University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business

IE (Instituto de Empresa)

The George Washington University

15+ Year Product Management Pro  -  Business, Data, Tech Savvy  -  Team Leader

Seattle, Washington, United States

Product leader for a division of a publicly traded e-commerce company with 6M+ active users
- Leader of multiple product teams of product, software engineering, design and data science
- Manager of product managers - hiring, coaching, mentorship and career development

Lead Product Manager, Marketing Technology (promoted)
-       Owned entire MarTech software stack including customer acquisition and lifecycle programs
-       Shipped 100+ products including extensive work in customer experience and enterprise-class tools

Zulily

Manager, Product Management - Marketing, Data & ML

Go-to-market planning and project delivery for a start-up focused on the sharing economy
- Built and launched a market test through an e-commerce website, 12 partners and 4 retail locations
- Prototyped product concepts, conducted customer surveys and evaluated business models
- Designed services, sourced suppliers and developed partnerships to facilitate product launch

Sharing Economy Start-up

Head of Marketing/Technology

Marketing director for an Internet Retailer Top 500 and Forbes Most Promising Company
- Managed performance marketing staff to improve profitability to highest level in company history
- Innovated online advertising strategies to increase customer acquisition year-over-year by leveraging analytics, personalization, attribution and A/B testing
- Implemented programmatic acquisition marketing solutions to improve ROI, marketing operations and customer experience

Ritani

Director of Customer Acquisition

Global manager of Search Engine Marketing & Marketing Science
-  Awarded as Critical Talent for leading technical and business teams to grow channel revenue 30%+ year-over-year
-  Innovated in algorithmic marketing (3 patents pending) by leveraging data science, big data, operations research, machine learning and personalization

Product Manager, Marketing Technology (promoted)
-  Awarded as Shooting Star and had several products featured at all-company meetings
-  Guided agile software development for globally distributed engineering teams

eBay

Sr. Technical Product Manager - Marketing Technology

Finalist for the TechStars/Microsoft Accelerator (top 20 out of 600+ applicants)
-  Managed a cross-functional team across design, marketing, sales and development
-  Analyzed customer needs, market size, growth potential, competitive outlook, revenue model and financials

Results Logic LLC (SEO software startup)

Founder (TechStars finalist)

Led team inventing mobile features for a product used by 95% of the Fortune 1000
- Presented product improvements to CEO Virginia Rometty based on their strategic importance
- Designed new mobile applications for IBM’s Information Management System
- Created marketing plan, published sales collateral and produced demonstration videos

Extreme Blue MBA Intern (IBM's flagship)

Business development for a global systems integration firm specializing in Microsoft technology
-  Analyzed acquisition options for the executives who purchased Ascentium’s Microsoft Dynamics business

Avanade

M&A Strategy Consulting - MBA Team Leader

Marketing program manager for the largest wealth management firm in the country (promoted)
- Led cross-functional team to improve direct response programming to 100% fulfillment of sales targets, an improvement of 11% without an increase to the national budget
- Co-developed market segmentation plan that resulted in a 33% increase in clients/lead year-over-year
- Created media plan and promotion for NY Times Best Seller Five Signs of Financial Fraud by Ken Fisher

Client Services Associate (Feb. '07 - Aug. '08)
Established and maintained $1 million relationships and $40B in assets under management at brokerage firms

Stephen Simburg