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Overland Park, Ks, Us

Hively is a modern event and space management platform that seeks to empower end-users and drive collaboration in the messy world of ensuring events occur with the right people at the right time in the right location. ✔️ Bootstrapped a modern SaaS product that brings together event management and space management software with an unparalleled focus on ease-of-use and pain-free adoption.✔️ Recruited co-founders, established a unique dynamic equity model for all contributors, and assembled a diverse and highly efficient product development team.✔️ Established an innovative go to market strategy through a white label partnership with a leading EdTech company coupled with a direct-to-market strategy in the Parks and Recreation industry.

I'm choosing to be intentional about the things that are most important to me. I continue to be excited about pursuits that I'm already invested in while also contemplating a career shift that more closely aligns to my personal purpose: To catalyze the greatness within societal underdogs so that harmony prevails.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

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Overland Park, Ks, Us

Spearhead is a small advisory firm offering bespoke services to organizations of all shapes and sizes. We pride ourselves on offering affordable, programatic advice on your terms. Services we provide include: ✔️ Comprehensive Pre-diligence Advisory (Angel/Seed, Venture Capital, Private Equity)✔️ Product Strategy✔️ Technology Assessment ✔️ C-Level Coaching✔️ Organizational Planning

Leawood, Kansas , Us

RFP360 is the only full-circle RFP software that designs, develops and delivers software solutions that transform how organizations request information, respond to requests and connect. RFP360 was acquired by direct competitor RFPIO in August 2021.✔️ Established a product-driven growth strategy and delivery cadence that balanced the need for product innovation and product reliability.✔️ Successfully recruited top talent into critical leadership roles and worked across the entire business to align goals and processes.✔️ Advised CEO and Board of DIrectors on near-term product strategies, competitive M&A opportunities, and then oversaw all technical activities during acquisition process.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Ad Astra is higher education’s solution partner in managing the academic enterprise. Partnering with more than 500 colleges, universities, and systems nationwide to improve stewardship of instructional resources, streamline student access to courses, and accelerate student completions. ✔️ Established a high-performance culture in Product Management and Software Engineering and then across the entire business in partnership with peers on the executive team.✔️ Recruited and onboarded key management leaders in the technology group and teamed with them to establish a culture of accountability, a reliable release cadence, and a game plan for improving product satisfaction.✔️ Worked closely with the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) to formalize a partner network and to establish key relationships with Fortune 100 technology companies as well as key players in the Higher Education technology ecosystem.✔️ Created strategy and achieved buy-in to invest in modernizing our technology platform to better leverage cloud- native technologies. Formulated and led an aggressive plan to re-imagine and re-build our analytics platform.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Joined as a founding member of the initiative to incubate a freight forwarding software startup within the NorthPoint family of companies. Also provided technical advisory to NorthPoint Development and ColdPoint Logistics sister company. ✔️ Partnered with CEO to bring to market a new Freight Forwarding company driven by technology and focused on building the best-in-class logistics company specializing in fresh proteins (seafood, beef, pork, etc.).✔️ Acquired a partially developed software system and developed a strategy for completing the implementation with a focus on quality, scalability and user-friendliness.✔️ Oversaw the acquisition and assimilation of two leading Freight Forwarding companies and incorporated their needs into the software roadmap.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

PayIt is simplifying doing business with state and local government through its patent-pending digital government and payment platform. Along with government partners, PayIt is transforming the customer experience and making government more modern, convenient and mobile. As the 3rd member of the founding team, I worked closely with the other two founders to establish the course for the business from the very beginning. I had full responsibility for building the technology platform and the team that would advance it. ✔️ Partnered with CEO and COO/CFO to make critical strategy decisions, establish growth objectives, hire key early contributors, and evangelize our company and our win-win value proposition; guided the business through two rounds of funding, delivering on aggressive commitments to government agencies.✔️ Engineering a cloud-hosted, multi-tenant platform that enables easy configuration and deployment of citizen-facing services across a broad set of offerings for our local, state, and federal government partners.✔️ Evaluated and adopted modern technologies for feature-rich native mobile applications and rapidly built demonstrable Android and iOS mobile applications.✔️ Rapidly staffed a team of talented and innovative software engineers and established scalable agile processes for engineering, quality assurance, and user-experience.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

I led the engineering team responsible for developing new features on the industry leading RSA Archer GRC Platform. ✔️ Hired and managed technical staff; mentored engineering staff and led the team to greatly improved cross- functional collaboration.✔️ Responsible for delivering innovative platform releases that support our GRC solutions; guided the organization towards more reliable delivery schedules and improved operational scalability.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

I led the solutions development organization within Perceptive R&D. My responsibilities were to insure that the ideas and visions of our industry experts are actualized as robust, re-usable, supportable industry solutions. This included building deep integrations with leading enterprise software products (ERP, CRM, ERM, SIS) from major software companies such as Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Infor, Epic, Meditech, Ellucian and others. Perceptive has a broad and powerful set of platform and product capabilities on top of which my teams built solutions. Part of our mission is to find ways to leverage the entire product suite to offer compelling and differentiated solutions beyond our traditional core competencies in Enterprise Content Management (ECM). My groups was dispersed across development centers in Kansas City (USA); Kolkata, India; Lexington, Kentucky (USA); and Apeldoorn, Netherlands and includes a variety of software skillsets including C++, Java, .NET, rapid prototyping, automated testing, and user-centered design.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

As the manager of ERP solutions at Perceptive Software, I had responsibility for integrating our ECM platform and products into a wide array of enterprise software applications. While our primary focus is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, we also integrate with customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and a variety of vertical-specific software applications. I hired and managed a team of solution managers and product managers dedicated to working tightly with our sales, professional services, development and marketing departments to ensure that we are offering compelling solutions that leverage the capabilities of our powerful ECM product while providing great value and measurable ROI to our customers.We built and maintained flexible, highly-integrated solutions for major enterprise applications from Lawson, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and others.

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Toronto, On, Ca

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Bs, Computer Science, Psychology

Graduate Certificate, Personal Financial Planning

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Executive Readiness Program