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New York, New York, United States

Led a new company, founded in partnership with professors at NYU and Columbia to provide a revolutionary digital prognostic for the prediction of melanoma recurrence serving under-diagnosed melanoma patients to help them access life-saving adjuvant therapies. • Defined the business model, target market, go to market strategy and execution plan to initiate the regulatory process• Represented Founder team in all fundraising activities with early-stage VC and angel investors• Developed non-dilutional funding opportunities with academic organizations in United States and Canada• Identified a serviceable market of 30,000 Stage II melanoma patients in the US annually • Created an MVP/initial product offering based on research with Key Opinion Leaders across the patient journey including providers, payors, and researchers • Negotiated a multi-year license agreement with NYU School of Medicine covering the core IP of company • Deployed deep machine learning technology and supporting workflows on a commercial platform using AWS, TensorFlow, and other open-source software • Performed technical validation to uncover and fix scalability issues for production usage metrics

Owned product development of the EVRYTHNG Platform, an IoT Platform-as-a-Service providing digital identities in the cloud for billions of products. Recruited and hired initial key staff and managed a global team of developers. • Defined a clear product strategy integrating needs from three different business verticals and multiple solution offerings • Created a solution-focused roadmap with measurable KPIs to guide allocation of resources • Built a product team of five, including product ownership, design and documentation experts • Directed sprint output of development team of twenty-five based in London and Belarus • Developed product pricing models to and sales tools to quickly assess value of potential deals • Presented ongoing product delivery progress at the executive level

Greater New York City Area

Owned the consumer vertical at Animoto, a 65 person SaaS organization delivering powerful automated video production to millions of users through web, phone, and tablet devices. • Drove 150% greater downloads, 300% YoY mobile bookings growth, and 20%+ YoY overall bookings growth by executing product go-to-market strategy at all levels of the company through presentations and ad-hoc meetings• Directly managed two Agile product teams with 15 engineers• Formulated, owned, and championed all aspects of Animoto’s consumer strategy and successfully gained approval of strategy changes at executive staff and board levels

Greater New York City Area

Owned mobile product roadmap and ongoing development of Animoto’s iOS and Android applications. • Delivered a top 20 grossing App regularly featured by Apple in the App store worldwide• Led product ideation, specification, and development of all app features and enhancements • Prototyped features in Objective-C for user testing • Trained and evangelized agile methodology for development team

Redmond, Washington

Owned feature development of Windows client applications as well as the post-sales web experiences for Windows Phone, including the Windows Phone Marketplace. • Set and managed regular development targets for 12-person engineering team• Worked horizontally in the organization to align features with stakeholders in groups including Windows Live and XBOX Live • Drove product development and stabilization phases • Measured usage of existing features and site traffic to drive future product efforts

Redmond, Washington

Owned the end-to-end user experience of KIN Studio, a web-based application that provided users the ability to view and manage the entire contents of their KIN phone. Responsibilities included: - Defining the feature set for the product’s initial release, including competitive analysis and mapping user research to targeted customer profiles - Researching partnership opportunities to make build vs. buy decisions- Managing the development of client code produced by a vendor team in Washington- Managing the development of service code produced by a remote team in California

Redmond, Washington

Drove the release of the XBOX HD-DVD External Drive accessory, and oversaw issue triage for multiple OEMS using Microsoft scripting technology in their own consumer products. Responsibilities included:- Managing the daily triage process for an engineering staff of fifteen- Developing custom code to perform deeper analysis on code defects across three separate projects and translated data into process improvement across the product group- Representing the product team at trade shows and industry events

Bellevue, Washington

Led program management during the specification and development milestones for MediaNet 3.0, which combined a custom content management system and ASP.NET based runtime to provide user-specific content to over 100 different cell phone models running on the AT & T Wireless network. This included:- Working with engineering management to analyze marketing requirements for content-specific modules- Managing a combination of FTE and vendor PMs to write detailed functional specifications for the content modules that were enabled by the runtime- Triaging issues between companies to ensure all product teams were in alignmentPrior to MediaNet, I also acted as partner PM for Dobson Communications, Alltel, and Nextel International, which typically involved:- Meeting with mobile operators on a regular basis to review performance and plan feature development- Driving any new feature / enhancement requests to the product engineering teams

Seattle, Washington

Designed and managed development of features in both new and existing versions of consumer-focused utility applications distributed to members of .Mac, the subscription-based Internet service that became MobileMe. Served as technical lead for Apple's Seattle office during the development and production of iReview, a consumer-focused web site guiding users to the most useful content on the Web. This involved: - assisting in the creation of a twelve-employee field office in Seattle- developing specifications for both the content-management tools and front-end presentation of data- implementing web applications to rapidly prototype content for additional products. - training the editorial staff in use of production softwareWrote short form (~300 word) essays for iReview web site, and marketing copy as needed for the .Mac service.

Bellevue, Washington

Designed and deployed technologies used in production of the GO Network's Money Center, a full-featured financial information service providing stock information, portfolio management, and business news. These projects involved: - integrating external data feeds into publishing tools and resolving issues with content providers as needed- producing C-based templates for publishing system to display static and dynamic data- training test department to find defects in publishing templates

Bellevue, Washington

Prototyped content for emerging Web platforms such as Intel InterCast and WebTV, to determine their feasibility, and allow teams to focus on delivery mechanisms that would extend their product's reach.

Bellevue, Washington

Managed production staff and implemented new product functionality, processes, and back-end tools for multiple web sites, including Mr. Showbiz, Wall of Sound, and ABCNEWS.com. These projects included: - overseeing production duties of the group; Writing functional specifications for new product features - scheduling development tasks for site launches and major updates - improving team workflow by implementing web applications to track content in progress

B.S. 1993, Commerce And Business Administration; Marketing

Education record

Year abroad program in England, run through business management school.