Product Owner
Product Manager
Project Manager
IT Program Manager
Senior Manager
Business Analyst
Market Analyst
PMO (Project Management Office) Director
IT Operations Director
Combines 15+ years of technical design, hands-on software development, and strategic product management leadership to drive offerings with the highest value, impact, urgency, and potential for success across multiple markets. Directing cross-functional programs and initiatives around the world, swiftly gains trust, influences decision makers, achieves unity, and maximizes results.
Sr. Product Manager: Owned the introduction to market of a product extension of our virtualization platform providing a mid-range disk virtualization system—the first of its kind; this project was executed within a year with the need to keep activities confidential from our OEM-in partner, and the successful launch in 2010 led to over $1 billion worldwide revenue in the first three years. Drove new innovations in hospitality industry by building out localized entertainment searches to motivate extended stays.
Sr. Strategic Program Manager: Engineered project intake systems to prioritize by ROI, and drove up resource management efficiencies three-fold with a collaborative PPM (Project and Portfolio Management) system.
Sr. Project Manager: Led multiple million-dollar-plus budget projects, and successful launches of IT platform replacements, eCommerce, Mobile Apps, Point of Sale, ERP, Data Warehouses, and Cloud services.
Trainer-Consultant: Teach certification courses for Project Management Professional (PMP®), Agile Expert Certified, Scrum Master Certified, and related software tools.
Degrees and Certifications: BS in Applied Physics with Math Minor (Brigham Young University), MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma honors (University of Arizona), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Project Management Professional (PMP®), Scrum Master Certified, Pragmatic Marketing® certified
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