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Bowling Green, Ky, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Created roadmap for Outcome Health software platform.• Defined and wrote user stories to optimize advertisement deployment.• Managed requirements and migration of in house advertising digital network to BroadSign software platform.• Managed the implementation of diagnostics to ensure remote devices were displaying sponsored content correctly.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

SAFe Product Owner for a Hadoop based Data Lake. Familiarity with Hadoop, Mapreduce, Hive and other data analytics technologies. Also working with Master Data Management and data reporting for ground up, new development.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Developed roadmap for mobile (iPad and iPod Touch) point of sale system, SHOPsears.• Analyzed payment and fulfillment method data, to determine transaction and dollar volume of features, and setting backlog priorities on SHOPsears.• Defined and managed metrics used to monitor program status.• Wrote user stories and acceptance criteria for leasing, credit card applications, cash, PIN debit and check payment methods.• Reduced checkout time 25% on floor model merchandise by re-designing transit slip.• Designed process and software tools to track digital and paper disclosures, increasing accuracy of credit card disclosure reconciliation while reducing time spent on disclosure tracking.• Authored user stories for mobile devices to control legacy cash registers, avoiding over $1M in capital expense.• Created roadmap for in-app messaging and push notifications for Sears & Kmart apps.• Program Manager for sears.com and kmart.com AWS cloud migration, including documenting technical discussions between senior architects and disseminating decisions to 16 teams.• Automated AWS migration user story entry and tracking for 16 apps using Jira & Google Sheets, creating visibility for senior management and saving significant time writing requirements.• Led agile stand-up meetings to convert sears.com and kmart.com to https, improving google search rankings.

Crystal Lake, Il, Us

• Created vision for iPhone / iOS and Android restaurant marketing platform that personalizes coupons to increase incremental customer visits which are typically more than 60% profit.• Developed technical and product roadmaps.• Managed software architecture and development.• Led team to 4th place finish (out of 80 teams) in University of Chicago’s New Venture Challenge.• Mocked up user interface in Photoshop and created graphic assets.• Developed go-to market strategy, including partnerships with local charities and businesses.• Implemented APIs using JavaScript, node.js and Neo4j, decreasing location-based personalized coupon search time by a factor of four.• Launched apps and web portal in pilot market, including selling to ten restaurants.• Raised $100,000 in seed capital.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Created business and development strategy for Android reference design.• Managed Linux platform business priorities.• Developed open OS strategy and related API architecture adopted by Freescale management.• Presented platform architecture at Freescale Technology Forum and to tier-one customers, including Nokia, LG, Motorola and Samsung. • Reported to Freescale CTO while leading a global software architecture team to define the Cellular Platform Access API for integrating Freescale’s platform with OEM software components.• Piloted agile / Scrum process at Freescale.

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• Managed a team of 25 software engineers in U.S. and India to develop software reference design.• Managed acquisition and integration of software components saving over $1M on a pre-integrated solution.• Opened low-cost software development center in India growing the offshore team from 0 to 200 engineers.• Program Manager for multi-company team that developed a mobile phone sold by Motorola.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Managed team of 20 engineers that developed touchscreen smartphone in 1999.• Led design of first cellphone graphical user interface at Motorola.• Managed the software development for Motorola’s first Chinese GSM phone.• Successfully proposed adoption of Unicode character set and SMS cell broadcast discontinuous receive specifications to GSM (ETSI) standards consortium.• Developed transaction manager for routing protocol data in C++.• Developed accessory bus driver and layer 2 protocol in C & 68k assembly.• Implemented SMS point to point and cell broadcast protocol in C++.• Developed processes and tools to eliminate significant manufacturing issues.• Led project management and requirements management process improvement teams.

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• Developed 1-2-3, Release 3.0, graphics drawing engine in C and x86 assembly language.• Managed display and print device driver team.

• Developed Graphics Editor in Modula 2 and PERQ Micro-code.• Developed IBM PC Display Driver in C and Intel x86 assembly language for typesetting application.