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Englewood, Co, Us

Lead an empowered cross functional team of Product, Engineering, QA, Marketing and OPs team members responsible for Apple clients including Apple TV & Mobile (iPhone & iPad) that millions of users and devices use to stream live OTT TV, Recordings and Video on Demand through the Sling Service.Product Manager also trained as a Scrum Master that manages discovery and delivery of product UI changes using SAFe Agile concepts, DevOps, & CI/CD. Daily use of agile methods, including backlogs, iteration, daily stand ups, PI Planning, Demos, PO and ART Sync etc. with teams across many international time zones including offshore in India.Manage the Apple App Store Connect for the Sling TV Application. Including staging of screenshots, video, text, analytics and release of the product etc. Setup TestFlight for controlled build distribution for testing and beta programs.Perform customer interviews and research with casual as well as power users to gain customer insights as well as input for new features. Discovering together with my Tech lead and Design before development resources were used. Used TestFlight to operate and control beta program during new UI releasesData driven and skilled in using many different analytics tools to access and analyze the data for improvements to features and capabilities of the product. Improved the measured stability of the app from low 90s to 99%.Developed, along with basic app functionality, expanded Apple clients capabilities using deep linking and Apple APIs like tvOS Top Shelf, iOS Widgets, iOS SharePlay, Shared with Me resulting in increased engagement and gross ads.Managed Apple partner relationship, improving both Apple and Sling products. Provided demos/planning/support.

Englewood, Co, Us

Responsible for the success of the product on the Roku platform. Led a cross functional team for Sling’s largest subscription base of millions of devices. Product expert responsible for all build deployments & feature releases. Presided over 2 full UI changes & dozens of features and iterative releases over 4 years. The Roku platform is used daily by millions of Sling subscribers and the Roku app alone averaged over 350k+ daily concurrent users.Experienced & Trained Product Manager/Owner that manages product delivery using concepts from SAFe Agile, DevOps, & CI/CD. Reduced product release cadence from 3 months down to every 2 weeks and still reducing that time. Working knowledge of the agile frameworks, including iteration planning, backlog refinement, daily stand ups, PI Planning, Demos, PO and ART Sync.Managed Roku partner relationship as originally one of their top 3 apps on the platform. Met weekly to improve both products and publish each of our Roku SlingTV Clients/channels.

Managed the market data products hosted in data centers around the world that delivered real time market data to the Neovest trading platform. Products provided trade, quote, filtering, depth & other reference data direct from more than 130 US & international exchanges & vendors. Provided institutional traders the ability to electronically trade Equities, Commodity, Futures & Options instruments direct to exchanges or to 340 brokers and trading routes around the world. • Product owner and subject matter expert for market data products. Maintained product backlog and managed prioritization and trade-offs between release times, customer demands, performance & operational support. • Worked with cross-functional teams to develop the product from inception to deployment on dozens of product and exchange releases. Followed agile principles in the creation & expansion of the product to ensure successful releases. • Primary contact for the major exchanges around the world & responsible for establishing market data requirements with all the primary exchanges like: NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, CME, & CBOE etc.• Owned product roadmap for market data deliverables based on vision, strategy, & market analysis. Worked with sales & marketing to maintain new exchange/features lists. • Worked with JPM large institutional clients like hedge fund & mutual fund traders gathering requirements, prioritizing features, training support teams & communicating priorities and status back to the customers & product owners. • On-boarded trading clients & set up over 100 new trading routes with brokers. Increased revenue 46% in two years. • Identified measurable analytics to measure product success. Saw ten-fold increase in daily shares traded over 7 years. • Completely replaced all international data sources (over 75 exchanges at that time) with a new supplier in 10 months.

Developed & implemented from the ground up policies, procedures & databases that supported internal business functions that tracked computer & network assets for each client from the time of purchase, installation & disposal. Manufactured satellite routers in house to customer specifications for Fortune 500 customers to easily distribute video through satellite partners onto corporate IP networks for Digital Signage & Interactive Distant Learning.Managed the outsourcing of production to a contract manufacturer. Leased warehouse space & managed a team on build out of the physical layout. Designed, coded & implemented database application & scanning process that tracked all manufacturing & integrated it with financial/ inventory systems. Identified quality issues & enabled custom reporting that increased output by 200% in 5 months.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Scheduled gas and provided daily contact with producers and markets to identify and complete transportation transactions in the Western US and Canada. Responsible for optimizing marketing and transport of natural gas and executing strategies that maximized contract flexibility in a fast paced, high-pressure environment.

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Led the development of a SaaS product used by for e-commerce sites & contact centers. Integrated all customer interactions into a single interface & hosted the services in state of the art data centers. Integrated technologies such as the PBX, ACD, IVR, VOIP, CTI, SQL databases, Cisco routers, & CRM applications, packaged into one solution/service & delivered over an IP network.Developed customer relationships, defined product roadmap, collected & wrote product requirements clearly outlining the features to be included in the product/service. Researched & monitored competition, industry trends, & provided strategic vision & direction for the product/services. Defined & implemented the product life cycle (PLC) process used by the company to release product/service that reduced release lead-time from 6-12 months to 3 months from roadmap to release.Created integrated marketing campaigns using internet marketing, web site, trade shows, analyst reviews, marketing collateral, channel, & field training. Coordinated the outbound messaging, communication, & training concerning our services with channel partners & customers. Developed ISV, & VAR channels & managed those relationships.

Provo, Ut, Us

Primary representative on core product release teams responsible for development & release of some of Novell’s most strategic products. Managed the release of products including eDirectory, NDS, ZENworks, eGuide & digitalme site. Led extended teams in releasing the product as well as implementing integrated marketing campaigns to create/improve product & brand image. Including product roadmaps, internet marketing, Web site, brochures, trade shows, training, white papers, & packaging. Product releases were worldwide through all channels (OEM, ISV, VAR, Dist, etc). Demonstrated the product & trained the channel, sales force, internal teams & other partners.Led a high profile cross-functional team & channel partners that designed & implemented Novell’s first e-commerce model. Established & implemented processes, software, & partners to support EC/ESD model & electronic delivery of licenses. Brought together key players from Engineering, Finance, Operations, Sales, & channel & fulfillment partners. Saved $millions in distribution costs & provided customers immediate access to licenses, reducing release times by 80%.Participated in industry standards organizations that established guidelines for electronic distribution of software using the Internet. (Software Publishers Assoc. (SPA), & CompTIA). Presented at trade shows including Comdex, Brainshare & NetWorld-Interop etc.Provided supplier management for products that were produced & released worldwide. Managed an organization through the obtaining & maintaining of ISO 900X quality management certification.

Dulles, Virginia, Us

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science