SUMMARY:

23+ yrs of Product management exp. w/ entrepreneurial spirit and a proven track record of product management, strategy and product development & delivery in Fortune 100 and startup environments. Hands on as needed. Financial Services experiences include Wells Fargo, First Data, Western Union, and Confidential .

• Track record in strategic alternatives, positioning, go - to-market strategies, market segmentation, ROI analysis and in decreasing customer acquisition lead time while simultaneously increasing market penetration.
• Expertise in translating business vision to strategy, and in development of prioritized business requirements, product pipeline and adoption. Operates on the convergence of business, technology and emerging technologies. Partners with internal organizations and external entities - vendors, customers, OEM suppliers, and channel partners to develop a success ecosystem.
• Team oriented with expertise in working with CXOs and staff. With both business and IT expertise, skilled at being a liaison between business and technology teams.
• Expertise in gaining participation and buy-in at all levels. Leads through influence and expertise in highly matrixed organizations. Strong cross functional team leadership skills. Develops multi-year, horizontal and vertical market integration strategies & roadmap leveraging synergies across markets to gain competitive advantage. Leads teams to better technology decisions, product development, product management, architecture, and business growth acceleration.
• Good understanding IoT, M2M (Machine to Machine) learning, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Big Data, Blockchain, FINTECH and their use cases for business growth.
• Process and quality driven, with applied knowledge of methodologies PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), project management (Agile, Iterative, Waterfall) and best practices- e.g. PMBOK, SDLC, software engineering, proper documentation (business case, executive summaries, others.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver

Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Plan Review BI/Reporting Platform product for Institutional Investors. Delivered Business prioritized, competitive analysis & market trends driven software platform that led to increased market share. Developed product strategy, requirements, market launch plans to launch the platform
• Delivered Annuity product platform and Autosave web based enrollment product

Confidential

Consultant CTO / Principal

Responsibilities:

• Consultancy and process/framework - MOU to legal framework, strategic alliances, product composition, project planning, metrics for go/no-go, requirements validation
• Oversight of applications, BI/analytics, mobile front end, integration, IoT Security strategies
• Liaison between cross functional (business, IT, legal, regulatory/compliance) and vendor teams

M&A Integration Lead, Charter / Time Warner (TWC) Integration

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Thought leadership across multiple levels - CXO through staff
• Organizing chaos, aligning launch planning and processes and product upgrades & field trial including requirements validation upstream and downstream

Confidential

Process Improvement

Responsibilities:

• As a SGO team member, managed process improvements, and contributed to process improvements initiative of business and IT functional units including Finance, Project Management and others
• Collaborative KPI/CSF design to measure and improve initiative effectiveness. Worked with Organizational Change Management (OCM) teams to assist with enterprise wide adoption
• Collaborated with functional unit teams for analyzing most impactful improvement selection, and facilitated discussions for process redesign, governance, validation and controls

Confidential

Product Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Turnaround of struggling international credit card products launch initiative, harmonizing product and IT teams to deliver on reputation and stock impacting initiative. Led requirements development, delivered consensus across cross-organizational (business and IT) and vendor teams and program managed 7 PMs and 19 projects to successful delivery.
• Facilitated meetings, requirements development and validation from product development through launch.
• Execution of Western Union’s product strategy to increase online money transfer & revenue generation worldwide using emerging technologies based systems (e.g. advanced behavioral marketing platforms). Success included 22% traffic and proportionate revenue recognition.

Confidential

Marketing Management

Responsibilities:

• Led business unit’s internal strategic initiatives, identified new markets and launched strategic alliances (Sun, Compaq, Square D) driven market offers improving Nokia (Lucent Technologies) market strength
• Strategic alliances and market trails with Austrian Post and Telegraph (PTT) for voice/video/data product

DIRECTOR ECOMMERCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated strategy / vision across multiple cable MSO CXOs to develop an industry wide platform
• Hired staff - application developers, managers and software vendor teams to develop innovations driven 7 x24 high availability ecommerce application platform that was instrumental for success over DSL
• Go to market strategy, strategic alliances and channel & product positioning with retail industry product teams (Best Buy, HP, Dell, ESPN, others) to develop broadband sales with retailers