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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx

• Serve as a product owner tasked with envisioning, developing, delivering, and maintaining analytic products for several hundred customers and internal departments.• Pilot oversight and development of an enterprise data warehouse and several reporting technologies.• Oversee a team of analysts and data scientists to support development efforts and desired roadmaps.• Collaborate with the leadership team and customers to guide and refine product features, functionality and roadmaps.• Build and deliver go-to-market strategy and numerous deliverables to support new product launch efforts through sales, marketing and customer engagement.

Coral Gables, Florida, United States

• Worked as the lead architect and engineer of a two-sided marketplace like Airbnb that allows users to list and rent public and private meeting spaces in the Miami Metro area.• Oversaw the successful launch of the product in February 2020.• Collaborated on the company transition to a COVID business model during the pandemic’s onset.

Houston, Tx

• Consulted as Virtual CIO to small and medium-sized organizations with a specific focus on development and implementation of internal software systems/automation, external applications, and associated business processes.• Ideated and launched several notable start-ups with technology-driven proprietary platforms built on Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure with integrations utilizing several disparate on-premises and SaaS services.• Communicated with clients to understand their business goals and needs and made strategy and product recommendations to assist them in realizing those goals.

Houston, Texas Area

• Drove a 3-year company growth of 2,152%, achieving the coveted Inc 500 Fastest Growing Privately Heald Companies placement — ranking #167 overall, #10 in Software — and services organization growth of 3,500% during the same period.• Closed day-to-day business development activities, led, and managed teams working with partners and customer prospects, architecting, designing, and implementing (when required) solutions across Microsoft Public and Private Clouds.• Designed, introduced, and managed a Partner and Community Enablement program and associated teams in the U.S. and abroad, which resulted in over 260 partners globally and accounted for $18 million+ in annual sales.• Led development of Go-To-Market, Compete, Managed Service Provider and Microsoft Azure strategies for core products and services, as well as partner-focused initiatives to drive sales and consumption across all lines of business.• Served as the principal consultant responsible for initial build and development of core consultancy practice.• Handled recruiting and hiring across the entire technical organization, providing guidance and mentorship to new hires to help build high-performing teams.

Greater Denver Area

• Established a U.S.-based consulting practice and methodology for sales, marketing, and delivery of Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010-2012.• Expanded a team to over 20 full-time consultants with revenues over $4 million per year while participating in or leading nearly every sales opportunity nationally and simultaneously delivering System Center projects that maintained a 90%+ utilization rate.• Independently developed and managed core strategic partnerships that increased market share, project duration, and total project revenue across multiple streams.