Provide advisory services in Product Strategy, Product Development and lean agile coaching.

An expert in my field, I transformed the Product department for this multimillion-dollar global software company into a high-functioning center of excellence by optimizing processes across 15+ products and initiatives, bringing synchronicity to 300+ employees, including 30+ product professionals. Simultaneously, I assumed ownership over a portfolio comprised of 30+ R&D teams, aligning the strategic direction with our products’ vision, leading to improved development and service delivery. I then placed great emphasis on honoring our customer commitments, while emphasizing value by championing an internal cultural transformation. This included partnering with our engineering team to modernize processes and technology.• Generated $300M in new sales and renewals by overseeing stabilization and development of products or features• Boosted on-time product delivery 60%, simultaneously bringing award-winning products to market that fulfilled customer requirements and sustained healthy sales pipeline.• Overhauled R&D, migrating to Scaled Agile model (SAFe), from waterfall/hybrid methodologies, enhancing business visibility, transparency, predictability, and consistency.• Positioned company to capture market needs over next 10+ years by updating business critical legacy products and engineering new products in alignment with corporate objectives.• Pivotal in actualizing profits and positive EBITDA in under three-years as influential member of executive team, transitioning from operating at a loss to a profit.

In an effort to keep our linear and digital advertising clients satisfied, I diversified our product offerings by leading the development of TV and digital order management products and workflow applications. I dedicated myself to keeping this software company competitive, spearheading the newly integrated convergence offering, and then piloting the creation of a next generation advertising platform – Advertising Operating System (AOS) all in accordance with advertising sales demands. Additionally, I unified project and engineering teams across 15-disciplines by rolling out processes and procedures, culminating in the design of our cutting-edge application utilizing Agile methodologies. Last, but certainly not least, I aligned MVPDs with changing requirements by outlining a linear and global convergence product strategy. • Empowered eight product leaders, with accountability over 100+ engineers, to originate and launch industry-first AOS in under 12-months.• Bolstered customer adoption 33% over three-months by guiding user experience (UX) team in modernizing look and feel of product, ultimately increasing competitiveness.• Opened additional data monetization channels by negotiating discounts in excess of 50% for embedded analytics, resulting in improved product quality and user experiences.• Streamlined release of new products to market by cementing interoperability/economics of scale and reducing redundancy across product lines.

With control over the company’s first next-generation product portfolio, I headed the ideation of an innovative new product, aligning its execution with the product vision through to launch. Relied upon as a subject matter expert, I advised our product and development teams on building products in accordance with current industry trends and business practices. This included establishing the product vision and direction, while leveraging capacity planning and financial modeling.The new products I developed played a key role in the company being acquired by MediaOcean, as they increased our overall value proposition. • Won contracts with leading media companies (Verizon) within 12-months, valued in excess of $7M and negotiated multi-year deals totaling $5M+ with vendors and prospects.• Grew return on investment (ROI) in inventory/liability management and optimization, while deploying ProPost to major clients, including Charter, Verizon, and various large media companies.• Served as instrumental member of team that created revolutionary new UX, enabling advertising sellers to build optimized cross-platform proposals.• Underpinned value proposition by forging strategic partnerships with potential partners and combining offering with other vendors (Google, AOL, Videology).

I interfaced directly with the company’s executive stakeholders, gaining their approval of our BI product roadmap, while concurrently overseeing BI strategies. Next, I founded the BICC, deploying industry best practices to align current and future BI with our overall business goals. At the helm of the Steering Committee, I inspired change among our BI teams and eight-member on-/offshore team. Shortly after, I defined priorities, gathered requirements, and orchestrated the achievement of deadlines in collaboration with vendors and internal departments, leading to a boost in performance. • Complemented $400M in sales revenue across four business units by heading data and BI strategy through integration of two companywide BI initiatives, aggregating disparate sources into actionable daily reports.• Orchestrated actualization of $1M+ in incremental revenue and lowered costs in 12-months by constructing BI tools and best practices.

• Performed financial and inventory-based ad-hoc analyses for executive management across six P&Ls, including linear and advanced advertising businesses; in total a $400 million annual business. • Produce monthly ‘key metrics’ documents summarizing inventory utilization for executive management; creation of KPIs that provide new perspectives on sales results and trending• Use knowledge of database structures and data normalization to combine information from up to eight different data sources into manageable, easy-to-use tools • Create complex spreadsheet models to evaluate what-if scenarios, forecast and budget revenues, and evaluate inventory usage• Key liaison between business unit and data warehouse vendor. Ensure that current business processes are properly incorporated so that vital business reporting needs are met in the final deliverable.• Evaluate and recommend inventory swap proposals between divisions to maximize revenue

• Member of administrative team charged with planning and transitioning college during two-year period of 60% growth• Review and change operating procedures in a dynamic, high-growth environment• Work with diverse constituencies from a varied range of backgrounds• Revamp college attrition and graduation projection methodologies (currently under consideration for use at The New School) -Error margins reduced from 40% to 5%• Development and analysis of internal reports used for budgeting, planning and curriculum development• Develop new methodologies and metrics to better measure school performance and adopt better standards• Assist administrators in formulating and/or translating abstract ideas into presentable and demonstrable documents• Create and implement a centralized college-wide database system, for Lang administrators & staff, that is integral to day-to-day operations. The database provides a single, automated system for data collection, aggregation and reporting

• Redesigned outdated departmental website• Introduced downloadable catalogs and other publications• Saved $15,000 annually in hard-copy production costs• Developed online course registration system/database to replace existing system in use since 1992• Database administrator/programmer for a variety of databases designed to meet company-wide education initiatives and JCAHO accreditation• Compiled and designed Training Opportunities Catalog – a publication of all departmental educational offerings