Cori (Land) Wolfland Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Santa Clara, California, US

• Lead a team of 6 to ensure renewal of ≥$200M of annual recurring revenue

Santa Clara, California, US

Santa Clara, California, US

• Research and size new markets, contributing to two strategic acquisitions that brought us into the fast-growing data streaming market and the AI space
• Write strategic visions that influence the CEO and leadership team’s thinking
• Own special strategic projects, like developing the early pricing strategy for our new flagship product, AstraDB, our multi-cloud DBaaS
• Develop and maintain a central system for market research, empowering IR, PR, finance, marketing, and product teams with a consistent, data-driven view of market trends
• Create frameworks and data products to support strategic, data-driven decisions across the company
• Influence D&I actions, including expanding our diversity referral bonus plan to include transgender & non-binary people and spreading the use of pronouns in Slack & Zoom

Santa Clara, California, US

• Evangelize the DataStax story to potential investors – let's go Astra!
• Updated the IR narrative with the new strategic principles I co-authored alongside the corporate strategy team, helping land more investor interest including a $115M round in June 2022 led by Goldman Sachs
• Own competitive analysis, tracking our success alongside others' in our market to bolster our IR narrative and inform C-Suite's investment decisions
• Stay connected with leaders throughout the business to constantly refresh the IR narrative
• Facilitate non-deal roadshows and other meetings with C-suite

Santa Cruz, Califorinia, US

Mountain View, California, US

• Led technical configurations and deployment of two new products to a Fortune 15 company, leading to 43% user expansion within 3 months, along with leading operations for multiple unicorn startups
• Created and ran the company-wide product feedback loop, capturing 150+ unique, actionable customer insights in first 2 months
• Created company-wide release notes process, resulting in reduced duplication and faster product cycles
• Partnered with Product Leads to launch new features, including a solution to provide agency and transparency for low n-count edge cases, based on customer insights
• Operationalized new features, leading testing and enablement to ensure quality at launch

San Francisco, California, US

• Consulted with a community hospital, coaching a group of doctors and nurses to conduct design research of the patient experience; the group went on to design and implement a "before visit summary" to empower patients.
• Coached a liberal arts college’s inaugural cohort of faculty intrapreneurs in design thinking, empowering the grassroots group to lead a design-led transformation of the student and faculty experience

Berkeley, CA, US

• Designed and executed LAUNCH's three-month accelerator program serving 75 founders
• Coached risk identification and mitigation, sparking a team to pivot their business model and raise $1M
• Created, marketed, and ran LAUNCH's first-ever make-a-thon. Recruited 40+ engineering, business, film, and design students to help our startups build out a piece of their product, branding, marketing, and more in 30.

Mclean, VA, US

• Short-term consulting engagement to define, document, and operationalize the product development process at Capital One Labs. I took on this role after I had been admitted to, but before I started, the MBA program at.
• Established a regular, transparent project review process to enable "failing fast" and accelerated product evolution; enabled reallocation of $1M in labor costs to projects more desirable to the parent company
• Built a central knowledge base capturing user research, experiment results, and project plans; reduced cost of staff turnover and accelerated design cycles

Arlington, VA, US

• Improved software deployment quality by 33% in 2 months by leading a cross-functional team through a Six Sigma project; won the “Think Big” award for “innovative ideas that drive the organization forward”
• Led a team of 3 technical writers to create 500+ standard operating procedures; 65% of delivery work linked to an SOP after 1 year. All 3 writers were promoted for their excellent project work
• Developed and drove KPIs of strategic initiatives for Technical Operations Senior Directors

Arlington, VA, US

• Embedded within Design team to provide business and operations consulting; restructured their organization and streamlined processes, resulting in a 107% increase in throughput
• Reduced rush requests of the design team by 50%; rush requests were 9x more likely to lead to quality issues; identified that root-cause was unclear turnaround times, developed a menu of services with clear turnaround.

Arlington, VA, US

• Designed and implemented a company-wide system to control access to client data, passing a security audit to retain a $2M+ client; won the “Good Teammate” award for “collaborating joyfully and having a great attitude”

Washington, DC, US

• Modeled U.S. electricity markets for the EPA’s 2015 Clean Power Plan
• Documented the sequence and purpose of every Stata program involved in the model to cement institutional knowledge
• Built an econometric model estimating labor supply's response to changes in energy prices for an academic paper on the social cost of carbon price policies
• Organized an academic seminar series for staff to increase idea-sharing between economists and research assistants

Washington, DC, US

• Authored weekly trend analysis of U.S. energy and agriculture markets and delivered directly to Chairman Bernanke so he could better appraise inflation
• Wrote and maintained over 20 interdependent statistical forecasting programs, written in FAME, to study USDA, WSJ, ICE, Bloomberg, and NYMEX energy and food price datasets. I improved processing time and accessibility.
• Provided research support for a paper on interest rate elasticity of mortgage demand published in American Economics Journal

Washington, DC, US

• Co-authored two papers examining international competitiveness using a novel price measure, collecting underlying data, building the aggregate price measure, and running regression analyses; presented findings to the.
• Forecasted global financial flows to brief the Governors on the state of international financial markets prior to FOMC meetings

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

B.S. Economics, Program In The Environment

Mathematics, Statistics