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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Global product strategist and product leader focused on the investment strategy, business plan and development for all of Bandwidth's innovative Voice, Messaging and Emergency Services products. Mentoring and motivating high performing product development teams delivering innovative software communication products.

Responsible for defining and executing the product development strategy in providing innovative videophone applications and services to the deaf, hard of hearing and healthcare market. As a member of the executive team, lead the effort to ensure products and services are aligned with the operational needs of each organizations as well as our customers. Responsible for overseeing network and system administration for 2 fully redundant data centers, corporate headquarters, and 26 video call… Show more Responsible for defining and executing the product development strategy in providing innovative videophone applications and services to the deaf, hard of hearing and healthcare market. As a member of the executive team, lead the effort to ensure products and services are aligned with the operational needs of each organizations as well as our customers. Responsible for overseeing network and system administration for 2 fully redundant data centers, corporate headquarters, and 26 video call centers. Incubated and co-founded Stratus Video, which was sold for $475M in 2020, focused on dominating video communications within healthcare. Show less

My husband and I owned A&L Fine Wines located in Palm Harbor, Florida.

Led research and development. an organization of over 200 developers and engineers, including system engineering, architecture, software design, hardware design, and testing. Drove the innovation of next generation communication products, including leading the management and architecture teams in development of a cohesive product development strategy for low cost, high quality broadband access equipment.