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Greater Pittsburgh Area

Independent Management and Marketing Consultant: Work with client organizations to identify, enhance and attain; product, market and service growth, Quality Management Systems and operational programs.Currently seeking and engaging with clients.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Greater Pittsburgh Area

* Brought transparency and process to an established business's diversified product practices and product sets.* Assured products were defined, developed and delivered according to the Involta business, Sales and Customer need.* Created the definition, understanding and positioning for multiple lines of IT related offerings including; IT Security and Compliance, Public Hybrid and Private Cloud Migration, Disaster Recovery and Backup as a Service (Dr/BaaS), Storage as a Service (StaaS), Managed Services, Software as a Service (SaaS), Co-location and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) within a distributed IT Data Center operation.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Established and managed the multi-site ISO 9001 Quality Management System within Output Services division. • Managed and executed the delivery and marketing of Online Health Tools (Quality measures, cost of care, provider/network ratings, plan specific coverage information etc), promoted branding strategies, Managed UI and structure for consumer, provider and business transactional communications.• Designed and executed the marketing, strategy, planning, resourcing and execution of corporate initiatives including those within a high volume (+1B images and over 175M documents/yr) IT driven e-doc delivery, print and mail environment for the insurance and healthcare industry. • Managed compliance and audit obligations with healthcare and industry regulatory entities for division.

Hastings Mn (Remote Employee)

• Developed product business plans, strategies and tactics for consumer, commercial and government records information management (RIM) software, services and consumables. • Transitioned a product centric focus to the creation of a market driven vision and developed the roadmaps supporting this effort. • Created pricing models, positioning and product marketing for multiple sales and GTM channels. • Initiated and maintained strategic alliances to support new business and technical capabilities.• Served as an industry subject matter expert and contributed to the general body of knowledge to the RIM markets through speaking engagements, the publication of white papers and journal articles.

Bellevue Wa

• Generated product strategies and tactics for solutions to meet market needs inclusive of software, hardware, finance & services.• Introduced product management processes and tactics within the company.• Managed staff of 3 in the creation of the standards against which “best of breed” product elements were evaluated, selected for inclusion, released and managed for the duration of the product lifecycle meeting both business and customer requirements. • Promoted the Branding of Print, Inc.’s offerings.

Bellevue, Wa

• Managed staff of 15 direct reports in the creation and communication of the requirements and vision for a new/enhanced company product direction. This resulted in the investment in the creation and promotion of new product lines, the divestiture of company assets and the initiation of M&A actions which gained critical technologies while generating aggregate revenue.• Managed the research and production of product requirements, business cases and the content for all related documents, presentations and communications for the development and presentation of Business Information Delivery solutions to the market.• Conducted due diligence for M&A candidates.• Acted in role of global advocate and apostle for the concepts of Business Information Delivery within industry.

Silver Spring, Md

• Provided marketing and HIPAA compliance consulting services to small to mid size medical practices relating to practice management, process optimization and information technology.

Bethesda, Md

• Managed staff of 5 direct reports in the research and production of product requirements and creation of content for all related documents, presentations and communications inclusive of business cases, positioning, pricing strategies, marketing content and market analysis for a line of fourteen client server, web based and SaS product offerings representing 53% of the company’s software revenue.• Managed the cradle-to-grave processes for multiple products in various life cycle stages. • Coordinated all aspects of the cross-departmental planning and delivery efforts required to bring products to market through multiple channels of distribution.• Quantified and defined the strategic initiatives for future product and market opportunities.• Established Agile processes for product enhancement and implementation management.

Lanham, Md

• Managed staff of 4 in the provision of comprehensive business and marketing support for the indirect channels organization.• Managed the product and marketing obligations to the indirect channel sales representatives and over 75 partners.• Initiated and participated in M&A opportunities • User’s Conference Chairman; coordinated all resources of a multiday function with over 60 seminar sessions, classroom education, vendor exposition and social functions.

Ms, Management, 3.76 Gpa

Bs, Management