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Bellevue, Washington, Us

Leading technical delivery with global software development and content services teams. Delivering best-in-class content services, products and features for DAM, ECM, CMS, E-Commerce and AI for Global Retail Companies. Technology Partners and exertise: SAP, Cloudinary, OpenAI, Azure AI, Hyland Nuxeo, Tenovos, Bloomreach, ContentStack, NVIDIA and AWS.Clients: Nike, Amazon, Lululemon, Revlon, Church of LDS, Sony, Amway, Avon, WK, Carlsberg, Good Food Holdings, Amerock and Bob’s Discount Furniture.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Leading onshore and offshore distributed teams in the Digital Experience & Content Service practice area. Delivering best-in-class cloud-based content services, products and features for DAM, ECM, CMS, Digital Commerce and AI for Global Retail Companies. Technology: Software engineering product delivery - SAP Commerce Cloud, Cloudinary, OpenAI, Hyland Nuxeo, Tenovos, ContentStack, and AWS Cloud Computing.Clients: Nike, Amazon, Wieden-Kennedy, Lululemon, Bob's Discount Furniture, Apple.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Kirkland, Washington, Us

E-commerce product manager for our Retail clients, developing and enabling frictionless shopping experiences for their customers.

Seattle, Us

Lead the Digital & Marketing Automation initiatives contributing to REI’s success by reducing operation time to produce most of rei.com by 50% or more. Providing leadership on the development of process, tools and governance to drive the creation, implementation and maintenance of templates and automation systems. Worked closely with engineering, marketing, and digital teams to align across organizations the shifting scope of work to stakeholders.

Seattle, Us

Content Operations in Digital contributes to REI’s success by enabling distributed publishers to drive our digital customer experiences. Working cross-functionally with stakeholders across REI to streamline publishing processes; build and optimize re-usable standardized tools, patterns and templates for content pipeline workflows; define, operationalize and document new workflows; train distributed publishers, and maintain governance through the Digital Publishing community of practice.As digital publishing subject matter expert content operations act as principle stakeholders driving adoption and integration across digital which includes media and content, retail, experiences travel offerings, personalization, geolocation, and email marketing.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Product owner of our music licensing platform creation and development for digital product licensing. Lead digital capabilities, product roadmap, product/ux design, product development, content operations, budget and resource management. The end-to-end collaborative leadership from discovery to delivery of our digital offering.

London, Gb

Positioned international company to attain short and long-term objectives by leading teams in the execution of diverse digital projects utilizing agile development methods. Managed product development from mockup to launch, leading the successful delivery of numerous web properties for both internal and external customers. Enjoyed solving complex or ambiguous problems and turning them into solid action plans. Took technical lead of an array of McEvoy Group subsidiary web properties elevating a fragile and insecure Magento tech stack into a stable, reliable and secure enterprise platform. Digital product development producing educational software and hardware products and toys in both U.S. and European markets.• Lead the development of enterprise properties from initiation to delivery, tied into existing employee services and dashboards integrating with backend interface while promoting company transparency to investors.• Streamlined redundant web resources, web services, and operational efficiency driving cost down and eliminating waste in the development value stream. • Drove project execution within budget and deadlines while directing internal and external team members from Executive Team, UX Design, Development, SEO Strategy, and QA.

Managed IT services and creative production building and WP sites, CRM, e-commerce, software development, and UX design. Music Production for film, advertising, video games, podcast, and theater.Clients: Mimi'lou, No Depression Magazine, Georges & Rosalie, San Francisco Book Co, Ez Publish, 230 Publicity, Mikrokultur Booking Agency, Amsterdam National Ballet, Laptop Orchestra, Microsoft Xbox, Amazon Inc., Sub Pop Records, Red Bull, and Suicide Squeeze Records.

Seattle, Washington, Us

IT Manager and technical team leader. Directed the technical division and web development team of 4 reports at The Stranger. Manager and product owner of all index publishing web properties, development, production, budgets, planning, implementation, server, network and security. Also developed our custom CRM database for sales and marketing division.