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Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States

In my new role with TAIT, I am responsible for working all parts of the organization to define and sculpt a new organizational model that will help us improve both employee and customer satisfaction while increasing efficiency and profitability. This will include engaging leaders in each part of our company across all our markets and capabilities to identify the most effective path to achieve these goals.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

TAIT is the leader in creating, manufacturing and supporting world-class live experiences. For over 40 years, TAIT has been a part of the most memorable live experiences on every continent and scale. Whether it’s creating awe-inspiring spectaculars, complex touring sets, corporate events, big-budget films or brand experiences, TAIT works with the brightest minds in live events to bring their vision to life. The list of experiences TAIT has produced is remarkable. A sample includes Justin Timberlake, Pink, U2, The Academy Awards, The Olympics, Cirque du Soleil and many corporate events. The technology supporting many of these experiences is provided by TAIT Navigator. Navigator is a distributed networking automation platform integrating many of the leading automation, lighting, video, and audio devices. Navigator is considered the most powerful entertainment control system in the world. I am responsible for leading product strategy, user experience, online training, documentation and product communications for the Navigator automation platform.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Early to machine-to-machine design and development, TierConnect provided connected solutions to leading enterprise companies. Beginning with comprehensive solutions enabling customers to manage complex business processes, integrate information systems, and connect different supply-chain tiers, TierConnect provided early innovation to improve efficiencies across the plant floor for companies like GM, Ford and Whirlpool.I was brought in to help define a product strategy for next phase of the company. This led to the development of an IoT platform designed to align assets worldwide with a flexible architecture designed to apply rules-based intelligence to industrial, retail and manufacturing verticals using RFID communications. In 2015, TierConnect was acquired by Mojix to create an end-to-end IoT solution for the Retail, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Events markets.

West Chester, Pa

HL Chalfant American Art & Antiques has been one of the leading dealers in early American art and antiques for almost 40 years. A fixture in the discovery, collection and trade of great American art and furniture, Many of those examples have ended up in private and public collections throughout the country I found my early love for design and aesthetics in the family business. In a transition to support the desire to spend more time with my family, I joined HL Chalfant as a partner with my father. As a partner I added new products to the portfolio including 20th century art, created a CMS driven site focused on providing the rapid upload of content to meet market needs, formed partnerships with other online services in the space, updated the brand and advertising, joined the Board for the Antique Dealers Association and helped increase sales by over 100%.While participating in the growth of my father’s business, I never lost interest in the promise of technology. Working closely with a leading publisher in the art world, I helped found and drive the creation of InCollect, one of the leading fine art and design marketplaces.

San Francisco Bay Area

In addition to being a leading online content platform, Macromedia was also a leading provider of web conferencing solutions through their Breeze platform. At the time, Macromedia offered Breeze Live, Presenter and Training. These products combined offered comprehensive synchronous and asynchronous collaboration solutions for enterprises of any size anywhere across the world. Even today, these solutions are still offered by Adobe as Adobe Connect and Adobe Presenter.As the Director of Product Management for Macromedia, I was responsible for product strategy, world-wide and multi-vertical go-to-market delivery, and user experience.

Louisville, Co

Raindance Communications was a leading provider of both online and audio conferencing. One of the most innovative collaboration companies at the time, Raindance unified collaboration technologies like audio conferencing, web conferencing and streaming to create a competitive and engaging experience for their users.I was responsible for managing three product lines that addressed small meetings to events of over a thousand participants (Meeting Edition, Seminar Edition and Reservationless Conferencing). As the Director of Product Management, I was responsible for defining the product strategy, go-to-market delivery, user experience, and press briefings.

Boulder, Co

A company a little too early to market, SmartPoint created a wireless messaging platform that used a comprehensive rules engine to provide alerts to preferred devices. I was responsible for defining the product roadmap and the features supporting it, providing the user experience, creating all marketing materials and owning the P&L.

Westminster, Co

Persona mission was to provide users with easy-to-understand tools to manage the distribution of there personal information online. By offering a Windows application that would allow users to determine what information can be shared in which circumstances online, Persona sought to create a more trusted partnership between online commerce providers and the users that interacted with them.I was responsible for defining the product strategy, marketing materials, user experience, the company privacy policy and managing internal and external development teams.

Westminster, Co

MatchLogic was a leading interactive advertising platform combining ad serving, database marketing and email marketing. One of the pioneers at the time, MatchLogic was acquired for $90M in stock by Excite which was later acquired by @Home.As an early employee with the team, I was brought in to help MatchLogic navigate the challenges of offering personalized advertising in the new digital medium. Working with organizations like the W3C, TRUSTe, the IAB and DMA, I was an early contributor to standards bodies defining acceptable marketing practices online and owning the privacy policy for the company. I later transitioned this experience into becoming a product manager for their DeliverE email marketing system which grew to over $11M in revenue in its first year.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

AEA was a leading trade association for over 3,000 American high-tech companies. With 25 offices worldwide and headquarters in Santa Clara and Washington, DC, TechAmerica (then AEA) focused on representing American high-tech policy interests both at home and abroad.My role focused on managing trade programs with Asian countries, early e-commerce initiatives, grassroots lobbying campaigns and an international internship program.

Maia, International Economics

Maia, International Graduate Studies

Activities and Societies: Program Utskottet (PRU)

Ba, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Sigma Phi Epsilon, Epsilon Nu (Law Society), Campus Center Board, Student Government.