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New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Building and evangelizing the next-generation of fintech Saas software in AI, Blockchain, and AR/VR. Evangelizing the product design process, our company design language, building & managing multi-brand design systems. Also, pointing the ship in the sea shift of AI: probabilistic UIs, chat interfaces, AI UX, and more.

San Jose, CA, US

✅ Ecommerce v2.0✅ Request for Quotes & Proposals v2.0✅ Terms of Sale Commerce Automation v1.0✅ Buyer Login & Registration v3.0✅ Buyer Verification v1.0✅ Knowledge Vault v1.0✅ Alchemy Design System v1.0✅ Premium Analytics v2.0 I worked on the end to end design of chemical ecommerce for Knowde in addition to projects where I designed the flow and UI to.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

Led a team in the Digital Transformation initiative in product management, product requirements, UX design & research, mobile app development, product vision, business insights, and user interviews. Sketch + Sketch centralized component libraries + InVision + Protopie

New York City, NY, US

• Product owner for 14 TV Everywhere video streaming apps across across eight network brands on mobile, tablet, and connected TV devices, resulting double-digit YoY growth in video starts.
• Helped drive a 68% and 30% YoY increase in TV Everywhere video starts for brands like USA, SYFY, Bravo, E!, and Telemundo.
• Evangelized UX, worked through product discovery, requirement gathering, backlog grooming, and release planning.
• Leveraged partnership with Amazon Alexa team to be a launch partner for voice-controlled UI on Fire TV
• Redefined first-run, login, and retention UX along with AuthZ + AuthN + identity management for Peacock, gaming consoles, and other 10-foot platforms.
• Shipped redesigns of Fire TV apps in close partnership with engineering, design, legal, marketing, and research teams.

• User experience & product management consultant
• Helping growing companies refactor and revamp aging products with modern best practices: Secure Transportation, Ladas & Perry LLP, Vin Di Bona Productions, IATSE Local 695, IATSE Local 729

New York, NY, US

• Built & led a team of 20+ designers, developers, and product managers to help FC scale in ecom, brick & mortar, and infrastructure to support >700% growth.
• Established & implemented Agile best practices to manage data, hardware & infrastructure, technical debt & documentation.
• Partnered with CEO & company leadership to define strategy & multi-year roadmap to replatform FlightClub.com on Magento Enterprise, including managing multiple iterations, selecting SaaS vendors, recruiting staff, and.
• Stabilized legacy systems housing all ecommerce and retail data. Managed replatform of all legacy data to cloud-native Rails app.
• Provided subject matter expertise into product, technology, and market trends while collaborating with developers on product development. Validated all designs against product requirements.
• Stakeholder & key contributor to tech projects which included apps, WMS, networks, and security technologies from the design through development, testing, and stabilization phases.

New York, NY, US

• Sole stakeholder of front & back-end site re-platform projects. Managed 8 reports and partnered with team leads to transform business needs into functional requirements and use cases. Managed project timelines and.
• Produced polished UX deliverables in every phase of product lifecycle (strategy, research, requirements, architectures, flows, ERDs, maps, wires).
• Translated product requirements and technical designs into low-defect, robust code with 3rd party systems.
• Defined new features to be built, wrote user stories and acceptance criteria and groomed stories with developers and designers.
• Built custom reporting solutions via deep SQL queries to get at critical operation data in various company data sources.
• Built a white-glove retail iOS app and mobile inventory picking / warehouse management system.

New York, NY, US

• Hybrid product management + engineering role, working to improve the core consumer retail and web experiences.
• I rescued a legacy system, then designed and implemented new systems that bridged the gap between traditional brick-and-mortar problems in inventory management, point-of-sale, and ecom with modern, context-centric.
• I managed the product catalog roadmap and prioritized features related to data ingestion, item matching, and data quality management.
• Managed DevOps & infrastructure as part of transition from on-premise systems to cloud-native
• Orchestrated the product design, development and launch of sell.FlightClub.com vendor portal. Defined preliminary metrics with quantitative and qualitative user research methods and performed usability testing, user.

Managed all technology for the $1 billion dollar gift of the Leonard Lauder Cubist Art Collection to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art.- Wrote all user stories including test criteria for TDD, ran grooming sessions and weekly IPMs, checked product for bugs for bespoke Art Management System that archived provenance materials, digital assets, and other.

New York, NY, US

In short-term consulting engagement, designed new system to track political and charitable contributions. Recovered data from legacy database to ensure accurate historical tracking and up-to-date records.Key achievements:- Rescued critical charitable & political contribution data from a legacy monolith DBF / dBase system- Performed pragmatic business &.

• Various contract work with C-suite for a Ultra High Net Worth single family office to audit, manage, & build various financial and IT systems. Worked closely with stakeholders to unearth pain points, wrangle vendors.
• Conceptualized, built, and deployed a bespoke financial management platform to secure, centralize, report and maintain highly confidential financial information on various assets and asset classes.
• Owned the vision and roadmap for support of financial assets and portfolio analytics all the way from data aggregation to modeling to financial advisor user experience.
• Led needs analysis, audited and maintained internal systems, and worked with corporate IT to coordinate security and integration.Technical Scope: FileMaker Pro / Server, Excel, Access, ATWeb, Active Directory, Windows.

• Freelance 1-man web agency, bringing both engineering & thoughtful interaction perspectives when executing big ideas. Responsibilities have varied from business analysis, front-end & back-end design, development.
• Lead designer & developer of InBloom Shop Software: a full suite of software to run consignment-based businesses. Includes inventory & consignor management, built-in point of sale, bespoke reporting & printing, syncing.
• Built a full point-of-sale system (POS) as part of InBloom and established a full hardware & deployment strategy including integration with thermal receipt printers, label printers, cash drawers, 1D & 2D barcode.

Responsible for all technical & store operations for the pioneering & growing consignment-based luxury retail shop specializing in womens' and mens' clothing & accessories.- Built team of 2 engineers & 3 web producers (marketing/photography/site edits)

• eDox: Business Analysis, Implementation, QA Testing of a custom suite of software built open LiveLink software to bundle related insurance print materials into a consolidated bundle for AXA Financial.
• Prepared analysis and proposal of a new consolidated Siebel Software-based CRM system for GMAC.
• Completed 2 month training program in software design including C programming, Siebel Software, SQL, and PowerBuilder.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba) Equivalent, Art/Art Studies, General