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Chapel Hill, NC, US

Plantation, Florida, US

• NationsBenefits: Provides fintech solutions for managed care providers.Role Summary: Building of NationsBenefits Retail Network through Partnerships, Product Management, Business Development, and Product Marketing.Key.
• Expanded Tier 1 Retailer Network to 34,000 stores nationwide including Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Kroger, Dollar General and Publix.
• Developed a benefits-focused POS solution for independent pharmacies and grocers to accept filtered spend debit cards for OTC (over-the-counter drugs) and healthy food benefits.
• Opened up adjacent recurring revenue streams including closed loop ACH payments and digital CPG promotions with profit margins of over 72%.
• Executed a comprehensive go-to-market strategy including press releases, in-store marketing (in 9 languages), sales collateral, tradeshow promotions, branding, and direct-sales efforts.
• Led cross functional team focused on product deployment, enrollment, setup, fulfillment, training, and support.

Durham, North Carolina, US

Toshiba Global Commerce provides retail technology solutions to the world's largest retailers.Strategic Direction Developed strategic direction for next generation product concepts in adjacent spaces such as Payments, Data Analytics, Digital Marketing and Unified Commerce spaces utilizing FinTech, AI, Augmented Reality, and Blockchain technologies. A.

The Adams Apprenticeship connects Carolina's top entrepreneurial student talent with successful founders, funders and execs at high-growth ventures. Apprentices are all-in entrepreneurs tasked with building relationships within the Adams Advisors in order to accelerate their entrepreneurial careers. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8183318Offered mentoring.

Duke Startup Challenge is designed to help the Duke University entrepreneurship community flourish, with a year long entrepreneurship competition followed by an accelerator program. Experienced volunteers act as mentors and contest judges. Students submit business plans and videos competing in three rounds for cash prizes and exposure to the investment.

Toronto, ON, CA

Invited back to Thomson Reuters to lead cross-functional acquisition teams in the integration of 35+ multinational businesses across North America, Latin America, Australia, South Africa, Asia and Europe ranging in size from $10million to $500million. Migrated ~$1billion in acquired products to Thomson Reuters platforms.Built a repeatable best practice.

Strategy leader for a machine-learning start-up firm that combined Natural Language Processing (NLP) with unstructured text analytics (UTA) in an advanced search methodology in order to create models using filtering rules to select only the relevant information pertaining to a client’s specific questions of interest.Redirected focus towards the Healthcare.

UNC Chapel Hill's Adam's Apprenticeship Program Volunteer. Developed product strategy for an early stage start-up that leverages Artificial Intelligence / Deep Learning to make long-term stock market predictions based upon historical fundamentals, financial data and statistical probabilities for hedge funds and Wall Street investment firms. Created product.

London, London, GB

• Retained by Dialog, a global provider of online based information services, to lead product management following its acquisition by ProQuest from Thomson Reuters in 2008. P&L responsibility for an $80 million Dialog.
• Saved $250K in annual maintenance and load time costs. Simplified Dialog’s cluttered product offering freeing up resources to focus on new product releases.
• Increased overall content margins by 12%. Launch of NewsRoom Plus shifted focus from Intellectual Property with margins of 30% to business and news with margins for 50-60%.
• Developed plans for product platform and data center migration. Migration of Dialog product line to the ProQuest platform. Identified key customer needs, platform functionality gaps and potential revenue risks. Planned.
• Increased communication between product management and development teams. Initiated use of storyboards and personas to help design-teams bridge the contexts of development and use, ensuring product solutions are.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Integrated fragmented training and support groups spread throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific into a single global team for Thomson Reuters, a global provider of legal, financial and scientific.
• Reduced support center costs 30%. Eliminated redundancies due to acquisitions while simultaneously increasing net promoter scores from 6% to 35% through the launch of Global Knowledge Centers in Europe, Asia Pacific.
• Reduced call center volume 22%. Developed a self-help solutions web page which enabled clients to find answers to product related questions 24 hours per day. Dialog KnowledgeBase was the 2002 Thomson Award of.
• Increased satisfaction levels in key clients by 51%. Launched Premier Client Program assigning dedicated teams of specialists to offer search, technical and administrative support
• Utilized support staff downtime to generate $250K in new revenue. Utilized staff expertise in research by offering search services to customers who were understaffed or lacked expertise.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Profound product line revenues increase 125% from $8million to $18million by year 3. Revitalized the underachieving Profound market research product line by migrating to a state-of-the-art platform enabling improved.
• Product Awards. Recognized a shift in the marketplace which led to the creation of easy to use interfaces. Dialog1 was named “E-content Magazine” Editors’ Choice October 2000 and “Information Highways” Best New.

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