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Washington, Dc, Us

Bozeman, Montana, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Product and program responsibility for new, revolutionary products that impact the lives of more than 100 million customers.• Technical program lead for Xfinity Broadband and Home syndication partnerships (U.S., Canada, and Europe). Includes cross-functional engagement with sales, product, architecture, development, operations (including release, change and incident management), and support.• Responsible for end-to-end management of all customer initiatives. Includes determining business value, backlog prioritization, securing development resources in quarterly planning exercises, driving programs to completion, and measuring results at key intervals to analyze for improvements. Also responsible for regular communications to both Comcast (SVP/EVP) and partner (SVP/CTO/CEO) stakeholders.• Extensive work with Cyber Security teams to identify vulnerabilities and mitigate risk for our core products and features.Senior Director, Xfinity X1 Television and Broadband• Joined Comcast in 2010, as a lead for an incubator product that became Comcast’s flagship “X1” television product. Created our first roadmap and backlog, and dozens of new processes that carried us from program inception, to a working prototype, and to national market launch.• Lead for Comcast’s flagship “xFi” internet product, from program inception to initial market launch. Worked with cross-functional teams to build our first product that allowed customers to manage their broadband features via their mobile device.

New York, Ny, Us

Led global, matrixed product and technology teams responsible for all AOL Syndication products that reached more than 45 million unique users.• Global Product Lead for AOL co-branded products that grew AOL’s product footprint from five to 38 countries and in 21 languages.

New York, Ny, Us

• Product manager for AOL client software. Worked with non-U.S. in-country teams (Canada, UK, France and Germany) to localize the product for their markets.• Included extensive work with global syndication OEM partners (e.g., HP and Compaq, Dell, Gateway) and broadband service providers (e.g., Verizon and Roadrunner) to develop co-branded AOL clients, portals and content experiences.

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed the full product life cycle for AOL Voice Services, including the launch of the AOL Call Alert, AOL Voicemail, AOLbyPhone (relaunch) and AOL Talk (Voice over IM) products, including a USB phone.

• Developed an ATM-based trading platform for telecommunications carriers to exchange switched minutes, VoIP, video, data, and bandwidth that accessed a global, meshed network of POPs and utilized Lucent next-generation switches and regional gateways scalable to OC-192.

Cyber Security Strategy

Executive Mba Program

Ba Industrial/Organizational Psychology