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Product Manager
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US-Texas-Austin
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Professional Experience
GeoAnalytics - Austin, TX 2004 – Present
Roles: Sales, Marketing Content Writer, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Management Consultant, Evangelist, Solution Designer Title: Account Manager
• Define policy and operational methodologies - Responsible for multiple strategic advances and solution ideas within the company, including assistance in development of company’s product management methodologies and technology research.
• Requirements gathering – create product and data specification surveys and questionnaires. Interview clients and define gap analysis between business issues and technology solutions.
• Design solution requirements - Full technology lifecycle knowledge in scoping, designing, developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise solutions.
• Solve customer business issues - Assess, consult, and design client’s enterprise data and applications including workflow, organization, architecture, and data.
• Deliver strategic results - Introduce vision, goals, and tactical roadmaps that render a client’s first self-sustainable environment.
• Manage project expectations and priorities - Manage client accounts, enterprise technology consulting, and implementation projects. Provide custom technology proposals to clients’ business problem and provide statements of work, while motivating product development teams.
• Management consulting - Develop organization models and management methodologies for clients; retrofit performance measures and metrics for staff averaging. Created an organization management tracking database for skills assessment, training, and work tasks.
• Successful client conversion - Flipped fading clients to generate 4X additional revenue.
• Motivational and public speaking - Educate and evangelize enterprise management methodologies and technology concepts to conference audiences and user groups.
• Message articulation - Produce marketing content for communication and sales collateral.
• Business development - Generate market awareness, client renewals, sales leads, and qualifiers.
• Establish partner relationships - Identify and exploit key business partnerships.
• Trusted leader - Established the Texas satellite office.
Information Technology Department - City of Kansas City, MO 2000 – 2003
Roles: Cross-functional Manager, Evangelist, Business Analyst, Solution Designer, Implementation Manager Title: Enterprise IT Coordinator
• Create vision and policy standards - Managed a cross-functional team and coordinated projects within 22 departments of the enterprise.
• Oversee technology issues - Assembled technology teams to solve enterprise network, hardware, software, and security issues.
• Solve customer business issues - Designed requirements for numerous technology initiatives including $4M data warehouse system.
• Provide leadership and organization - Established the organization’s annual technology strategy, policy, and management conference.
• C-level presentations - Presented performance analytics and technology concepts at City Administrators’ meetings.
• Negotiate partnerships – Re-engaged multi-jurisdiction technology cooperatives & data sharing.
• Manage finances - Responsible for $1.5M annual budget. Reduced annual software cost $20K by renegotiating and managing vendor contracts.
City Planning and Development Department - City of Kansas City, MO 1995 – 1999
Roles: Business Analyst, Application Designer, Developer, Trainer, Implementation Manager
Title: Systems Analyst
• Produce enterprise applications – Gathered requirements, scoped, designed, developed, and implemented a multi-function, multi-division integrated data viewing system for the city to reduce paper reporting, automate workflow, ad-hoc analytics, and provide inter-department communication. The enterprise application is still in use today.
• Implement new enterprise technology - Oversaw new real estate and permit system implementation and engineered application integration.
• Design technology standards - Superintended data maintenance, database structure, and application development.
• Develop integration technology - Authored extract-transform-load (ETL) procedures between multiple vendor data formats into production data marts.
• Create web data access - Engineered intranet HTML-based metadata viewer.
• Simplify developers’ coding time - Scripted ease-of-use applications for querying data within an Oracle RDBMS and GIS.
• Training and support of technology education - Wrote and presented advanced course material for software workshops within the organization.
Independent Consultant 1995 – Present
Roles: Innovator, Owner, Developer, Consultant
• Entrepreneur - Started a Web 2.0 SaaS internet company supporting work requests for property managers (2008). www.internetworkorder.com
• Thought leadership - Author of technology blog: whatsUr20.blogspot.com
• Community leadership - Member of Austin Community College’s Workforce Education Advisory Committee - Determine GIS curriculum and certificates. Austin, TX (2007-Present).
o Member of the Metropolitan Community Colleges’ GIS Advisory Committee - Organized to create the GIS program among three area colleges. Kansas City, MO (2003).
• Solution Development - Developed a custom integrated real-estate and infrastructure management information system for the city of Holt, MO (2000).
• Industry Consultant - Completed Bank 10’s first geo assessment for the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) compliance measures. Belton, MO (1995).
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Passionate, multi-talented business technology leader with 13 years experience performing product management roles, seeking an opportunity to create winning solutions as a Product Manager.
• 13 years proficiency with the full life-cycle of enterprise performance, analytic, & integration solutions.
• Strategic mindset, ideological, and dedicated to creating vision within the “big picture”.
• Driven multi-tasker; every position held required multiple responsibilities and roles defined for product management and leadership: understanding client issues, solution design, analytical thought, technology and people organization, methodological project execution, and evangelism.
• Outgoing personality, enthusiastic, and eager to establish relationships, motivate and influence others.
Industry Knowledge
• Practical use of technology business solutions within both the private and public sector, spanning multiple domains.
• Management of requirements assessment, design, construction, implementation, integration, and maintenance of enterprise system architectures.
• Performance management and analytical systems:
o Business Intelligence (BI); Data Warehouse (DW); Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Customer Relationship Management (CRM); Work Order and Asset Management (CMMS); Automatic Vehicle Locating and Routing (AVL); Land Development and Permitting (LIS).
• Software as a Service (SaaS) and client/server delivery models.
• Scripting & Markup Languages: SQL; HTML; CSS; XML; Deluge; VB script; Java script; Avenue; AML.
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Education
Bachelor of Science, Geography / Geology, Northwest Missouri State University. Maryville, MO (1995).
Certifications & Advanced Course Training
Pragmatic Marketing (certified course to be completed September 24); Project Management (PMI certified course); ESRI Teaching Certification and GIS Programming; Revenue Storm (sales logic); SQL for Oracle; Advanced Visual Basic; Advanced MS Access.
Independent Research and Studies
Executive Leadership; Product Management; Open Innovation; Search Engine Optimization (SEO); User Interface Design (UI).
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Entry Level Software Test Engineer |
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