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Atlanta, Ga, Us

South San Francisco, California, Us

Lead a large global team of Product Management leaders for SAP SuccessFactors overseeing all strategic and tactical product decisions for a portfolio of Recruiting and Onboarding solutions. Supporting more than 4,000 global companies, I am leading the AI and Skills transformations as we redefine the space with natural language and dynamic automations.I serve as coach / mentor / manager to a global team in US, Europe and Asia driving excellence and orienting towards career optimization and upper level skill development and application.

South San Francisco, California, Us

SAP Catalyst (top 2% Performer) Successfully delivering 30% revenue growth over 2 years; Sales growth over 80%Lead a Suite of enterprise cloud products in the Incentive & Commissions Management & Processing space in the Insurance / FS industry segment. Create the suite strategy and global GTM narrative and priorities. Lead all technology vision, adoption and implementation as well as roadmap development and engineering execution. Directly manage diverse Product & Engineering with people in US, UK, Serbia, India with outstanding Leadership Trust scores delivering a positive work and career development environment.Support a Global go-to-market in NA, LATAM, EMEA, APAC. Drive Partnership relationships and segment leaders for sales channel development. Additionally, support the needs of internal professional services capabilities. --SAP CX Change Ambassador-- --SAP Activating Men for Parity--

Walldorf, Bw, De

Product Leader & General Manager for Direct Selling Pro (DS Pro): Enterprise SaaS Solution that manages the Bonus / Commissions / Incentives / Sales Performance with CRM capabilities supporting Field Sales assessment and coaching, leveraging the powerful capabilities of a Graph DatabaseCharged with the design, build, and go-to-market of a NEW vertical-specific SaaS product for this publicly traded, global, $36B+ enterprise software company. Targeting companies between $200mm and $5b.Full P&L and lead a team of 25 + across Product, UI/UX, Engineering, QA and Professional Services. Also drive effectiveness in Tech Support and Managed Services. I own all roadmap, epic & feature design and prioritization. I drive Sales & Marketing & Channel Development for this $150B global vertical and successfully evangelized and gained traction in N. America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Successfully develop product, engineering, & project managers into high performing individuals and a high performing team collaborative environment.Led the M&A divesture of this product to a strategic partner.

Hired for a 2 month engagement to set a clear edTech product strategy and prioritized roadmap for $30mm ed2go, while the Cengage Learning Skills Division navigated a corporate restructuring. Cengage Learning is a $1.7B global education company.Overseeing product with $30mm+ in sales across 3 primary channels, 2000+ channel partners (mostly 2-year / 4-year colleges), 500+ courses, in 5 product groups, and 26 Subject areas. Created an assessment framework, successfully used to engage, elicit and drive collaboration with all internal stakeholders across very complex product environment.Researched and surveyed the B2C community fo customers and non-customer to prioritize feature sets, structures, delivery mechanism and pricing power.Interviewed more that 2 dozen Channel partner to identify key drivers in the Academic and Workforce Development education space.Developed a roadmap to modernize technology framework, create product flexibility capable of rapidly meeting shifting demands of channel partners, optimized the orientation around core competencies and consumer priorities.Established a clear focus and direction on Competency Based Education and Adaptive Learning taking advantage of key Learning APIs like xAPI, LIS, LTI and REST.Operationalized the roadmap using Aha! to ensure productive takeup by stakeholders and ensure rapid pursuit.Offered the permanent Head of Product Role but had previously committed to SAP.

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead Product & Marketing at the innovation leader in online workplace engagement & compliance training. Emtrain's Enterprise SaaS Learning Management System (LMS) delivers Learning Management, Training Support, Q&A and Dashboard solutions to 700+ mid-market through Fortune 1000 companies, nearly 1mm B2B Users. Emtrain is a full Media Production house, producing e-learning video courses, with in-house Pre- and Post-Production and studio.PRODUCT: I oversee all software product development including Strategy/Roadmap, Design UI/UX, Agile Scrum, Analytics, and User testing. Additionally I oversee all Video Content Production and E-Learning Course Creation.- Implemented Agile Scrum across 2 product teams, eliminating crushing disorganized and non prioritized backlogs, achieving solid on-time and transparent, business-prioritized deliverables.- Created a unified product vision across disparate founder priorities and positioned the roadmap for speed, quality, competitiveness and extensibility.- Launched service prototype. Designed and oversee all user testing and analysis for MVP- Created First Product Strategy designed to leapfrog competitors, move to higher value feature-sets, integrate disjointed feature pursuits, dramatically decrease onboarding and support costs, enhance scalability, and prepare the way for greater 3rd party integrations.- Created first Product Roadmap- Created first Product Marketing strategy- Created first Course Roadmap- Designed the first integrated course marketing / development plan- Lead a full redesign of flagship LMS including look and feel, user process flows, consumerization, and integration layer for upcoming product initiatives- Lead full backend optimization of legacy database schema and codeMARKETING: I oversee all lead generation and content (Blog, Webinar, Web) development and distribution. Achieved dramatic top of funnel growth of more than 40% yoy. Community development growth 500%+ yoy.

Founder & CEO of this online media start-up. youQ is a Crowdsourced publishing platform that lets Magazine | News | Industry Journal Publishers and their Readers communicate, validate, and collaborate on story ideas. Product Management – Certified Scrum Product Owner. Developed youQ concept; conducted all user research; Conducted interviews throughout B2B targets from end-users to CXO stakeholders; Validated B2B solution; Created clear SaaS business model w. revenue & profitability ramp; Estimated domestic & global market sizes and identified global rollout plan; Competitive analysis; Prioritized features and likely product roadmap; Designed wireframes and product story boards; Create use cases with engineer; Oversaw MVP Development; Launched MVP for consumer user validation; Conducted interviews and tech support; wrote over 100 modifications supporting web, phone and tablet. - Admitted into Start-up Dublin (CA)- Winner of the Startup Dublin Pitch Contest- Admitted into I-Gate Innovation Hub - Admitted into the Tech Futures GroupTech: HTML5, CSS3, Joomla CMS, php, javascript, SQL, Photoshop, mySQL, Hootsuite Certified, Sketch, Omnigraffle, Jira, Invision, Aha!

Miami, Florida, Us

PUBLIC (HCKT)Providing sales & marketing leadership in the high-profile Hackett SaaS and Professional Services solution. The Performance Exchange is an enterprise software solution, leveraging the SaaS model and interfacing directly with Oracle E-Business Suite and SAP ERPs. The product itself is a Continuous Process Improvement Environment providing an analytical dashboard, external process benchmarking with professional services support in process transformation & best practices. Oriented towards the CFO, Controller, CPO, Head of Shared Services and Global Process Owners in P2P, O2C and A2R, my team is responsible for driving market penetration and new business development in North America. The sales and client success process requires engaging directly with both the business leadership and IT stakeholders, driving a complex sale to closure in a matrixed environment and ensuring high client utilization for renewal. Closed business includes Dow Chemical, Applied Materials and Hitachi.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, Us

Recruited to a sales and client success leadership role providing expertise to the VP, Sales & Marketing on issues around strategic account development, service design, utilization, messaging, roll-out and sales-efficacy. Manage global sales and delivery relationships with companies up to the Fortune 3 ($355B in revs) in the research & consulting space supporting efforts in global outsourcing (BPO, ITO, F&A, PO). Have successfully sold and supported clients in the US, UK, Netherlands, South Africa, India. Clients include Shell, Bank of America, SAP, UBS.Previously supported global suppliers of outsourcing with global sourcing and strategic and tactical level market intelligence. Clients included CSC, ACS, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, HCL, Arinso, HP.

Arlington, Va, Us

PUBLIC (CEB) . SOLD TO GARTNERConsultative Sales Professional. I have developed strong domain knowledge in the areas of strategic finance (CFO focus), Tax, Treasury, and Investor Relations. I meet with Senior-most executives in finance with a special focus on the CFOs of Fortune 2000 size companies. I develop business in the areas of Best Practices Research and Advisory Services with annual price points between $20,000 and $50,000.

Lincoln, Nebraska, Us

SUCCESSFULLY SOLD- Part of the Executive Management Team, report directly to the CEO - Assess product strategies and develop improvements- Participate in all strategic decision making and strategic marketing- Created the company’s first marketing plans and Strategic Technology Plan

SUCCESSFULLY SOLDEstablished an industry with the first interactive Executive Job Search site in the world. $4mm Revs- Led all development of SearchBase.com with significant innovations:• SearchBase.com, the first interactive career site on the Internet, launched 12/95• First career site to function as an intranet• First career site to use a customizable, real-time interactive, database driven environment• First career site to integrate sound into executive candidate presentation• First career site to create a Resume Builder Wizard• First career site to integrate Voice Enabled (vXML) features• First career site to develop candidate management functionality• First career site to leverage advanced screening functionality for recruiter postings• First career site to use fully formatted, professional style resumes over the Internet• First career site to integrate and automate resume capture over the Internet through .pdf technology

Executive Certificate, Leadership & Management

Certified Scrum Product Owner (Cspo), Agile Scrum

Ccd, Certified Corporate Director

Mba, Marketing

Ba, International Relations & Economics