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Product owner for Runner, CenturyLink new Cloud orchestration and automation product. Lead in the areas of strategic product planning, software sprint planning, pricing strategies, competitive analysis and thought leadership for CenturyLink cloud-to-IQ network products. Responsible for defining competitive product and market requirements, maintaining a prioritized product backlog, helping organize Agile software sprints alongside Engineering, and acting as a product SME to the rest of the organization. Lead cross-functional teams through ideation, business case development and formulation of product requirements, pricing strategies, and overall lifecycle management support. Ensure the CenturyLink offerings stays current with customer needs, technology advancements, and competitive differentiation and work closely with development teams from product initiation to delivery and product lifecycle management.

Designed, developed, and managed creation of over 100 websites, content management systems (CMS), and rich interactive applications (RIA), and mobile experiences for over 50 different companies both large and small. Provided UX design and support through multi-platform implementations. Designed and developed user interfaces (UI) for an array of platforms and devices. Created fully interactive applications (Flash, Flex, and HTML5) on desktops, mobile devices, and kiosks. Developed within multiple different server environments, web services, and third party software packages. Developed several ecommerce and purchasing platform from ground up to meet custom requirements and implementations. Consulted with Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft and T-Mobile on web implementations methodology and best practices. Built over 30+ websites for T-Mobile, including entire online mobile storefronts and experiences on multiple platform and services. Developed primary purchase path for tmobile.com. Owned and operated interactive development company from 1999 to 2008 with internal development and design teams that worked on numerous projects; clients Included Microsoft, T-Mobile, Starbucks, Nike, AT&T, Toyota, etc. For more information, please visit my portfolio at: http://labs.truenorthcreative.com

Architected multi-million dollar system for delivering content over secure network to over 4,400 kiosks and video walls throughout hundreds of T-Mobile retail stores nationwide. Worked with both internal and external enterprise IT solutions on implementing a content delivery network (CDN) to deploy software and content packages. Managed internal development and implementation teams, as well as project deliverables. Monitored, analyzed, and reported on performance, user experiences, purchase paths, and technical capabilities and needs. Analyzed session usage and data associated with deployments and implementations to ensure accurate product delivery and system diagnostics. Managed multiple mirrored servers for deployment, metric capturing, and reporting. For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/IGaWs1

Managed development teams and processes of over employees and contractors. Managed and implemented best practices and training for new technologies, general computer science topics, platforms, and requirements. Worked directly with technical and creative directors on meeting and fleshing out business requirements, documentation, and budgets. Draft, edit proposals for new projects and change orders. Manage project timelines, deliverables, and requirements

As CTO of Apprema, designed, developed, and architected interactive storefront and business strategy, in addition to managing development and design teams to create and implement architecture and requirements. Analyzed usage and business analytics to create new products and processes. Integrated CRMs with social media, custom CMS and purchasing systems. Developed mobile content certification portal for verifying, signing, and deploying Java applications for AT&T and T-Mobile. Started and lead the technical functions for multi-million dollar content certification and testing company (True North Service). Worked with dotcoms and RIPL on prototyping and designer Flash and Flex platforms for RIA experiences and platforms.

Prototyped cutting edge software implementations such as Silverlight , Actionscript, and Javascript. Developed three mobile applications currently available through Apple iTunes Store. Developed an interactive Facebook application with a partner and made it final venture capital funding round in FB Venture Development Competition, placed 26th out of 1,600 applicants and entries. I am also a regular contributor in several programming language communities and regularly donate time to several open source projects. Stackoverflow profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/595602/tncDevelopment portfolio: http://labs.truenorthcreative.com