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I played a pivotal role in accelerating Bushel’s growth and driving its mission to disrupt the AgTech sector by digitizing farm operations, streamlining grain buying, and helping farmers improve profitability through smarter tools and market-driven insights. I directed the Data Standardization Program to streamline integrations across 15+ customer ERP systems, delivering a consistent and scalable data model that unified farmer contract data and improved interoperability across platforms and downstream tools. 🔹Simplified farmers’ payment workflows by partnering with company leadership to launch Bushel Pay, released successfully in 2023. 🔹Achieved 97% accuracy in data standardization by managing a cross-functional team of 20+ to develop a natural language model.

- Launched the GrainBridge web app on September, 2020 after joining the company 3months prior - Implemented Scrum and Kanban practices for an evolving product development process moving from static two-week releases to releasing on demand - Build out a Product team supporting Marketing, Product Development, Support, User Research, Design, Project/Program Management, and overall strategy) - Delivered advanced notifications capability in the app - Delivered data-centered feature for benchmarking producers grain marketing performance - Leveraged AWS to proto-type and build out a first iteration of our GrainBridge Data Lake - Rapid iteration on the main user dashboard - Since the GrainBridge launch the team has grown the user base from 0 to 10,000 MAUs (monthly active users)

- Implemented new versions of LucidWorks Fusion, partnering with our vendor to get our platform on the newest capabilities - Built out a search improvements roadmap to maximize value generation from our search capabilities as well as maximize vendor spend - Delivered AutoComplete enhancements contributing over 6 million in incremental yearly revenue - Delivered contextual search enhancements contributing over 2 million in incremental yearly revenue - Delivered SEO, Taxonomy, and Search improvements within the Bluestem proprietary CMS

Built Bluestem’s “Frequently Bought Together” add-ons experience from the ground up, contributing over 5 million in incremental yearly revenue Delivered fixes to support Google PLAs, protecting an 8 million dollar yearly revenue source Launched the Orchard brands (5 seperate websites) on the proprietary Bluestem Commerce

Product Manager of the Content Management System (CMS), Monetization, and News and Content products Successfully delivered 4 new features for a top client of LAKANA’s (Tegna); A/B testing, Content Rights, Facebook Instant Articles, and Semantic Tagging Developed, managed and coached internal teams on process improvement; software release process, road map prioritization, feature request, and 3rd party/partner requirements gathering Served as the product leader for Business Development and core platform upgrades. Lakana was acquired by Nexstar Digital in 2017.

Product Manager for the Shopping Experience (ShopX), Cart and Checkout, and fulfillment teams. Delivered a Real-time Address Validation feature improving tax accuracy; estimated yearly cost savings of $1 million for Digital River Implemented and continued improvements on the Digital River Standard Offering; cut time-to-live for new site launches by 50% Delivered financial analysis, risk assessment, and business value analysis for product build out; including costing of resources, operational savings, and new revenue opportunities Evangelized the go-to-market strategy and vision for end-user feature/functionality Digital River was acquired by private equity firm Siris in 2014.

Implemented checkout workflow changes that resulted in a .42% increase in conversion on Target.com; yearly incremental revenue increase of ~12 million

SuccessFactors was acquired by SAP Product Manager on the Recruiting Marketing team, a SaaS platform that delivered career sites to our clients and drove talent acquisition efforts for end users. Created www.jobs2vets.com contributing multiple hires for SAP clients and job seekers as a free source Delivered key EU cookie law enhancements to the platform to ensure compliance Created and managed a road map process; coached other product teams on building and maintaining road maps Integrated "Apply with Linkedin" for clients career sites

Jobs2web which was acquired by Successfactors.

Maintained all avionics systems on the F-16 Fighting Falcon - flight controls, radar, communication, navigation, fire control, sensors, and all cockpit controls Held a Secret Security clearance for my work with sensitive and FOUO (for official use only) materials Served as a security police officer in support of Operation Enduring Freedom earning the Global War on Terror (GWOT) war-time medal. Active - 2003-2007 Inactive 2007-2011