Product Development Sales

Summary: demonstrated influence over software development life cycle (SDLC) and product management. Applies an entrepreneurial spirit and sense of urgency to enhance user experience. Values and promotes common vision and eagerly pursues new aptitudes. Proficiencies include Flask, Jinja, postgres, CSS, python, node js, ruby, C#, and ruby on rails.

Work Experience

CONNECTWISE CONTROL, Raleigh, NC

Business Analyst, 01/2017 to Present – Formalize, influence, and accelerate the SDLC for this developer of remote support solutions.

Bolster Product Development’s technical capabilities and encourage greater collaboration with Product Management

Encourage culture of change and process improvement

Restructure and lead ideation meetings with C-suite and senior developers and product development reviews to assess user-gap reports from Sales and project status

Manage iOS projects and central transactional system

Monitor competitors and industry trends

Key Initiatives

Conduct extension development, including current construction of an RSS parser in C# and JavaScript that uses an async method to download XML data and a System.Linq class to parse and match common XML elements; extension will accept both Atom- and RSS-type feeds and correctly respond to their respective formats

Implement new product features, including 8 within five months after hire that are highly rated by end users

Work with a team of 5 developers acting as a managing BA

DUDE SOLUTIONS, Raleigh, NC

Account Representative, 06/2016 to 01/2017 – Generated 94 new-business opportunities and $27k in revenue within seven months of hire.

REACTIVITY MEDIA, Hickory, NC

Advisory Board Member & Business Development Lead, 01/2016 to 06/2016 – Tasked with taking digital advertising and community branding kiosk to market. Sourced licensors, partners, government decision-makers, and HR executives. Advised product-market fit, features set, and business strategy.

Education & Professional Development

APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY, Boone, NC

MBA in International Business, 2015

UNIVERSITÄT MANNHEIM, HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT zu Berlin,

Berlin, Germany – Study Abroad, 01/2015 to 06/2015

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Columbia, SC

BS in Biology (Chemistry Minor), 2012

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Ruby on Rails Course, Tech Talent South, 2017; Python Course, Thinkful Coding Bootcamp, 2016 & 2017

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