Product Management and Strategy at IBM Watson

Aligning and driving the overall IBM Watson product strategy.


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Managed the computer vision product Visual Recognition and features at IBM WatsonManaged features for the enterprise search product Watson Discovery


Lead the Watson and IBM Cloud team on&nbsp;Developer Experience, Onboarding, SDKs, Documentation, API Reference, Starter Code and more!Lead a team of developers, built and managed a roadmap to release tools and experiences to clients.Performed growth hacking to improve conversion.
    
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Built the business case strategy and pricing for Watson Assistant and virtual agentsStood up the analytics discipline with product management for Watson


• Led the portfolio and finance team as the focal contact for product related analysis; performed ad hoc analysis on specific products, modeling E/R and P&Ls, Deal Size, and tracking recent acquisitions.• Saved over $2M in royalty costs in 1Q by creating a PV analysis of royalty bearing subscription and  support revenue for particular products and providing our team a means to buy out the royalty contracts.• Prepared CFO with key financial analysis on new product offering releases, upgrades and product end of life/service for meetings in which CFO vote is required to approve.• Create quarterly analysis of each product segment in software brand, highlighting deal size, customer insights, growth rates, geography performance for VPs and managers within software brand.• Reduced 80% of quarterly presentation preparation time by automating processes, utilizing PowerPoint and Excel functions such as Visual Basic, Macros, SQL, Lookups/Indexes, and Pivot Tables.• Coordinated product structure, managing over 200 families of products and the structuring of over 90,000 sellable parts, ensuring accurate measurements for sales and finance.• Trained in Lean Six Sigma process improvement methodology, less than 1% of IBMers chosen.• Selected to be an IBM Mentor and share my experiences and knowledge to incoming employees.
    
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• Achieved 95% forecast accuracy by implementing a method to closely track headcount expense using Hyperion Essbase and various excel functions• Forecasted and tracked over $500K in monthly non-headcount related expenses by initiating meetings with operations and using Hyperion Brio to confirm actual results and creating an outlook for the future• Reduced department labor cost by $200K and saved 12 hours of labor during monthly close processes by automating processes using Excel VBA and optimizing department structures • Led analysts from 8 different geographies in consolidating expense of two software divisions on a month to month basis for two software brands, and presented the results to the Vice President of the brand
    
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•	Self-motivated effort to create, design and print artwork on apparel to sell•	Established exclusive design contracts with varying organizations, both profit and non-profit•	Handled customer orders, shipping, and maintained satisfaction


Supported accountants nationwide with tax, electronic filing, software and systems needs



      Reuters America
  

Develop and apply business plans to help grow practice.Publish and manage research performed by physician.Maintain relationship with primary care physicians.


Work as a consultant at Michigan State University, providing assistance with techonlogy, MSU E-Mail and login systems as well as any other general needs stemming from Professors, Faculty, Guests, and Students.Phone Based SupportIn-Person SupportTroubleshoot Applications and all Current Operating Systems
    
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The nation’s pioneer land-grant university, Michigan State University is one of the top research universities in the world. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, MSU is a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.

Michigan State University

Worked as an Financial Analyst Assistant Intern at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Was exposed to real time trading of stocks, bonds, and options. Learned a great deal about company mergers and acquisitions. Gained experience on being involved with clients and taking responsibility for client portfolios.


Morgan Stanley mobilizes capital to help governments, corporations, institutions and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. For over 75 years, the firm’s reputation for using innovative thinking to solve complex problems has been well earned and rarely matched. A consistent industry leader throughout decades of dramatic change in modern finance, Morgan Stanley will continue to break new ground in advising, serving and providing new opportunities for its clients.

Morgan Stanley is committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have always defined the firm. At its foundation are four core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas and giving back — that guide its more than 55,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 43 countries.


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Interned in the Accounting department of the hospital during its auditing season. Exposed to auditing preparations, tabulating data, preparing ledgers and preparing objects necessary for legal actions.


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