Product manager of the Yodle for Brand Networks (WBN) division. Product portfolio supports a $78 million business. Portfolio focuses on bringing best in class digital marketing solutions to franchise and multi-location businesses. Solutions include multi-location website platform, SEM, SEO, Facebook marketing, display advertising, and an advanced marketing analytics platform.

Product manager of the Yodle for Brand Networks (WBN) division. Product portfolio supports a $78 million business. • Developed and brought to market Yodle’s first enterprise product platform called Centermark.• Defined the Distributed Marketing Automation product category for networked/franchise businesses.• Product supports locally distributed marketing solutions including web, SEO, SEM and retention email marketing for multi-location businesses scaling up to 1500 locations each. • Helped grow sales by $30 million over 2 years through a platform strategy.• Successfully added 4 revenue generating products to the Centermark platform over 3 years. Products included enhanced SEO, Facebook advertising, reputation management and true ROI performance reporting. • Increased corporate client usage 500% through the addition of analytics platform to Centermark.• Defined and built WBN’s product development team from 0 to 25 person team.• Member of seven person executive team tasked by BOD to explore and execute sale of Yodle. Presented product strategy and vision to 6 prospect buyers in the process. Team completed successful sale of Yodle for $340 million to Web.com.

Product manager and strategist for Digital Education products for B&N specifically Nookstudy.• Created and led strategy for entering digital education market.• Established strategy through extensive research and analysis including market research, competitive analysis, financial modeling and consumer interviews. • Developed and brought to market NOOKstudy platform which is recognized as an industry leading ereading platform for college students. NOOKstudy launched in August 2010 is used by students in over 4000 colleges. • Built and led a cross-functional team to set product strategy, goals and key performance indicators for Barnes and Noble’s digital education products. • Established and managed feature roadmap for new product development related to digital products. • P&L owner for digital textbook business on bn.com and 700 BN college bookstores. Responsible for 100% sales growth rate on a semester over semester basis. • Subject matter expert on higher education digital content technology with invited speaking engagements including Educause, O’Reilly TOC, and Blackboard conferences. www.nookstudy.com

Managed all aspects of project management, portfolio planning and business analysis for this large ecommerce firm. Staff included seven project managers and four business analysts.Defined many of the PM and BA processes used through-out the company including change requests, defect tracking, requirements gathering and documentation, risk/issue management, and communication plans. Established and managed project portfolio management for entire breadth of IT and fulfillment project across bn.com including analysis of resourcing, revenue/cost benefits, and strategic goals. Established a requirements repository for all systems in the company. All requirements when gathered were placed and managed in a single database repository. The repository resulted in a dramatic decrease in duplicate requirements gathering and provided traceability to all test cases and defects. Assisted key business stakeholders in defining project visions for their various areas of responsibilities. Worked with these business owners to define product roadmaps which would enable each area to attain their specific goals.