Summary

✨ Bringing Product Visions to Life ✨ Guiding Teams on the Journey to a Better Future
✨ Unlocking Product Potential ✨ Partnering to Solve Problems & Build a Better Tomorrow.

Highlights

  • Standardized implementation practices, enabling post-sales, community, and product teams to simplify documentation and data collection efforts.
  • Drove over $5.9M ARR in 2020 through collaboration with sales and customers to scope and define enterprise account project plans.
  • Enabled Sales Engineers to take over 95% of scoping requests by developing and implementing scoping tools.
  • Architected and implemented initial Professional Services reporting system utilized by leadership teams to track work, queues, status of deliverables, and revenue recognition.

Core Competencies

Leadership
  • Building cross-functional teams
  • Conflict management
  • Remote team building & mentoring
  • Planning and resource management
  • Influencing and negotiating
  • Eliciting and implementing feedback
Program Management
  • Obtaining stakeholder buy-in
  • Partner relationship building
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Process creations, reiteration, and automation
  • Translating customer needs into technical requirements
  • Ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining budget
Tools
  • Jira administration
  • Salesforce reporting
  • Looker looks and dashboards
  • Salesforce configuration and management

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Professional Experience

Co-Founder / Head of Product

September 2020 - Present

πŸ“Œ Passionate team leader, collaborating with organizations to transform their innovative ideas into successful products.
πŸ“Œ Dedicated to empowering individuals and fostering high-performing teams by helping them overcome limiting beliefs and unlocking their full potential.
πŸ“Œ Expertise in facilitating collaboration and communication, essential for navigating the dynamic world of startups.

πŸ‘‰ Through strategic guidance and tailored approaches, we help organizations innovate, solve complex challenges, and ultimately bring their visions to life.
πŸ‘‰ By working collaboratively, we can create meaningful products and services that benefit ourselves, our organizations, and the world around us.
πŸ‘‰ We utilize our strong team dynamics and system architecture skills to build the frameworks for seamless communication and collaboration between individuals and technology platforms.

At Unrealist, we partner with startups and established businesses to identify and address operational challenges, including:

  • Launching new ventures
  • Optimizing workflow and efficiency
  • Managing budgets and resource allocation
  • Eliminating information silos and fostering cross-team collaboration
  • Providing DevOps expertise for configuration and management
  • Facilitating talent acquisition to address specific project needs

Manager, Implementation Consulting

August 2021 - July 2023

Coordinated with customer teams to build pilot Implementation Consulting team focusing on improving efficiency, optimizing customer outcomes, and mentoring new team members.

  • Implemented status tracking system to collect data and report on blockers, highlighting the need for prescriptive timelines and improved customer education in the presales process.
  • Built team and processes to support business goals and help new customers build a solid model from the start and understand best practices.
  • Collaborated with Sift product and engineering to drive improvements and refine Sift offerings.
  • Standardized the recommendations provided to customers by both pre and post-sales teams.
  • Improved Implementation transparency for leadership and both internal and customer stakeholders.

Manager, Onboarding Services

June 2021 - July 2021

Built the Professional Services Onboarding Services Team, based on collaboration with Onboarding and Migrations teams; Increased delivery teams’ efficiency by automating processes and integrations, collaborating with team leads and leadership; Product manager for internal systems and tools, worked side by side with engineering to update and improve team efficiency and experience; Implemented and administered Jira instance for the Customer Success organization managing Professional Services automations, integrations, permissions, and project configurations.

Manager - Professional Services Migrations

2018 - Present

Cultivated the Professional Services Migration Program including fostering partner relationships; developing and automating processes; collaborating on pricing and packaging, marketing materials, and internal and external documentation; mentoring team members to improve program efficiency, develop and refine their skills, and contribute to internal promotions. Manage 100% remote global teams, both direct and indirect, including OKRs and KPIs.

  • Awarded 2020 and 2021 Lightning Awards
  • Awarded 2021 Golden Pagoda Award

Enterprise Onboarding Manager

2017 - 2018

Collaborated with enterprise customers to decrease time to first value, leading site migrations and training users on platform best practices; Shaped and defined the Migrations program; Revised onboarding curriculum utilized across the team to restructure customer onboarding process.

Customer Success Engineer

2016 - 2017

Coordinated with platform teams to implement product changes and new tools including Let’s Encrypt certs for all sites, platform migration to GCP, and introduction of Intercom for chat support; Created and revised internal and customer-facing documentation on new or updated product features.

  • Earned Top CSE Award for resolving the most issues 2016, 2017.
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Additional Experience

Project Manager and PHP Developer - Freelance Contractor (Remote)
Developer and Team Lead - Singlebrook Technologies (Ithaca, NY)
Sr. Project Manager and Site Developer - Ancient Wisdom Productions (Ithaca, NY)
Project Director - Harmonica, LLC (Remote)
Integrated Systems Specialist - Performance Systems (Ithaca, NY)
Sales and Marketing Manager - fP Technologies (Remote)

Education

MSc in Computer Infomation Systems

2016 - 2017

Agile Software Development
Business Data Communications and Networks
Database Design and Implementation
Enterprise Architecture
IT Project Management
IT Strategy and Mangement
Information Structures with Java
Information Systems Analysis and Design
Quantitative Methods
Web Application Devlopment

PhD Candidate - Philosophy, Interpretation, & Culture

2001 -

Writing as a Form of Resistance in Neocolonial Life.

BA in General Studies, minor in Philosophy

1997 - 2001

Primary focus in Secondary Education, Literature, History, and Philosophy

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Presentations

Composing Continuously
WPCampus 2019
Use Cases and User Stories: Tell the Full Story
Drupaldelphia 2019, DrupalCamp Belarus 2019, DrupalCon US 2019, DrupalCon Europe 2019
Getting Started with Git
Cornell DrupalCamp 2017
Engaging Support Systems
Cornell DrupalCamp 2016, BadCamp 2016, NYCCamp 2017
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