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Austin, Texas, US

Nørresundby, Danmark, DK

Austin, Texas, US

• Managed team of 25 product managers, product owners, designers, and product operations specialists in 3 offices. Oversaw marketplace dynamics in competitive B2B2C and storage solutions environment. Led teams to direct.
• Utilized business acumen and leadership skills, increasing enterprise value by 600%+ to $2B company during tenure.
• Coordinated strategic direction, moving from single product company and executing vertical acquisition strategy which included multiple facility management, insurance, and payment processing solutions.
• Led enterprise software deployments for legacy installed and browser-based environments, creating successful quarterly and continuous releases respectively.
• Modernized payment solution with newly launched payment facilitator, processing billions of dollars in transactions on proprietary system instead of 3rd party backend.
• Provided strong voice on leadership team, suggesting and debating strategic avenues for products and company.

Plano, TX, US

New York, New York, US

• Integrated Offers.com business into Ziff Davis. Led product and design teams for $90MM+ commerce business unit and successfully delivered consistent results.
• Business unit exceeded plan, growing existing business run rate nearly 2x in 2 years with growth in SEO, email, paid search, and financial services businesses.
• Grew commerce across ZD properties by spreading best practices and increasing efficiencies.
• Maintained minimal full-time headcount growth with large revenue increase, exploding profitability of business.

Austin, Texas, US

• Led transition of fragmented organization with flagging morale and flat to declining revenue. Managed on-line marketplace to assist consumers to discover ways to save. Directed team of 12+.
• Rapidly accelerated profitable business reaching positive exit with acquisition by Ziff Davis to complement online media properties including IGN, PCMag, Ask Men, and Speedtest.net.
• Utilized leadership expertise and implemented transition plan over 2½-year period, growing revenues 3x, eliminating attrition problems, and focusing organization on flagship property to become leader in paid search and.
• Built efficient offshore operational team from 0 to 75+ in India, optimizing processes which resulted in 5K+ additional merchants, 400K+ additional offers, $5MM+ in directly associated revenue, and significant positive.
• Championed total redesign of every aspect of customer interaction including web experience, email capabilities, and creation of browser extension and iOS App, unifying and creating pleasant customer experience that.

Austin, TX, US

• Served as member of Telecom Executive Team with overall accountability for extremely profitable and lean $20MM business unit. Role expanded to include Financial Services vertical to provide product vision and execution.
• Managed transition from on-demand contract resources to dedicated team of 20 engineers, improving quality and predictability of enhancements.
• Led technical sales efforts and product presentations for 6 and 7 figure opportunities.
• Proactively fostered client relationship management by conducing semi-annual roadmap meetings, client summits, and webinars.

• Led emerging SaaS company to explosive growth. Established financial plan, technology roadmap, product definition, and sales strategy.
• Improved sales and customer retention rates, growing customers from 30 to 400+, revenues by 975% and improved gross margins from near zero to 75%+.
• Built technology platform from end-to-end, replacing multiple 3rd-party applications which improved functionality, created scalable platform, and drove growth.
• Separated operations from parent, creating independent brand and driving market acceptance.

Austin, TX, US

Led all technology within a large on-line advertising network. Built a team of over 30 local and remote employees while we organized spec definition in product management, agile development in engineering and automated testing in QA. Smiley Media was the 5th fastest growing company in Austin on the 2010 Inc. 500 list.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Product capabilities, market share, profitability and growth were primary motivators for Dell acquisition of MessageOne. Continued leadership function for MessageOne products while expanding responsibility for full Dell Modular Services pricing strategy.

US

Led Product Management team for flagship MessageOne product, Email Management Services. Supported sales organization and defined organizational pricing strategy.

Led product direction of a business-intelligence reporting suite for on-line activity used daily by marketers, merchandisers and executives at over 600 on-line brands.

San Jose, CA, US