PerformYard is powerful and straightforward performance management software. For annual reviews, quarterly goals, continuous feedback, and everything in between, we reduce the burden on HR and create a simple experience for your employees.• Reporting to the CEO as a member of our core executive team.• Oversee Engineering, Quality Assurance, Product Management, and User Experience teams.• Responsible for our company product roadmap.• Launched new Employee Engagement offering.• Launched Self-service reporting and analytics offering.• Close collaboration with CX and Sales to ensure product strategy supports our growth and retention goals.• Professional Gofer for the product team.

Vbrick specializes in delivering comprehensive, enterprise-wide video solutions. The Vbrick Rev enterprise video SaaS platform offers organizations, large and small, to engage their workforces using a high-quality, reliable and secure video solution. • Reporting to the CEO as a member of our executive team.• Led the product management and user experience (UX) team.• Created and launched our executive product council and product roadmap process.• Released six major SaaS releases of the Rev Platform per year• Launched AI-enriched video offering with transcription, translation, and facial recognition. • Patent issued on AI-enriched, fined-grained Video Security• Worked with our CX team to improve Product NPS score from 18 to 51 over two years and achieve a 110%+ Net Renewals Rate• Worked closely with the Sales team to achieve 45% Subscription Revenue Growth in CY2019 and CY2020.

Zoomdata is reinventing business intelligence (BI) from the ground up. The company’s high-performance BI engine and visual analytics allow users to discover new opportunities and solve problems that are too big or too hard to solve using conventional BI tools.• Defined and implemented product framework and product management process for Zoomdata, releasing 5 quarterly product releases from planning through to customer adoption.• Drove roadmap for embed-ability and extensibility offerings, including Zoomdata developer portal.• Drove roadmap for our big data connectivity offering.• Migrated from legacy architecture to new micro-service based architecture over a 3-release period with minimal impact to existing customers.• Helped company achieve visionary status on 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for business intelligence.

Provide technology and entrepreneurship mentoring and guidance to early-stage companies and technology startups.

• Drove definition, planning and development of Logi’s next generation platform (NGP) from inception through to beta and integration with the legacy product line.• Scrum product owner to 3 onshore and offshore development and UX teams, developing the platform using AngularJS, NodeJS and Java 8.• Helped company achieve challenger status on the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

• Built and led Logi’s OEM (Embedded BI for ISV / SaaS) Solutions Engineering Practice and sales evaluation processes, leading a team of 6 technical solutions engineers supporting a sales team of 30+ reps, growing segment sales from $5M to $20M+ in sales. • Top rated sales engineer in annual SE surveys, supporting and delivering technical wins for nearly all of Logi Analytics seven figure OEM deals.

• Drove UX Persona development and experience-driven (scenario driven) product planning for the SQL Server IT Pro and Developer audiences.• Planned, managed and implemented User Experience research, market research studies and business case development for IT Pro and Developer segments.• Evangelized SQL Server via customer-facing blog, development of prototypes and open source projects and public speaking engagements at conferences including PASS, TechEd, PDC and Microsoft EBC (Executive Briefing Center).

• Managed the program for two consumer home media devices (akin to Apple TV / Roku) from program initiation to delivery for our first major customer, Cisco.• Drove adoption of SCRUM based program management processes and coordination across 4 engineering teams, including two offshore teams.

• Led fundraising, business plan development and product management for Intelligence in Motion, a location intelligence and mobile workforce management SaaS offering.• Grew A-Propos software consulting business to a full-time venture with multiple large accounts, a team of consultants and partnerships across the U.S.

• Responsible for setting vision and implementation of a fully managed application hosting environment for this start-up company, including defining deployment standards for application, web and database servers.• Company failed to raise its 2nd round of funding and was closed in April 2001.

• Led transition of global 100+ member software development organization to open platforms and technologies (J2EE, XML, and SOAP and XML-RPC based Web Services).• Technical due diligence of companies WAM!NET was looking to acquire (in U.S. and U.K.)• Entire architecture team was recruited and acquired by Dantis, Inc.

• Responsible for consulting and technical sales to CxO and Director level contacts.• Led small team of software consultants for our Minneapolis office.• Responsible for design and implementation of distributed DCOM n-tier business applications.

• Responsible for the design and implementation of consumer Windows application that protects children from accessing inappropriate Internet materials (sold through best buy and other retailers).• Technology sold to Apple Computer after company failed to raise additional funding.

• Responsible for leading custom wireless paging and telephony development consulting practice.• Responsible for architecture and implementation of complex large-scale wireless dispatch and messaging applications for fortune 500 companies including IKON Office Solutions, Motorola and Disney.

• Business plan development.• Partnership development with local newspapers.• Technical design and implementation of graphical online dating and chat service.

• Product management and product development of online educational and recreational services.• Led a swat team of rapid application developers building the top-rated applications on the network.• Designed and implemented Minitel terminal emulator for Macintosh, Amiga and PC/DOS.