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California, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

contract for optimizing Packing of shipping boxes using 3D UNITY visualization and adding gamification to packing application. Secondary is to update the item data quality used for shipping

Contracted to improve billing and Subscriptions as well as Electronic Data Interchange Invoice processing, and creating a reporting Ux components.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Product managed Creative Drive Studios Content Management system, as well as connectors to Adobe Experience Manager(AEM), Pronto, Uber, CARTH, Aprimo, workfront..etc. Used Agile processes with JIRA to manage remote development teams and sprints.Compiled and Analyzed Usage, and coverage of systems for Content management. Data Analytics including creating Tableau Server DashboardsManaged metadata across all systems ensure proper coverage and quality of metadata as it flows from different system to the final Content management servers. (DAM)

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Lead New product Creation, transform Product management processes, Created Mobile apps, Websites, Software, Firmware and Hardware solutions for Market. Lead the creation of New Platform, SDK, Product lines. Autonomous vehicles, OEM products, partnerships.

San Francisco, California, Us

Manage Product Management teams in delivering APIs and front end services for Snapfish's imaging and E-commerce platforms. Building stories, and roadmaps and driving technological advances for the engineering teams to build and deliver a compelling user experience to monetize on personalized photographic products. Analyze and assess competition, technologies, metrics, and feedback to optimize the customers experience. Control costs and efficiency of the site in order to enhance return on investment.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

My primary position was as Product Manger the 3D printing pipeline called Spark for Autodesk. I led multi disciplinary teams in disparate countries comprised of engineers, coders, UX/UI, mathematicians, documenters, coders, and quality assurance to produce software and platform standards. I worked with 3rd parties for contracts, API's, OEM software, and 3D manufacturing data format standards.

Houston, Texas, Us

Enabling technology transfer, productizing technology and bringing business, competition and customer focus to research projects. Worked with teams dealing with the Ux, IOT, DMA , healthcare, analytics, security, semantic web, image analysis/auto tagging, 3D, projector technologies, operations walls, desktop tools, social networking and web analytics. Developed incubation websites, product roadmaps, desktop and cloud products for consumer, small business and enterprise. Published peer reviewed articles, filed several patents and typically made over 100 external demonstrations per year to executive audiences.

San Francisco, California, Us

Directed the development of core services/products within the Snapfish family of websites. Managed Products as Product and Project manager by participating in: Competitive research, New technologies, HP Labs integration, product definition, ROI analysis, Product development, Q/A, Marketing, and Product launches. Also participated in remote development, alliance research, product integration, Account management, Internationalization, and quality standardization.Worked on Video, Music, Photos, Fraud, Image enhancement, facial recognition etc

San Francisco, California, Us

 Managed products as Product and Project Manager by participating in: competitive research, new technologies, HP Labs integration, product definition, ROI analysis, product development, Q/A, marketing, and product launches. Participated in remote development, alliance research, product integration, account management, internationalization, and quality standardization.  Delivered products including video, slideshows, music, audio cards, photo contests, fraud, coupons, uploaders, xsell/upsell and desktop software. Played strategic role in defining long term road map and introducing new imaging and web technologies to the Snapfish website. Led consumer research and testing including quantitative, qualitative and ethnographic studies across multiple countries.

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Lead research teams in game design and Human Interface Interactions to create advanced UI’s in research software for the ARDA program of Novell and Massive Intelligence Data. Research in User Interface design based on maximizing cognitive behavior, as well as new UI and advanced display systems. Created proposals for government BAA and RFP submissions as well as research into retinal projection technology and Collaborative environments. Working with Intelligence analysts, programmers, and designers and Government Proposal groups

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Directed the production of DVD sales/rental kiosks for nationwide distribution. Implemented databases, graphics, inventory management and packaging, software and the hardware integration with a team of 8. Maintained bug lists, feature lists, product lifecycle, project files while working with marketing and engineering. Integrated new display, sound, receipt, interface and POS technologies to create state of the art kiosk systems.

Scene7 is an Image wrapping/dynamic imaging and image production companyI am in charge of researching dynamic imaging’s competitive market landscapeAs well as developing all Documentation, Product designs, Product Management processes,User interfaces, custom demos, Product lifecycle plans, and Pricing strategiesI am also consolidating products and repackaging them to make them match their potential customers.

Corte Madera, Ca, Us

Manage all products from definition, design, development to release and beyond· Be the technological resource for the company in digital imaging and web imaging· Conceive of new products and generate research to support the development of the products· Create all Collateral and support documentation for our products· Generate product positioning and ensure it’s defense

I was a product manager leading consulting work on 3D Virtual reality projects for outside customers. I created end to end examples of how virtual reality could be used to train and help people in very complex jobs to ensure the safety and well being of others

Honors Bsc, Geology, Biology, Computers

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Geology/Earth Science, General