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Millis, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

New York, Ny, Us

⬧ Manage Market Data Procurement and Vendor Management operations across all key business groups including Asset and Wealth Management, Security Services and Retail.⬧ Captured multi-million dollars of annual savings by optimizing business use of vendor products/data and driving increased negotiation leverage.⬧ Build strong vendor relationships at a senior level to facilitate discussions regarding service and costs.⬧ Key decision maker in vendor selection and instituting a performance management system.⬧ Driving the creation of vendor data analytics, turning in-depth analysis into strategic insights and action.

Boston, Ma, Us

As the Vice President for Fidelity's Market Data product, I am responsible for the strategic oversight and day-to-day product management of the History and Analytics product portfolio. This encompasses managing a Product Agile team with diverse resources able to perform all needed end-to-end functions in delivery of content to meet the business needsI was recruited to transform the History & Analytics product which was built on legacy, expensive technology with constant operational issues and lacked the scalability to meet customer demands. Today our data platform services 14 million daily requests, growing at an annual rate of 8%, while expenses have decreased 10% yearly due to leveraging technical innovation and strategic vendor partnerships. Data covers 40 million securities for use by Fidelity's Retail and Institutional applications and we handle thousands of transactions per second delivered in under 500 millisecond response times.PRODUCT INNOVATION✔ Social Media Analytics✔ Option Volatility✔ Real-time Index Volume✔ Mobile SparkchartsEMERGING TECHNOLOGIES LEVERAGED✔ Cloud Computing in AWS✔ Big Data Repositories with Cassandra and MongoDB✔ Open Source Cache with Memcache✔ Agile Product and Software development✔ Containerized and scalable solutions

Boston, Ma, Us

As the Director of Market Data Product Services, I was responsible for the strategic product, vendor, client and financial management of Fidelity's Market Data product portfolio. Our product team reporting to me included product managers for four market data products, project managers and business analysts.As the product evangelists, we understand the competitive landscape for the Market Data portfolio of products to meet customer needs and incorporate user feedback to drive customer satisfaction. This view shaped our work intake and prioritization process in directing all work for the delivery teams to deploy. To drive financial transparency, we developed product budgets and total cost of ownership models for all market data expenses ($120M) and internal allocation model for cost recovery.LEADERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS✔ Managed Product Strategy/Roadmap✔ Multi-million Dollar Vendor Negotiations with SLA’s ✔ Instituted Product CouncilBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT✔ International Market Data✔ Directed Trading & Full Order Book✔ Direct to Exchange, Ultra Low Latency, Capital Market Feeds✔ Option Charting

Boston, Ma, Us

As the Senior Manager of Market Data, I was responsible for the business analysis, project management and client management of Fidelity's Market Data product portfolio. This team, reporting to me, drove the analysis, requirements gathering and project management of several critical Market Data projects.PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS✔ Commodity/Futures Market Data✔ Reference Data ✔ Symbology Conversions✔ Vendor Migrations

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed the implementation and on-going product management & operations of both the Oracle ERP and the Salesforce.com CRM systems for this $5.8B telecommunications provider. These two systems bolstered staff productivity, shortened sales cycles increasing revenue, reduced costs and paved the way for rapid growth and scalability.PRODUCT& PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT✔ Orchestrated implementation of the Oracle ERP system from legacy systems. System bolstered staff productivity by up to 60% in the HR department.✔ Standardized the sales team operations and reporting by selecting and implementing Salesforce.com, the first ever CRM system, at American Tower. ✔ Architected and implemented a customized Sales solution that delivered an innovative approach to managing tower suitability to customer demand resulting in up to 90% reduction in the sales cycle and increasing tower profitability up to 40%.BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / M&A✔ Spearheaded back office integration of ERP and CRM solutions from the acquisition of SpectraSite✔ Led strategic platform optimization by working in collaboration with product and content teams.

Austin, Texas, Us

Spearheaded the implementation of Oracle ERP projects for several firms.✔ Led Oracle ERP implementations for several billion dollar firms by understanding their business processes, aligning the Oracle implementation to the best go-forward procedures, converting of all data from legacy systems and driving adoption of the new system with training and support.✔ Managed the executive governance & reporting on these ERP projects ensuring implementation costs which ranged from $10M to $50M were on budget or below and delivered on-time.

Mba, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

B.S. In Business Administration, Finance