Product Executive, Customer Success Leader, Partnership Development, Operations Manager, Engineering
Irving, Tx, Us
Chief Product Officer / VP of Product & Customer Success, 2015 – PresentEXECUTIVE & CO-FOUNDER, 2002 – 2010I co-founded this startup in 2002 and have continued to lead the development of SaaS solutions for secure global file exchange and messaging. As a senior leader, I directed our growing global operations, working to continuously improve quality, and meeting or exceeding financial and performance goals. I returned to Thru to lead a major transformation to structure a new foundation for growth—building scalable organization and expansion strategy backed by controls, talent, automation, and heightened accountability. I headed a wide suite of sales, financial, and operational functions spanning all areas of business including customer service, sales and marketing, engineering, and product management. SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:☑ Built Customer Service organization from the ground up in 2007 using Salesforce and a partially outsourced process.☑ Completed process to qualify Thru for nomination as a Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) MFT solution while at the same time heading analyst relations. (Thru was placed in Niche MQ for 2 consecutive years under my direct leadership.) ☑ Tailored new product launch to enterprise class companies via EiPaaS partnerships using Gartner’s 5-stage product launch framework. ☑ Built consensus across sales, IT, operations, global market teams, and other groups for transformational changes in systems and procedures. ☑ Leveraged Agile Scrum to transition development and QA to 100% in-house by streamlining processes, improving quality, and enabling a new product architecture strategy. ☑ Set the process for customer product new feature requests and enhancements using Aha, Salesforce, and Jira.☑ Turned around multimillion-dollar Unilever account while managing complex scope of feature requests impacting product roadmap☑ Completed Microsoft partner certification process to qualify Thru as a Gold Certified Partner.