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Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Chicago And Seattle

Appointed to take over an additional product line which required relocation to the Chicago area. Lead six product managers and 90+ engineers across three continents. Assumed responsibility over all vehicle inventory-related products for the largest automotive website network. Oversaw marketing, sales, development and operational readiness of CDK's first telematics-based product. Manage inventory services running actively across two cloud environments and supporting a website platform with over 80M unique visitors per month. Stay abreast of current market/competitive trends, as well as software as a service (SaaS) and cloud technologies. Plan, administer and manage an $8MM annual spend. Significant contributions include:• Established top-performing team of product managers and engineering leaders across multiple shores.• Reduced loss rates to less than 50% and increased engineering productivity by 30% in the first year.• Established key dealer groups in assistance to the next phase of product growth.• Spearheaded the successful launch of CDK's first application programming interface (API)-based product.• Fully launched CDK’s first telematics product.

Greater Seattle Area

Was responsible to develop and execute improved processes for employers and employees to select and purchase health insurance.Significant contributions include:• Set strategic priorities to generate better market advantage and process efficiency, resulting in enhanced sales success.• Drove expansion of our product suite after developing a differentiated analytics program and sales product.

Oversaw products in two different lines of business across six continents. Had accountability over the development of a new data analytics product business using telecom data. Supervised six directs reports in expanding geographic areas and industry of Globys’ reporting and analytics product suite.Significant contributions include:• Created a product management practice from the ground up which drew in over 30% year-over-year (YOY) growth.• Initiated the transformation of telecom marketers’ technique in building campaigns and prospecting customers.• Led the invention and sale of a new contextual marketing product business using behavioral analytics in targeting telecommunication marketing—now an independent company named Amplero.

• Promoted to Director to direct, lead and manage implementation of a new product initiative. • Served as an effective sales architect; contributed to largest contract for Qpass in more than four years.

• Headed the establishment of Qpass’ first channel sales agreement with HP, along with the Qpass’ first partnership for a product-based solution with BEA.• Recovered initial development investment within one year through production and sales of new product suite.• Minimized Qpass product total cost of ownership (TCO) by 25% and at the same time refined its scalable performance capacity by 20x.

• Brought excitement to customers with integrated mobile payments.• Succeeded in leading and obtaining funds for a cross-organizational project which minimized product installation efforts from one week to one hour—significantly increasing quality and reducing customer total cost of ownership (TCO).• Improved product quality and decreased production time for new customer accounts to less than three months.

• Managed technical implementation team of 20 for SBC portal.• Led design and implementation team for cast member portal at Disney.• Contributed to product strategy at Cisco.• Built first games channel SSO integration between America Online and Electronic Arts.