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About Me
Product Strategist with 14+ years of experience
in delivering on-time, customer centric
technology products
Big picture leader in designing and launching award
winning products used by millions of customers at IBM,
AMEX, and Sprint
Continual accolades for excellence, plus across-the-
board top 10% rankings in MBA, engineering,
employment reviews, and promotion honors
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Strategic Leadership
Thought leader adept at making strategic and tactical
decisions
Vision creation and execution
Ability to manage priorities, balance competing demands
and make difficult trade‐off decisions
Created talented & loyal teams by mentoring resources
with consistent motivation, management and continual
education in best practices
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Understands Customer Needs
Obsessed about customer needs and not product features
Always treated customer experience as a competence and
not a function
Reinforced brand with every interaction and not just
communications
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Monetizing Product Concepts
Customer discovery and validation
Concept development and testing
Iterative Vs Incremental user business
desirability viability
development approach
Focus on Minimum Viable Product
(MVP) delivery technical
feasibility
Concept-to-launch execution using
Agile framework
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Problem Solver
Results focused with
entrepreneurial “can do - will do”
attitude
Always focused on identifying the
root cause of the problem before
trying to solve it
Challenge the status quo and
seek improvement at every
opportunity
Doer of stuff who can get things
delivered
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Technologist
Takes holistic view and understands the impact of
technology on product decisions
Partnered with executive & IT leadership to develop
viable technology growth plan
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Awards & Recognition
Dalton Penn Award for best content portal
IBM Bravo Award
IBM Award for Exceptional Customer Service
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