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Dresher, Pa

Ascensus Retirement Services DivisionLead all new product development activity for the $200 million Retirement Services business for Ascensus, the largest independent retirement and college savings services provider in the United States.• Create new product platform capabilities and new solutions focused primarily on compliance, investments and participant engagement services.• Effectively lead an Agile-based development model and teams to ensure clients’ needs are met. • Partner with and lead engineering teams during Sprints to ensure successful builds. • Deploy a contextual inquiry design/UX model to improve product usability.• Lead product developer team that oversees all Agile build processes (Agile Product Owner).• In first year, increased new product output by 100%.Lead product management and product lifecycle activities for existing products:• Lead Product Managers who deploy marketing and sales programs to grow product revenue/ROI.• Manage lifecycles with new features, repositioning services and streamlining process flows.• Partner with compliance and technical teams to ensure products are performing at highest levels.

Greater New York City Area

NASDAQ Corporate SolutionsLed platform and mobility product development and product management activities for Nasdaq’s $300 million Corporate Solutions Division.• Manage programs related to development of flagship desktop Investor Relations (IR) solutions. Create and implement the vision for the IR Mobile suite, managing the full product development lifecycle. This includes web apps, Android & iOS apps and PhoneGap-based solutions. • Direct a globally diverse team of developers, designers, security, and quality engineers to build and enhance Nasdaq’s suite of web and mobile based products for Investor Relations executives. • Led an effective Agile-based development model to create user stories and lead Sprints and used a contextual inquiry approach to engage clients in product design. • In first year, tripled the number of releases of flagship mobile solution, including a full redesign. Increased users by 170%: product became the number one solution in its industry space.

New York, New York

Managed all publishing and P&L aspects for the $110 million Large Law Division. Oversaw development of software solutions, platform products, Mobile Apps and other publishing activities for key U.S. Legal Practice Areas most relevant to large law firms including: Securities, Banking, Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Labor, Employment and Legal Tax. Managed 20 person team.

New York, Ny

Directed all electronic product development activity at the $300 million North American legal publishing division of Wolters Kluwer. Managed 12 person team.Created new, in-house, Agile-based, Technical Development department to build new products.Built and launched 20 - 25 new products annually, including software solutions, platform products, mobile apps, workflow solutions and research products. Generated a 10 fold product output and revenue increase over electronic product development productivity in previous years.

Short Hills, Nj

Created and implemented all marketing, brand and strategy programs for this $340 million Division of D&B. Led Web Marketing activities including the $25 million P&L for D&B’s Small Business Website.

Roseland, Nj

Led the strategy and programs for all U.S. group marketing activities. Directed all Public Relations and National Advertising for ADP, including press relations, by-line articles and crisis communications. Managed the ADP brand in the U.S.A. Led a 15 person team.

Eagan, Minnesota

Led all jurisdictional (state and local) product development and product management activities. Oversaw successful lifecycle management of 2,000+ online (Westlaw), Web-based, CD-ROM and print products. Managed P&L and exceeded $300+ million annual revenue goal. Created 100+ new products per year, managing 25 product developers.

Juris Doctor, Law

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science & Public Administration