At Everest, our team's commitment to pioneering biometric solutions has redefined FinTech's approach to identity and compliance. Leading with over eight years at the helm, my role transcends software product management to encompass the strategic development of a comprehensive financial services stack, ensuring secure and seamless user experiences.Specializing in the intricate dance of product operations and web applications, my contributions have been instrumental in establishing Everest as a bastion of innovation in real-world asset tokenization and digital wallets. Our success is a testament to the power of collaborative expertise and a relentless pursuit of excellence in financial technology.Everest's vertically integrated financial services stack: Identity, Compliance, Banking, Crypto, RWA Tokenization, and Digital Wallets. Everest can service customers worldwide from our home in the European Union. Delivered as B2B2C, the SaaS offering is distributed through a lightweight library embeddable into various other platforms.Built on best-of-breed decentralized technologies: the Ethereum blockchain, Neo4J DAG, IPFS, Solidity smart-contracts, and Bittorrent, the platform can tokenize and deliver any type of value, identity information, or abstract transaction.

PSU’s Business Blockchain Certificate program provides a foundation in blockchain and cryptocurrency concepts and an understanding of how these technologies can be applied to transform businesses and industries. I contributed to the promotion of the Portland State University program and the greater Portland metro area as one of the core hubs of the distributed Internet and have given input on course materials and course evolution. For more information about this groundbreaking program for business students please visit: https://www.pdx.edu/professional-education/unlocking-blockchain-for-business-leaders

Founded a distributed software company to solve some of the most pressing needs of consumers on the Internet today.* Architected a distributed application suite on mobile and desktop secure messaging, personal storage, and regulated communications [e.g. HIPAA/FINRA] .* Contributed to intellectual property protecting the products and their common peer-to-peer platform.* Created requirement documents and roadmaps as well as use cases, interface guidelines, wireframes, and user interfaces for the product suite.* Delivered brand identity, brand and marketing guides, corporate business system, and investor, partner & customer presentations.* Configured and deployed team collaboration framework and acted as Scrum Product Owner for Moby Core Product team.

January 2014-June 2015 — Senior Director Product Management, BitTorrent Sync* Helped relaunch BitTorrent Sync product after revamping from a toolbox to a series of simple workflows.* Grew installed base from 2 million to 10 million+.* Contributed to product planning for Sync product line.* Assisted with API, definition, SDK documentation, and developer support.* Scrum Product Owner for Sync Team.June 2011-January 2014 — Senior Director Product Management, Consumer Electronics* Targeted audience of more than 170 Million MEU with an array of consumer electronics products which include BitTorrent technologies.* Delivered advertising inventory, direct revenue as well as IP licensing revenue.* Defined, rapidly prototyped and deployed consumer electronics products including: mobile phone based remote SW, mobile phone and tablet SW clients, Smart-TV clients, STB / DMA clients, thin HTML-5 clients, all integrated with cloud and PC based content libraries.* Created and operated consumer electronics certification program including three certification profiles, validation lab and issuing authority.* Managed SDK and CTK releases to partners and coordinated integration support for CE OEMs and ODMs.* Scrum Product Owner and Certified Scrum Master for Consumer Electronics Team.

bCODE is the maker of the bCODE mobile couponing, ticketing and stored value service for mobile phones.* Planned, implemented and operated campaigns for Fortune 1000 companies including Carl’s Jr., Caesar’s, MasterCard, Sprint, and Vodafone.* Deployed largest mobile coupon scanning network in the world, with more than 700 kiosks nationwide for Screenvison. Used quantitativeanalysis to optimize campaign response rates and conversion rates for these affinity campaigns.* Responsible for SDK Support for Europe and Americas; conducted dozens of implementations of the bCODE Campaign User Interface SDK and 9implementations of the bCODE Issuer SDK. Defined products for advertising, content delivery, cash replacement, ticketing and couponing.* Responsible for press and analyst relations, marketing and intellectual property development & protection.* Operational responsibility for networks and devices.* Deployed devices into 34 countries worldwide.

Visit http://www.PoundSKY.com to learn about our interactive radio system in the United States.* Created a mobile phone solution for interactive broadcasting.* Contributed to the VC funding, business development and business planning activities.* Architected the #SKY service network and drove development and deployment of it across all North American mobile phone carriers.* Conducted competitive and market analysis in interactive broadcasting solutions.* Responsible for marketing, PR, product management, product development, accounting & operations.* Led the definition of product features and contributed to the development of same.* Co-inventor of two patents on multimedia recognition and mobile advertising.

* Created a mobile phone solution for DRMed content distribution to top handset operating systems.* Evangelized mobile video commerce solutions to the carrier, OEM and content communities.* Architected a Push to Mobile Phone system for the Internet.* Conducted competitive and market analysis on video distribution platforms, DRM, video compression, audio compression and mobile content pricing.* Created an automatic discovery platform for the mobile phone environment based on RSS and SMS.* Involved with the creation of community tools for referral, gifting, sharing and commerce.* Integrated advertising platform with the messaging, blogging and content discovery experience.* Inventor of 6 pieces of intellectual property filed or being prepared.

* Instituted product marketing and product management processes where none previously existed.* Focused on creating and deploying products enabling enhanced device functionality from the network.* Responsible for competitive and market analysis, and for creating competitive products.* Reported to management on industry trends, technology developments and market movements.* Conducted quantitative analysis on the success of products and promotions.* Contributed to business development, general marketing activities and product development.

* Responsible for product marketing, product management, public relations and marketing communications. * Focused on delivering a wide variety of enhanced services to computers, PDAs and mobile phones. * Defined functional product requirements, product roadmaps, product lifecycle, application bundles, management systems requirements and supported user interfaces.* Researched and cataloged competitive intelligence, product requirements and user feedback. * Managed a team of five as well as external PR and MarCom agencies. * Involved in VC funding, IP protection and business development.

* Responsible for product marketing and product management of the voice-based initiatives including: voicemail, unified messaging, VoiceXML services and multi-mode applications for telecom service providers. * Focused on integrating and optimizing mobile phone handsets with network-based applications.* Produced product requirements documents, contributed to requests for proposal and represented the organization to the press and analysts for voice technologies. * Contributed to product definition, product lifecycle management and business development activities. * Nurtured professional growth in other product marketing and product management personnel.

* Acquired by Phone.Com in January 2000 for $300 million.* Implemented the first commercially available voice portal solution, included: unified messaging; PIM with sync and voice activated dialing; and multi-mode access to assorted web applications. * Focused on delivering enhanced service applications to mobile and fixed devices.* Defined voice, Web, WAP and touch-tone UIs, application functionality and product roadmap.* Contributed to VC funding, due diligence, marketing and public relations activities including creating the Web site and corporate logo.

* Responsible for product marketing, product management, marketing and public relations activities.* Focused on the delivery to handheld devices, computers and servers of electronic training and decision support systems for physicians and hospitals. * Achieved a 50% sales increase through quantitative direct marketing program and product line repackaging.