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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Leading cross-functional teams to drive powerful outcomes with digital products for our clients across industries.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Founding member of a new EdTech startup responsible for defining the entire product and underlying platform to revolutionize how public schools hire teachers. We are currently pre-seed.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

I work like a Swiss Army knife for G&S clients across a range of industries helping them apply a product-led approach to their digital strategy and modernizing their standard practices to incorporate AI to drive efficiencies and expands opportunity.

Greater Atlanta Area

I led a team of 16 product managers across a diverse portfolio of client engagements delivering digital product solutions with high-value outcomes for Fortune 500 clients and drove $45MM+ in revenue for the Digital Products Solution area from framing initial pitches and proposals to final delivery for clients across a range of industries. For 18 months I.

Greater Atlanta Area

I was responsible for managing 4 direct reports, overseeing digital product delivery engagements, and leading new business pursuits. I made 3 strategic hires for the product practice, closed 3 new business deals resulting in $2.3M in revenue, and was promoted to Head of Product Management in less than 6 months of being hired.

Atlanta, Georgia

I led an incredible team of some of the smartest mobile engineering talent in the world to develop and maintain the flagship MailChimp mobile app for both iOS and Android, collaborating with and supporting the initiatives of the award-winning product and design teams.

Atlanta, GA

I led technology teams ranging from 10 to 50 engineers across the U.S. and India to deliver award winning digital solutions for some of the biggest brands in the world including McDonalds, Target and 21st Century Fox. The projects ranged from mobile and web applications to IoT and immersive experiences in physical spaces. In addition, I was responsible for.

Greater Atlanta Area

My responsibilities expanded in this role to become the technology lead on critical client pitches to win new business and negotiating with vendors and technology partners. I continued to serve as a technical architect and to run delivery teams on projects like the Miami Heat and Bed Bath & Beyond mobile apps. I was responsible for mentorship and career.

Greater Atlanta Area

In this role, I was both a developer and a working manager leading teams to deliver mobile and web applications for clients like the U.S. Census Bureau, Bed Bath & Beyond and Target. I was responsible for mentorship and career growth for 4 direct reports.

Greater Atlanta Area

Solo freelance consulting, design and development. Past clients have included a number of musical artists including Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Shawn Mullins as well as the famed music venue, Eddie's Attic.

Greater Atlanta Area

I was the architect and team lead charged with delivering enterprise, consumer-facing web applications for AT&T customers. As part of the Convergent Services Product Development group I delivered two major applications: Address Book and Digital Locker.

Greater Atlanta Area

As a certified Adobe training partner I taught a range of software courses centered around the Adobe Family of products including both beginning and intermediate levels of Flash/ActionScript and ColdFusion, Photoshop and CSS. This experience was invaluable to me in learning to mentor people on complex technical topics.

Greater Atlanta Area

As the technology leader for this small agency, I was responsible for the delivery of all new web sites and applications, the maintenance and support of existing ones and supporting sales efforts to win new business. The cornerstone of our company’s success was the open source site management product, BoomSocket, which I designed and developed to power.

Greater Atlanta Area

As the team lead, I continued to do many of the production-line tasks from my previous post, but with the added opportunity to mentor other junior developers and designers. This new responsibility afforded me the chance to get deeper experience in project management and requirements gathering. In this role I identified the need for a custom CMS that would.

Greater Atlanta Area

My three years in this role were the foundation for my career and I learned everything that goes into designing and developing a digital experience. I was both designer and developer on the dynamic web applications I built. I was responsible for all of the UX and visual designs for my projects as well as for developing the presentation layer, data access.

I directly supervised maintenance and production of the national public web site. My primary responsibility was to manage and support a six-person team of web developers and graphic artists through the production of transactional web applications that required various technologies including HTML, Javascript, Coldfusion, ASP, Flash, SQL Server and DB2.