John Snowden Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

As an Independent Film Producer, I develop and package ideas into stories and productions. Current development projects include a literary adaptations of a great children's novel, another adaptation of a revolutionary war limited series, a sports comedy (I am an EP), a drama feature about a man grappling with the loss of his father, a Biblical epic, and a screwball comedy of biblical proportions..I have partnered with the author of a best-selling children's book to write the screenplay adaptation for a future feature film and consulted for screenwriters writing for church and theology settings.

Us / Uk / Nepal / Kenya, Us

* Established a US-region leadership team that improved US employee voluntary annual attrition rate significantly cross functionally together with senior leadership, Talent Business Partner, and global People & Culture leadership.* Defined process with the local leadership team to collect ground truth and honest feedback that then fed into senior leadership’s planning and vision for employment strategy.* Built a global company culture transformation effort to document, lock-in, and roll out a common understanding of core company history, culture, values, and practices.* Rolled out a company-wide learning module to up-skill all members in practical AI L&D initiatives.* Measured Employee Engagement, defined data-driven outcomes, set goals, and tracked changes through a semi-annual program.* Drove and improved employee global program to build employee engagement, and increase morale and camaraderie through scalable learning & interest groups.* Created remote/hybrid employee engagement programs to foster CloudFactory cultural practices in the evolving remote/pandemic environment.* Created bespoke business stakeholder dashboards from data in Snowflake cloud data warehouse.* Made business case and drove consensus toward the hire and onboarding of first enterprise Data Engineers (this project began in 2019 as GM), working with business stakeholders to map data lineage for analysis using Snowflake.

Us / Uk / Nepal / Kenya, Us

* Top-level accountable leader for a 4,000+ person Asia team including Talent (aka HR), Culture, Finance, Operations, Legal, regulatory compliance, government relations, investor relations, and PR.* Collected employee engagement data, defined objectives, set goals, and implemented them accordingly.* Deployed annual team-building events including retreats, annual awards, and ad hoc events.* Continuously hosted intimate “talk back” sessions encouraging small teams of employees to give voice to their concerns and the needs of their peers.* Coached managers and department leaders on known risks within their employee base.* Solidified and implemented cultural onboarding hiring strategy to ensure cultural alignment with all new-hire employees.* Recruited and interviewed leaders both internationally and within the local ecosystem to join the company as employees or partners.* Managed employee mobility, geographic transfers, expats and their visas, and hospitality of international guests.* Significant experiences leading in extremely adverse situations including earthquakes, employee deportation, and other personnel matters. * Oversaw COVID policy implementation and overnight transition to a fully distributed company in 2020.

Us / Uk / Nepal / Kenya, Us

I joined CloudFactory at zero revenue as a leader in creating technical field sales, customer onboarding, and delivery. Leader of the team who onboarded and delivered revenue growth from $0 to over $1M MRR.Reduced average client onboarding time from 4-9 months to a few weeks.Onboarded first 200 customers during pre and post-product/market fit eras.Owned the technical sales and demo delivery of our platform to all initial customers 2012-2014. Drove data-driven decision making initiative in Solutions group, unlocking value from real time data using MySQL, Google Sheets, Google Data Studio, PowerBI, Tableau.Managed the Product Manager team and product roadmap toward key markets and verticals including shifts in finding product/market fit.Drove implementation team of several key new product capabilities including no-reload experiences within the web application, task pre-fetching to increase a key metric of worker productivity, and data review to maximize delivery efficiency for the thousands of AI data labeling users and customers.Led delivery team along 15-month major milestone project delivering transcription of 200M historical handwritten US census records by our data team leveraging data science, analysis, and workflow engine.Delivered big 5 tech company's ML human-in-the-loop visual tagging training data set for deployment of augmented reality eyeball tracking application. Ported parallel workflow into CloudFactory workflow software demonstrating increased power and accuracy gains vs client-built engine.

Culver City, Ca, Us

Portland, Oregon, Us

Culver City, Ca, Us

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)

Master’S Of Ministry

High School Diploma

Master'S Degree, Ministry

Producing And Entertainment Executive Propgram