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Seattle, Earth

Specializing in product strategy, planning and lifecycle management services for consumer and enterprise product solutions with a focus on brining AI driven products to market. Working closely with partners and stakeholders to create world-class products and experiences through delivery, communication, and process excellence, and leveraging closed-loop systems to continuously measure and improve.

Seattle, Earth

Think Tank and product incubator facilitating solutions in a post pandemic world. We spend time with industry colleagues ideating on new ideas. We also coach and advise clients looking for direction and strategy in their current business or looking to start something new. #sularity #agencyonefive #thinktank #ideation

• Led strategic planning and portfolio management for global digital and omni initiatives aligning with long-term business strategy.• Managed teams of Technical Program/Project Managers, Product Managers, and Agile teams accountable for multiple workstreams delivering broad digital transformations, enhancements, and production maintenance. • Implemented traditional and Agile governance models and cross-functional planning to enable executive decision-making, leveraging Atlassian and other tools.• Managed resource allocation and building and forming hi-performance teams.• Optimized intake and planning processes, collaborating with functional portfolio leaders and technology stakeholders.• Active contributor in Architectural Review Board sessions, and supporting ongoing digital innovation initiatives across digital, supply chain, and ERP.

Greater Seattle Area

Led business and technology planning, strategy and delivery (Program Management) for AIM’s DX portfolio for projects in healthcare, ecommerce, ERP, CRM and related technologies. Managed and mentored globally-matrixed resources across multiple disciplines. Managed project budget, planning, RFP execution, vendor management, production of user journeys, roadmaps, business intelligence planning and delivery, and provided Agile and SDLC coaching and delivery across globally distributed international portfolios. Participated in solution design, architecture, user experience, security and compliance requirements. Led digital and ecommerce transformation based on platforms like Salesforce and Shopify. Championed a strategy around monitoring, measuring and managing the customer experience focused on customer experience (CXP) and customer data platform (CDP) solutions.

Greater Seattle Area

Principal Product Manager and Product Owner for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud solutions. Drove product and service roadmaps and designs. Led delivery through cross-functional teams and initiatives, including user experience, microservices and related REST APIs. Consolidated overlapping UX technology and experiences resulting in a 30% reduction in infrastructure and maintenance. Managed front and back end engineering teams, and collaborated with product managers, architects, designers, developers, marketing and sales professionals. Experience with e-commerce, budgeting and procurement scenarios.Drove the rollout of the new Cloud Advisory practice, resulting in formalized advisory offerings ranging from $100-500k. Successfully aligned executive stakeholders across global markets. Established training and certification for technical skills and knowledge, and sales messaging. Conducted market and competitive analysis to feed business requirements and technical sales.

Redmond, Wa

Championed and delivered products, features and services used by over a billion people worldwide. Designed and delivered consumer-driven mobile experiences and contributed to requirements and delivery of RESTful API’s. Part of the team that delivered Windows Phone, Windows new Metro experiences, core windows features. Shipped Learning Companion Windows and SharePoint application. Conducted experimentation and A/B testing, significantly increased Yammer (social media) usage metrics. Owned SharePoint storage and limits features and contributed to pricing model strategy. Reduced core storage issues by over 80%, and reduced respective TTR metrics by 30%. UX Champion and feature PM for touch-friendly client apps and reference designs. Conducted market research, competitive and needs analysis, combined with business intelligence efforts. Identified business requirements and user stories to drive product requirements. Delivered security and identity features and authentication experiences. Prototyped remote enterprise application experiences featuring security policies to support use of personal devices in the enterprise. Awarded registered patent for Promoting Documents Based on Relevance. Managed cross-discipline teams and programs, including indirect matrixed and direct salaried. Managed contract and vendor resources on a $1.5M balanced budget. Recognized by top leadership for building and maintaining highly productive cross-functional teams.

Corporate VP in charge of and product management and planning, marketing, PR, creative services, and customer satisfaction. Directed globally distributed teams delivering client-specific solutions and digital service offerings. Worked with clients to collaborate and gather business and technical requirements, and develop contracts and product specifications. Contributed to due diligence and execution on corporate deals and acquisitions.

Redmond, Wa

Practice Lead for user centered design and content development projects and teams consisting of technical, creative, support and training professionals. Delivered projects on time and within SLA’s. Drove business planning and program logistics. Contributed to the planning and formation of the PMO. PMO certified member.

Directed content & creative teams and operations in support of developer and technical documentation and respective online content, including the Moxi SDK. Managed technical spec repository, templates and related technical IP assets. Owned and conducted usability research and experiments of the award-winning Moxi set-top-box platform. Served as PMO leader during PMO inception, and worked with stakeholders and partners to fulfill requirements. Managed permanent and temporary resources and budget.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Human Centered Design Engineering & Computer Science

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Technology

MBA Coursework

Certificate, International Business

Activities and Societies: International business, management, leadership and economics.