Nexient is America’s largest 100% US-based Agile software services firm. As featured in The New York Times, Nexient’s teams of developers, designers and strategists use a product-minded approach to accelerate clients’ revenue, loyalty and growth. A Gartner Cool Vendor and HFS Hot Vendor, Nexient is the only US tech firm among IAOP’s Top 100 Outsourcers in the World for the last three years running.Nexient combines:• Silicon Valley innovation (through its Bay Area innovation hub, and next-gen technology ecosystem)• Scalable, affordable delivery (with 65+ Agile teams in high-talent Midwest tech hubs)• Onsite collaboration (with product managers, scrum masters and other key roles available to work side by side with your team)Our expertise includes Agile development across a wide variety of software stacks and platforms, product management and strategy, UI/UX, integrated quality engineering, DevOps, cloud enablement and enterprise mobility.

- Lead product development on Automation Anywhere’s mobile app for iOS and Android, the go-to mobileapplication for all your RPA (Robotic Process Automation) needs.- Worked with a team of designers and UX professionals to drive UI development for the mobile applicationthrough customer use-case discussions, customer interviews, and feature discovery.- Developed customer engagement plan in collaboration with marketing in order to retarget and re-engagecustomers back into the app by utilizing segmented targeting campaigns via Urban Airship.- Lead product development through competition analysis, roadmap development, and market research.

- Drove product development on Thinfilmn's B2B CNECT web platform which enables marketers and brandsto drive user engagement and loyalty through rich NFC enabled mobile experiences.- Lead and facilitated communication to multiple concurrent B2B customer to ensure their product andbusiness needs were met through the CNECT platform offering.- Worked with a local and offshore engineering team to drive feature development on the CNECT platformand associated NFC scanner mobile application.- Collaborated with several internal stake holder, customers, and leadership team members to ensureproduct roadmap met the goals of the business and the needs of the customer.

- Product Manager on Dice’s 4-star rated mobiles app Dice Careers for Android and iOS where I own the end-to-end product life cycle from concept, development, testing, deployment, to post-release analysis.- Running product development in a cross-functional SCRUM Agile environment with UX designers, mobile developers, QA engineers, backend developers, data scientist, and remote developers.- Defined and developed a product strategy, roadmap, and vision that outlined our core users, challenges & pain points, mission, and a timeline of feature delivery dates.- Lead localization of the mobile app to the UK Territory resulting in a 10% user-base increase.- Produced and released 35 updates to the Google Play and Apple App Store.- Reduced support tickets by 50% by implementing a more intuitive streamlined login experience.- Prototyped, user tested, and A/B tested a home feed with the UX and mobile dev team that increased engagement of embedded features by 200%.- Developed push notification strategy that increased daily user engagement by 110%.

- Own the end-to-end delivery of web and mobile apps by working with designers (UI/UX) on prototypes/wireframes, creating and prioritizing user stories, writing up functional requirements documents (FRDs), and managing engineering and design resources.- Responsible for the oversight and management of the web and mobile apps team with a portfolio 8 to 10 mobile/web applications in development at any one time.- Lead daily stand-ups, backlog prioritization, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives. - Work with internal team members and external stake holders to ensure that projects are within scope, timeline, and budget. - Work with clients to generate creative solutions to ensure their web and mobile application meet their business needs and the needs of their target market.

- Utilized Atlassian's Jira and Confluence tools to drive development on Pinger’s Textfree Web application as the product owner- Developed functional requirement documents to communicate new features, analytics implementation, and monetization improvements to the development team- Worked in a cross-functional Agile environment utilizing SCRUM methodologies to develop products with designers, QA engineers, backend-end developers, and an offshore development team located in Romania- Increased eCPM on Textfree Web by 30% by analyzing user statistics through Google Analytics- Developed a desktop and web app rationalization plan that included rolling out a user migration and EOL(end of life) plan for discontinued products- Lead replatforming initiative of moving from Flash to HTML5 - Furthered my professional development by obtaining my Scrum Product Owner Certification through the Scrum Alliance.

- Software Development Consultant in the following technologies: Android Development, Data Mining, and Game Development.

- Co­founded the mobile game company Miranda Bros. with my brother- Obtained over 300,000 paid downloads and took the company to $400k/year in revenue with no outside funding (100% bootstrapped)- Developed over 20 game and app titles for the Barnes & Nobel App Store,Amazon App Store, Google Play, and Apple App Store- Featured in The New York Times: http://nyti.ms/1yWhgWe