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Suwanee, Ga, Us

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Helping implement the vision of of Ministry Brands, which is to improve the way churches and ministries operate, communicate, and engage by providing transformative tech solutions that enable growth and success in the digital age.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- VP of product management for a growth division of a global S&P 500 Company- Led product efforts that resulted in 35% growth of the core product suite in 6 months- Designed 3 year vision of the product portfolio for US and Denmark, with expansion strategy for the rest of Europe- Designed and implemented new payment systems including FX (Foreign Exchange), Open Banking integrations for Europe, and same day ACH for the US.- Coordinated the implementation of machine learning and neural networks into our OCR invoice scanning software which decreased processing time by 25%- Developed an accounting system integration strategy that cut implementation time by 95%- Led the product team and instituted program management processes to move the team from reactionary to quarterly based OKRs- Transitioned eight development teams from a resource pool strategy into an organized scrum and scaled agile structure

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

- Led the product division of a growth stage fintech startup that processed over $1 billion YOY with 125,000 active customers- Grew revenue by 25% in 6 months through new features that opened up cross-selling opportunities for existing customer base- Built product management team and process for 5 direct reports including 3 Product Managers, 1 UX designer, and 1 Data Analyst.- Reinvented reconciliation strategy to decrease accounting manpower by 83% while increasing coverage by 700%- Reconstructed integrations strategy to slash client onboarding time from 3 months to 1 week representing a 92% improvement in time-to-revenue- Developed new platform strategy with 2 new P&L categories and defined key growth metrics to monitor growth- Sat on the executive leadership team defining product strategy, roadmaps, and revenue opportunities

Florence, Sc, Us

- Invented a capacity tracking system to monitor and rate all projects in R&D for 150 FTEs. - Spearheaded initiative to increase productivity of development teams resulting in a 12% increase in R&D capacity from 2019-2020. - Rebuilt project selection and requirements process to release dozens of new features resulting in a 22% increase in customer acquisition over 18 months. - Recruited, interacted, and managed key customer relationships as part of ongoing generative research and usability testing efforts. - Negotiated, on-boarded, and managed new outsourced development contracts worth 5 million. - Developed the plan and led the roll out of the Scaled Agile Framework & the OKR goal setting framework.

Florence, Sc, Us

- Led 5 development teams to build new features and systems targeted at expanding our product offering. - Re-architected our core product to convert our enterprise SaaS application into a platform of SaaS applications that can be managed individually or as a whole. - Designed a complex data replication and migration strategy to allow data sharing across sharded instances of our product. - Led the guiding coalition of customers in a data sharing initiative to create a viable variation of our product for a niche market segment. - Created detailed plans and proposals for implementing new products. Including: facial recognition systems, dynamic UI delivery, behavioral analytics, and video streaming.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

- Took over a project to build an online system for the SC Secretary of State. Re-did a years worth of work, and still led a team of 18 to deliver the largest business filing system in the United States on the original timeline. The application won the International IACA Merit Award for best digital system in 2018. - Invented a comprehensive system to identify property tax fraud at 46 county assessor’s offices. Personally worked with dozens of assessors to define scope, and set pricing.- Created detailed plans and proposals for implementing new products, including a nationwide automated geolocated license plate database, a chat bot using Microsoft LUIS, optical character recognition form submissions, and AR tours of the state house.- Taught myself Python and Django, then built a proprietary project management system that tracked all active projects and resources for the SC division of NIC inc

- Built a 3.5 million dollar digital marketing and custom software company.- Hired and managed 25 employees over 3 years.- Designed custom sales software for Ipad and web that generated large custom proposals, cutting sales cycles in half.

- Product manager for multiple international consumer goods product lines.- Designed products, packaging, and marketing material.- Responsible for in-store positioning, and establishing new online sales channels.

- Built dozens of websites.- Designed branding & marketing material.- Implemented CRM systems.

- Worked as a contractor for DOD and DOHS testing secure internet portals.- Helped transition the company from manual testing to automation testing.- Tested all new features for functionality and security.

I installed and tested security technology systems.

Bs, Interdisciplinary Studies - Business

Highschool