PROFILE
Highly analytical, innovative, and self-motivated product management
professional with an MBA, a unique combination of market, customer, and
IT knowledge and experience successfully coordinating new product
implementations at a Fortune 100 company.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Self Employed, Boston, MA March 2010 - Present
Independent iPhone OS Developer
. Designed, developed and published applications to the Apple App store
for the iPhone and iPad.
. Coded iPhone applications using the iPhone SDK, Objective-C, C, and
SQL.
. Developed a framework application for the rapid deployment of image-
based games.
COMCAST CABLE, Manchester, New Hampshire October 2007 - May 2009
Associate Product Manager: Comcast High Speed Internet
. Internet product subject matter expert responsible for communicating
key marketing and technical concepts via sales force trainings and
product knowledge presentations.
. Assisted with the management of Comcast's High Speed Internet products
within the company's NorthCentral Division, which serves 4 million
Internet subscribers in the Northeast and Midwest.
. Oversaw the implementation of all new Internet products and services
in Comcast billing systems, ensuring that new products were aligned
with marketing and business requirements.
. Assembled an internal cross-functional team responsible for the
successful rollout of a web-based remote computer support pilot
product throughout Comcast's four New England regions.
. Directly managed the day-to-day vendor relationship for the Comcast
Premium PC Support pilot project.
. Managed ongoing improvements to the Comcast PC Support product set
including changes to user interface, pricing, customer communications
plan and operational procedures.
. Primary Product Marketing and Management representative on division
cross-functional team responsible for the deployment of Internet
speeds based on the Docsis 3.0 standard.
. Coordinated the product deployment schedules of multiple products to
align with customer communications, government relations, public
relations, IT, operations and sales force training.
LYCOS INC, Waltham, Massachusetts Fall 2006 - Spring 2007
Product Strategy MBA Intern
. Developed marketing and product requirements documentation with use
case scenarios for online video social networking product development
and successfully pitched product enhancements to management.
. Formulated strategic product roadmap and specifications for video
product to drive increased traffic and page views in alignment with
legacy product lines.
. Created wireframes outlining changes to the user interface designed to
ensure the continuity of the viewing experience that were later
implemented.
COURIER CORPORATION, North Chelmsford, Massachusetts Summer 2006
Marketing Analyst Intern
. Developed and implemented reporting in Access synthesizing data from
numerous sources used for testing monitoring and adjustment of direct
marketing campaigns and keyword advertising.
. Created web based customer surveys using an online service provider
and formatted them to integrate with branding elements of the Dover
Publications website.
. Researched online catalog solutions in support of company efforts
bring their image libraries online.
. Performed a strategic analysis of the market for digital images in
support of online distribution plans.
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, Boston, Massachusetts
2001 - 2005
Operations Analyst, ActionsXchange (2004-2005)
. Visited financial industry clients to assess their needs and identify
opportunities for service improvements and incremental outsourced
services.
. Responded to client inquiries about ActionsXchange data to guarantee
customer satisfaction.
. Ensured accuracy of corporate action data feeds from multiple vendors
for this division that provides corporate actions processing software
and outsourcing solutions to financial institutions.
. Reduced time for mutual fund database queries from 15 minutes to 5 by
redesigning them.
Senior Pricing Analyst (2003-2004)
. Verified and disseminated accurate net asset values for Fidelity
401(k) fund of funds to internal and external stakeholders nightly,
synthesizing data from Operations, Accounting, and vendor sources.
. Automated the creation of nightly reports sent to clients and
automated the input of financial data to the accounting systems using
MS Excel and the Bloomberg API saving time and increasing accuracy.
Trust Accountant (2001-2003)
. Successfully trained new members of the group and served as workgroup
mentor for new recruits.
. Researched and responded to client inquiries to resolve valuation
discrepancies in financial reporting between asset management,
custodian banks and outside consultants.
. Automated and streamlined reporting processes using Excel and Visual
Basic saving time and money.
EDUCATION
BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, Boston, Massachusetts
Masters of Science Information Systems 2007
Masters of Business Administration 2007
MBA Council Vice President of Marketing
. Leveraged a class based conjoint analysis project to improve event
planning.
. Planned and promoted highly successful and cost effective community
building events for the MBA class while achieving record attendance.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Amherst, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Arts Business Administration, Major in Operations Management,
2001
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Mac OS X: iWork, XCode, Keynote
Windows: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, Visio, Project,
Languages: SQL, Objective-C, C, JavaScript, JSON, VB, HTML