• Released a knowledge graph search tool to find keywords, people, addresses, and organizations across 1M+ forms published by the government saving thousands of hours of research resources.

• US Political Stats – data download and visualization tool for all 3 branches of the US government.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Product Management, Product Development, Product Launch, Go-To-Market Strategy, Leadership, Team Management, Team Building, Cross-functional Team Management, Stakeholder Management, Coaching, Client Relationships, Strategic Relationships, Vendor Relationships, Data Strategy, Knowledge Graphs, Graph Databases

EDUCATION
University of Maryland, MD, M.B.A.
Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S.

EXPERIENCE

2021 – present | Remote
Product Manager at Predictive UX

Projects:

• Lead a cross-discipline team of designers and developers in the design, development, and release of features into a multi-million dollar payment platform in the real estate industry, worked on the following projects:
  • Municipality payment feature
  • Secondary approval feature
• Worked with a knowledge management firm's Fortune 100 client to deliver a metadata hub to tag and track learning content from MVP into a full-scale production application in a multi-vendor environment.
  • Lead release planning for four major releases and multiple minor releases
  • Lead the implementation planning for multiple phases of work
  • Lead the technical analysis, UX/UI design and product process development
  • Aligned the taxonomy, development, UX/design and analysis experts
  • Coached product managers, technical analysts and scrum masters
  • Lead the implementation of agile and product management best practices
  • Created mechanisms to pull feedback into the development and design process.
  • Matured agile processes to include code testing, user testing, release testing, user acceptance testing and release scheduling.
  • Educated the client on the Agile process
  • Tracked and communicated the progress of the project

2015 – 2021 | Washington, DC
DCI Group
Senior Director of Product, Data and Technology Solutions

• Built a high-performing data services team of front-end and back developers, data scientists, data engineers and vendors to deliver custom databases, analysis, dashboards and visualization solutions
• Lead a team of high-performing team of web developers, web designers and vendors to deliver large to small scale websites focused on the campaign needs of the client
• Collaborated with Partners, VP's, client teams, clients and Directors to identify, investigate and develop large scale data and web solutions for internal use, client teams and clients
• Partnered with the Digital, Creative, DevOps, Investigation and Research groups to provide data tools and services to our clients
• Drove the company website, digital products, data products and data services vision and strategy
• Delivered a suite of new data products, platforms, tools and services aligned with business goals
• Delivered scalable data products/platforms using collection/scraping, ML, NLP, and semantic capabilities and algorithms to collect/match/update and edit data providing client teams access to critical data on DCI’s relationships to tens of thousands of organizations and people
• Built a storage and discovery solution for thousands of legal documents enabling terabytes of PDF’s and images become accessible through search
  Developed a relationship mapping data service to visualize key relationships between people and organizations from research reports, investigative research and client campaigns
• Created a daily report product distilling and using NLP to parse millions of regulatory comments pulled down nightly from a government API
  Released a knowledge graph search tool to find keywords, people, addresses, and organizations across 1M+ forms published by the government saving thousands of hours of research resources
• Developed a Twitter tracking engine tailored to the specific tracking needs of our clients
  Implemented a web dashboard solution aggregating key advertising and marketing data, visualizations and analytics for client campaign management enabling client teams to see the results of their campaign activities in one place.
• Implemented AGILE (Scrum, Kanban) and Lean Development management processes
• Lead business development efforts for the data and development teams

2010 – 2014 | Washington, DC
SAGE Publications/CQ Press
Product Manager/Managing Editor

Responsibilities:

• Owned the long-term strategy for data platforms in the higher education marketplace
  Data platforms launched:
  • US Political Stats - data download and visualization tool for all 3 branches of the US government
  • SAGE Stats - 400,000 datasets about U.S. geographies from over 250 authoritative sources
  • First Street – a ground-breaking political intelligence data platform
• Lead a cross-functional team of editorial, product management, product development, sales and marketing representatives to launch new data products and platforms on time and within budget
• Identified, cultivated, negotiated and administered strategic relationships with content providers and academic research institutes
• Drove the implementation of new processes into the editorial, product management, product development, marketing, sales and operations teams to optimize launch of the large-scale data product
• Built and managed operational budget for staff and product development budget
• Lead business, strategic and investment planning efforts

2006 – 2010 | Washington DC
The Kiplinger Washington Editors
Business Manager

Responsibilities:

• Transformed Kiplinger.com from a subscription-based model to a multi-stream revenue model consisting of advertising, partnership revenue and subscriptions
• Worked with Director of New Media to develop and implement a multi-faceted online strategy for the consumer facing web site Kiplinger.com
• Kiplinger.com averaged 15M page views a month a 1.5M+ unique visitors
• Developed and maintained budget of 3M+, including the development of short/long term business forecasts, revenue and cost projections and budget updates as needed
• Implemented analytics and tracking technologies
• Developed analytic dashboards, integrating them across the team’s workflow
• Identified, cultivate, negotiate and administer strategic relationships with content partners, tool
• Hired and directly managed the development group and business development group
• Identified, cultivate, negotiate and administer strategic relationships with content partners, tool providers, service partners and vendors

2000-2006 | Washington DC, Arlington VA
New Media Strategies (now MXM Social)
Director of IT

Responsibilities:

• Developed an IT Department to meet NMS's technology needs by designing and executing enterprise level solutions, hiring and managing an IT staff, setting-up knowledge management processes, managing multiple vendors and integrating best practices into the processes of the IT Department.
• Initial and long-time member of senior management team.