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Cleveland, Oh, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Product Gold is your one-stop-shop for software product support, providing fractional leadership, advising, consulting, and training services forged from over two decades of strategic product management expertise. We serve ambitious product leaders, executives, and teams alike. Whether you're seeking to amplify your leadership capabilities, drive strategic initiatives, or unlock the collective potential of your product teams, we’re here to empower you to strike “product gold.” Our three-step process begins with discovery, where we delve deep into understanding your situation, aspirations, and challenges. From there, we define your ideal future state and craft a tailored development strategy, founded on three critical skill areas: hard skills, soft skills, and networking abilities. Finally, we deliver actionable strategies to turn your dreams into reality, adjusting as needed, promoting continuous growth and celebrating achievements along the way.

United States, United States, Us

Engaged with BossmakeHer, designed exclusively for women in leadership, specifically exploring Director of Product Management and Principal Product Manager roles with exciting growth-stage tech companies in the EdTech or Mental Healthcare space.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Leading the pre-licensed clinician business and product suite for this rapidly-expanding HealthTech platform, I built a product and design team focusing on executing product innovation and facilitated scaling of operations to encompass new initiatives. I led cross-functional teams across the finance, operations, digital, legal, marketing, editorial, and product departments.Highlights:► Led redesign of the TYH licensure application to deliver a superior user experience and ignite accelerated growth, with plans to broaden our reach into more states.► Launched the 'Learning Pass' for group practices within SimplePractice Learning. This initiative surpassed our targeted sign-up rate by 30% shortly after its release, laying a solid foundation for sustained growth.► Introduced an innovative enterprise subscription model for SPL, contributing to the doubling of revenue within a year.► Collaborated closely with marketing to revise EHR system pricing & packaging, targeting group practices which were projected to drive revenue growth of at least 10% year-over-year.

London, Gb

Initially leading a startup-like division, I grew and managed a large $MM portfolio of Learning Applications across various higher education disciplines to enhance Pearson’s core product offerings. Ultimately, reported to the VP of Product Management, collaborating with teams across North America, UK, ANZ, APAC, and Nordic regions.► Created a new, focused vision based on customer insights to rebuild and rebrand flagship product, Learning Catalytics.► Initiated build of cutting-edge digital platform, Live Response, designed for real-time student engagement and feedback in educational settings. Increased user engagement by 65%, positioning product suite ahead of market trends.► Developed and executed new go-to-market strategy for Live Response platform, working alongside marketing team on new brand identity, pricing strategy, and promotional plans; achieved projected standalone revenue increase of 50%.► Innovated bundled sales strategy for suite of Learning Apps, leading cross-functional workshops to collectively reposition products, resulting in sales increase that exceeded initial projections by 20%, generating millions in additional revenue.In reaction to Covid-19, I adjusted the roadmap to prioritize collaboration outside of a physical classroom, putting us ahead of our competition early on and opening the door to new business. I also improved team productivity and job satisfaction in remote work setting through monthly remote team-building activities.

New York, Ny, Us

Directed the vision and development of a brand new SaaS-based learning management system, and grew team driving product innovations and user-centric features, such as real-time analytics, eReader, and lesson planning tools. Managed product lifecycle from concept through launch, incorporating advanced technologies (HTML5, CSS, AngularJS, MySQL, Java) and hosted on AWS.

New York, Ny, Us

Delivered large-scale digital projects for Time Warner Cable, MetLife, and DuPont, including complete redesign of MetLife's mobile site, and global content platform transformation for DuPont across 13 business units.

New York, Ny, Us

Directed all phases of the product development lifecycle from concept through launch for the Read 180 Interactive Teaching System and the Teacher Dashboard Lesson Planner, two web-based services providing valuable classroom materials for teachers.

Managed the creation and maintenance of websites, content management systems, and analytics sites for companies such as Barnes & Noble (SparkNotes), Nick Jr., and MTV. Responsibilities included clientmanagement, creating budgets and project plans, frontend development, technical troubleshooting (frontend and backend), QA, and deployment.

New York, Ny, Us

Worked within newly formed math technology department on a wide variety of teacher and student technology products, such as the ExamView assessments and teacher-narrated student tutorials.Valuable experience gained in a large, team-based work environment.Responsibilities included creating project plans and budgets, managing vendors, proofing, writing, and answer checking K-12 math print and technology materials.

Taught Essential Math and Pre-Algebra to high school students.

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Mathematics

Master Of Education Degree, Instructional Technology