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Greater New York City Area

Countly is a real-time mobile app analytics and marketing platform that enables our customers to have complete control over their analytics data both in terms of securing it and being able to integrate it into their ongoing processes.Countly is optimized from the ground up to gather information about your users and how they are using your applications, process this data in real-time, and give you advanced tools (user analysis, funnels, revenue analytics, retention/cohorts, advanced segmentation, and custom metrics) to understand your users better. Referral analytics and push notifications enable our customers to understand which of campaigns are most effective in generating new users and in keeping those users engaged once they have downloaded an app.Available in Community (Open Source), Cloud (SaaS), and Enterprise (securely deployable on your cloud or on-premise) editions, Countly supports all major platforms including iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone as well as frameworks such as Titanium, Phonegap, Icenium and Corona.

Major Account Manager for Applause, the world's largest marketplace for "in the wild" software testing services that span the entire software development lifecycle – including functional, security, load, localization and usability testing. Accounts include a mix of media, entertainment, publishing, and telecommunications companies including Verizon, AT&T, HTC, USA Today, Time Inc., Vonage, 1800Flowers, McGraw-Hill, Gannett, CNBC, Sony Music, JCrew, and others.===============About Applause: Applause leads the app quality revolution by enabling companies to deliver digital experiences that win - from web to mobile to wearables and beyond. By combining in-the-wild testing services, software tools and analytics, Applause helps companies achieve the 360° app quality™ they need to thrive in the modern apps economy.

Led the Northeast region for early stage startup focused on enterprise mashups:• Top commercial sales contributor for 2008 and 2010 • Closed single largest commercial transaction ($350,000 to Elsevier)• Penetrated key media and publishing vertical for JackBe• Landed initial reference accounts including: Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Elsevier, Nutrisystems, Random House, and Thomson Reuters===============About JackBe: JackBe provides Presto, a real-time operation business intelligence platform, and gives companies the tools they need to assess the business impact of changing conditions as they happen by combining operational data from multiple live sources into easy-to-use dashboards.

Account manager focused on ~30 major accounts in the New York metro region.• Doubled 2005 revenue (from $600,000 to $1,200,000) in assigned accounts• Revived dormant accounts including Bear Stearns, Pearson, Travelers Insurance, and Wyeth• Introduced Actuate’s spreadsheet and open source BIRT products to existing customer base. ===============About Actuate: Actuate provides software and services for business intelligence and performance management needs. It offers services that include reporting, business analytics, interactive web reports, and spreadsheet reporting. The company also provides Actuate BIRT, an open source business intelligence platform supported by IBM and other industry players.

First rep for new Bowstreet "syndication server" which enabled organizations to pre-package and redistribute information and functionality via online channels as widgets or web services. • Launched Bowstreet's Syndication Factory by targeting travel and hospitality verticals• Landed initial customers including Opodo ($400,000), Travel Holdings ($200,000), GTREX, and Marriott ===============About Bowstreet: Bowstreet provides development tools for portals, custom portlet creation, composite applications, and distributed Web-based services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

• Generated more than 50% of Altio’s North American sales for “rich internet” development tools• Landed “marquee” accounts including Adecco NA, Bank of America, Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley • Drove partnerships with local Sun and IBM sales organizations ===============About Altio: AltioLive, Altio's XML-based platform, provides a complete suite of software solutions that enable a business to rapidly launch innovative products and services. AltioLive brings real-time data and desktop application functionality to browser based Internet applications that are extendable to any device.

• Transitioning team to solution selling and jumpstarted the underperforming Northeast region• Delivered $11+m in FY 2000 revenue as player/coach for three (3) sales teams• Responsible, as an individual contributor, for over 7% of FY 2001 license sales• Delivered 127% of quota and 9.5% of SilverStream worldwide revenue in 1999• President’s Club 1998 and 1999• Helped set stage for successful IPO in highly competitive Java application server space===============About SilverStream: SilverStream is provides application servers and development tools that enable businesses to create, deploy and manage software programs for intranets, extranets and the Internet. Using SilverStream’s products and services, organizations can create and deploy robust Web applications in diverse areas such as e-commerce, employee self-service, supply chain management and customer service.

• Evangelized and recruited early adopters for pre-beta stage BI start-up. • Landed initial beta customers including Deutsche Bank, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and AT&T===============About AlphaBlox: AlphaBlox develops and markets component-based analysis tools and application software for intranet and traditional client/server networks to help organizations to drive and manage their businesses more profitably.

• Responsible for direct & channel sales of client-server application development tools • Over 120% of quota each year for 1993, 1994, and 1995 (President’s Club each year)• Doubled territory sales of new software and maintenance from 1994 to 1995 to over $8 million • Joined as Sales Engineer from February 1991 - March 1992===============About Powersoft: PowerBuilder, Powersoft’s flagship product, was the first rapid application and graphical user interface (GUI) development tool for building, maintaining business-critical client-server Windows applications.

Product Marketing for PC DOS based database development environment.

Education record

Ba, English Literature

Bachelor'S Degree