Job Description

• Work with associates, peers, and senior executives across various functional areas and lines of business to identify key market opportunity areas
• Enable teams to deliver innovative products to market, testing and iterating in small-scale pilots to validate concepts and ROI
• Establish product vision, business goals, product roadmap, A/B testing strategies and roll out plans for improving and delivering products
• Use data combined with consumer insights to develop robust business cases to prioritize product backlog
• Understand the internal and external drivers for innovation of new products and influence the application of new products across the organization
• Partner across the organization to develop analytical tests, marketing programs, and technological enhancements in order to build great customer experiences accompanied with a strong ROI
• Document and track lists of features, specs, metrics in combination with high-level strategy and relentless in-the-trenches tactics
• Work with and across multiple departments and teams to consolidate and distill common platform needs and requirements for distribution-driven products
• Enforce simplification with regards to digital platforms and external partner needs encouraging modular thinking over complex one-off designs
• Create and prioritize the product, marketing, and software engineering roadmap using agile methodologies including sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Deep understanding of technologies underlying distributed publishing, native and/or mobile apps, multimedia metadata structures, and personalization
• Bridge software engineering, business deliverables, marketing drive, and stakeholder expectations to strive towards agreed benchmarks and product deliverables
• Senior management collaberation to support digital strategy on specifics products by understanding the goals of key stakeholders and translating them into economically successful products

Job Description

• Project management background in software applications, systems integration, web sites, web-based applications and SaaS technology, integrated campaigns, mobile experiences, emails, etc.
• Accountable to deliver projects in the most efficient way while communicating effectively through lightweight processes, and ensuring that quality control requirements are met to deliver a final product that is on time, on budget and meets expectations of the client.
• Cultivate the collaboration and team-building among software engineers and other project stakeholders, often on multiple and/or large and more complex projects.
• Facilitate and implement development Scrum/Agile process
• Resolve developer impediments
• Create an environment conducive to team self-organization
• Capture empirical data to adjust forecasts
• Multi-task and manage multiple concurrent projects (usually at different stages of the life cycle).
• Manage projects and products involving cross-functional disciplines of Design, Engineering, Operations, Marketing and Finance
• Deliver projects under budget, resource and time constraints established in the project plan
• Create risk management list and contingency plans. Decide upon and execute contingency plans, when required
• Report project status to multi-tiered audiences composed of team, peers, BU directors and executive staff
• Drive continuous improvement to increase industry-leading best practices in product development.
• Design specifications in collaboration with the CEO and developers
• Manage development teams, respect schedules and budgets
• Develop workable estimates, work and staff plans, and realistic timetables
• Collaborate with the Account Team on preparation of recommendations, strategies and actions for the client
• Own projects, ensuring quality, managing change, and understand tradeoffs and impacts
• Lead cross-functional team effort in gathering/defining project requirements, and providing thought leadership into initial scope definition.

Job Description

• Freelance work has intrigued the comprehension and application of the following: Angular.js, Node.js, Handlebars.js, Ghost, Joomla, Wordpress, Concrete5, Drupal, and xCode
• Along with the technical application, I have over six years experience in client-facing roles with excellent ability to build strong, lasting relationships with clients inside an organization
• Excellent organizational skill of juggling priorities coming from every direction which brings continued contracting success
• Sincerely empathize with clients which results in life long relationships and word of mouth references
• Creative and analytical problem-solver who effortlessly comes up with new solutions to vexing problems
• I take pride in working through a project from beginning to end, committed to the client's ambitions and budget
• Communicate and relate ideas, develop clear strategies, and create product deliverables aimed to exceed client expectations
• Active consultant offering on-going support to ensure client's have a comfortable working-knowledge of the website cultivating a successful partnership
• Optimized Wordpress websites using third party plugins; i.e. Heat maps, AB testing, polls and questionnaires, and email marketing campaigns
• Technical assessments and rewrites of theme JavaScript to ensure a fully customized website, specific to the client’s market demands
• Highly skilled and experienced with systems analysis, web site design, and application integration
• Ability to increase reliability, maximize productivity, and introduce system efficiencies with automation
• Demonstrate success in problem solving and a proven track record with strong attention to detail
• Outstanding verbal/written communication skills and ability to coordinate multiple detailed projects from initiation to completion in a deadline-driven environment
• “Problems are opportunities not obstacles.”

Job Description

• Release management for a team of eight including SE, QA, DB, and UI
• Regression-test writer for ForRent.com
• Analyze and address merge conflicts for existing codebase
• Ensure stakeholder requirements through the verification and testing of standards and delivery of working product(s)
• Cultivate cross-collaboration between product developers, managers, marketing, SEO/SEM, and development teams
• Manage principal team practices to assure ForRent’s site accessibility and uptime
• Address, troubleshoot, and solve problematic code and other miscellaneous production/beta environment errors
• Utilize GitHub and Jira to manage team projects
• Proactive review of product requirements and specifications to prevent potential issues, provide input of functional application and advise on design and business logic
• Agile/Scrum implementation committee
• Hackathon and HackU volunteer and team participant MORE INFORMATION

Job Description

• Successfully advanced ForRent’s testing program by increasing conversions resulting in a YOY revenue increase of over $978K in nine months
• Analyzed complex business problems, asked appropriate questions, then developed sensible solutions built out with Optimizely
• Distilled conceptual ideas into viable, sustainable, and testable business solutions
• Managed collaborations among Marketing, SEO/SEM, product, and business leaders to develop adaptable testing strategies both long and short term
• Translated testing analytics into future deliverables for senior management
• Defined our “success” and “failures” | what does success and failure look like?
• Ad Hoc Analysis, SiteCat, Google Analytics, Optimizely analytics, and use cases
• Introduced Optimizely and jQuery to IT students at a collegiate level to impress the concept/advantages of AB testing at Old Dominion University
• Trained senior managers and developers at Homes.com on Optimizely and how to successfully create, launch, and analyze campaigns
• Conceptualized and designed engaging multi-channel experiences based on user data, business goals, and current industry trends
• Fine-tuned the implementation of Optimizely’s JS library in conjunction with other asynchronous and synchronous libraries living in DTM
• Pragmatic Marketing Certified

Job Description

Developed five websites using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, with three different CMS platforms. I formulated objectives, planned project life-cycles, and successfully executed web standards and requirements. The first large project for the NACVA was the QuickRead editorial website. This website provided an online submission system for editorial board members which streamlined article submissions and QA standards for quality directors and senior editors. The second project was the auunal development of four Annual Consultants' Conference websites. These websites integrated live chat, forums, registration, and secure access to conference material.

I continued as a web consultant March of 2012 utilizing heat map statistics and analytical benchmarks while bicycle touring across the country.

Job Description

I supervised day to day operations of our largest business, My Baby Rocks. Maintained inventory, capital purchases, and SEO responsibilities. Oversaw quality standards for orders, production of shirts, screen-printing, vinyl designs, and vinyl press. Set effeciency standards for overseas purchases, shipping, and warehouse work flow. Optimized over 50 company websites, three of which launched into profitable businesses out ranking Baby Gap in Google.

School Profile Description

Studying Economics at the University of Utah broadened my outlook, sharpened my intellect, and inculcated the habit of balanced thinking. I learned to understand and appreciate the nature and significance of business structure. I refined my critical thinking by finding new ways to organize factors of production. Managing risk, utility, and change is my definition of economics in the product development industry. Competition has never been greater and innovation is the leading factor I strive towards. One important value learned is opportunity cost. Doing one thing requires giving up another, which alters expected benefits of the alternatives and affect the ones I choose. Choices are a constant when working on high profile websites and clients. Satisfying expectations while managing a high demands with a level of reality is a delicate walk on which I thrive.