About me

I am a customer-focused B2B2C leader with 14 years’ experience building and growing impactful platforms and products. I love driving innovation, especially through AI-powered capabilities and data-fueled strategies, as much as I do leading full-stack teams to bring bold ideas to life.

Recently, in the telecom industry, I launched major components of Verizon’s API management platform for internal developers and external partners on time despite operational pressures, receiving executive leadership praise.

In the gaming industry, the product capabilities and strategic partnerships I forged for two startups propelled them to chart-topping success in highly-competitive markets, garnering both industry recognition and new business.

Core competencies

  • Agile development

    Led complex platform and product development projects with tough requirements, like a rebuild of a cloud storage app that doubled its revenue

  • Leadership

    Headed full-stack global teams of up to 28 employees while managing budgeting and contracting duties with hardware, software and staffing vendors

  • Communication

    Honed elite communication skills and presentation chops via a career that started in journalism and sales – a 2024 talk on API management to 2K+ employees received a 97% engagement rating

  • Operational efficiency

    Streamlined technology operations and business processes, reducing software development cycles from months to weeks and analytics tracking costs by 40%

Capabilities

More competencies: Product lifecycle management | Road-mapping | Product marketing | App Analytics | Business development

Key attributes: Product sense | EQ | Technical acumen | Performance driven | Design vision | Cross-team collaboration | Adaptability | Strategic thinking | Storytelling | Resiliency | Problem solving | Resourcefulness | Sense of humor

Functional skills: Business cases | Problem statements | Go-to-market planning | Product positioning | Copywriting | Delivery execution | Presentations | Public speaking | Statistics | Market research | User & A/B testing | Prototyping | Creative strategy | UX design | Content production | Digital marketing | B2B + B2C sales | e-commerce

Frameworks, systems & tools: RESTful APIs | Next- & React-JS | Swift iOS | Jetpack Android | Markdown, MDX + JSX | NestJS | Typescript | SQL | Contentstack and Drupal | Solutions architecture | CI/CD pipes | AWS S3 and Lambda | Temporal | Unity + Unreal | Git | Figma | Miro | Lucid | Sketch | InVision | Adobe | HTML, CSS | Trello | Asana | Atlassian | Gantt | Slack

AI+ML experience: Applied machine learning | Computer vision (CNNs, FaceNet, K-Means) | Speech-to-text (STT) | Generative AI (LLMs incl. Gorilla) | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) | Reinforcement learning | Transfer learning | Content scoring systems | Metadata extraction | Cosine similarity models | Heuristic + supervised hybrid models | Open-source + proprietary ML model tuning | Video analysis pipelines | Personalization algorithms | Anomaly detection | Demand forecasting | Fine-tuning pre-trained models

Clifton strengths: Strategic | Achiever | Analytical | Self-Assurance | Relator

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