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• Helping organizations renew and implement their digital and data strategy.
• Digital Transformation
• Data Strategy & Data Analytics
• Product Development & Product Management
• Tableau Data Visualization
• Business Analysis

Real Estate Investments

Chicago, Illinois, US

- Measurement Framework- Marketing Data Taxonomy- Customer Data Profile

Chicago, Illinois, US

Inspire11 is a full service, digital and analytic consulting firm dedicated to making an impact for our clients, employees and communities.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Pangea is disrupting the traditional money remittance industry with the mission to make money transfers simple, fair, and safe. The Pangea Money Transfer app enables users to send money internationally in less than 30.
• Product leader for B2C remittance money transfer service responsible for defining and executing product strategy and roadmap for mobile apps (iOS, Android, WebApp) and internal API platform.
• Launched service expansion to enable transfers into 9 countries in Asia - Pangea’s first foray outside of Latin American market.
• Prioritized and groomed backlog based on business justification, operational impact, and volume/margin/conversion potential.
• Modernized process to develop clear and compelling product requirements along with clear and measurable KPIs.
• Implemented A/B testing to improve UX/UI in order to increase conversions and reduce calls to customer service

Seattle, WA, US

• Information Management & Analytics (IM&A) practice focused on helping organizations grow by leveraging information to make better business decisions. Specializing in Project Leadership and Information Delivery.
• Experience as a Product, Project, and Program Manager on various size projects and teams
• Facilitating technical requirements decomposition, architecture definition, product visioning, and relationship management across all stakeholder levels
• Ownership over creation of user stories, roadmaps, scrum ceremonies, test matrix development, MVP definition, project discovery & SOW efforts
• Organizational development and operational management
• Agile & DevOps methodologies

Santa Clara, California, US

• Project leader helping organizations develop business intelligence & analytics solutions - Turning raw data into insightful knowledge, and in turn better decisions.
• Product Manager engaged with client executives to architect a new integrated sales forecasting, sell-through, and shippable process and system for a consumer products company.
• Created use case diagrams, high-level flow charts, and other documentation to ensure clear understanding of requirements, scope, and vision.
• Conducted comprehensive analysis of existing business intelligence reports across seven departments to determine project and resource plan for upcoming fiscal year while driving consensus among client team on work.
• Successfully led and managed an on and off shore development team to build series of BPC reports & templates on a short timeline, which included a MDX & SQL script logic component for custom analytic forecasting and.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Program manager leading simultaneous business intelligence projects to implement an SAP BPC module and a ETL project to utilize newly live SAP ECC (ERP) data.
• Project manager for an onsite and offshore team to develop and implement a BI environment consisting of SAP BPC, BW, and BOBJ systems at an industrial manufacturing company to enable company leadership quicker and.
• Engaged directly with C-level executives to develop Business Intelligence (BI) Roadmaps in multiple industries.
• Designed and implemented a SAP BPC financial planning module at a large industrial manufacturing company by organizing the creation, testing, and rollout of system applications, logic script, and input templates.
• Proactively took ownership of report template design by building wire-frames to present to business owner which resulted in a quicker decision making process by business owner.
• Honored as a two time consecutive recipient of the monthly Hitachi BIPM Recognition award for project execution.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Designed, developed, tested, and deployed data control scripts for a MDM initiative at a large financial services institution
• Coordinated and lead change management efforts at two hospitals’ for the rollout of a ERP system with Supply Chain Management, Expense Accounting, and Human Resource Management modules
• Authored and successfully executed test plans, test cases, and SQL scripts for a large mortgage-backed security provider to test a newly implemented Oracle OBIEE Expense Reporting System
• Designed, developed, tested, and deployed data control scripts for a MDM initiative at a large financial services institution which identified, monitored, and facilitated the resolution of participant integrity.

• Designed all aspects of new ecommerce ticket tracking product prototype for middle/high school athletic events called "TicketTracker"; this included all system development, user interface design, database design, and.
• Facilitated business and system requirements gathering through research and workshops with project sponsors, customers, and suppliers for system implementation
• Product has since been fully developed into major division of company and is used in over 70 middle and high schools across the country

Bloomington, Indiana, US

• Performed usability testing sessions and expert reviews applying user centered approach techniques, such as Nielson’s heuristics, in order to make systems and websites easier to use
• Collaborated with other lab consultants on evaluating system design and development then conveying that information into thorough reports and screen mock-ups delivered to client

New York, NY, US

• MTV Networks Intern
• Application development for Affiliate Sales & Marketing
• Assisted in managing all phases of launch of new b2b website in coordination with technical manager and an international outsourcing firm
• Designed organizational and navigational structure of product browser for b2b website to optimize a user's experience

Ms, Information Systems

Bs, Informatics, Business

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