Pivotal Labs is a recognized leader in highly disciplined agile software development practices and has been building high reliability software with clients from Fortune 50 companies to small and midstage startups for over 20 years.• I consult with business and IT leaders managing multiple portfolios and products to build their organizations and drive large scale outcomes.• As a product manager and consultant I coach clients in agile (XP) methodologies, lean, and user centered design.• Lead for Pivotal Social Responsibility (PSR)

• Managed mulitple product managers• Led sell-side product direction through Mifid II implementation• Coordinated remote engineering teams across multiple locations

My work in the philanthropy and non-profit space included grant program design, software development, and digital transformation.Clients include Stanford University, The MAP Fund, The Creative Capital Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, the Jersey City Arts Council, and the International Contemporary Ensemble.

I created New Music USA's pioneering social grantmaking platform, turning the grant application into an effective marketing asset for our artists. The platform tripled submissions, earned over 5,000 active users within a month of launch, and generated new revenue worth over 25% of total annual income.• Built the organization’s first software product from conception through launch and iterative development. • Built an Agile team from the ground up: hired developers, negotiated contracts, managed contractors, and instilled Agile methods across technical and non-technical teams.• Adapted Agile techniques for philanthropy, integrating the modern software development lifecycle into a grantmaking organization.• Planned the roadmap, wrote specifications and user stories, drew wireframes, led iteration planning meetings, managed the backlog and testing, and presented to executives and board.• Conducted user research through interviews, in-person testing, and quantitative methods. • Designed analytics to measure impacts across web, social media, and in-person events, connecting impacts to high-level strategy.• Re-designed the core grantmaking business process, accelerating throughput for staff, contractors, and end users, saving thousands of hours.

• Managed $180,000 project including the development of a crowdfunding platform in three months.• Managed digital strategy for large initiatives, including modeling audience behavior, content marketing, audience development, and community management. 
• Managed a music festival at major NYC venues, including concert production, commissioning, promotion, and coordinating a team of over 50 people, earning coverage in the New York Times.• Managed individual and institutional fundraising at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, preserving existing funding relationships through a period of crisis and developing new sources of support.