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Leading the technical side of this FitTech startup, including Product, Design and Dev and Analytics.

Have co-founded, invested in and advised multiple startups helping them define, build and launch their first products to market.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Joined an early-stage startup (Altway) to help define, build, and launch an AI-based product in the InsureTech space, achieving consistent 10% WoW user growth for 12 consecutive weeks. This led to us getting acquired for $400M by one of the largest insurance brokerages - Acrisure. Stayed on as a Chief Product Officer to help define, build, launch, and optimize a new set of products to help tech-enable the insurance brokerage industry. Built one of the best teams I've ever had the privilege to work with across Product, UX/UI Research & Design, and Partner Success. This enabled us to launch several new products at a record speed, resulting in over $5M of incremental revenue in 6 months post-launch.

Lake Oswego, Or, Us

Co-founded a startup that delivers a B2B SaaS, focusing on regulated markets (Healthcare, Finance and Government). Designed and managed the implementation of a new product from ground up. Created functional, system and technical designs. Created product Roadmap and Features Backlog. Managed a team of remote developers in Ukraine, providing all the specs and technical leadership. Managed local QA and BA resources. Successfully launched the product to 5 initial customers, which quickly grew to over 400 without any spend on marketing or sales.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led the Search & Discovery team, which consisted of 6 Product Teams, including Search, Recommendations, Geo and others. Our team was multi-disciplinary, including Product, Product Marketing, Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics and Design. Together we focused on making it easier for people to find and book their next trip, even if they weren't sure what they were looking for. Using innovative ML+UX approach, we completely transformed the core of our site's funnel, leading to over $200M incremental growth in annual revenue through increased conversions. Prior to Search & Discovery, I led the Experimentation platform team, where we built our own internal set of tools, processes and methodologies to run software product experiments in the most scientifically robust way possible, while allowing us to share learnings and compare results across the organization.

Austin, Tx, Us

Completely re-designed the company’s Data Warehouse and the entire Data Infrastructure and Ecosystem. Defined and launched an in-house analytics solution globally to standardize data collection across all platforms and properties. Created new strategies to leverage RMN's data as its greatest asset to drive innovation and new revenue opportunities. Not only did these strategies bring millions of dollars in new incremental revenue, but one of them became the foundation of the company's overall long-term vision.

Austin, Tx, Us

Was responsible for leading a cross-functional team of developers and analysts in defining the Data strategy and roadmap to addressing growing infrastructure and service needs. Using Agile methodology and SCRUM managed backlog, defined deliverable, assigned work, refined requirements, and ensured successful delivery. Main focus on ensuring that resources were being spent on the highest business value deliverables, while supporting nearly every aspect of the business (Finance, BI, SEO, Product, Eng, Marketing, etc.). Redefined data infrastructure and team's service delivery to meet the growing needs of the company. Initiated and managed a first ever global full company infrastructure re-vamp project, which touched every platform, property and site. Focused on enabling scalability and self-service. Greatly improved stakeholder satisfaction, while reducing millions in infrastructure and operating costs.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Became a Product Owner of a major initiative that resulted in millions of dollars in revenue, through optimization and increase of 280% in productivity. Lead a cross-functional team of 30 developers, data and business analysts, data scientists, project managers and QA. Defined product's Roadmap, maintained backlog and ran SCRUM and sprint-planning. Worked with the executive team to report on status, manage expectations and delivery, as well as align priorities. Worked on a number of projects within the Global Business Services division, specifically supporting the Business Analytics department, focusing on the Finance sector. Worked with stakeholders to understand business needs, strategic objectives and looked for opportunities to leverage our resources to drive overall company performance. Designed and managed implementation of various solutions.

Lake Oswego, Oregon, Us

Met with clients to understand their needs and assess current business processes and technologies used. Proposed solutions to improve target KPIs. Led a team to implement accepted solutions. Primarily focused on Business Intelligence, data-driven decision making, automation and custom software development.

Renton, Wa, Us

Designed and delivered an end-user web portal for reviewing personal medical records, recent hospital visits, manage payments, schedule appointments, etc. Worked in an Agile environment, collected requirements, wrote specifications and user stories, performed UAT, managed stakeholders and the development team through successful delivery on schedule.

Renton, Wa, Us

Developed an automated solution for identity and access lifecycle management of all employee accounts.This work was previously performed by over 25 specialists and is now being maintained by 3. Greatly expedited the time required to create new user logins, transfer access or disable access for employees no longer with the company.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

As an employee of this consulting company under contract to General Motors, acted as customer relations manager and liaison between GM customers and dealers and Sitel for General Motors products. Scope of issues included addressing and resolving legal and customer satisfaction issues to avoid litigation and strengthen customer loyalty. Completed SITEL Leadership Development Program and fulfilled several leadership positions, including Quality Assurance, Training and Development, Resource Management and Team Manager.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Tier 3 technical support for consumer cable internet service. Trained and coached other agents in more junior roles.

Santa Clara, California, Us

As a member of Intel’s Internal Applications Engineering team, primary responsibility was to develop automation, integration and assistance software tools to be used within the company for various departments and functions.

Bs, International Economics And Business Management

Computer Science