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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Product Management lead at the Kessel Run Experimental Lab in Boston, MA, revolutionizing how the U.S. Air Force delivers the next generation of combat capabilities through software.

Glen Allen, Va, Us

Product Management lead at the Kessel Run Experimental Lab in Boston, MA, revolutionizing how the U.S. Air Force delivers the next generation of combat capabilities through software.

Boston, Ma, Us

Product leader for a recruitment marketplace that uses machine learning to match employers with specialty recruiters competing to fill their roles. Managed a team of eight and collaborated with leadership in marketing, sales, and engineering to develop a high-impact, nimble product management and UX organization aligned with growth objectives. Defined and led the vision, strategy, and roadmap for direct hire and temporary staffing solutions.• Expedited development and launch of a new contingent workforce solution in response to client demand. In six months, delivered the product to market and brought on three referenceable accounts. Revenue contribution is projected to increase by approximately 300% over three years. • Transformed custom partner-specific product integrations into a singular solution with a shared UI framework. Eliminated feature fragmentation, significantly decreased time to market, and doubled engineering output. Delivered all new integrations on-time and on-budget with minimal impact to innovation or customer workflows. • Increased collaboration between sales and delivery teams by implementing Aha! to share new features and roadmap changes. Deployed an ideas portal to collect and report the status of product feedback from customers. • Drove sales performance by establishing market-driven priorities, leveraging development resources, and optimizing workflow to deliver against committed timelines.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Led product management on a team of industry experts hired to deliver a new cloud-based application development platform within six months. Worked with off-shore engineering and QA teams under aggressive time constraints to successfully deliver the new platform at the annual user conference. Developed, maintained, and communicated vision, strategy, and roadmap of platform. • Formulated go-to-market plan that resulted in a significant increase in revenue within the first year.• Led the product team to integrate a newly-acquired application development platform with existing and new back-office shared services including authentication, invoicing, billing, and API support.• Promoted from Product Manager to Manager, Product Management within the first year, overseeing two product managers.• Worked on the technical assessment team for the $262.5 million acquisition of a leading provider of application development tools based in Bulgaria.• Led product management for Rollbase, a rapid development platform for mobile and web-based business applications.• Partnered with the UX team to conduct user research, analyze and implement feedback from customer interviews, and perform usability testing.• Planned and delivered worldwide sales and channel partner training programs.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led multiple product management initiatives for QuickBase, a customizable business application platform, including a massive mission-critical architecture overhaul fraught with potential customer disruptions and security issues. Used product metrics to segment customers, understand their needs, and develop a phased migration approach that effectively mitigated possible breaking changes. Managed cross-functional local and remote product teams of 25 from concept through production release. • Delivered major upgrade to enable complex reporting and the associated critical security enhancements, consistently doubling annual subscription revenue for seven consecutive years.• Successfully migrated 4,500 clients and their application in just four months with support burden well below estimates and no subsequent major UI or tool changes. • Created, maintained, and communicated vision, strategy, and roadmap for mobile product offerings. • Defined and implemented solution, services, and partner strategy for Intuit Partner Platform, a PaaS offering based on the existing QuickBase technology stack.• Led technical evaluation and selection of software technology and services to deliver Intuit’s first web-based synchronization of QuickBooks data.• Evaluated market and competitive drivers, captured and prioritized customer feedback, defined product requirements, and drove feature development.

* Worked closely with Engineering to define customer requirements, identify key market trends and translate them into product requirements.* Conducted market/customer research, focus groups, competitive analysis, and monitored key performance metrics.* Ensured successful product launches by supporting marketing functions including events, advertising, PR, analyst relations, etc.* Planned and delivered worldwide sales and channel partner training programs.* Created effective sales tools including presentations, demonstrations, white papers, and case studies.* Managed the marketing plan, including product positioning, launch, marketing mix, and product messaging for new product launch.

* Responsible for new account sales and technical support for CAD/CAE hardware and software.* Conducted pre-sales demonstrations of CAD/CAE software.* Provided post sales consulting and implementation services to existing customers.* Responsible for evaluating and recommending software applications to add to product line.

* Developed software demonstration used nationwide as an initial overview of Unigraphics to new prospects.* Conducted various standard and custom software demonstrations, in which 70% resulted in software/hardware sales.* Performed mentoring and consulting services to new and existing customers.

Patuxent River, Md, Us

* Led team in the design of nondestructive inspection (NDI) equipment used for the evaluation of naval aircraft.* Planned, organized and maintained cost and performance schedules.* Provided technical support to NDI technicians in the form of training, troubleshooting and implementing design changes.

Horsham, Pennsylvania, Us

Nanodegree, Data Analyst

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering