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Greater Seattle Area

As founder I conducted customer interviews to identify and refine product offerings. Evaluated and sized potential markets. Developed wire-frames and prototypes to solicit feedback from customers and users. Launched Short Exchange, a process as a product, completing initial product definition. Used lean start-up strategies to engage prospective customers.

Redmond, WA

Managed MyTaxPrepOffice.com's initial product launch in 2014 and the 2015 tax preparation season, focused on launch activities, go to market pricing, promotion, market identification and segmentation.Gathered customer feedback and guided development on initial product backlog. Delivered prioritized backlog of features for sprintsProvided on-boarding and.

Bellevue, WA

Took over organizer duties for Job Club Bellevue. A meetup group focused on job search employment. As organizer my role was to organize content discussions as needed by the group. Presented materials and coordinated group discussions. Used this meetup as a focus group, conducting market research on career management tools and new methods of finding.

Harvest Education Foundation is a non-profit organization formed with some friends with a focus on assisting kids in the lower Snoqualmie valley with educational needs. Prepared marketing and promotion materials to educate parents about the foundation, it's offerings and how they could get involved. Reviewed scholarship applications with other directors to.

Bellevue WA

Participated in sponsor gathering and assisted team as project manager maintaining and communicating project schedule, key deliverables, and milestones.

Bellevue, WA

Responsible for inbound and outbound product management and product marketing activities for all assigned products.Managed product strategy and requirements backlog for various product offerings that included desktop application, enterprise application, data center, and online SaaS Tax preparation products.Developed and presented product roadmaps to.

Responsible for the budget and success of the team delivering features and functionality for critical areas of the companies software and service offering, nearing 80% of all corporate combined revenue.Managed IT operations team responsible for data center file servers and application servers.Launched 43 individual state electronic filing.

Responsible for designing and coding new features and frameworks to be used by other development members. Strong emphasis on coding optimization to ensure applications executed and scaled efficiently. Improved application performance by approximately twenty percent year over year based on timed batch tests.Developed generic message queue component used by.