Principal
2017 - PRESENTThreeIron Consulting- Focused consultancy on assisting clients with inbound and outbound marketing needs.
- Served as the product owner, assisting a major healthcare insurance company in the build-out of their NLP-based conversational AI chatbot persona for desktop/mobile. This was created to increase customer engagement for better health and lower costs.
- Assisted with the design and execution of email marketing programs to propel prospects and customers on their online website journey, including nurturing, onboarding, engagement, purchase, and retention.
- Assisted the founder of a stealth mode consumer home services marketplace startup with product strategy and go-to-market planning.
CTO
2018 - 2019SkyAlert- Reported to the CEO and oversaw product strategy, development, and launch. Created a culture of transparency, collaboration, and commitment to excellence across the organization. SkyAlert provides earthquake early warning (EEW) solutions.
- Drove integration of the US Geological Survey’s Shakealert system into a platform for EEW alert delivery to US customers. Assisted sales in pilots and deal closure. Drove the development of a consumer focused B2C smartphone app.
- Drove migration to AWS from Azure, re-architected the platform for enhanced scalability and resilience, and drove FCC certification of IoT receivers.
- Managed a team of 15 developers, UX, QA, IoT hardware, and DevOps engineers in roadmap and product definition, design, and delivery. Developed agile product development processes to support the effective definition and delivery of products.
- Shipped one major upgrade (rewrite from the ground up) and 12 minor releases to the IoT device software.
- Drove digital product strategy for desktop and mobile visitors to skyalertusa.com to assist in inbound lead generation programs aimed at both businesses and consumers. Drove website design and copy including blog content.
- Developed product documentation including installation, administration and user guides for receivers and customer consoles. Wrote product data sheets for administration and customer consoles.
VP Product Management
2016 - 2017FusionOps- Oversaw product strategy, and drove the definition and delivery of roadmaps for products generating close to $10 million in recurring revenue. FusionOps provides cloud-based machine learning-driven supply chain intelligence solutions.
- Responsible for three product lines focused on applying machine learning in pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and retail supply chains.
- Managed a team of five product managers responsible for collaborating with engineering in product delivery.
- Defined agile processes for release planning and execution in order to support organizational growth and evolution to CI/CD.
- Shared informal development team oversight with CTO over a 24-person developer, QA, UX, data science, and DevOps team.
Senior Director Product Management
2014 - 2016MarkMonitor- Served as senior director of product at MarkMonitor, a cloud-based online brand protection solutions vendor.
- Managed a machine learning-based solution for fighting counterfeiting in apparel, accessories, and shoe verticals. Revenues totaled $2 million.
- Developed an advanced analysis platform concept with projected first-year sales of $3 million. Patent Pending: “Brand Abuse Monitoring System with Infringement Detection Engine and Graphical User Interface”.
- Conceived of a machine learning solution for fighting the online sales of fake prescription drugs. Collaborated with engineering, UX, product marketing, and sales to deliver the solution resulting in $1.5 million in first-year revenue.
Senior Director, Director, Senior Product Manager
2005 - 2013Actuate Corporation- Oversaw product strategy for the open-source Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project and commercial value-add product line. Owned product licensing, packaging, and server scalability. Led usability studies for all products.
- Drove the definition of the enterprise mobile apps strategy including application creation, management, distribution, extension services, and app analytics.
- Assisted in driving the definition and roll-out of BIRT OnDemand, a PaaS solution for BI and reporting in the Cloud. Ensured the deployability of the server into private and public clouds.
- Built BIRT to among top five most active Eclipse projects. Achieved double-digit growth license revenues each year.
- Launched two products that delivered $2 million in new revenue. Produced double-digit growth among all four product lines each year. Facilitated tens of millions of dollars in license and product revenues.
- Improved visibility and downloads among the BIRT community each year by authoring white papers, case studies, newsletters, technical articles, and promotional materials.
- Increased brand awareness by designing and delivering webinars, promoting the product at international conferences, and contributing content for the top BIRT developer community sites. Built market share to 6% in the first two years.
- Wire framed v1.0 of BIRT-Exchange.com, the primary community site for BIRT developers; led online marketing such as content SEO and ad-words purchase; early site redesign to support ‘try-and-buy’ self-service sales model for commercial products.
- Contributed to inbound lead generation by developing/delivering webinars. Co-authored BIRT newsletters and technical articles for various e-zines. Developed data sheets, white papers, case studies, and Actuate BIRT ad copy for online and print media.
- Built Bass diffusion models to analyze adoption rates of BIRT based on viral marketing plans. Contributed to share-of-voice studies, definition of programs and channel selection to increase product awareness via webcasts, and analyst engagements.
VP of Product Strategy
2011 - 2012Esperient PTAV- Oversaw product strategy for utilizing CAD data visualization in interactive training use cases. This is a startup utilizing 3D game engine technology for CAD data visualization.
- Developed product roadmaps and processes to support effective engagements.
- Assisted in closing deals with large enterprise customers such as SAP, Boeing, and Raytheon.
Product Manager
2002 - 2004Remedy A BMC Software Company- Pioneered the help desk and customer service automation software. Developed roadmaps and prepared new data-sheets, FAQs, and marketing collateral.
- Took the Citizen Response and Quality Management products from stagnant sales to $3 million in annual revenue.
- Designed new product positioning for Remedy's CRM suite of products.
Product Manager
2001 - 2001Seaprende- Assisted the CEO of this LATAM eLearning startup in defining product strategy and presentations to VC’s leading to the first round of funding of $5 million.
- Analyzed competitive landscape for the eLearning market in LATAM that included technology providers and content developers.
- Defined the features and worked with engineering in the development and rollout of the LMS.
- Assisted in pricing and licensing definition for both the LMS platform and in-house developed content.
Principal
1998 - 2000ThreeIron Consulting- Assisted SMB’s with business process definition, development, deployment, and operational support automation.
- Identified optimal business workflow, KPIs, and appropriate resources for workflow implementation.
- Averaged annual revenues of $500,000 from client engagements.
Senior Strategic Accounts Lead, Software Engineer
1993 - 1998Remedy Corporation- Contributed to Remedy’s growth from a 55-person early-stage startup through a successful 1995 IPO to 1998 revenue of $158 million with 600 employees.
- Acted as team lead for Strategic Accounts between 1997 to 1998.
- Rewarded the Customers' Advocate award for exemplary service to strategic accounts.
- Led a team of four professionals in managing strategic accounts.
- Oversaw project as the senior project manager between 1995 to 1997.
- Streamlined internal licensing, contract renewal, and order entry processes increasing revenue by $6 million.
- Served as a senior software engineer from 1993 to 1995.
- Revenues from full-text search products in the first year totaled $5 million.
- Led feature definition, development, and rollout of a text search product.
Staff Software Engineer
1989 - 1993Oracle Corporation- Served as a member of the technical staff in the Office Automation Group. Contributed to the development of the GUI for Oracle*Mail.
- Contributed to the integration with Oracle Office Calendar/Scheduler, Directory Services, and document management.
- Assisted IT operations in the deployment of Oracle Office, administration, and monitoring.