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Accountable for road map and scaling of new outcomes-based product & services, leading to a successful build of this solution as proven by multiple long term pilots.- Established strategic context, direction, and integration to platform, product, content, sales, & marketing teams. Provided guidance and confidence to business that was not yet technically savvy.Conduct deep discovery effort including 100+ interview hours with deans, C-level stakeholders, and industry advisory boards. - Prioritize requirements across business units for new learning management system.- Lead and managed pilots with 5 marquee college programs, 400+ participants. Customer revenue for these customers approx: $5-$10 million/year in sales (not from pilot).- Collaborate deeply with engineering teams to map out an intelligent discovery/build road map. Unified 4 development teams across 3 business units (platform, instructional design, metadata, integration) to execute on first-of-kind product.- Successful build of competency based solution with market-fit validation.

Create technically and financially accurate road map for multiple business units' product development. Create products that work as integrated solutions (to learning management systems) as well as via online ecommerce systems. - Led technology strategy & execution for $100M product portfolio, with annual technology spend $1-3M+- Consulted on technology investment & risks with C-level product management including building consensus to consolidate multiple one-off solutions to a single platform (IQ)- Established workable requirements, and project deliverables. Multiple complex projects delivered on time and on budget.- Exercised high interpersonal skills via alignment of matrix of engineering teams and non-engineering teams (product, marketing/sales/finance) allowing organization significantly expand is digital develop capability, and stakeholder satisfaction.- Pioneered innovative, best-in-class learning solutions simulation in Residential Construction Codes (CODiE award wining 3D/WebGL - see https://www.cengage.com/simulationstation/- Designed innovative business process; improved automotive simulation output by 3X.- Negotiated vendor & strategic 3rd-party partnership agreements; managed ongoing relationships. - At the table with key and gaining the confidence of customers in multiple channels (academic, apprentice training, professional, corporate).- Manage custom and reseller training solutions for large industry partners - Leading digital change to integrate and extending approx. $10M investment in high value resources to company new strategic learning platform

Lead print publishing unit toward digital transformation.- Leading digital change to corporate single sign-on (SSO) resulting in improved discover-ability, e-commerce options, and brand alignment.- Infused print product with educational technology and media.- Created innovative customer content selection product for Construction Management.

Senior level software engineering position. Governing platform and architectural decisions around company ERP, sales systems and distribution systems. Provide leadership and consultation to c-suite internal users. Managed 23 person order processing team.Technical leadership - design sophisticated solutions to support sales and back offices systems including architecture, implementation, and project management.Siebel systems - significant exposure to Siebel repository and database architecture. Designed and implemented solutions for optimizing complex data integrations.Business Process Engineering- implement and design system to integrate diverse sets of customer data utilizing cutting edge Business Process management tools (Siperian, Inatlio).Innovative Data Integration - engineer various strategies for integrating diverse sets of information, including the use of sophisticated screen scrape technology, custom C modules, adapter technology (Attunity). Created first to market real time integration from customer to billing system for Law Librarians.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Of Science, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies