ABOUT ME
A curiosity-driven Senior Product Manager focused on building the customer experience. I have 12 years experience working with cross-functional teams to plan, build, and launch SaaS innovations in the marketing, ecommerce and education spaces plus a lifetime of visual design.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
My Qualifications
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER, NAVIGATE360
August 2020 - Present
Senior Product Manager for two Ed-Tech products: Detect (A.I. scanning application for threats against oneself or others on social media or school emails) and Filter (CIPA web filtering for school IT networks and devices)
Launch a new Web Filtering product which included designing a go-to-market strategy, coordinated cross-team tasks and created supporting documentation and processes for post-launch needs
Created a cross-team group to coordinate sales efforts across multiple products for better market penetration.
Establish and work with Data Science and Engineering teams to produce product roadmaps and communicate risks to leadership
Prioritize and specify software requirements, enhancements, and bug fixes via Agile, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Analyze market and competitive conditions, identifying new business opportunities and target markets
Obtain and evaluate customer feedback to inspire product improvements.
Conduct market research on competing product lines product offering and price point
Support the Sales Team by providing product demonstrations to potential customers
INSIGHTS ANALYST, SOCIAL SENTINEL
September 2018 - August 2020
Develop and expand company insights:
Extract, organize, and analyze relevant data from multiple sources
Created from methodology to building a reporting engine with Python, SQL and HTML
Develop a set of core metrics for measuring company and client performance and deliver a normalization method for cross comparison
Analyze market strength and viability to develop a go to market strategy
Collaborate with Product Team members to determine priorities and identify dependencies
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
January 2017 - September 2018
Met business needs for Data Analytics Strategy, Reporting and Insights with custom solutions
Reviewed current Database state to understand capabilities and issues
Utilized Python and R with Machine Learning to develop predictive insights
Created new reports and process to optimize business goals
VERMONT DATA INNOVATION FELLOW, VERMONT CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
July 2017 - July 2018
The first fellowship for VCGI with a focus on promoting the open datasets, learning Geospatial Data tools and process improvements.
Run the first ever GeoDatSci, a geospatial and data science conference
Coordinate with HackVT (local annual hackathon) in using Vermont Open Data
Giving GIS related talks at Code Camp and the Burlington Data Scientist Meetups to help people learn about geospatial data
Creating projects in Mapbox, Power BI, QGIS and ArcGIS
Assist in website redesign of VCGI and the Open Data Portal
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
My Studies
1999-2003
B.A. VASSAR COLLEGE
Major of Studio Arts with a secondary focus on Art History.