Driving transformation and future ways of working at Walmart. In this role I support the Retail Transformation product management team that is responsible for supporting our transformation and day to day operations in our Stores and for our Associates. This includes capabilities that our Store Associates use everyday to serve our Customers through Pricing, Front End, Salesfloor and Backroom inventory management, Asset Protection, Workforce Management and all of the capabilities that support our Associates. At Walmart we are not satisfied with standing still and we believe the more we support our Associates and provide career growth and learning it will translate to serving our Customers better each and everyday.

Product Management executive leader responsible for capabilities across Merchandising, Search, Product Catalog and Inventory. In this role I lead a team of product managers, business analysts and tools developers who support capabilities that include Inventory Deployment, Merchandising Planning, Merchandising Tools, Stock Ledger, Search Platform, and our Product Catalog. In this role I interface with business leadership to understand strategies, goals and translate those to an outcome based approach to development with our technology teams, including the end to end process that is tied directly to our tools.

In this role I lead a team of product managers who are focused on delivering transformational outcomes in the Merchandising, Supply Chain and Product Catalog capability areas. This includes the reinvention of the end to end process for how we buy, merchandising, plan and what tools, capabilities and systems are required to support those reinventions. In addition, the activation of new fulfillment and distribution centers that are designed for the support of the entire spectrum of Nordstrom business in an omnichannel way. Relationships, collaboration and transparency are the grounding principles in how I operate with both the teams I support, the teams I work with and the Executive team. A focus on outcomes and measurements drive our prioritization to ensure alignment with our strategy.

In this role I led a team of Product Managers and Business Analysts that were focused on the support of the Merchandising organization. In this role the capabilities of item, allocation, inventory deployment, pricing, inventory management and others were supported by a team of product managers that I supported. Partnering with executive leadership to understand the strategy and long term goals, product roadmaps with outcomes and measurements were developed and in partnership with technology delivered entirely new platforms for Merchandising to operate off of, with new tools to improve efficiency and productivity of both people and product we sell.

Leading the business side efforts, in partnership with technology, to develop a robust, scalable product catalog roadmap and service to power all channels of the Nordstrom business. In addition, manage the overall business strategy and roadmap for master data management at Nordstrom, including product, vendor and price. Work collaboratively with business stakeholders to assess and prioritize needs and partner with technology to deliver on established roadmaps on time and on budget. Directly support a team of product managers defining business requirements from stakeholders across the Enterprise.

Responsible for product planning and operations for Nordstrom Direct, as well as supporting a team of product managers overseeing feature and functionality development of the search platform, product detail page, styling, international expansion and browse/navigation. Responsibilities included planning for Direct capital spending, overseeing the spend and working closely with IT to ensure budgets are being adhered to and output met expectations.

Responsible for platform product management in the Amazon Seller Services division. Amazon Seller Services is home to third party Sellers that sell their products on Amazon.com. My group oversees the platform services that power fulfillment, returns, pricing, management of restricted items, fees, our Seller management service and mobile. I also oversee the management of our Change Control Board and process, in partnership with our Technical Program Management team. This role partners heavily with Finance, Development and Worldwide business owners to deliver the tools and services our Sellers need to operate their business efficiently and economically.

In this role I led the transformation of the Product Management capability at American Greetings Interactive. In this position, I built the PdM organization from the ground up, setting the bar and goals for the organization and changing the engagement model with technology and business stakeholders from a receive model into Product Management into a collaborative, transparent approach to understanding goals, outcomes and how we measure success. During this time we pivoted to an agile method of development and brought together the minds of Product Management and Technology, whereas historically a wall had existed.

At CNET I was responsible for our product and pricing catalog functions that powered our ecommerce properties. In addition, I managed our central functions of tech production, product management and operations. This included management of resources across the CNET properties and ensuring on-time delivery of initiatives. Overseeing a team of 50+ I was responsible for ensuring alignment with the business units and helping to devise and execute strategic visions for all of the CNET properties (including CNET.com, Download.com and News.com).

My primary function at RealNetworks was the ownership of the marketing programs associated with the distribution of the free RealPlayer software product. I worked with large companies, such as the Philadelphia Enquirer to bundle the RealPlayer product with their multimedia initiatives, which included CD-ROMs for their customers. In addition, I worked with download sites to ensure the RealPlayer was receiving appropriate levels of promotion.

My role was to build and launch the Download.com for the Mac software library. This included the vetting and reviewing of thousands of software products for inclusion in this curated library for Mac users. In addition, I rated the software products and worked extensively with Apple and their developer community on putting software products on Download.com first, before they were available on other sites. I built extensive relationships with this community and Download.com became the largest site on the Web for Mac software.