Responsible for Energy Storage Systems, Utility Rates, Consumption, Electrification, and EnergyEfficiency, bringing together a holistic vision that enables users to educate homeowners (and business owners) on the benefits of whole home energy choices as a compliment to solar photovoltaic systems.

Collaborating with customers in the utilities space to leverage the power of Data Science as a Service (DSAAS), delivering predictive models that uncover actionable insights for engaging customers and scaling/maintaining infrastructure

Helping companies optimize, consolidate, and redesign mission critical systems to drive business results, while reducing information technology (IT) costs • Assessing digital maturity and identifying current challenges• Facilitating requirements workshops with cross-functional stakeholders• Providing a strategy and roadmap to support business goals and outcomes• Sourcing, analyzing, and identifying solutions to realize digitalization strategy

Responsible for building and leading a team of highly effective Product Managers/Owners, UX Designers and User Content Developers, with a focus on advancing solutions for Enterprise Innovation Management - driving Accolade's strategic roadmap, product plans, releases, and communicationsAs the face of Sopheon's Accolade product, acted as an internal and external product evangelist, developing relationships with analysts, global partners, and customers Mentored a product management team in general day-to-day activities, including writing effective user stories, and clearly communicating the value of new capabilities so that everyone in the organization, including engineers, understood the significance of what was being builtDeveloped lean and sustainable, yet comprehensive processes for documenting strategic product direction, market trends, competitive analysis, voice of the customer research, new capabilities and their value to the market, enabling easy communication and coordination with stakeholders and customersDesigned an internal idea submission process and collaborative cross-functional review where all employees could weigh in, further develop, and assess the value of an ideaCollaborated cross-functionally with engineering, product marketing, pre-sales, and client services on product prioritization, business case creation, requirements, development, launch, and adoptionFrequently supported Sales, Pre-Sales and Client Services in securing new and extended deals by means of requests for proposals (RFPs), product demos, roadmap, and strategy presentations, as well as pricing or configuration alternatives Regularly exercised thought leadership through webinars, white papers, user forums and client workshops

Served as the product manager for several modules within Sopheon's Accolade - an enterprise innovation management solution used by many large enterprise customers, resulting in the definition and prioritization of market-critical functionalityDay-to-day product owner activities including but not limited to: gathering requirements, user story development, sprint demos, communicating customer value propositions, and maintaining the product backlog and strategic roadmap for several areas of AccoladeFostered continuous customer interaction to build trust and good will, gain valuable insights and provide alternative solutions to common problems across customer baseCreated marketing and sales content for each release, describing new features and their value, and enhancing existing sales story slide decks to include new capabilities Developed high fidelity prototype for proposed user interface (UI) changes, later used to secure a deal with 12.5 billon dollar Swedish company, eliminating concerns about the existing state of the UI and strategy

Primary responsibilities include managing the product life cycle of Weyerhaeuser's most widely used software, while juggling end-of-life activities for 3 legacy software applications. This involved continuous communication between customers, stakeholders, engineers, and sales, while being embedded with the development team, providing immediate responses to questions, concerns and technological recommendations. Strategic areas of responsibility include performing frequent competitive analysis, collaborating with other product managers across the suite, maintaining and developing the product roadmap, prioritizing backlog items, identifying and communicating the product vision for Forte software. Tactical responsibilities include creating functional software requirements in the form of user stories, acceptance criteria, UI wireframes, and other development artifacts, and organizing product launch and release collateral.Key Accomplishments:Proposed and directed a complete user interface overhaul, prior to 1.0 release, which was proven intuitive and learnable through a variety of internal and external rounds of usability testingConverted approximately 90% of legacy users in the first year

Responsibilities included creating computer-based training software and interactive marketing demos for complex engineering software; from early requirements gathering and managing project scopes, to final development and distribution, to soliciting customer and stakeholder feedback for future improvement.

Responsibilities included consulting, strategic planning, design, and development of interactive projects for a variety of high profile clients. The process included collaboration with several departments across a client's organization, often being the sole contact from the firm.

Liaison and primary interface between project team, management and client. Responsibilities included identifying requirements and providing estimates and development plans, resulting in the delivery of innovative marketing tools and materials for a multitude of clients.Key Accomplishments:One of four developers hand-picked by VPs to redesign corporate web siteCreated innovative HTML and Flash hybrid web site for RNL DESIGN, the largest architecture firm west of the Mississippi River

Primary responsibilities included creating interactive computer-based training software and developing interactive software product demos. Other tasks included rendering an assortment of CAD drawings and a variety of marketing tasks including leads analysis.Key Accomplishments:Praised by CEO and several VPs for re-design of the LANDCADD software demo CD-ROMChosen above other designers/engineers for early adopters' product training of Virtual Image CAD rendering software