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New York, NY, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Recruited by the Founder and Board to take the helm of the organization during leadership, organization, and product changes. Continued to serve as Chief Product Officer during transition.
• Decreased executive management spend by 68% while driving improvement in overall business performance by optimizing product development, org structure, and focusing on commercialization.
• Realigned corporate culture – focusing on employee retention, diversity, inclusion, and “right-sizing” while managing to increase product roadmap velocity by 4x.
• Immediately identified opportunities for commercial GTM partnerships, including complex negotiations that incorporated Enlearn’s technology into an existing K-12 technology learning product, used by >1M students..
• As a result of increased partnerships, was able to decrease marketing and sales spend and place more budget focus on product research.
• Secured grants, funding and research partnerships raising >$5M and extending product runway 2+ years.

Seattle, WA, US

• Redesigned the greenfield product vision, scope, and feature-set, establishing a firm GTM mission.
• Created buy-in from change-resistant founder on re-scoped product vision and goals.
• Assumed direct management of all internal product-related departments, including design, research/innovation, engineering/testing, and support.
• Accelerated development cycle and delivered high-fidelity prototype of complex technology platform – including custom machine-learning architecture - in < 12 months.
• Prototype led to additional funding from top-tier foundations (BMGF, CZI), as well as increased interest from new funders.
• Launched revised product user-focused trials with remedial math community college students – a previously under-served population in academic environments- that validated positive outcomes.

Miami, Florida, US

• Hired by university leadership to help build a robust innovation lab to create a competency-based, cost-effective, flexible learning master’s degree program for the largest U.S.-based university in the portfolio.
• Identified key stakeholders who collaborated and designed this innovative program – resulting in a self-paced, “all you can learn” subscription-based model, an industry first.
• Dramatically decreased time-to-degree and total student costs by as much as 75%.
• This new model reached financial break-even <24 months, surpassing all budgetary expectations.
• First MBA cohort completed degree within 7 months, at a total cost of <$5K.
• Expanded to 2 other master’s programs within a year and ramped to 2000 students.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Responsible for mobile-first product design and improvement efforts, including the greenfield design and development of mathematical micro-games, co-designed with leading New York and Texas educators.
• Increased product usage in grades 5-8 by 247%, 2x and 3x more math lesson-based work in platform, and measurable student math assessment improvement.
• TTM platform’s solid performance led to the product being awarded Texas state-wide contract in TX – increasing product user base from ~500K to 3.1M students - an almost immediate 6x increase in scale.
• The product and business we built allowed the start-up to secure an 8-figure exit in 2016.
• Won 2 CODiE Awards for best global math education product.
• Success of the new product led to acquisition and a successful exit for investors.

Phoenix, AZ, US

• Directed day-to-day operations of post-acquisition transition (worth >$95M) on behalf of new ownership and served as liaison to executive leadership. Built credibility and trust throughout transition – managing to.
• Led design, development, and launch of initial higher education math service based on the Carnegie Learning cognitive tutor.
• Owned adaptive software portfolio, established product management processes, developed product vision, managed roadmap, prioritized backlog items, and acted as voice of the customer.
• Created new vision product, leading to the company’s first adaptive grammar solution.

• Served as product executive collaborating with client C-level executive leadership to design and build a greenfield higher education admissions and enrollment management system fully-integrated into Microsoft Dynamics.
• Directly managed 25 leaders who in turn oversaw more than 150 resources on all product, engineering, testing and launch teams to ensure overall success of the program.
• Managed the near- and off-shoring of discreet portions of the program, increasing overall velocity by 27%.

Global, US

• Managed multiple programs across billion-dollar global clients in all regions of CSC’s market.
• Developed and implemented best practices for product management at global accounts in telecommunications, energy, health care and US federal government in the US, Germany, Japan, China (Hong Kong) and Singapore.

Assigned to Vice President Gore's initiative on reinventing government (National Partnership for Reinventing Government). My work focused on an efficiency analysis of the workings of the separate Customs and Immigration departments and combining their efforts into what became the Bureau of Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) in 2003.

Master Of Public Administration, Technology In Public Service

Ba, Political Science / Journalism