Ben Barnett Email & Phone Number

• Serve in a senior-level role, aligning flagship accelerator product and service product strategy with the business strategy through a partnership with the key executive team.
• Own the roadmap presented to the executive team for approval and develop and deliver business cases to objectively evaluate new opportunities.
• Work in collaboration with key stakeholders to develop new and enhance existing accelerator products and services and with marketing and sales on collateral for accelerator opportunities.
• Develop pricing and financial models through coordination with the finance team for new and existing products.
• Train key stakeholders, including sales stakeholders, on new and updated products and services.Notable achievements while in the position included:- Played a key role in successfully recruiting, hiring, and managing 2.

Boulder, CO

• Owned the development and maintenance of an internally built networking tool for founders, mentors, and staff and was responsible for external partnerships related to connecting the company's network.
• Developed and executed strategies and worked with a 3rd party partner to build out their product for needs.
• Prioritized key features and bug fixes for both internal and 3rd party roadmaps, wrote all stories, and ran typical Agile practices, including sprints, demonstrations, and planning for the team.
• Created and implemented cross-functional working groups to help the team align work across different products and platforms, identify dependencies and overlap, and mitigate risks.
• Organized and ran affinity and release planning activities and ideation workshops for new product offerings with the team.

Broomfield, CO

• Charged with electronic patient charting reporting (ePCR) application for paramedics and firefighters, prioritizing key features and bug fixes for future releases and development work for on and offshore teams.
• Represented the product team at various conferences and tradeshows throughout the year.
• Provided wide-ranging support in transitioning the team from waterfall to Agile development and collaborated with the engineering team to create a functional way of sharing dev work between on and offshore teams.
• Developed and implemented cross-team working groups to help the team align work across different products and platforms, identify dependencies and overlap, and mitigate risks.
• Produced a comprehensive beta plan and cross-functional team to coordinate the necessary activities across the organization to support the release of new versions of both on-premise and SaaS products.
• Generated a plan to incorporate innovation time for the team while maintaining normal work to meet the business goals.

Broomfield, CO

• Charged with analyzing and providing wide-ranging guidance on national requirements for the ePCR product while representing the company as a liaison with all 50 states for NEMSIS (national data collection standard).
• Proactively monitored and documented patient care report product changes to continually meet defined regulatory reporting requirements.
• Led successful negotiations with state EMS and medical directors to change their standards to help with reporting for the organization.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Managed the 13-state Midwest territory, selling high-end baby gear and overseeing sales, marketing, and merchandising in a customer base consisting of small businesses to major corporations.
• Worked in collaboration with the marketing team to ensure retailers within the territory represented the brand as intended and with the logistics team in China for shipping containers to retailers.
• Reviewed client product reports to determine areas for new and additional product sales and planned and executed new product launches within the territory.
• Planned and executed new product launches within the territory and prospected and chaired meetings to land top business contacts. Notable achievements while in the position included:- Created a proposed business plan.