 5 with team members in Seattle and San Francisco
• Owned product planning for Microsoft pubCenter, including its global rollout and execution of the Yahoo! Search Alliance.
• Gathered requirements from partners (Yahoo!), internal stakeholders (Bing), and customers to prepare Market Requirements Document for each release.
• Collaborated and negotiated with other product teams for shared engineering resources to make sure publisher requirements were prioritized appropriately within the larger product portfolio.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Managed pricing, positioning, partner integration, and roadmap for the Accipiter ad platform
• Conducted win/loss analyses to better improve positioning and sales process
• Gathered requirements from the market and set development priorities
• Communicated product updates to sales, marketing, prospects, customers, and partners

US

• Responsible for the technical aspects of selling SaaS (infrastructure, design, scalability, etc)
• Lead the discovery phase of the sales cycle to identify technical and business needs
• Presented in person to companies such as Viacom, Netflix, Cars.com, and Fox Interactive
• Represented Accipiter at various industry events, including OMMA, AdTech and AdMonsters

US

• Maintained and extended the C\C++ code base for AdManager
• Developed a new behavioral targeting product from idea to delivery
• Maintained the build environment for Windows and Unix.

• Responsible for handling escalated support cases involving OS and relational database issues
• Developed custom solutions using ASP, HTML and JavaScript