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Chicago, Il, Us

I’m leading product discovery, design, and development of an innovative platform to revolutionize digital media for Creators, Audience and Advertisers. We will fill an unmet market niche, addressing a significant and fundamental gap that exists between national media outlets and mainstream social media properties. Our team features veteran executives and producers from top national media firms. In this venture, I’m pleased to be working again with a CEO who has multiple startup successes under his belt. Stay tuned for more details this summer - reach out if you are interested in learning more!

Boca Raton, Fl, Us

I stood up Forte's product management practice, growing team by 250% and revenue by a similar amount. Leveraging content from my Kellogg PM course to define playbooks across lifecycle. Developed recruiting, training and performance management processes to enable continued growth (60% in past 3 years).

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Led product management and design teams for Hcareers.com (#1 job board in hospitality), and VirgilCareers, (skills assessment and career development), navigating the team and product through a post-Covid world, by rigorously focusing on revenue-generating opportunities. Own product Roadmap and leading cross-functional product governance team, via metric-driven decision-making with CEO and management team. Improved throughput 50% via improved agile (and Roadmap) processes and KPI-based tracking.

Austin, Texas, Us

Led product team for Highground (acquired by Worktango) to 300% improvement in dev productivity (velocity/ burndown rates) in 6 months, by leading change in Roadmap and Sprint Planning, along with integration across Product, Customer Success and Engineering (Jira/ Trello/ Github). Product Owner for analytics and platform features, from spec to launch.

60% of K-12 students in US are below proficiency. I solved this problem by leading strategy, design, development and go-to-market of this student engagement platform (Questily iOS App, web application and server-side components). Demonstrated 4-to-1 student preference (n=150) of our team-based solution (vs. 1-to-1). Improved IT utilization 10X and reduced deployment from months to days.

Remote, Us

I worked for Knovation Learning, which was acquired by ACT. Led cross-functional team of 15+, to identify market-product opportunity that led to iCurio, the award-winning personalized learning SaaS solution that aims to disrupt the $9 billion K-12 publishing market. Knovation is a leading digital content and learning solution, used by some of the top-performing digital school districts across the country, including Mooresville, NC (arguably the top digital district in America and 2013 District of Year).

Buffalo, New York, Us

Led analytics for Max Digital (aka FirstLook), https://maxdigital.com/, working with billion-dollar retailers (Penske & Hendrick), to improve revenue and profitability 20% during -3% market contraction. My analysis & recommendation led to a new line of business, realizing incremental $100+ million for strategic customers. MaxDigital offers B2B SaaS analytics solution.

Reston, Va, Us

P&L owner for analytics services team, growing revenue over 15 times, to $4 million, by aligning sales and product strategies. Productized key offerings, including competitive analysis and omni-channel insights.

Led cross-functional product team of 25 in development and launch of OmniSky Wireless, the first 'complete' mobile internet solution, which in 2014 ZDNet declared one of "6 Gadgets That Defined Mobile". My work led to two fundamental mobile patents, now owned by Google. New revenue of $3M+.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led cross-functional team of 35 to design, develop and deploy my "Rack Express" (pre-configured Intel Enterprise solutions), which is now HP's "Factory Express", a $1B+ business.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), General Management, Marketing, Engineering Management

Master Of Engineering Management, Product Management

Bs Engineering, Operations Research & Industrial Engineering