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American Fork, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

I provide executive-level leadership for special projects evaluating the feasibility of providing FamilySearch services on an international scale across APAC. I am responsible for the authentic and culturalized experiences of our patrons from over 47 Countries from India, South East Asia, the Philippines and the Pacific.I guided vendor selection, RFP requirements, concept development, qualitative andquantitative market research, prototype requirement development, prototype development, usability testing, and focus groups. I also lead research and development projects, oversee cross-functional project teams, and work across the globe to grow the product.✰ Increased the Genealogical engagement in APAC by over 225% in just two years.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

I spearheaded product management, development, and oversight including Art, Audio, Video, Educational Design, and the Programming for the premier school curriculum to teach both English Literacy and English as a Second Language (ESL). I built and led the product roadmap and product plan of record for the development of Imagine Learning Spanish. I led product development teams, senior stakeholder reporting, and championed an innovative approach to development.✰ Increased revenue by 600% in three years after directing the launch of two major product releases.✰ Built the Imagine Learning innovative website site located at: http://www.imaginelearning.com/

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

I held responsibility for developing FamilySearch Indexing, an internet-based program designed to support volunteers in the extraction of information from digital images. I led product teams in the full life-cycle development of the FamilySearch Indexing product, with over 100k users in the first year. I contributed to a global contextual inquiry research project launched to identify and analyze the challenges facing Genealogists and Family History Researchers.✰ Decreased the time to scan a microfilm by over 1K% after building a new microfilm-to-digitalconversion system.✰ Improved Microfilm scanning from over 15-minutes per roll, to less than 3-minutes per roll for over 2K images

Provo, Ut, Us

Was part of the Product Management team that launched Novell's most successful product launch - NetWare 6.0Managed all aspects of concept creation, content development, internal & external partnering for the development of Novell’s Deployment Guides, a marketing initiative and internet program to increase the awareness of Novell NetWare’s capabilities and creation of easy installation utilities that help auto configure NetWare for System Administrators. Worked closely with IBM, Compaq, Dell, and other important business partners. Initiated two of Novell’s most critical technology taskforces PRISM and WATERFALL

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Returned to Waterford Institute to manage the Waterford Early Math and Science project Managed all aspects of production & development for over 120 employees

Oversaw the idea creation, production, and marketing of over 45 new audio literature products in 18 months, including taking the Work and Glory Audio Series from concept development, to final release.

Established SME as the sole foreign investor in the China Sports Broadcasting Network (CSBN) to establish a new sports television channel in the People's Republic of ChinaWorked with IMG, TWI, Chase Manhattan Bank and ESPN to provide sports programming in the P.R.C.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Managed all aspects of production of Waterford Institute's Early Reading Program for over 110 employeesSuccessfully negotiated Microsoft’s payment for out of contract work overage of over $500,000

Santa Clara, California, Us

Analyzed Intel’s marketing purchases by commodity and recommended cost saving techniques, and decreased production time for the Fall 1995 marketing initiativeAssisted Intel in organizing and hosting government officials from the People’s Republic of China to discuss Intel’s international business practices and manufacturing techniques

Recruited by WordPerfect to open Hong Kong and the People's Republic of ChinaPresented at numerous public seminars and trade shows throughout Asia ranging in size from 20 - 2,500Negotiated sales contracts with many large organizations such as Hongkong Bank, Swire Pacific, Jardine Matheson Holdings and San Miguel Corporation

Oversaw the production of media for all the UNIX platforms that WordPerfect Supported ... XENIX, SCO, SunSparc, Pyramid, ATT, NCR, and others

Mba, Marketing, International Management, Chinese

Ba, Asian Studies