Product Manage Resume Dallas, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Internet / Online Media / e - commerce / Product Management / Market Strategy / Start-ups
Strong entrepreneurial management career, providing hands-on strategic leadership and vision in areas of online streaming media, video, OTT/IPTV, e-commerce, customer/audience engagement, and user generated content.
Results-driven entrepreneurial executive with 20 years’ experience in start-up and turn around companies.
Get-it-done entrepreneurial zeal and relentless drive with broad technology know-how to mentor and shepherd products, innovate and launch fresh, dynamic strategies in the USA, Asia, Europe and Mexico.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

content-focused cloud-based SaaS Platform that helps businesses engage customers and customers share their stories.
Confidential is part of the founding team, setting technology direction, program management, corporate and business development.
Confidential provides a next generation content creation, management and monetization, online publishing, social networking, and social media technology platform built for serious content publishers, including media, brands and other organizations.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

VP of Strategic Tech

Responsibilities:

Launched proprietary streaming cloud-based OTT/IPTV linear & VOD platforms in Mexico & the Philippines for legacy cable providers.
Planned, managed and hands-on built and managed headend IPTV / OTT broadcast/streaming infrastructure and strategic plans for 50+ live linear channels and VOD broadcasting.

Confidential, Dallas & Austin, TX

VP of Strategic Tech

Responsibilities:

Recruited to restructure and build company as Confidential .
Grew company from a 7 employee a revenue- share startup into a 200+ employee cloud-based, patent-portfolio-heavy, cloud-based SaaS Platform.
Recruited the senior management team, growing company to include offices in Dallas and Austin.
Launched in-video e-commerce startup targeting both web, tablet and mobile.
Regularly presented to investors for a private equity raise of totaling nearly $50m.

Confidential, Stephenville, TX

CTO Subscription Edutainment

Responsibilities:

Designed, built & deployed the platform, end-to-end, including software, web, headend, etc., on time and under budget.
Linear and VOD edutainment, that included a range of outdoor and outdoor sports related content as well as an ad network and 50+ portals.
This was a 1st in the world system — never done before.
The technology put the viewer in the deer’s perspective, seeing and hearing what the deer experienced, in real time and on demand.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

CTO Mobile Ringtone Platform

Responsibilities:

Confidential led technology restructuring and relocation in this ringtone company.
In addition to technical duties, Confidential helped transition the company from a single-partner content portal, to a more substantial company with multiple content partners and expanded distribution relationships with carriers.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Founder/CEO

Responsibilities:

Pioneered serialized full-cast dramatizations of contemporary fiction delivered as podcasts, live author interview webcasts, and user-generated content.
First to: publish an audio book online, on MP3 CD, as podcast-style releases, and simultaneously in downloadable MP3 & WMA & e-book as well as print.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Director of Technology

Responsibilities:

Built the world’s first streaming media CDN, and VOD provider, invented Internet technologies and created the largest aggregator and distributor of audio and video on the planet.
Negotiated the Confidential 's master-contract for all Internet broadcasts and negotiated deals
Produced & broadcast the first live webcasts from inside China. Produced the then largest Internet broadcast events. Built network of 400+ radio stations & TV/Cable networks, and produced over 16,000 live events.