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Chicago, Illinois, US

• Driving more than $300M in annual revenue spread across small-market to enterprise-level customers while serving as product area lead for Cision’s suite of legacy communications products
• Conducting usage analysis using Pendo, Fullstory and leveraging customer anecdotes to facilitate product discovery and vision, strategy, and roadmap iteration to create a more intuitive UX
• Managing development of an internal tool leveraging Looker Studio, which is used to evaluate content usage across Cision platforms and to inform decisions related to third-party application services and content.
• Leading an average 9% increase in MAU compared to the previous monthly maximum for the entirety of the media contact database search experience, email outreach experience, and the media coverage monitoring, dashboard.
• Managing development of 2 backend Elastic clusters and numerous APIs necessary to bring that data through to the front-end, utilizing Kibana, Swagger, and Cerebro for quality checks
• Coordinating 4 development teams consisting of a combination of back-end, front-end, and quality assurance engineers, utilizing Jira and Confluence for user story creation and product documentation

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Conducted usage analysis using Pendo, Fullstory and leveraging customer anecdotes to facilitate product discovery and vision, strategy, and roadmap iteration to create a more intuitive UX, with most successful feature.
• Drove an average 41% increase in MAU compared to the previous monthly maximum for the media contact database search experience and email outreach experience within Cision’s next generation B2B SaaS platform
• Managed development of 2 backend Elastic clusters and numerous APIs necessary to bring that data through to the front-end, utilizing Kibana, Swagger, and Cerebro for quality checks
• Coordinated and served as de facto Scrum Master for 2 development teams consisting of a combined total of 17 back-end, front-end, and quality assurance engineers, utilizing Jira and Confluence for user story creation.
• Participated in Cision’s product mentorship program and sat on a panel to inform colleagues about Product Management
• Assisted in the creation of a new Product Management career ladder, as well as the descriptions and expectations of each role

New York City, NY, US

• Co-authored a data retention initiative projected to lead to an estimated $2.1M savings in data retention costs
• Prioritized business needs and coordinated product roadmap for systems managing, analyzing, and visualizing over 20 million data records
• Developed an Excel-based tool to analyze 309 daily metrics
• Created user stories in Digital AI and gathered requirements in alignment with stakeholders for 2 internal products
• Assisted in capacity and timeline management for 22 developers across 2 development teams

New York City, NY, US

• Project managed data validation initiatives across 3 internal segment stakeholders, ensuring execution of initiative roadmaps
• Managed a team of 4 Data Quality Analysts out of Reed Elsevier – Philippines (REPH)
• Developed a VBA-based data validation Excel app for use by REPH team members, which increased productivity by 33%
• Performed various querying, data visualization, and data manipulation tasks within both internal tools, as well as external tools such as Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Excel
• Assisted data quality agile team through SQL and Excel associated tasks and user story creation using Digital AI

Cincinnati, OH, US

• Received licensure as an insurance agent for life, accident, and health products, as well as non-qualified annuity products in the state of Ohio
• Conducted a financial analysis review and fact finder for clients during appointments
• Recommended product best suited for the individual based on costumer preferability rating, financial security, risk assessment, and intention for use determined through intensive customer questionnaire

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance Major, Communications Minor

High School Diploma