Working with Financial institutions in Montreal, Canada

Led program roll-out of the MyStandards product in the Americas, with goals of building product awareness, creating demand, building a pipeline, collaborative selling, training, implementing and facilitating monthly client work groups for client success. Measured quarterly progress and annual success, plus management reporting and presentations.• Generated demand by promoting MyStandards at SWIFT and external conferences, Standards Forums, Sibos, webinars, and specific client engagements, creating pipeline of more than 100 clients and software partners.• Facilitated financial standards implementations with financial institutions and global corporates, including Bank of America, Canadian Payments Association, now Payments Canada, CIBC, Citi, DTCC, JPMorgan, Northern Trust, Wells Fargo, Ford, Raytheon, United Technologies, all within established governance policies.• Evaluated, documented and communicated impacts of standards changes as a subject matter expert with SWIFT MT and ISO 20022 financial industry standards. Trained internal and external teams on financial industry standards changes.• Telecommuted from Maryland to New York and Brussels, successfully managing travel expenses while maximizing engagement with constituents, external client collaborations and management.

Standards Product Manager, Belgium 2005 – 2013Performed full-scale program management role. Identified market opportunities, measured demand, estimated take-up, built business case(s), defined product(s). Facilitated and collaborated with client work groups and steering committees to solicit input / feedback on user stories, sprints / releases, pricing, technical development, establish distribution channels, and sales support, with progress reports and management presentations. • Introduced release and successful commercialization of several financial standards related products, including Standards Developer Kit, Smart Test Messages for payments, including Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) and Corporate Actions, SWIFT MT / ISO 20022 translation products primarily for payments using MT / ISO 20022, and MyStandards. • Collaborated with customer / partner work groups, ensuring successful program acceptance and successful rollout.• Facilitated and organized Standards Partner Forums in the Americas and Europe, facilitating all logistics, software partner contacts, program and content. • Demonstrated effective facilitation and organization skills, which ensured events ran smoothly with excellent attendance and positive customer feedback.• Exceeded the Board of Directors’ expectations within the first year of program roll-out.• Mentored new hires and university graduates, developing product / project management skills.

My role as Global Product Manager is to be the main driving force behind all aspects of managing the product. These aspects include, but are not limited to the planning, definition, development, and delivery of all elements of the product or new release to the market and to the existing customer base.Balance the product's future vision, incorporation of new technologies, near term opportunities, as well as requirements from existing customers and day-to-day product issues.I have P&L responsibility and responsibility for the understanding of competition and market research to develop the product roadmap.Frequent contacts include relationships with customers, technology partners, sales channels, direct sales, resellers and OEMs, industry analysts, internal executives. Presentations at industry conferences, product presentations for high-profile sales opportunities, participation in industry standards organizations, develop content for sales training and sales collateral.

General Electric Company (GE) / GE Information Services Division of GE (GEIS). (Gaithersburg, MD) The GEIS division within GE, industry leading provider of comprehensive electronic commerce software and services solutions to the fortune 2000 companies and their business trading partners, globally.Senior Global Prod Mktg Mgr, Marketing * Developed product strategy, product positioning, product features, and led it to 35% market share.* Responsible for software strategy and software solutions for EAI (enterprise application integration) and B2B (business to business) electronic commerce software and services solutions.