As the Director of the Government Services Solution Architect Team, I am responsible for managing the team of solutions architects that support federal and state sales opportunities to provide solutions-based approaches to help solve our clients business and technical needs. I am responsible for directly supporting over 500 million dollar book of business with double digit year over year growth.Support major Federal and State relationships - CMS Advanced Provider Screening, Federal Data Hub; SSA External Data Source Authentication; Commonwealth of Kentucky Remote Identity Proofing Services; State of Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Work closely with the sales team to validate new opportunities with new clients, continuously foster relationships with existing clients to uncover new opportunities and develop solutions to meet those needs. Internally, serve as lead on multiple Enterprise Growth Initiatives to develop significant new business opportunities within the Government Services Vertical.As the business owner, led the effort to develop Equifax’s Instant Client Insights platform to provide social services verifications for state Medicaid, CHIP, TANF and SNAP programs; led the effort to develop Equifax’s Insider Threat / Continuous Evaluation / Portfolio Monitoring solution to provide proactive financial and employment trigger monitoring capabilities on a given portfolio of individuals. Develop technical presentations, present and lead technical discussions with clients and strategic partners on broad Equifax product and capability set across a range of use cases: social service verifications, continuous evaluation /portfolio monitoring, identity, fraud, risk management, and authentication.

Founding employee number one, responsible for the overall vision and strategy of the various product lines for ID.me, including: online identity and attribute verification API and supporting destination web site, member facing daily deals web application, mobile app, merchant deal & discount management web application and internal deal creation and inventory management web application. Work closely with CEO & COO to define business strategies and translate those strategies into actionable product release cycles. Also work closely with Sales and Marketing team to understand needs of our partners and create product solutions that meet those needs. Manage the day-to-day operations of the product management organization, providing leadership, communication, prioritization, and decision-making activities to optimize performance. Continuously Identify product-centric problems and issues, managing the prioritization and implementation of solutions to remedy the issues as quickly and effectively as possible.  In addition, also responsible for managing the engineering, QA, hardware ops, and design efforts to collectively deliver on the overall business strategies.

As the Senior Director of Product Management, responsible for defining the vision and direction of the next generation eLearning platform product, learningspace.com. Working directly with executive leadership, sales, marketing, customer support to define the product goals and objectives, and building a product strategy to meet those objectives and position the product as the leader in the marketplace. Work closely with lead architect to define the overall platform architecture and ensure that business objectives and product requirements are driving the necessary architectural decisions.

As the Director of Product Management, responsible for defining and managing the product vision and strategy. Additionally, responsible for achieving the business objectives of increasing market share, user engagement and revenue. Manage the product development process by working closely with the matrixed product team including engineering, quality assurance and operations to ensure the successful delivery of quality feature releases of the product. As Director, also responsible for overseeing user acceptance testing, working closely with the engineering and QA teams to ensure that the product continuously meets and exceeds end user expectations. In addition to defining the product vision and strategy, also responsible for fostering and managing strategic business partnerships that position Mixx as a leader in the social media space. Was the lead on the integration with Google to provide revenue sharing opportunities to the Mixx community members.

Founded tweetmart.com, a web based classifieds app for Twitter. Tweetmart is a free an easy way to buy and sell "stuff" or search and post jobs on Twitter.Tweetmart was acquired by an undisclosed entity in January 2010, terms of the sale are confidential.

As a Senior Product Manager, possess end-to-end ownership of key web community products that drive community growth and user engagement. This includes identifying consumer and market requirements, defining product vision and strategy, defining product requirements, and leading the implementation of the overall product roadmap with the development teams. Responsible for leading matrixed teams consisting of development, product, QA, operations, marketing, programming, legal, advertising and corporate communications to ensure a successful, on time launch. Responsible for clearly identifying and communicating product priorities, owning and driving overall product requirements, ensuring there is consistent product understanding across entire matrixed team, and facilitating and resolving high level product issues. Also responsible for identifying new opportunities and segments to grow our suite of web community offerings.

As a Project Standards and Process Manager, was a key member of the IT Portfolio Management Office, responsible for managing the effort to define and implement IT Portfolio Management reports to support the enterprise wide Portfolio Management initiative. Ensured that reports provided executive management the insight and ability to effectively align technology investments with business needs and provide the appropriate analysis to mitigate IT investment risks. Established objectives, deliverables and conditions of satisfaction. Developed, analyzed and managed project schedule. Defined resource needs and team member roles & responsibilities. Managed a team of 3 analysts accountable for requirements gathering, definition and development of the overall IT Portfolio Management reports. Facilitated solution design and requirements development sessions

Managed the design and development effort of a web based marketing application. Interacted with client to identify high-level business requirements. Managed client expectations throughout the development process, to include the introduction of new requirements, project schedule, and deliverables. Managed the overall financial aspects of the project including pricing structure as well as profit and loss. The application provided the client’s product marketing teams with intelligent business data in regards to their target market for a particular product launch. The business intelligence provided includes various data on key opinion leaders based on the sales territory structure within the pharmaceutical companies.

Managed a team of 10 developers responsible for all client project implementations, co-brands, and internal project implementations. Formulated and defined technical system requirements for the design and implementation of client solutions. Managed projects and deadlines in anticipation of client needs; foreseeing potential business or technical issues within projects and provided immediate resolution. Developed project plans and level of effort estimates (requirements gathering, systems design, and development) for all client implementations, co-brands, and internal project implementations.

Technical lead for the definition and design of multiple business solutions for the sales executives. The solutions created a system that enhanced the ability to enter, validate, store and submit customer information for new and maintenance capabilities. Focused on business rules matching to system requirements for identifying process improvements and system improvements that optimized core operations with improved systems features and performance. Analyzed and integrated work procedures, user needs and functional requirements during the design, development and testing phases of application development projects. Utilized hands-on experience in a development role, as well as data modeling, testing and integration. Provided onsite-consulting expertise pertaining to all areas of the development life cycle including system analysis, system requirements, systems design, system development, and system testing and database access functionality.

Designed, developed, implemented, and managed interactive web sites from concept to final release. Defined the web architecture, tools, and integration environment to ensure all web content was maintained for accuracy. Maintained multiple web sites on a Microsoft NT 4.0 platform running Netscape Enterprise Server. Monitored and analyzed web site traffic utilizing Web Trends log analyzer.

Technical lead for a development effort of a standardization for all of DTIC's IAC web sites, comparing existing sites and authored a development plan to restructure sites to incorporate cutting edge technology. Authored an unsolicited statement of work (SOW) for the centralized management of all DTIC IAC web sites, as well as the DTIC web site, to be hosted on the Internet, Intelink, Intelink-s, SIPRNET, NIPRNET, and NSANET. Authored a statement of work (SOW) for an information support system for DTIC's small business development program. This statement of work (SOW) incorporated the development of hardware/software information process flow strategy & technical requirements and capabilities.