TECHNICAL SKILLS

• 15+ years experience developing strategy, designing and delivering successful digital products for Fortune 500 companies & startups.
• Expert at balancing user centered design principles with deep understanding of business objectives and technical capabilities to deliver solutions on time and on budget.
• Excels in innovative solution architecture, team building and client service. Strong project management skills with deep experience delivering large mission critical projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cofounder, CEO, Head of Product

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Responsibilities:

• Cofounder & CEO Confidential. Makers of Confidential - a new approach to diabetes and obesity using cryptocurrency incentives to motivate healthy behavior and retail engagement. Class 8 graduate of the Boomtown Accelerator in Boulder, CO.
• Cofounder & COO of Confidential . Makers of Freemit - a free, cross-border money transfer startup that utilizes the Blockchain to eliminate FX fees for consumers and enterprises. Class XI graduate of the Confidential . Raised an oversubscribed angel round of $300k in 2015. Freemit Demo Day Presentation
• Head of Product - Led MVP Product strategy & execution, managed UX & BA resources, collaborated closely with CTO on solution architecture & tech org management. Sponsored and managed Freemit marketing research project with UC Berkeley Masters Program. Worked closely with CEO & CFO on fundraising, partnership development and competitive analysis.

Product Strategy Lead

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Infectious Disease Mgt. Product Strategy - Led Product team for ILUM Health Solutions a Merck Startup in the new Hospital Solutions and Services (HSS) division. Primary objective was defining business & IT capabilities, developing product strategy and managing pilot execution. ILUM product suite designed to provide decision support to doctors, nurses and ID clinicians to more quickly diagnose, treat and track sepsis cases in a hospital setting. Pilot launched at several hospitals and since Q4 2015 showing results in reduced length of stay, improved patient health outcomes and economic benefits to the hospital.
• ILUM Product Roadmap Mgr. - working with program leadership established a roadmap for core products and services to be delivered by ILUM for hospital clients beyond the pilot. Defined release management strategy to optimize outcome measurement and recognition. Supported organizational design to deliver key services and integrate core products of the company offering.
• Command Center Reporting Lead - working closely with the ILUM’s medical/ID lead developed a strategy and defined reports and reporting measures to ensure ILUM solutions generated measurable Clinical, Economic, Process and Epidemiological outcomes. Developed a program roadmap for command center reports driven by priority personas through initial POCs at East Jefferson Hospital in New Orleans and Tenet Hospitals in Chicago.

Product Strategy Lead

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Records for Life Contest - Beads for Health Project targeting health care professionals and care givers in developing countries with solutions to help improve the process and experience of recording, managing and scheduling child vaccinations. Delivered product strategy for bead necklace & paper-record solutions and managed development of a companion mobile app prototype for health care professionals. IOS app prototype completed in < 4 weeks under my direction. Project highlighted in Merck IT annual report as well as given recognition as a semi-finalist winner by the Gates Foundation.
• Scientific Workbench - working from a comprehensive research base covering 50+ scientists and heuristic analysis of dozens of legacy scientific software applications developed a Product & UX vision for a unified scientific workflow and data management platform spanning the early discovery lifecycle from target identification to FIH trials. Vision adopted by program leaders and stakeholders and continues to guide the long-term strategy of the program.

Product Manager & UX Team Lead

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Key leader on the EPP program a company wide, global program delivering a validated cloud collaboration and business externalization platform for Merck and all it’s global partners and suppliers. EngageZone portal nominated for BIO IT World 2013 and featured in life sciences industry news. Program recognition from Merck CEO, CIO, and VP of MRL IT for helping the company achieve top scorecard objectives for external collaboration.
• Product Management Responsibilities included roadmap management, capability and project scope definition and management, service design, review of requirements and technical implementation quality, advisory position to the program director, program manager and chief architect in defining program services and capabilities. Part of key liaison team working with global Merck legal, privacy, and compliance. Oversaw execution of 5 work-streams, 50+ team resources on a $50 million+ program that connected Merck to all its global partners. The EngageZone is now the global Merck standard for Partner Identity Mgt., Global Collaboration and Secure IP exchange.
• Led UX Team of 5 resources on all activities and deliverables including initial UX Discovery, Partner Research, Personas, UX Design for all major capabilities of the program. UX team took over UAT in Q2 of 2012 under my direction.