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Director of Product Management at Domo |
2011-Present |
- Lead development of a new innovative SaaS BI product. This new product is winning almost all head to head product shootouts with current industry leaders (grow from 10 million dollar company to over 2 billion dollar valuation). Reviewed consistently as the best user experience on both mobile and web platforms.
- Champion product innovations that have increased revenues by over 100% per year for 4 years.
- Introduce industry innovations in business collaboration, visualizations and predictive analytics.
- Helped implement agile development process and agile product management with my own unique way of focusing and prioritizing product backlogs.
- Inventor on 5 patents and co-inventor on dozens of pending patents
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Vice President of Content at Ancestry |
2005-2011 |
- General Manager position leading development, operations, and quality assurance teams. These teams include 120+ employees, 1500+ remote contractors (China, Bangladesh, and Africa) and a $14 million dollar budget
- Upgraded employee productivity by recruiting, training and hiring key leaders.
- Lead negotiator for strategic relationships at Ancestry
- Conceived and developed many new patent-pending technologies to reach over 300% productivity increases. Grew imaging production from 1 million images a month to over 8 million images a month while keeping expenses flat
- Defined, developed and delivered products in very aggressive time frames by using AGILE development methodology in C# and ASP on the .NET platform
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Vice President of Product Management at MyFamily/Ancestry |
1999-2005 |
- Lead teams responsible for new product development, processes, usability research, product definition, product pricing and packaging, web design and customer research
- Increased revenue from a single product making $27 million a year to over $150 million by developing many new and innovative products. This growth was accomplished despite the “internet crash” where advertising revenues dropped to a fraction of previous levels
- Grew development teams from 30 to over 200 employees while moving from an ASP architecture to a dramatically faster and more robust architecture using C# and .NET platform
- Helped build highly scalable systems that handle hundreds of searches per second, over 13 million visitors a month, millions of digital images viewed every day. Developed proprietary systems to achieve millisecond search times on billions of records and a scalable database system that saved millions in hardware and software costs
- Focus on customer-driven and business-needs development. Performed extensive analysis of customers from aggregate web analytics to weekly individual conversations. Prioritized projects by business return on investment
- Launched multiple international sites for markets in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Canada and Australia
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Product Management/Database Development at TenFold |
1993-1998 |
- Following a very rigorous requirements process able to deliver large-scale, client-server, mission-critical applications in a fraction of the time it took competitors. Worked with fortune 500 customers to understand requirements, write specifications and then build world-class solutions in hospital administration, banking, global investment management and executive recruiting. Extensive work with large databases (Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and SQL)
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Director Development at Novell |
1993-1998 |
- Director of WordPerfect Office which included word processing (WordPerfect), spreadsheet (Quattro Pro), presentations, group calendaring and email. Lead team of over 300 professionals. Lead cross functional teams that included product management, development, usability, user-interface design, marketing, quality assurance, editorial and partner relations. Developed and released world-class software packages that grew to world-wide sales of over $500 million
- Helped move development of QuattroPro from a Borland team in San Jose to a new team based in Provo, Utah. Managed team of over 20 US based developers and 40+ developers in India
- Extensive work and training with usability labs, customer research and competitive SWOT analysis. Inventor for two patents, auto-formula corrections and floating cell in the QuattroPro program
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Developer/Manager/Director Development at WordPerfect |
1993-1998 |
- One of seven developers to build WordPerfect for the Macintosh computer. Key challenges included adding WYSIWYG display to WordPerfect which was based on mono-spaced and fixed-height fonts for PC’s. Responsible for defining customer needs and writing significant portions of WordPerfect software including display, file format, printing and graphics
- One of the innovations included being first to build and release integrated graphic tools in a Word Processor for the Macintosh
- Promoted to team lead, manager and then director of development. Responsible for a team of 40 engineers that built the core “engine” of WordPerfect. This code base was then used on Windows, OS/2, UNIX, VMS, and NEXT OS
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Systems Programmer at WICAT (World Institute of Computer Aided Teaching) |
1983-1986 |
- Helped write a proprietary operating system. The OS was a hybrid of UNIX and VMS. It had much of the process control and API’s of UNIX but everything was dynamic from hardware drivers to system configuration. Developed deep understanding of systems and architecture. The system ran educational curriculum for K-12
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