Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Trusted partner and organizational leader, with over 20 years of experience between Fortune 10, tech startup, and private-equity-backed companies. Someone who is just as comfortable sitting in executive discussions as standing at a dry-erase board with engineers and designers. This comes with an understanding of what success looks like and the diversity of organizational roles that need to come together to deliver it. My responsibilities included managing multiple product lines of development and coordinating with marketing, sales, and support groups. I have a strong, proven track record of home-grown innovation, mentoring leaders, and managing risk through over a decade of agile development. Creator of Facelets, a web development technology used in JavaServer Faces (along with driving other features and optimizations of the platform in AJAX and state management). I also co-authored the Unified EL implementation used in Java EE; this led to also working on Apache Tomcat's Jasper compiler. Specialties: E-commerce, knowledge-based systems, usability and design, and architecture. Experience with PCI and HITECH rules and compliance.
Leading a comprehensive portfolio of products and experienced leaders focused on enabling the digital changemakers, with collaboration, devops, testing, dataops, and platform automation.
○ Managed six different product teams that collaborated with hundreds of global engineers. ○ Launched machine learning, AI search, and audience discovery capabilities in content and commerce ○ Operated in a general manager capacity, overseeing P&L, marketing, pricing, and sales/partner enablement. ○ Negotiated many large contracts with vendors and service providers, improving overall company opex ○ Led strategic partnerships and positioning with companies, such as Microsoft and emerging ISVs ○ Regular public speaking events, customer engagements, and thought leadership articles published
○ Transformed competitive go-to-market strategy and product roadmap, enhancing market differentiation. ○ Aligned customer engagement between engineering, services, and support groups ○ Established adjacent, ISV partnerships and became a member of the emerging MACH Alliance ○ Led discussions with analysts and investors, showcasing enterprise-level maturity and product strategy. ○ Was acquired by Sitecore within seven months of taking on the Chief Product Officer role
Managed multiple development groups and strategically plan and organize solutions across the business in order to lead through differentiated value with customers. Responsible for architecture, infrastructure, and change control for the primary revenue channel for our business unit, among other customer-facing solutions, including SaaS, analytics products, and both B2B and B2C commerce channels.