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I am an experienced product management and operations executive who can assist an organization in meeting their business product planning, execution, and sales. A successful entrepreneur with over 20 years of expertise delivering value to customers and stakeholders in fast-paced environments. My clients and partners know and value my expertise in all aspects of product management, product marketing, and operations in commercial trucking. I leverage data science, engineering, marketing, and collaborate effectively with sales leaders to develop, define, and oversee product roadmaps, ensuring delivery with the lowest levels of technical issues. My ability to deliver compelling product vision and business cases that drive growth is unquestionable. I successfully deploy data visualization models to identify, track KPIs, and test solution hypotheses. Consistently recognized as a proactive team player who interacts and communicates confidently at all levels of the organization. Some selected accomplishments include:✦Founded an enterprise SaaS maintenance solution supporting fleets with revenue of up to $270M. Led market entry and created new product lines, growing business from 1st customer to a book of business managing over $85M of Class 5-8 vehicles and equipment distributed across more than 125 customer locations in North America. ✦Architected the cloud platform solution integrating six siloed data streams – by creating a unified data model – into a single customer dashboard. The resulting application enabled data-driven decision-making and led to the implementation of technology and maintenance service strategies that increased operational readiness and reduced maintenance costs by up to 20% while improving reporting compliance.✦Provided operational context for data insights across customer organizations – fleet and OEM – leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning. ✦Operationalized data to connect the dots between data science, engineering, marketing, and sales for improved end-user consumption. Expanded the use of customer personas to improve product-market fit with user requirements. ✦Developed an integrated toll tracking solution that saved a 400-vehicle fleet $25k a month - an 85% reduction - by optimizing route planning while eliminating unpaid and duplicate tolls. ✦Used root cause analysis to identify and solve data communications breakdowns with customer's vendor resulting in over $60k savings.✦Successfully maintained 67% average profit and 20% revenue growth over five years while directing day-to-day company operations.