Product lead for Slate's iOS application serving Slate's most engaged audience. App Store ratings have improved from average of 3 to 4.5 stars over the last 1.5 years. Responsibilities include setting product roadmap, designing UX, integrating monetization streams, deepening engagement and sharing through click tracking and A/B testing. The link to our brand new app is below.Product lead for Slate's third party distribution platforms and relationships. Oversaw the implementations of Apple News and Google AMP, and day-to-day management of Facebook Instant Articles and Google Newsstand. Responsible for product roadmap and monetization strategy.

Product lead for the responsive website layout and UX, and CMS workflow for The Root’s website redesign. Included ad integration (DFP), analytics integration (Omniture), Video Platform migration (Brightcove to Magnify), algorithmic recommendation vendor selection and implementation (Parsely), and Editorial training and support moving from Drupal to CQ5 CMS.Member of internal tiger team responsible for Slate’s responsive website redesign. Product lead for Article page competitive analysis, pulling best practices from across the web in terms of share button placement and behavior, recirculation presentation and data sourcing, and overall page layout.Product lead for Slate article page optimization. Use A/B testing and click tracking tools (Optimizely) to understand Slate and The Root’s Homepage and Article/Blog page user behavior (desktop and mobile).Optimize reader experience for deeper page engagement and generally to gain a better understanding of web UX through data-driven analysis. Defined Slate’s user segments and worked with engineering to set up an interstitial targeting framework to intelligently target segments for Slate Plus (Slate’s Membership product) and newsletter sign up conversion. Designed the Slate Plus notification product including transactional and marketing emails and interstitials using MailChimp and Optimizely.Product lead for implementing and maintaining Slate and The Root’s native content implementations, including page presentation (responsive) and site promotion. My site promotion engagement improvements led to 94% improvement in CTR.Use Agile methodologies to manage quarterly priorities planning, sprint planning, daily scrum and code deployments. Managed priorities for 15 developers, domestic and offshore.

Program Lead for Dell, Best Buy/Geek Squad, and Qwest Communications online backup products.Managed SDLC and day-to-day management of a team of 4 Software and 2 Quality Assurance engineers across those programs.Composed cross functional requirements and training documentation used by Customer Support groups worldwide. Conducted both online and in-person training sessions for worldwide support groups.Responsible for presenting monthly and quarterly revenue to Executive Management.Actively collaborated with CFO and Finance team to complete revenue projection and trending analysis.

Primary Program Manager for the Sales department, often working with our Retailers directly to address needs and assess issues (over 5000 retailers nationwide).Primary Program Manager for our CMS and Handset launches.Composed requirements documentation and project schedules while effectively managing the input of departmental representatives in a fast-paced start up environment.Set priorities for between 5 - 15 Development, Quality Assurance, and vendor resources for various projects currently.Led client, vendor and internal meetings to determine business requirements, project requirements, and goals. Qualified feasibility of project functionality and delivered results within the project scope, timeline, and budget.Developed Amp’d’s Release Roadmap and Release process/documentation.

Quality Assurance Lead for Amp’d Mobile.- Hired into Amp’d Mobile as a full-time Program Manager.- Created/executed test plans.- Crafted issue reporting template and issue documentation.- Managed group of 3 domestic and 4 international Quality Assurance resources. Project Manager, Release Management team for VZ East Retail Billing Systems.- Ensured projects were launched from development complete through Quality Assurance. - Facilitated communication of issues and possible release schedule impacts to Release Management executive team.