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Greater Omaha Area

- Manage a team of skilled User Experience Research Analysts to deploy industry standard research techniques and build research studies to help teams better understand their internal business customers- Define the objectives for the internal employee User Experience Research (UER) Team- Consult technology teams on how to design UER studies to find key customer insights- Turn data into actionable results like process improvement and creating new programs- Helped design and launch a technology Champions network of change agents to increase software adoption, measured by key sentiment indicators including NPS - Leveraged User Experience Research results to drive successful Microsoft Office 365 rollout (Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint Online)

Greater Omaha Area

- Managing and creating technology products has been my passion for more than two decades, learning the trade through key roles as Product Owner, Application Manager, Solutions Architect, Web Developer, UI Designer, and Marketer.- I bring an expansive growth mindset to push product development well beyond the basics of backlog management, requirements gathering, delivering capabilities, defining personas, and customer value mapping. - I have a strong will to take Products in new directions based on evolving Customer needs and changes in technology, company strategy, and business architecture.

Product Management, Program Management and Project Management around key collaboration technologies, including video, voice, intranet, team collaboration and conferencing, adoption and life cycles from concept to creation, tracking, analyzing and reporting to determine successful adoption, cost savings, and sunsetting/replacing/improving legacy applications.

Greater Omaha Area

Putting core web technologies to work for small businesses, I create highly functional Web apps and User Experiences. I implement a goals and metrics-driven plan to provide support to businesses own IT and creative teams, developing full marketing campaigns (including Web sites built on .NET, SharePoint, Wordpress, Drupal and other standards compliant Web platforms. Help businesses implement strong SEO strategies and corporate branding.

Developing Sales support for Institutional Sales & Business Development team. Using any and all available methods to market Orion's portfolio-management services, including print, publications, web and web application development. After half a decade of pure Web development, this puts me back in a marketing and communications role with the (basically) same company.

Develop Web applications for the Financial Services Industry. Implementing .NET, AJAX, Flash and Flash Video with SQL Server Databases to provide online utilities and tools for Financial Professionals, back-office staff and individual investors.

Worked with businesses to Advertise in the World Herald.