Product Management, Product Development

STEFANOS M. MAKRIS 310-***-****

www.linkedin.com/in/stefanosmakris/ ********.***@*****.***

STRATEGIC PRODUCT INNOVATION LEADER

Drive Successful Execution of Complex, Mission-Critical Cross-Organizational Programs Strong leader, inspirational team builder, product strategist and a curious technologist. Effective change agent, focused on people, organiza- tion and culture. Diversified experience, from start-ups to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. Diverse product experience: B2B, B2C, Cloud, SaaS, APIs. Notable success breaking down silos and driving organizational alignment and synergies. Forward-thinking product leadership approach used to establish customer-centric, value-focused, data-driven product development mindset amongst team. Cross-Functional Organizational Leadership Strategic Product Management Innovation Catalyst Technically minded Agile / Lean Methodologies PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GREEN DOT CORPORATION, San Diego and Pasadena, CA Aug. 2019 – Present Vice President, Product and Technology, Tax Products Group Currently leading the Product Management and Software Engineering teams for the Tax Products Group division of Green Dot.

• Responsible for managing the product portfolio supporting B2B and B2C products and services with annual revenue of $150+M.

• Spearheaded and currently directing the effort to innovate and expand the portfolio beyond the existing market.

• Leading strategic engagement with top-tier consulting firm to improve internal operations and establish new competitive differentiation.

• Established and leading Cloud-First, Data-First forward strategy for TPG. SLALOM CONSULTING, Orange and San Diego Counties, CA Mar. 2018 – Aug.2019 Solution Principal, Data and Analytics

Led the Data Strategy and Modern Data Architecture practice areas for Slalom in San Diego.

• Directed and grew the practice of Data and Analytics consultants.

• Managed client engagements from pre-sales presentations, to statements of work and through final delivery.

• Acted as Solution Owner across multiple engagements, ensuring successful project scoping and excellence in implementation.

• Drove significant year-over-year growth in the San Diego region, enabling Slalom to open a new dedicated local office in 2019. INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT, multiple cities, USA 2017 - Present Google Cloud Solution Product Manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), San Diego, CA Jan. 2018- Mar. 2018 Strategy Advisor for NEXTGEAR SOLUTIONS, Atlanta, GA Oct. 2017- Jan. 2018 TERADATA CORPORATION, San Diego, CA 2015 – 2017

Chief Product Owner, Cloud and Open Platforms

Directed the product and engineering teams tasked with delivering complete Teradata product suite to AWS and Azure marketplaces. Forged partner relationship between Teradata and AWS and Azure teams and instituted a coordinated go-to-market strategy. Coordinated program and feature-level backlog prioritization for non-managed cloud offerings.

• Guided team that successfully delivered Teradata for VMWare (currently in production at multiple fortune 500 customer sites).

• Supervised product and implementation teams that delivered core licensing capability, enabling subscription-based models.

• Completed 8 releases on AWS marketplace, 3 releases on Azure, 3 releases for VMWare, and release of TCore-based licensing, resulting in recapturing 80% of inactive customers, significant new market uptake and boost in brand equity amongst existing base. Chief Technology Officer, Enabling Solutions

Drove technology strategy for all clients and ecosystem applications organization at Teradata Labs.

• Led product and engineering teams and managed the product backlog for 180+ local and off-shore resources.

• Assessed current state and developed target future state, including technology product portfolio rationalization and mitigation of engi- neering inefficiencies and redundancies, resulting in 40% reduction in active projects and 60% operating cost reduction. MITCHELL INTERNATIONAL, San Diego, CA 2008 – 2015

Lead Technical Product Manager, BI and Analytics / Cloud Strategy / Enterprise Architecture Supported strategic enterprise technology initiatives, including partner integration platform, identity access management and next-genera- tion estimating mobile platform (distributed, connection-tolerant architecture). Led Mitchell's Agile transformation effort (SAFe), from intro- duction to full adoption. Advanced Mitchell's enterprise data capability initiative.

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• Provided requirements for PoC on Hadoop Hive, Pig and Spark, spearheading formation of new data science and engineering group.

• Formulated cloud strategy. Specified and executed on multi-stage technical adoption / migration roadmap to AWS, resulting in increased product development agility and better cost management options.

• Managed the turnaround of BI&A department, expanding data science and engineering capabilities across all business units.

• Primary inventor of major differentiating software patent, enabling business continuity during connectivity interruptions. SHOPZILLA INC. / BIZRATE.COM, Los Angeles, CA 2006 – 2008 Director of Product Development, Market Research and Web Engineering Groups Managed public website engineering (including all international derivatives and custom branding), end-user check-out survey framework and customer benchmark reporting and analytics product portfolio. Provided leadership and direction for 30 team members working within mul- tiple areas, including platform group, research BI&A engineering, site development and optimizations, integration and operations.

• Directed integration effort with offshore 3rd-party vendor survey system, delivering service-oriented solution that encapsulated mer- chant rating business logic and data. New system added hundreds of new features at half the cost of the previous solution.

• Attained co-location support of web application infrastructure by leading team in completing large-scale refactoring effort. SYMANTEC, CORP., Santa Monica, CA 2004 – 2006

Manager of Development, Consumer Products and Solutions Division (Norton Product Line) Planned, executed and delivered complex technical projects. Recruited, hired and managed development team of 16 resources. Facilitated group-level architectural council across consumer division.

• Awarded with “Management Excellence” special recognition from Symantec’s CEO.

• Hired and directed team that designed, implemented and delivered next-generation application client framework, establishing founda- tion for all subsequent releases of complete Norton consumer product suite.

• Completed technical due diligence, leading to successful acquisition and integration of 3rd-party UI framework. ADITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

AUTODESK, INC., San Rafael, CA Technical Lead / Senior Developer, AutoCAD Product Line and Research Projects HEWLETT PACKARD, Alpharetta, GA Architect / Senior Software Developer INTERTECH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INC., Atlanta, GA Software Developer Additional past employers include: Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Pouliadis Associates Corp (Greece). EDUCATION

Master’s in Business Administration

UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (expected graduation December 2020) Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Athens, Greece Thesis: Systolic Array Convolution Network Design and Simulation Environment (SADSE) CERTIFICATIONS

MIT Sloan & MIT CSAIL – Artificial Intelligence: Implications to Business Strategy Program 2019 Udacity Computer Vision Nanodegree 2018

Google Certified Professional – Cloud Architect [License: 10975137] 2017 Google Certified Professional – Data Engineer [License: 10975283] 2017 Certified AWS Solutions Architect [License: AWS-ASA-4361 and 6MXCE54CCE11QZ9C] 2014, 2016 AWS Big Data Specialty [License: DFYKBK41K14E1EC0] 2016 Developer Certification for Apache Spark [License: 1.1.0 – 0046] 2015 Snowflake Computing Certified “SnowPro” 2018

PATENTS

Work process collaboration management [US 201******** A1] 2013 Transmittal and archive tool in a sheet set manager for a graphics program [US 200******** A1] 2005 Sheet set manager for a graphics program [US 200******** A1] 2004 Network distributed product manager system [US 7155714 B2] 2002 Reference manager [US 7359914 B2] 2002

STARTUP EXPERIENCE

SVP Engineering – Consumer Healthcare Advantage Joined as Day 1 executive. Bootstrapped the engineering group. Co-Founder and President – Makris-Allan Research Developed Business plan and performed market research. Co-Founder and CPO - SparkScan Led Product Development through 1st MVP. Co-Founder and CTO - CoNet Co-Developed Business plan. Market research. Co-Founder and CTO - SkyFederate Co-Developed Business plan. Guided first MVP.

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