SUMMARY

• Product evangelist with 12 years' experience leading product innovation with lean, data - driven business strategy for cross-functional teams and strategic partners.
• Bridging the business and technical gap with agile product management solutions to product strategy, business development, and product development challenges.
• Aligning product vision with new market, competition, and technology trends.

• Business Development Strategy
• Innovation Management & Ideation
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• Quantitative Computer Science
• Startup Operations Strategy
• Cross-functional Team Leadership
• Design Thinking & Lean Development
• Blockchain, Industry 4.0, IoT
• Agile Methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Innovation Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Delivered early-stage profitability, launching a mobile near field communication (NFC) consumer engagement platform.
• Built a 10k-sqft innovation lab, partnering with OEMs to mentor design thinking, agile development, and entrepreneurship.
• Reduced service 40% and improved efficiency 12% overseeing product roadmap for product life cycle management research.
• Increased sales at 800 retail stores as program manager for a pilot product marketing, customer loyalty software application.
• Accelerated pilot product launch go-to-market (GTM), outsourcing minimum viable product and agile software development.
• Launched, designed, and architected a customer-facing, Internet of Things (IoT) e-commerce prototype product line.
• Advised senior leadership annual corporate strategy product plan, recommending business models for new products.
• Garnered invitations as a public speaker, presenting Internet of Things (IoT) business model thought leadership.
• Managed user experience UI / UX product designers, business analysts, and agile software engineering teams.

Executive Director Business Development

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead product portfolio program management for 11 medical devices, defining business model value propositions.
• Drove a 13% increase in UI / UX agile software development as project manager for user experience (UX) consumer insights.
• Executed 14 patents with USPTO, PCT, and EU coordinating budgets and intellectual property strategy with engineering teams.
• Secured SBIR and NIH funding, negotiating, and positioning applications as grant funding and fulfillment program manager.
• Established strategic partnerships with Johns Hopkins and UC Davis, defining product features and business requirements.

Strategy and Business Development National Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA5

Responsibilities:

• Impacted technology product sales by 700%, leading market research and innovation management for digital platforms.
• Launched three new product pilots for concept business cases, product features, pricing strategy, and business models.
• Executed 41 customer requirements and new solutions audits across 23 industries to identify new product requirements.
• Managed user experience (UX) for integrated delivery, RFID, mobile edge computing, hardware development, and machine learning.
• Influenced Fortune 500 (Walmart, Tyson Foods, AutoZone, Phillips 66, and Pepsi) senior leadership presenting to executive teams.

Product Management Consultant

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

• Delivered 22 agile product development projects, outlining product life cycle management (PLM) as product manager.
• Lead seven international outsourced product design, software development, and engineering teams new product roadmaps.
• Launched 13 clients’ digital product marketing, social media, e-commerce, and web development projects across product lines.
• Coached home goods, startup, food production, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and mobile application development clients.
• Implemented controls for FDA, FTC, FCC, and US Consumer Product Safety (CPSC) government regulatory compliance.

Director of Marketing and Product Management

Confidential, Stockton, CA

Responsibilities:

• Improved conversion 35%, launching new product features, product promotional strategy, and value-based pricing strategy.
• Delivered 1600% increase in internet KPI with customer relationship (CRM) quantitative trend analysis, e-commerce, and mobile search.
• Integrated three acquired firms, evaluating product line strategy for potential private equity / venture capital merger and acquisition.
• Managed nine segment, $600k marketing program for business to business (B2B) and consumer facing product segments.

Business Development Operations Manager

Confidential, Merced, CA

Responsibilities:

• Research, documented, and lead data-driven continuous improvement of product management, lean manufacturing, and operations strategy.
• Defined product specification and KPI benchmarks for regulatory compliance and total quality management (TQM) as project manager.
• Developed and launched an asset traceability enterprise software platform for system integration with business application APIs.

Strategic Advisor Strategy and Innovation

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Adviser to Board of Directors analyzing business cases, technology trends, and competitive intelligence to quantify market size, product growth, segmentation and value proposition for business strategy and planning.
• Communicate recommendations on big data, digital transformation, and machine learning. Coaching leadership teams on innovation management and data-driven customer experience (UX) design.