SUMMARY:

• Experienced agile software product/program/project marketing manager and scrum master with a track record of change management, agile development and commercialization of AI software products and consulting services. He has both transformed project management to agile development approaches and coached scrum masters in large companies.
• Agile and project management experience includes 20+ products launched internationally, early use of agile, three books that address agile and project development and three recent articles on Scrum. He has experience in defining product benefits, product road maps, including user stories, features and competitive analysis of product in market place.
• He has managed the evolution of products through multiple releases and generated $200M of revenues.
• Full life cycle responsibility for over a dozen products including three first of breed software products (first strategic expert system, major dynamic training simulation of telecom markets and agile enabling object oriented warehouse and business intelligence tool), new consulting services and new training services.
• Experience in improving developer productivity by 20X and turning around failed software projects through use of agile development, architectural changes, use of OO languages and OO databases for speeding up development for ill - specified and changing projects.
• One OO project was rated as one of the top 10 object oriented projects in the world by a leading consulting firm. Experience coaching multi-scrum scrum master in leading software company.
• Managed development of AI products from conceptualization to development, road map development, testing and quality control, launch and replacement.
• He has designed large AI systems in addition to pattern recognition implementation.
• AI products have included pattern recognition and neural network tools, strategic business model assessment and plan writing, new product stage gate process and expert system, and insurance product development. Experience with machine learning approaches for assessing domains with large data sources and managing projects using tools such as Javascript, Python, and R.
• Three Scrum certifications including Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and International Scrum Institute, Scrum Product Owner.
• Also certified as Ensighten Professional Manage Implementation and with Tealium tag management software. Taken quality training (Juran) with Canadian military.
• Trained strategic facilitator who has facilitated both strategy, IT and innovation groups and also trained other facilitators. Experienced developer of large scale international telecom training programs with delivery in multiple languages. Developer of prize winning research on organizational change.
• Telecom experience includes designing large scale competitive simulations of telcos in a converging telecom market.
• He delivered training using his self-designed simulation to 1000 managers.
• He has worked with Cisco for multiple years, primarily in the converged space where he justified sales to telcos by analyzing the ROI of a converged infrastructure.
• He has also worked with Infinera (fiber optics transmission) on justifying product deployments.

CAREER SUMMARY:

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Scrum product owner

Responsibilities:

• Strategic consulting, patent writer, scrum product owner for Internet of Things, SaaS, cloud services based product development.
• Conceived of, patented and managed hiring of scrum team for development of first generation proof of concept and cloud service. coached scrum master at three different high tech firms.

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Co-founder

Responsibilities:

• Content development strategies for numerous clients, Infinera, Bay Area Hyperbarics, Cushman & Wakefield, and numerous startups.

Contract CEO

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Responsibilities:

• Turnaround assignment for foreign exchange trading SaaS business.
• Project required fund raising, turnaround of failed software development project, changing pricing model and signing up for first international million dollar a year client.
• Content consulting, marketing consulting and technology development services for a wide variety of companies and industries, including numerous startups and major technology companies.
• Contract CEO for an incubation center (iPark).
• President of a wealth management services startup. Consulting at two incubators to startups.

Product manager and co-founder

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Responsibilities:

• Software development, strategic consulting and IT consulting (software development, outsourced services and IT strategy).
• Developed 12+ products and commercialized them internationally.
• Projects developed included multiple AI tools including expert systems, methodologically oriented software products (planning, budgeting, new product assessment, consolidation, insurance company business planning, financial services market and customer planning, development of an innovative information warehousing tool with automated configuration, many to many relationship mapping, modeling and consolidation functionality based upon a distributed active object database management system, PLC reporting for Toronto’s waste and water system drawing upon 5500 PLC data sources)