Defining and executing on product vision and lifecycle to continuously improve a full suite of integration APIs, minting and operational governance webapps, and iOS and Android apps to empower and delight Bitt’s portfolio of central bank clients, financial institutions (FIs), merchants, and consumersLeading operations across product, engineering, customer success, and sales to identify and deliver maximum value aligned with leadership’s vision; driving product development through user research, design, implementation, test, deployment, and marketingManaging multiple technical backlogs balancing input from four major customers, Bitt senior business leadership, market competitive analysis, and platform tech debt by applying Lean Startup and Scrum Agile principles using Asana and JIRADeveloping a high performing organization by continuously collaborating with senior leadership to develop structures and processes for escalating, evaluating, and addressing operational challenges and risks; interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring product managers, developers, and scrum mastersLaunched Africa’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform, the hyperledger-backed eNaira, which will serve 211M+ consumers for the Central Bank of Nigeria, by defining and leading work across ten internal teams (business leadership, marketing, customer success, product, ux/design, mobile, web development, backend development, qa, devops) and five client teams (strategy, operations, marketing, implementation, IT)Delivered the world’s first CBDC platform for a currency union, DCash, for the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) which serves 600,000 constituents across 8 member countries by partnering with ECCB senior leadership, FI stakeholders, and Bitt’s full-stack engineering team to clearly define and deliver the minimum viable product (MVP) for launch

Established and refined the technical and social roadmaps for the Ravencoin open-source community projectPrioritized open-source development to respond to market needs including non-fungible/restricted asset tokens and a platform upgrade from the original x16r algorithm to the ASIC-resistant KAWPoW, adopting Ethereum’s ProgPoW to this asset-focused fork of Bitcoin

Directed product and managed design, development, and engineering teams, establishing and growing portfolio company organizational structures to balance multiple concurrent priorities and launch new products across the portfolioProvided product, strategy, operational, and competitive analysis advisory for C-level leadership of portfolio companiesMentored 3 junior Product Managers and earned MVI’s quarterly peer-recognition “Core Value” awards 5 times in 3 yearsSee Vinsent and Ravencoin entries for more!

Grew annual revenue for a Ravencoin-based wine futures exchange to more than $2MSimultaneously launched and maintained web, iOS, and Android presenceRapidly improved the product positioning from an exclusive pre-order “futures” model to a more accessible ready-to-ship model based on analytics data and user interviewsImproved customer registration/onboarding rate over 5X and increased mean pages per session by over 3X by reconfiguring funnel from upfront registration to signup-at-checkout; developed and presented the business case for change by integrating analytics, A/B user testing, and competitive analysis to establish performance and sentiment KPIs

Defined product strategy, service delivery model, and implementation roadmap using KPIs defined through business analysis, client relationship management, and user research to identify and evaluate opportunities; established and managed timetables for priority development initiatives of product features and professional servicesDelivered >$12M in revenue over 2 years, increased contract margins by 60%, and improved client onboarding velocity by over 400% to deliver operational improvements to over 2M students from >20 districts across the US by establishing the business case for and then creating an automated cloud-based client self-service data collection product

As a founding member of the Amplify Consulting Group, developed solutions consulting, product management, and project management practices and lead multiple cross-functional teams ranging in size from 4 to over 50 people through vision, ideation, requirement, and implementation while managing client relationships and user researchGrew consulting practice revenues by leading business development teams through identifying opportunities to deepen client relationships and writing and defending proposalsGrew a $5M/2-year pilot engagement into a $9M/3-year extension by successfully delivering a clean-sheet design and build of a high-stakes-testing data warehouse and reporting solution for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, servicing more than 60M users across 21 states; defined and managed KPIs including monthly team and vendor budgets and feature NPS; managed communication of product vision and KPIs with consortium board, state leadership, and general publicDesigned and delivered $3.5M/3-year data warehouse and reporting initiative for the $335M Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching” grant program, driving user segmentation and research to redesign the core data operations workflow and reporting visualizations

Extreme Blue is a 12-week program where interns address real-world challenges to IBM's global business.Secured a $3M development investment for a collaborative social media application by leading an Agile team through market-fit assessment, development of a prototype and building and pitching a business plan

Lead pilot development and proposal teams to expand the United States Marine Corps’ Common Logistics Command and Control System program budget and contract terms from $3M/2-years to $24M/5-years,Led a team of 12 developers to deliver a $300k/6-month Department of Justice pilot to re-engineer and digitize a critical business process workflow, then led proposal efforts to evolve the relationship into a $6M/5-year implementation by increasing process throughput 250% in under 3 months and reducing work-product error rate to zero

Implemented Agile process as software developer, project manager and consultative technical sales, and developed and matured key relationships with clients and 3rd party vendors. Secured $15M in client funding for development of the Automated Credit Application Processing System (ACAPS), an enterprise loan origination system built in Java over WebSphere and FileNet workflow