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Tampa, Florida, United States

Manhattan, New York, United States

• Planned and launched a self-serve free-tier version of Blue Bite, initiating a shift towards a product-led growth model—significantly broadening the sales funnel, increasing qualified leads and closed deals

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Mapped a sophisticated monolith Army app into distinct, manageable domains, and created a roadmap for a strategic, value-focused cloud migration to Tanzu cloud services before conclusion of the fellowship
• Delivered a containerized microservice MVP to the Army client in 8 weeks, validating the viability of the roadmap. The MVP improved API request throughput by 80% and reduced errors by 12% versus baseline

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Product Manager | Slapshot Web Application Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
• Managed Slapshot web application used to plan the largest humanitarian airlift in history (Kabul, Afghanistan). 21,000 people evacuated in a single day. 122,300 people evacuated overall
• Rapidly implemented improvements needed to maintain performance as the application experienced a record high monthly user growth rate of over 800%
• Led re architecture in line with… Show more Product Manager | Slapshot Web Application Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
• Led re architecture in line with domain driven design. Finished in 4 months with 0 downtime to users and gains to key performance measures of over 350%. Improved resiliency, scalability, and developer efficiencyProduct.
• Tested assumptions and iterated to streamlined app user flows. Improved user engagement and retention, resulting in an over 200% increase in active users in one year

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Directed air and ground moves, security, and communications for high value NATO personnel within Afghanistan to include the German, Czech, and Spanish Chiefs' of Defense's visits to Afghanistan
• Oversaw the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's visit, kicking off the 2020 U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan
• Led the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s visit to Afghanistan to sign the Joint Declaration with the Afghan President in order to foster the 2020 Taliban peace agreement

Dayton, Ohio Area

• Managed two 18-member teams working to design, develop, test and deliver mission critical equipment and technology to aircrew around the world.
• Oversaw procurement and shipping of 18,000 personal locator beacons used to locate and rescue downed Air Force aircrew. Delivered 1 year ahead of schedule
• Managed development and delivery of the Air Force’s entire stock of high resolution white phosphor night vision goggles. User centered development and testing yielded 94% user satisfaction… Show more
• Managed development and delivery of the Air Force’s entire stock of high resolution white phosphor night vision goggles. User centered development and testing yielded 94% user satisfaction in independent survey
• Negotiated contracts for a $100M acquisition program and undercut the cost of the legacy equipment by $9M Show less

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

Activities and Societies: D1 Football and Track

Master Of Software Engineering - Mse