Results-driven professional with extensive experience in revenue growth through successful new product launches and strategic market research initiatives. Demonstrated ability to adapt to evolving company and customer needs while maintaining team engagement and high morale. Proven track record of meeting challenging deadlines and delivering complex projects effectively.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Product Manager-Identity Management
Synacor
10.2022 - 02.2024
Company Overview: Cloud ID
Focused on Product support of SSO using SAML or OAuth2.0 custom integration projects for Digital content providers and identity providers delivering streaming content to their consumer customers
Managed Product alignment to SOW for more than a dozen projects of various sizes and complexities
Product Management representation for a large-scale high-profile project for a National Sports League Live Streaming content provider; provided product scope oversight, third party integration
Regularly represented Product related communications with their project management and product managers
Worked collaboratively in an Agile framework with Dev team management and resources, Product Operations and Project Management, Sales and Product leadership
Resourced other organizational support when necessary
Improved sprint productivity by 30% through collaboration with Dev and Prod Ops
Collaborated with Product Ops on Templated Tickets for Builds and related services
Cloud ID
Category Product Manager and Buyer -Pro AV Distribution to Reseller Channel
Exertis Almo NA
03.2021 - 09.2022
Management and product category support for high visibility Pro AV products including the Hospitality market segment along with more than a dozen other vendors and associated brands including high profitability private label products
Delivered on Topline Goals using Product Inventory strategies by collaborating with vendors to obtain limited supply products to support revenue and account objectives
Proposed inventory-based incentive programs for sales teams
Vendor Incentive Programs working with VP of Products to align vendor incentive contracts with targeted rebate goals
Exceeded annual goals by 27%
Collaboration with Sales Leadership Stakeholders aligning special programs and resources to help reach revenue and margin goals
Demonstrating YoY Growth for more than 90% of vendors that I have managed
Category Product Manager- Compliance and Safety Reseller
Brady Corp.
07.2019 - 04.2020
Management and product lifecycle support for industrial compliance and safety products to a targeted industrial market segment- AEC
Supported the leading revenue generation product line as SME
Managed key Vendor and supplier relations and collaborated with the buying team and engineering resources to find material sources and viable supply chains for product manufacturing and product distribution
Facilitated negotiations
Provided advisement for CRM integration project to support opportunity registration for the target market
National Tradeshow Event oversight, planning, and messaging support for the company presence
Product Evangelist-Integrated Product Solution and Market Development for Thunderbolt and M&E Market
ATTO Technology
01.2015 - 07.2019
M&E Market revenue generation plan owner
Led a collaborative market engagement team to generate business opportunities and land strategic customers
Aligned annual budgetary resources to aid with strategy
Collaboration with executive sponsor and leadership team to align corporate revenue goals with product line initiatives
Held executive team briefings on market efforts for corporate innovation projects, technology programs, new product integrations, and solutions
Built Strategic Developer Relations engagement level- supply side
Provided thought leadership, industry knowledge and brand advocacy representation at trade shows, conferences, and press interviews
Created 'Path to Profit' program based on best practice methodologies to ensure profitable and replicable revenue generation campaigns with technology integrators and market leading manufacturers
Designed materials to track KPI progress with alliance partners
Strengthened market position and augmented sales channel resources
Implemented Global Go-to-Market campaigns with differentiated product revenue opportunities
Incorporated gap analysis, market opportunity assessment and architecture of proof-of-concept plan to launch new solutions
Partnered with Industry Influencers and Trade Associations for market insights and voice of the customer to catapult visibility
Product Manager E-commerce and Sales Operations Staff -Distribution to Reseller Channel
Ingram Micro, Cloud Services Division
01.2012 - 11.2014
Vendor Integration Product Manager and subject matter expert on subscription-based cloud products (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) offering
Business requirements support the development of the Cloud Services online e-commerce marketplace
Agile/SCRUM participant, UAT testing, and lead 'business' resource for global web integration certification testing
Engaged with vendor community to gain committed resources to onboard their services to new IMCloud Marketplace
Using data points from product attributes, helped surface product requirements and communication of the findings to engineering team to build a tool to quickly upload, ingest and migrate data to platform
Special project support and advisement to program leadership team, contributions related to contractual obligations, support for billing and payments systems, data warehousing needs, and customer record management
Training for the offshore team providing prompt and accurate data resources management to update and maintain catalog
Business line support for vendor management team providing pricing and margin error guidance best practices
Market Development Manager -PSA for MSP partners- Distribution to Reseller Channel
Ingram Micro, Cloud Services Division
02.2011 - 01.2012
Grew the Account Base Community resulting in 10% increased topline revenue
Collaboration on sales engagement strategies with the vendor's sales management team
Preparation of regular pipeline reviews and market development related content for quarterly business reviews
Improved Lead registration process to document and track qualified lead hand-off from Ingram Micro to Vendor to help turn around time and reduce duplication of efforts
Pipeline Management to increase the number of opportunities generated, and quantity of deals that closed for vendors
Sales tools kit content curation using various existing marketing materials, oversaw creation of new resources
Execution of employee recognition program for the division including tracking and reporting processes
Marketing Specialist-Technology Alliance Partnering Initiatives and Solutions Marketing M&E
ATTO Technology
01.2009 - 02.2011
Compatible technology integrations with alliance partners and OEM partners for the purpose of strategic revenue business development
Alliance partner program recruitment and development to grow existing partner program ecosystem
Strategic alliance partner management supports corporate objectives to drive revenue through developer programs, marketing resources, and evangelism efforts
Aligned partner support across the organization and executed contractual agreements with partners related to integrated solutions, business dealings, programs, and licenses
Product design collaboration with partner product development teams for roadmap discussions, and joint product evaluations to accomplish published product certification references, and published collateral
Marketing support for industry trade shows, partner road shows, user groups, and alliance partner's events
Identity and Access Management Senior Manager, Technical Program Manager at Costco Wholesale, Foundational ServicesIdentity and Access Management Senior Manager, Technical Program Manager at Costco Wholesale, Foundational Services
Designed, coded, tested, debugged, and migrated components of a Front-End application, using the following ISPF Dialog Manager Tools: Panels, Messages, Tables and Skeletons, along with REXX Execs, which facilitated Subject Matter Expert’s (SME’s) identification and extraction of Endevor elements, to prepare for transfer to a LINUX-based system named, “Informatica”. SMEs used Informatica to prepare the downloaded element’s flows to identify technical debt, so that the Agency could migrate away from, what it considered, Legacy development languages. This was due to the shrinking pool of expertise and availability of Legacy Language talent pool.Supplied support to many other mainframe developers, via a tool called Workbench from Allen Systems Group (ASG).The tool was a Data Resource Management System (DRMS) Facility, which provided a repository for and management of COBOL, HLASM, and CICS development metadata. Also managed by the tool were various other elements, such as user access, and Dynamic Table Access Management (DTAMS).Using JCL, REXX, Endevor, TADz, Workbench, and CyberFusion on the mainframe and UltraEdit, MS Access and Excel on the Network, developed a very extensive and complex spreadsheet, for a Tech 14 to evaluate and ultimately present to the Associate Commissioner and other higher-level SSA management. The spreadsheet was a depiction of the overall scope and effort that needed to transition from Workbench (SSA no longer received support for the product), and it aided the Tech 14 in his future presentation.Coding, testing, debugging, and migrating programs (HLASM/COBOL/CICS/Db2/IMS), routines, copybooks, and macros, in support of multiple applications across the Agency.Created and maintained numerous ISPF REXX and CLIST scripts.Created and updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and User manuals, using M365 Tools, including VISIO Pro.Created and supported many MS Access and Db2 SQL scripts, to access and update related databases and tables.Involved in the testing of zOS Multi-Factor Authentication (zMFA), which supplanted Single Sign-On (SSO) at the Agency. zMFA provides multiple levels of authentication and thus, greater levels of security.Participated in Daily Stand-ups/Weekly/and Monthly and other Agile-Related meetings on multiple Teams.Maintained Team SharePoint sites (pages) which later were ported to Confluence. at Leidos, Inc., for Social Security AdministrationDesigned, coded, tested, debugged, and migrated components of a Front-End application, using the following ISPF Dialog Manager Tools: Panels, Messages, Tables and Skeletons, along with REXX Execs, which facilitated Subject Matter Expert’s (SME’s) identification and extraction of Endevor elements, to prepare for transfer to a LINUX-based system named, “Informatica”. SMEs used Informatica to prepare the downloaded element’s flows to identify technical debt, so that the Agency could migrate away from, what it considered, Legacy development languages. This was due to the shrinking pool of expertise and availability of Legacy Language talent pool.Supplied support to many other mainframe developers, via a tool called Workbench from Allen Systems Group (ASG).The tool was a Data Resource Management System (DRMS) Facility, which provided a repository for and management of COBOL, HLASM, and CICS development metadata. Also managed by the tool were various other elements, such as user access, and Dynamic Table Access Management (DTAMS).Using JCL, REXX, Endevor, TADz, Workbench, and CyberFusion on the mainframe and UltraEdit, MS Access and Excel on the Network, developed a very extensive and complex spreadsheet, for a Tech 14 to evaluate and ultimately present to the Associate Commissioner and other higher-level SSA management. The spreadsheet was a depiction of the overall scope and effort that needed to transition from Workbench (SSA no longer received support for the product), and it aided the Tech 14 in his future presentation.Coding, testing, debugging, and migrating programs (HLASM/COBOL/CICS/Db2/IMS), routines, copybooks, and macros, in support of multiple applications across the Agency.Created and maintained numerous ISPF REXX and CLIST scripts.Created and updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and User manuals, using M365 Tools, including VISIO Pro.Created and supported many MS Access and Db2 SQL scripts, to access and update related databases and tables.Involved in the testing of zOS Multi-Factor Authentication (zMFA), which supplanted Single Sign-On (SSO) at the Agency. zMFA provides multiple levels of authentication and thus, greater levels of security.Participated in Daily Stand-ups/Weekly/and Monthly and other Agile-Related meetings on multiple Teams.Maintained Team SharePoint sites (pages) which later were ported to Confluence. at Leidos, Inc., for Social Security Administration
IS Technical Specialist (Identity & Access Management) at Huntington National BankIS Technical Specialist (Identity & Access Management) at Huntington National Bank