Ben Mcmaster Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

As a Technical Program/Product Manager Consultant, my approach is centered on understanding and addressing client needs through a structured process:▪ Understand Business Goals: I immerse myself in clients' business goals, differentiators, and operational realities.▪ User-Centric Research: I spend as much time as possible in the problem space, conducting interviews and shadowing end-users.▪ Rapid Prototyping: quickly iterate with clickable or coded solutions based on user feedback.▪ Execution: I build teams, oversee production builds, and develop go-to-market strategies to ensure successful product launches.▪ Iteration and Optimization: I use continuous customer feedback and KPIs to find and maintain product market fit in alignment with the overarching business strategy.Selected Clients:▪ Burns & McDonnell ($7B, 14,000 employee engineering/construction company): Spearheaded a product discovery sprint, identifying XX generative AI use cases that could recover $XX+ in lost sales productivity, and delivered a 60-page AI technology strategy research report.▪ NTWRK (Live-streaming shopping startup that raised $62M): Led Web3 R&D team to launch NTWRK NFT 1.0, generating $XX in sales and creating an NFT loyalty program, boosting trading card sales by XX%.▪ Skylab (Web3 founder community): Designed recruiting and onboarding flow, developed automation bots, facilitated community rituals, and hosted events doubling membership from XX to XX+ Web3 founders.▪ League of Play (YouTube creator competition startup): Developed a product roadmap and go-to-market strategy for a creator/fan engagement platform, projecting $XX in initial NFT ticket sales.Company details and specific metrics are available upon request.

Philosophie is a fast-paced, product research, design, and development agency.▪ Led 13 client engagements from design sprints to full product launches with teams of up to 15 people. ▪ Revolutionized a fintech giant's credit card dispute workflow to save $XXM per year.▪ Designed and built V1 of a remote-work management tool. Successfully launched with their first enterprise customer which helped them secure $XXM in funding.▪ Designed and built a web application to support the launch of a network of in-person e-sports events for the #1 mobile gaming company and achieved our goal of XX events in the first 3 months.Company details and specific metrics are available upon request.

Vimify (acquired in 2020) is a SaaS platform that empowers wellness coaches to make lifestyle change accessible to more people.▪ Researched, designed, coded, and launched V1 of the desktop, iOS, and Android apps in 6 weeks.▪ Landed strategic partnerships with Beachbody, Flow Genome Project, and Primal Blueprint.▪ Bootstrapped company to 105k users, 8k coaches, $4M total revenue.

Hooky Interactive was a boutique design and development studio founded by ex-TBWA\CHIAT\DAY creative directors. ▪ Managed a team of developers building big-budget marketing websites and mini-games for major brands such as Kia, Lexus, Infinity, Honda, FOX, South Park Studios, ABC, Disney, and Gillette. ▪ Built the first South Park Avatar Creator where millions of people created their own South Park characters.

Beaverton, Or, Us

▪ Expanded functionality of the Nike Team Builder software that helped 18,000 high school and college sports teams in the USA visually create and customize uniforms.

Lake Mary, Fl, Us

Harland Financial Solutions (now D+H) creates legal software for securing banking transactions.▪ Expanded functionality of Laser Pro Lending (LPL) using a proprietary language, FPL. ▪ Added new functionality to LPL calculations engine using C++. ▪ Added new features to LPL’s SBA module using XSLT. ▪ Designed and implemented a configuration management tool in C#.NET to automate source code check-in. ▪ Migrated customer databases using C#.NET and Microsoft SQL Server.

Omaha, Ne, Us

Disc Jockey for wedding receptions ▪ Led guests through reception events▪ Performed icebreakers motivating people of all ages to dance▪ Tricked people into doing the chicken dance against their will