Darcy Burner Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Wa, Us

Co-founded US manufacturing company. Bootstrapped to more than $5 million/year in revenue, selling direct to customer (B2C) via website, Amazon.com, and other e-commerce channels. Developed streamlined lean manufacturing techniques to enable single piece flow manufacturing of customized products. Oversaw software development for proprietary software to manage custom manufacturing. Featured in national and international press, including FastCompany.com and NowThis.Ran marketing, sales, product management, supply chain management, financial management, and equipment acquisition and repair operations for startup manufacturing and e-commerce company. Wrote and filed patents for new products and partnered with major manufacturers to build patent-pending products and associated packaging.Applied understanding of manufacturing and supply chains to partnership with DFTBA, generating more than $2 million per year in additional margin on roughly $20 million per year in revenue. Designed and supervised building Azure-based analytics system to ingest data on more than a million transactions per year and analyze profitability and expenses across all key vectors.

Boston, Ma, Us

Serve on the board of the non-profit Center for International Policy, a DC think-tank with leading analysis on many of the most critical issues we face, including national security, fiscal policy, immigration, and climate change.

Built innovative clean tech business model demonstrating how to dramatically decrease carbon emissions in ways that are cash flow positive for homeowners and extremely profitable for business. Pro forma financials described by member of the Northwest Energy Angels due diligence team as “the best they’d ever seen.”

Ran for Congress in Washington's 1st Congressional District. Came in 3rd in crowded primary after being outspent by millions of dollars.

Founding executive director of the non-profit policy organization for the 83-member Congressional Progressive Caucus of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.Initiated and organized the coalition for the campaign to reform the Senate filibuster.Created and ran the first ever Congressional Progressive Caucus strategic planning summit, connecting policy experts with members of Congress and more than 100 Congressional policy staffers.Drove the campaign for the public option as part of the Affordable Care Act.Implemented a PR program which garnered more mentions of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in first four months of operation than they had received in entire previous decade. Represented progressives in the press, including on Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, NPR, C-SPAN, Pacifica Radio, and a host of local radio programs, and featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Roll Call, Politico, The Hill, Huffington Post, DailyKos.com, The Nation, and Mother Jones.Keynoted and presented at conferences in front of tens of thousands of people, including at Netroots Nation, Take Back America, America’s Future Now, Freedom2Connect, the Harvard Law School Journal of Law and Technology Conference, Ignite Seattle, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation conference on Afghanistan. Managed the creation of Progressive Congress News, a daily news clipping service for Congressional staffers which in its first year was subscribed to by more than 2/3 of all policy staffers in U.S. House and U.S. Senate on both sides of political aisle and had a daily open rate averaging greater than 60%.

Drove reframing of discussion of the war in Iraq, changing media portrayal of choices from “cut-and-run vs. stay-the-course” to “responsibly end the war and bring our troops home safely” by writing and organizing around the widely-acclaimed Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq. Vetted plan with retired generals and national security specialists as well as security advisors to then-candidate Clinton and then-candidate Obama. Formed an unprecedented coalition of more than 60 candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate endorsing the plan. Engaged grassroots, with more than 50,000 grassroots activists endorsing the plan and delivering copies in person to every single member of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.Drove new model for House fundraising: first House candidate to use the Internet to raise significant donations from small donors, raising more than $8 million over 3 cycles from more than 50,000 donors with a median contribution size of less than $50.Received higher percentage of vote for Washington’s 8th District than any Democratic U.S. House candidate in history. (Alas, I lost anyway.)

Redmond, Washington, Us

Ran global programs to persuade external software vendors and developers to create software built on Microsoft’s platforms, resulting in more than 400% increase in certified applications.Elected chair of Hoppers (now Women@Microsoft), Microsoft’s internal advocacy group for women employees. Drove international change in the way developers built applications from client-server to XML web services model by showing them clearly what kinds of solutions they could build with the new technologies that they could not build with the old ones.Led internal and external marketing execution for Microsoft .NET, Microsoft’s successful “bet-the-company” strategy to change the way software was developed worldwide. Developed marketing materials for launch of .NET server products.

Technical sales for top sales team at company. Sold, installed, and configured online learning software for western half of US; developed and taught courses in the creation of computer-based training. Installed and configured customer databases including Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.In product management role, did product and program management for all of company's products.

Provided technical support, training, QA, and bug fixes for Unix C and C++ compilers and interpreters.

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Wrote code in C and C++. Developed first shared components for SmartSuite and NotesSuite which connected them to the internet. Improved performance of SmartSuite installer, reducing installation time by more than 90%.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science With A Special Field Of Economics

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Law

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Analytics