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Radiant Logistics purchased Navegate and Centrade in Dec 2021. I lead the Centrade team, which is our SaaS offering for freight visibility, Purchase Order Management, and a Vendor Portal. We use modern Product, UX, and development practices to help our customers gain deeper insights into their freight and products.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Recruited to create and lead a software Product capability as Navegate took their in-house software to a best-in-class, Product based approach. I reported to the CEO and created their first Roadmap, which was regularly updated, used by the team, and presented to the Board quarterly. Created repeatable pricing and packaging, moving a monthly fee in arrears.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Ran the entire operations of the business, acting more like a COO. Responsibilities included:
• Managing the whole company P&L
• Managing a team of 10-15 consultants, onshore and offshore
• Managing multiple customer projects in parallel

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Director of Product Management, Retail Supply Chain Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
• Added responsibility of 4 direct reports and multiple products in the Retail Supply Chain space, including Inventory,Order Management, Allocation, Replenishment, and Transportation Optimization
• Mentoring a group new to software Product Management on best practices and how to build software once and sellmany times, while also finding a solution that solves customer problemsProduct Director Sept 2015 - Oct 2016
• Manage and direct a team of 10+ as we build a new Retail application from Greenfield using modern UX Design and Agile product and development while working closely with our Fortune 250 beta customer
• Defined and managed the roadmap and estimated release plan for a brand new product
• Planned and managed design workshops at the customer to confirm and prioritize our roadmap

Bloomington, MN

• Workfront was formerly known as AtTaskDirector, Product Management (Jul 2014 - Jul 2015)
• Manage and direct the Visibility team, which owns reporting, dashboards, and other areas of the product
• Manage and direct the API product team, and drive new Partners and Developers to get them up to speed and improve the API based on market needs. Led the first Developer Bootcamp.
• Manage a Product team using Agile Product Management and a development team using Agile
• Negotiate, contract, and drive work through Partners – OEM/White Label, integrated, and specialist partners to build capabilities for Workfront
• Briefed Analysts on new product capabilitiesDirector, AtTask Managed Services (Jan 2014 – Jul 2014)

Minneapolis, MN

• Principal Enterprise Product Manager / Solution Manager (Mar 2010 – Dec 2013)
• Manage global future enhancements for our largest product suite, Merchandise Operations Management, while collaborating with colleagues in the retail product suite to ensure a coherent Enterprise solution
• Added additional responsibility for our Regular Price Management and Retail Analytics products
• Work closely with the worldwide Oracle Retail User Group to discuss product and roadmap
• Author Marketing Requirements Documents and approve Business Requirements Documents and Process Flows
• Understand and communicate industry best practices to both internal groups and customers and apply to best practice process using Oracle’s Retail Reference ModelConsulting Project Technical Manager (Nov 2009 – Mar 2010)

Minneapolis, MN

• Senior Product Manager (May 2006 – Oct 2009)
• Managed the creation of a new product from Greenfield, leveraging data we owned to create multiple high margin Business Intelligence offerings that created unquestionable value for our customers
• Determined pricing for a new B2B software application
• Responsible for our integrated SaaS product that has grown from $4M to $18M in revenue over two years
• Analyzed the buy/build/partner decision on an existing integration partnership and made the internal case to bring the integration in house
• Created a new product line extension and strategic partner relationship, which enhanced the overall portfolio and resulted in our ability to double our close rate on sales for the product

Bloomington, MN

• Application Architect – Retek Merchandising System [RMS]
• Gather requirements, high level estimating, conceptual design, detailed estimating, and managing functional design for an application that managed approximately $2.8 billion of inventory. Worked on projects with ~5000.
• Managed a team of 7-10 functional designers on multiple concurrent projects
• Lead and manage transition of functional designs to an offshore development group for technical design, development, and component testing.
• Worked closely with our Data Architecture team to ensure holistic data model changes across multiple projectsFunctional Lead – Retek Merchandising Development Group
• Managed a development team of 30+ people on 15+ projects for the Retek Merchandising Application.

Bloominton, MN

• Served as the technical architect, lead designer, and development lead for multiple $1 million plus modifications to the Retek Merchandising System, leading teams of 5-10 people.
• Design included data modeling of new enhancements
• Part of the team who installed Retek Demand Forecasting and tied it to the existing production footprint

Minneapolis, MN

• Consistently increased responsibility from development to design to project management
• Led a development team of 10-15 people
• Worked and lived in The Philippines for three months to build a team there.

Mba

Entrepreneurial and Marketing emphasis.

Bs, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Blue Key, Bison Ambassadors, Student GovernmentGraduated with Honors