Accelerating the adoption and application of AI across Corporate Engineering by providing strategy, enablement and reusable capabilities

Generative AI | Enterprise AI | Agents | Blockchain

Transforming Google as an enterprise with AI

Driving amazing mobile commerce experiences and solutions

Mobile commerce startup that leveraged the phone number to create a 1 Touch Checkout process on mobile devices. By authenticating the user via the mobile operator, Payfone significantly reduces the potential for fraud, lowers checkout friction, increases conversions and drives mobile commerce revenues for merchants, operators and issuers

• Established the product strategy and concept for emerging consumer product services across multiple channels including online, in-social, on mobile and face to face

• Established consumer product strategy for Visa digital wallet. Drive execution and commercialization of Visa digital wallet

• Identified, evaluated and prioritized opportunities for emerging and developed markets

• Evaluated partnership opportunities

• Represented Visa in several speaking engagements

• Previously, Head of Mobile Money Transfer, Global Mobile team

• In previous role, developed mobile payments strategy for Visa and commercialized Visa’s first mobile services in the US through launch of Visa Mobile applications

• Member of Telstra Executive Team

Led team of 16 professionals, with direct responsibility for

• Product Management portfolio that spans wireless email, enterprise messaging, wireless business applications and mobile payments

• Mobiles Marketing for Enterprise & Government mobiles business (manage $1million+ marketing budget)

• Manage several key partner relationships for Telstra spanning email, messaging and wireless business applications

• Launched Telstra’s wireless business application partner program and innovative solutions in several fast growing product categories including mobile payments, Location Based Solutions (LBS), mobile field sales and service automation, fleet management, and messaging applications

• Received Group Managing Director award for outstanding contribution to Telstra Enterprise & Government in 2007-08

Lead multi million dollar Field Force Enablement product group at Sprint (over 20 partners and 30 products) that includes: Field Service Automation, Sales Force Automation, Wireless Payments, Supply Chain & Delivery Management

• Doubled product group revenues within 12 months.

• Develop sales training, gather competitive intelligence, conduct training sessions and provide sales support for strategic accounts

• Launched Nextel’s wireless payments product line.

• Launched Sprint’s first “Field Service In A Box” offering which bundled voice, data and a field service application.

• Define product strategy and roadmap for Sprint’s Field Force Enablement product line.

• Define application and other product requirements and identified prospective vendors that meet those requirements. Conduct business and technical evaluation of vendors, negotiate business terms, build business cases, and launch applications.

• Manage headcount

Unwired Express provided software that delivered relevant, timely and actionable information to enterprise customers with a significant mobile workforce. Responsible for product life cycle from inception through product launch.

• Defined product requirements including product vision, release contents, packaging, documentation, and user experience

• Developed collateral including product data sheets and white papers

• Authored strategic planning presentations that were presented to senior management and board members

• Gathered, synthesized and interpreted qualitative, and quantitative data about wireless technology to determine new market opportunities. Opened up new market opportunities by identifying a $500 million market (sales force effectiveness product)

• Designed mobile CRM applications for field sales and field service and vertical CRM solution

• Identified opportunities for entry into location based services market

Worked in the New Media and Communications Group for this billion dollar firm. Extensive experience in the analysis, design, integration and management of large-scale customer care and billing systems. Have a breadth of knowledge in wireless, cable, internet and telephony businesses in North America and Europe and have worked on projects internationally. Have been a team leader and a project manager.

• Led effort as eBusiness Architect in helping a global voice/data/IP solutions provider define its CRM/eCRM strategy and in the CRM/eCRM RFP process for vendor selection.

• Assisted business development and marketing efforts for the Eastern Region.

• Lead Functional Architect for a project for a major nation-wide integrated communications provider of Internet, Telephone and Cable services. Performed a high-level current system state evaluation and recommended COTS packages for sales, order entry, order management, customer service trouble management, circuit inventory, and billing.

Assisted in underwriting loan facilities for cable, cellular and paging companies that ranged from $5 million - $2 billion, structured complex loan transactions, conducted competitive analysis, developed detailed financial projections, and analyzed industry risks to facilitate lending decisions strategy

• Worked with Executives (as part of the Strategic Plan) to risk rank outstanding debt in conjunction with setting portfolio limits

• Continued this job as a telecommuter starting May 1994 while pursuing an M.S. in Information Networking full-time at Carnegie Mellon University