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Wilmington, De, Us

My mission is to create and execute a strategic GTM plan to scale this breakthrough Financial Artificial Intelligence company. I am responsible for leading product strategy, product innovation roadmap, go to market, and commercial operations.Itemize Corp delivers AI Copilots for Financial Transaction Processing. Itemize has read, understood, and transformed 200+ Million documents utilizing a proprietary, 20 Billion token modern transformer-based AI/ML model with training from 25 markets and 15 languages. Itemize’s Financial AI platform unlocks transformative benefits enabled by line-item level intelligence:• 75% reductions in manual data entry and clerical workflow labor• Innovative analytics and intelligence that increase efficiency and profitability• Improved employee job satisfaction via “AI Copilots” that handle tedious work for themItemize is the only Global AI Platform Transforming Financial Operations by harnessing Line-Item Level 3 Data sourced from financial transactions that include diverse documents and data sets to power unique solutions that deliver unrivaled task automation and advanced analytics.

Parallel to my entrepreneurial pursuits, I also delivered on many consulting projects. Clients include start-ups, larger independent Software firms, Venture Capital/Private Equity, other Consulting firms and Companies outside of the Tech Industry looking for help in Supply Chain, Spend Management, Source-to-Pay, AP Automation, and Artificial Intelligence.

MarginPoint offers a comprehensive indirect materials management software solution that enables industrial companies to streamline their indirect materials processes to drive down costs and improve profitability while maintaining or improving their operational service levels. While many see indirect materials as just a procurement issue or just a supply chain issue, we believe that effective indirect materials management requires a comprehensive and integrated approach that addresses the full lifecycle of the materials from sourcing and procurement through staging, usage and disposal of materials.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Responsible for leading product innovation and customer value attainment as the company scales into hotels, managed foodservice, gaming and casinos. BirchStreet Systems provides global enterprises with a complete source-to-pay business solution deploying a SaaS model using cloud technology. BirchStreet software focuses on improving business processes by automating Sourcing, Supplier Management, eProcurement, AP Automation, Inventory Control, Recipe Management System, Business Intelligence and Capital Budget Management modules. Thousands of businesses in over 100 countries currently subscribe to BirchStreet to connect and do business with a network of more than 500,000 suppliers.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

My mission at BirchStreet is to drive the Company’s strategic plan to scale for revenue growth and profitability. Scaled the Company while maintaining the Business’ commitment to innovation and customer success.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Led and scaled BirchStreet’s Customer Success operational units including Project Management, Technical Service, Customer Support, Training, Account Management as well as Product Management.

-Apttus is the category-defining and leading Quote-to-Cash software provider, driving the vital business processes between a buyer’s interest in a purchase and the realization of revenue including supply chain and buy-side capabilities.-Mission was to take my Lines of Business to the next level of market leadership & accelerate their high growth trajectory.-Successfully created and rolled out Strategic Direction and Roadmap for CLM and SRM.-Developed aggressive business plan aimed at tripling CLM ACV in 2016 and execution produced positive results towards that goal.

-BuildBeam helps sub contractors, specialty trade contractors, and dealers who do 10+ jobs a month. BuildBeam focuses where supply chain, estimation, contracting, supplier orders, scheduling, and CRM, are really the problem (not project management or accounting).-Designed and built MVP/1.0 cloud & mobile products and launched to market in Summer of 2015.-Established strategic partnerships and sales acceleration processes to scale.-Developed financial/business model and achieved cash flow positive status in 6 months.

Waldorf, De

At Ariba, an SAP Company, led 12+ years of innovation, expanding strategic sourcing and contract management portfolios into market leaders. • Under my direction, Ariba grew its “Upstream” customer base from 15 to over 1500 customers, including well over 50% of the Fortune 100 and a fast growing portion of mid-sized companies globally. • Annual revenue grew from $2MM to $200MM at 25% Y/Y growth rate (approximate numbers)

Created solution footprint, roadmap and value drivers for eLearning On-Demand/SaaS solution.

Defined and managed rollout of media delivery products for Internet infrastructure company. Developed requirements, process flows, and product documentation. Directed execution of Gig’s media content acquisition and cataloging system.

Designed and managed the supply-side deployment process for a business-to-business transaction-based web site targeting the interior design trade vertical market. Defined product requirements for the On-Demand/SaaS e-commerce catalog.

Invented an electro-mechanical sports performance-monitoring product.

Performed space telescope and missile seeker systems engineering, opto-mechanical engineering, and project management.

Developed scalable back end applications to drive large consumer Web sites. Utilized knowledge of UNIX and C and knowledge in networking, Linux, and Java™ to develop the algorithms & source code required to complete milestones.

Bachelor Of Science And Engineering, Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

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