Professional Experience
Product Owner - Live Streaming Services
Accretive Technology Group | Seattle | Dec 2019 - Present- Creating enterprise solutions for one of the highest traffic live streaming services on the market.
- Evangelizing a “platform mindset” via the use of microservices, federated modules and UI component libraries.
- Designed and rolled out machine learning biometric based live stream monitoring technology (Patent pending).
- Oversee the entirety of the broadcaster experience from initial onboarding to their success as a career live streamer.
- Own the domain roadmap, vision and implementation of said vision for broadcaster.
- Overseeing development of a new platform for developers with a long term focus on better serving our content creators
- Identify KPI's for data driven decisions to increase broadcaster earnings and to ensure broadcaster retainability.
- Implemented the golden standard of compliance within the streaming and content creation industry.
- Implemented several 3rd party integrations and provided organizational change management cross-department.
- Lead multiple teams which recieved MVP status for delivering the most value to the company and product.
- Brought to market several revenue and QOL improvements to our products, increasing user earnings and engagement.
- Have personally impacted our year over year revenue increase by over 40%.
- Evaluated how streamers evolve via extensive case studies and competitor analysis from various industries in the livestreaming space.
- Utilizing our own home grown A/B Testing platform to ensure we make the most impactful decisions.
Team Lead - Senior Solution Designer (product designer, product owner)
Cerner Corporation| Kansas City | Nov 2016 - Nov 2019 - Technical Product Owner of Cerner’s enterprise Project and Portfolio (PPM) platform.
- Lead Product Designer for the Project Delivery department for both on-prem and Sass solutions, includes licensing and ROI Planning.
- Oversees architecture and design for several Global Enterprise Applications, including API management/documentation and cross platform functionality.
- Oversees quarterly and annual enterprise road-mapping, KPI and project metric tracking.
- Provides status updates to stakeholders, produces issue, risk and change management reports and mitigations.
- Leads enterprise data architecture and product design within the project delivery space at Cerner.
- Improving BI reporting and financial forecasting accuracy by 85% and reduced project write offs by 45% within the first year.
- Reduced operating costs by 10 FTE’s within the first implementation of PPM.
- Manages an agile team of 25 developers and designers with a focus on CI/CD and DevOps operating model.
- Develops agile and traditional program/project maturity following PMBOK compliance throughout the organization.
- Creates User-Centered Designs, UX Assets, Technical/Master Requirements Documentation.
- Prioritize work based on organizational financial benefit cases and value statements.
- Provides organizational and executive communication and release management for our development life-cycle.
- Leads cross-platform integration design and data architecture for enterprise business services.
- Nominated for the RISE leadership program within Cerner.
- Oversees several internal/external facing web development projects built in Javascript frameworks ES6/ReactJS
Technical Creative Director
BIGSHOT Inbound| Kansas City | Apr 2016 - Nov 2016 - Lead a team of creatives and developers in a fast paced environment.
- Oversaw all creative design (web, digital, print) and development (marketing site/web applications)
- Focus on user-experience and ROI based inbound marketing.
- Worked in various frameworks such as open source PHP CMS's, SASS/LESS, jQuery/React.
- Primary LAMP stack (Full stack development)
- Introduced enterprise agile development standards and iterative schedules
- Pushed boundaries with our creative take into clinical industries.
- My goal was to implement the Inbound Methodology with style and effectiveness to increase conversion rates for our clients
- Implemented both google and custom analytic solutions to track specific conversion targets
- Creating user personas and BPMN’s/workflows to identify when users would convert
- Oversaw server infrastructure and maintenance
Lead DevOps Engineer
Brockton Creative Group | Kansas City | Dec 2013 - Nov 2015 - Lead full-stack developer (front/back/database/UI/UX) for all projects.
- WordPres (LAMP) full stack development (jQuery, PHP, SASS, Linux)
- Built WordPress themes and plugins from scratch.
- Conceptualized designed and built PHP based web application from the ground up.
- Concurrently managed several large scale development projects.
- Helped define client strategy for entire project life cycle.
- Architected company’s technology and data strategy.
- Primary system administrator for over 50 clients, on LAMP adjusted servers
- Ensured all servers met PCI Compliance as well as server side security policies.
- Facilitate bi-weekly code workshops, helping team members develop their skills.
- Helped hire, mentor and on-board new team members
- Most proud of project: kceventhub.org ( City wide event permitting web application. )
Senior Front End Web Developer and Designer
VinSolutions | Kansas City | Nov 2012 - Dec 2013 - Worked with tier one accounts such as Lexus OEM and Kia pre-owned sites.
- Designed creative and innovative interfaces for automotive dealers Nationwide.
- Created high-fidelity mockups and prototyping to show clients how their sites would function
- Lead the department code repository to standardize our process.
Senior Designer and Front End Engineer
Marcy Desgin Group | Kansas City | Apr 2008 - Nov 2012 - Responsible for a wide array of projects, from web layout to brochure design to ad campaign creation.
- Collaborated with many different industries, from associations, non-profits and small business.
- Won over 5 international (Platinum and Gold) Awards Including Marcom and Hermes
Skills
Core Competencies
- Product Management
- Product Design
- Technical Writing
- Experience Design
- Interaction Design
- User Interface Design
- Information Architecture
- Design Thinking
- User Research
- Usability Testing
- Wireframing
- Rapid Prototyping
- Visual & Graphic Design
- Data Analytics
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Project Management
- Project Leadership
- Full Stack Web Development
- Marketing Design
- Organizational Change Management
Software Tools
Adobe CC (PS, AI, ID, LR, PR, AE), Figma, Miro, PHP, React, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Google Suite, Jira
Confluence, SQL, Broadcom PPM, Linux CLI, Wordpress CMS, GIT, MS Office