I effectively managed the product launch of dozens of releases at Convirza, Sony, and Handango. Sony and Convirza provide the most complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Sony Pictures:

• Directed the content roadmap of a 70-person studio for video, gaming, and imaging.

T-Mobile (Sprint):

• • Conducted product research including focus groups, primary research (3,000 phone interviews) to develop customer requirements, demand forecasts, and pricing models.

Handango:

• • I built the initial wireframes for the co-branded app stores for mobile software distributions and was the product manager for SaaS app stores for Motorola, Microsoft, and Sony.

• Experience with Jira, GitHub, Python, Postman, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Google Colab, NLTK, BERT, and spaCy.

• Developing and implementing new product growth plans to take innovations into new markets to produce 20%-50% annual growth.

Convirza:

• • • Created the industry-first conversational intelligence product among call tracking companies in 2014.

    • I designed the conceptual data models and led a team of data scientists to build Convolutional Neural Network models deployed on AWS.

Sony Pictures:

• • • Launched 3 new content formats (SMS/Live TV game show), 7 new distribution channels (aggregators), and new partnerships spanning multiple stakeholders within the first year to triple market reach.

    • Led all sales, business development, negotiations, and hiring decisions. I was responsible for all game development investments and licensing.

• As a director on the Board of Mobile Entertainment Forum, I Developed a global standard for the Business Confidence Index Initiative, a process for defining the state of the industry, and published numerous research papers and standardization methods for members.

At Convirza, Created and led the data science team achieving first-to-market integration of natural language processing for advertising feedback into marketing automation, recommendations, and systems integration. Created new deep neural network models for classifying 32 different events.

• • Directed team in creating Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs)

Sony Pictures:

• • • Increased revenues by 78% over two years by introducing digital products and new distribution models (world’s first full-length movie streaming on a mobile phone in Italy and Korea).

    • Prepared and presented strategies, opportunities, and results to the CEO of Sony Pictures and all the division presidents.

    • Worked with customers and internal departments to validate and create product roadmaps.

• T-Mobile (Sprint) - As the acting Director of Marketing, I led customer requirements research to identify key product requirements for the business services business unit.

• Convirza - I designed the original product concepts and MVP for Conversational AI and directed customer interviews to refine product offerings.

• Advised dozens of startups in product market-fit research, testing, and product launch.

• Implemented Pendo for customer feedback and input.