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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Polaris I/O is a key account platform that enables B2B firms to protect, retain, and grow their highest value key accounts more effectively. Our mission is to make the complexity of key account analysis, investment, growth, and navigation simple through a holistic insight and experience-driven approach.The key account platform, PolarisIO, is composed of.

Chicago

- Responsible for managing the team and development of the HCareers Hospitality platform. - Designed the specification to monetize the ability for Recruiter’s to search hundreds of thousands of candidate applications.

Greater Chicago Area

- Consistently improved the end-to-end PLM, SDLC, CI/CD workflow, core skills, and team velocity by developing a strategy of automation, measurement, and SCRUM/DevOps best practices to deliver 180 product releases in FY19; 95 releases in FY18; 46 releases in FY17; and 26 releases in FY16.- Hired, managed, measured, and motivated as many as 26 internal.

Greater Atlanta Area

- Established an end-to-end product lifecycle framework, customer-driven product roadmap, and a focus on standards to reduce a bloated product catalog containing over 3000 active SKUs to an efficient product catalog containing 250 active SKUs.- Revitalized a stalled product management organization by establishing SCRUM practices to remove unplanned work.

Naperville, IL

- Collaborated on Product Days where product managers and product owners showcased their product lines for internal team members and external partners to improve transparency on the business value that the enterprise provided to our customer base.- Established and delivered on the product roadmap for display advertising analytics.- Researched, envisioned.

Naperville, IL

- Standardized repeatable and automated testing of product features to ensure product stability.- Established an architectural strategy and governance standards that focused on performance, optimization, reliability, and security which resulted in 50% faster solution delivery and 99.98% scheduled uptime service levels.

Naperville, IL

- Established a new suite of API driven service utilities (microservices) as consumable SaaS products which secured an addition $2 MM (USD) of sales opportunities from our existing marketing and analytics customer base.- Launched a fault-tolerant virtualized enterprise service bus platform that was entirely scalable to meet seasonal customer demand.

Naperville, IL

- Transitioned organization from product selling to solution selling that ultimately improved speed to market, quality, and outcome success on more than 24 distinct multi-million dollar sales initiatives.- Established the business analyst and product management practice that unified customer understanding of our core product offerings through the use of.

Oak Brook, IL

- Envisioned, built and launched game-changing campaign management and customer segmentation application that was a significant factor in the $625 MM (USD) acquisition of May & Speh. - Supported product enhancement requests from 12 active customers across retail, insurance, and financial industries by establishing an Extreme Programming (Agile predecessor).

Greater Chicago Area

- Established a technology startup focusing on marketing and analytics services that grew to more than $10 MM (USD) in recurring revenue without the use of venture capital.- Architected the hardware and software stack to support distributed processing for dozens of simultaneous long-running deep analytical projects.