Scott Ely Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Az, Us

• Successfully launched cloud-based 911 dispatch app to Major City police agency after passing thorough user acceptance testing• Conducted hundreds of hours of user research with 911 center dispatchers/call takers and law enforcement officers and translated customer needs/pains into a near-term roadmap aligned with business goals• Led efforts across engineering teams to translate roadmap into a set of technical feature specs, developed a set of execution milestones, and tracked progress against those milestones for a diverse stakeholder / executive audience• Spun up a new engineering squad focused on querying state and federal databases and, after experimenting with a dev partner, transformed it into a module paired with various internal products that shipped on time to the first set of customers and has doubled customer adoption annually

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Product Manager for Next Generation Police Body Camera - AB3• Planned, organized, and executed Beta testing program with over 400 sworn police officers across 10 agencies; set clear metrics for success and published a dashboard from in-field device logs among key stakeholders to track product readiness to ship; identified and remedied a latent hardware issue saving over $1.8M in RMA alone• Led weekly meeting of cross-functional VPs to track key supply and demand metrics and get alignment on readiness to ship: launched product ahead of Q3 deadline and shipped over 150 times the Q3 goal• Led team of 6 platform software engineers, guiding prioritization toward feature completion on audio algorithm and fixes for several difficult to triage bugs• Tracked and published camera demand schedule to meet margin and revenue targets; engaged sales team and potential early customers to bring additional $1.1M in revenue into Q3; set up tracking process that resulted in meeting year-end goal• Organized triage meetings to efficiently address and distribute feature requests and bugs to the appropriate developers and engineers in JiraSr Financial Analyst in FP&A• Built revenue model and P&L model for Taser 7, taking inputs from company projections and working with the Chief Revenue Officer• Led budget planning and regular budget vs actuals discussions with all international markets and marketing organization; strategically lowered international marketing costs by $200k without impacting creative output; eliminated $1M in stock expense by identifying and remedying agreement loophole• Built intelligent dashboards showcasing Axon’s transition to a SaaS model and highlighting for the first time on-demand average estimates of annual contract value and subscription pricing• Supported various executive analysis requests ranging from 10-year business growth modeling, to OpEx, compensation, and headcount analysis

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Financial Planning & Analysis and Investor Relations.• Developed new investor-facing metrics around AAR that reframed police bodycam and AI products as true SaaS offerings• Developed a 5-year international growth strategy that involved building financial models for our current markets, conducting market research, and communicating with our regional and country managers across Europe, Asia, and the Americas resulting in my recommendation of 9 new expansion markets to the EVP of Sales• Led a team implementation of new ERP capabilities to forecast Axon OpEx

New York City, Ny, Us

• Built financial models for and successfully recommended 3 companies for acquisition: Stagwell Tech, ForwardPMX, and Finn Partners.

Ada, Michigan, Us

• Designed a program with IT to automatically audit for bill of material accuracy. Led to $2 million in savings annually from reduced BOM manufacturing mistakes, shorter lead time, and higher service level in the years following adoption.• Developed a new global service level reporting tool from scratch using Tableau allowing for drilldown and predictive analysis

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Conducted individual transactions of hundreds of thousands of dollars• Researched customer accounts and learned federal regulation compliance to report suspicious transactions

Ada, Michigan, Us

• Researched Congress’s working group deliberations on tax reform including lobbying of key members of Congress• Delivered report to legal counsel on company impact including changes in payroll tax, LIFO, and corporate income tax

Economics

Core Credential, Financial Accounting, Business Analytics, And Economics

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