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Chicago, Il, Us

Bloomington, Mn, Us

Customer-Centric-Innovations is a product discovery and user experience consulting firm that helps identify and prioritize top product ideas from client’s backlog, ensuring alignment to company mission, business goals, and resource availability. Client targets include: Public Sector, Publishing, and EdTech.

Hoboken, Nj, Us

As the Group Vice President of Innovation and User Experience at Wiley, I led a global team of Innovators and user experience and design professionals who delivered customer-centric solutions for the education and research sectors.

Seattle, Wa, Us

The Cloud Innovation Centers (CIC) Program enables education institutions, and government agencies to collaborate with AWS to solve their most pressing challenges and test new ideas using Amazon’s innovation processes and technical expertise. I Identified, qualified, launched, and managed new CICs which included a team of Digital Innovators, Program and Project Managers, and Solution Architects. CICs under my management created on average 40 product ideas a year contributing to net new revenue for AWS.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As one of our global Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) Sr. Business Development Mangers, I developed strategic Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) customer relationships by, primarily, delivering the Amazon’s Culture of Innovation message, Amazon Working Backwards Workshops, and Digital Innovation Engagements which are multi-week efforts drive an idea to a proof-of-concept solution. I identified and develop the business cases for new Cloud Innovation Centers. My responsibility includes identifying and collaborating with public sector customer/Sponsors, who are typically leading-edge universities, city or country-level innovation or digital transformation offices, and economic development organizations.

Seattle, Wa, Us

The Amazon Business Credentials Program connects small business and diverse sellers with the public sector buyers interested in purchasing from them. The Amazon Business Marketplace, supports these sellers through the Seller Credentials Program. I owned the product feature set and led the strategy for this division.

Seattle, Wa, Us

The Amazon Business Education Group partnered with K-12, Higher Education, and Government organizations across the country to simplify purchasing while increasing competition and choice. The group delivered cost savings helping institutions free up time with innovative new tools designed specifically for the Public Sector. I led the Strategic Business Development efforts identifying and executing on “ice breaker” opportunities leading to business growth.

Seattle, Wa, Us

In this role I Identified and closed new business with some of the largest education customers in the US resulting in net new spend on Amazon. Additionally, I defined and implemented the go to market approach for the Amazon Business Public Sector team including interviewing and hiring candidates to implement Amazon Business programs.

Seattle, Wa, Us

In this role I defined the Kindle education content distribution platforms vision, strategy, road map development, and target market for existing products and new product features for Amazon’s K-12 and Higher Education institutional solutions. Built from the ground up, the Kindle K-12 and Higher Education sales organization, interviewing, hiring, and developing the best in class talent to scale the Kindle education solution. Grew the team from three people to nineteen people within 6 months. Developed relationships with and partnered with senior leadership in K-12 and Higher Education institutions designing print to digital transition plans & strategies, digital content and eBook solutions, device agnostic digital content management & distribution solutions, and the sale of Kindle devices using the Amazon solution set.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Drive the strategy and execution for Kindle strategic relationships to serve the education (K-12) and government channels. My responsibilities include sales and customer experience for Kindle K-12 customers, and the management of partnerships within the channel.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked cross company to accelerate the growth of existing Kindle publisher programs and created new business models to grow Amazon’s educational content selection and Kindle business. Built relationships with and introduced new Kindle revenue streams to some of the largest educational and STM publishing companies

Managed a $50M product line for Cengage Learning’s online journal products (InfoTrac), eBooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library), and web based subscription databases (Grzimeks Animal Life, and QuestiaSchool.com). Responsible for leading the online journal aggregation strategy by identifying and prioritizing new content, product features, and partnerships to pursue. Provided management and direction to four Product Managers to effectively position and grow product line in all market groups. Communicated with Gale's Executive Committee, Publishing Team, Marketing and Financial Teams to identify, track, and respond to key indicators, including but not limited to budgeting, sales forecasting, revenue, and renewals.

Responsible for the development and growth of over 30 InfoTrac periodical research databases and $23M of revenue. Identified new content to enhance the databases, worked with publishers to license the content and coordinate integration of content into the databases. Released 13 new products over the course of 16 months

Plover, Wisconsin, Us

Certified HR Block Tax PreparerCompiled and submitted federal, state, and local tax documents for customers.Investigated and employed tax methodologies to reduce customers tax obligations while adhering to tax codes and stipulations.Provide tax-related advice and guidance to customers

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Bachelors, History, Ethics, Hebrew Studies

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