At the forefront of discovering and implementing cutting-edge technology products in the hospitality space. My role involves actively exploring new product ideas, managing the intake process, and aiding in the evolution of the hospitality sector through technology. I work collaboratively with multiple properties, recommending solutions for their unique challenges, driving efficiency, and enhancing customer experiences. Leveraging my extensive expertise and keen understanding of the industry, I strive to create an innovative landscape that merges hospitality and technology, aiming for operational excellence and the ultimate guest experience.

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Product/Project Management services for clients in financial services, hospitality, technology, and retail• Choice Hotels: Product Management: Managed multiple vendors to develop and rollout ChoiceMAX, a new-to-the-world SaaS Revenue Management Software to 6500 hotels• Yahoo: Product Management with HR and IT groups to roll out Workday Recruiting• Hilton Hotels: Product Management to develop and launch custom Sales Incentive Program software, with customized help desk function• Citibank: Product Development for local Innovation Lab: including payment systems and patent development• Google: Worked with Google Home division to inform future vision on virtual assistants and human nature• City of Palo Alto: Strategy Development and Project Management, worked with the leadership team to develop a vision framework for Smart Cities initiatives• Wells Fargo: Developed 200+ concepts to assist in the expansion of Wells Fargo’s patent portfolio• Walmart Global eCommerce: Product Management of internal programs for Walmart.com associates

Work with the IFTF to envision and create the future. Developed tech roadmaps, contributed to 10-year outlook, commerce, and conversational interface visions, developed strategic reports for clients such as Intel, Lowes, Huawei, and Dell

Program, Project, and Product Management for SaaS implementations: HRIS, Workday, Custom Sales Incentive Software & Revenue Management Systems

Focused on new product concept and patent development, developed concepts specifically for patents, generating 200+ concepts for the Enterprise Patent Office, held foresight sessions with Innovation Leadership to determine future scenarios, products, and capabilities, developed specifications for next-generation payment systems models, including micropayments, immediate payment infrastructures, and exploring the future of payment systems

Managed onshore and offshore solutions architecture and engineering teams to envision, develop and prototype applications. Developed technology strategy and influence corporate strategy. Published white papers, and blog posts, and spoke at industry events on seamless commerce, platformization, and crowdification. Clients and projects included financial services (BNP Paribas), game development (Scholastic), telecom (AT&T, Comcast, DirecTV), automotive (Volvo), and technology firms.

Strategic Product Management: Created a new product strategy, determined best practices, performed competitive analysis, formulated strategy, and developed 100+ concepts in intensive collaborative concept development sessions for staff and clients at innovation labs globally, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Dublin, and London. Product managed several prototypes of forward-thinking products with Citi’s San Francisco and Singapore innovation labs.• Created a new corporate strategy by reviewing past and current internal development, determining best practices, performing competitive analysis, and formulating a strategy• Developed prototypes of ideas generated from the lab, including a mobile collections solution using UDDB, a treasurer-focused tablet app for breaking news, alerts, and instant video chat, a receivables marketplace for the Singapore market, and a P2P Payment Systems prototype • Developed over 100 new product ideas in intensive collaborative brainstorming sessions at innovation labs in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dublin, and other locations• Consulting on various forward-thinking internal technical initiatives• Envisioned & wrote regular internal thought leadership articles and whitepapers

Responsible for design, implementation of internal and external innovation programs• Created, launched and ran internal crowdsourced innovation program for Walmart.com associates, generating hundreds of new ideas

End-to-end Product Management of a social network interest stream tracking and recording SaaS product for live social streams that tracked and analyzed the conversation on specific interests from both Twitter and Facebook

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Strategic Product Management: Generated new product concepts with cross-functional teams and performed virtual product development. Worked with internal teams to architect and develop specs for development. Managed an internal corporate concept posting and the voting mechanism used by all full-time Yahoo! employees. Developed web applications to track invention disclosures, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, standards membership databases, and content management tools. Filed over 200 patent applications, contributing to a patent portfolio valued between $1B and $4B

Devised, designed, and built an interactive advice trading community. Over 2000 advisers provided advice to approximately 4000 registered users in this hosted communications medium, which included private discussion forums, live online chat, and phone consultations.