Director, Product

500px provides businesses with on-demand custom photography solutions, as well as quality stock imagery. 500px also provides a platform for photographers to grow their skills, increase their exposure, and earn money through selling their photos or completing custom photography assignments

Responsibilities include:

• Working closely with 500px executives to provide leadership and guidance to the team (product, design, and engineering) and instill accountability and ownership in achieving business KPIs
• Developing the product strategy for 500px’s enterprise products and services
• Leading the strategy, prioritization, and execution of initiatives that drives the growth of 500px's photo licensing (Marketplace) and custom photography (Assignments) businesses
• Developing and continually improving upon product management and design processes
• Developing designs and requirements for features needed to satisfy clients’ unmet needs and working with a cross-functional team to build, test, learn, and go to market

• Managed several of 500px’s high-impact initiatives, including new pricing and licensing structures, ID verification, and the unification of 500px community and marketplace platforms
• Evolved 500px’s enterprise asset management software from beta, to one used by its largest clients
• Worked closely with 500px innovation teams to incorporate machine learning and topic modeling algorithms into 500px Marketplace search

Director, Solutions

(reporting to CEO & President of ERTH Corporation)

EBTi provides business process outsourcing services, billing, and market connectivity solutions, as well as web-based productivity tools, to energy marketers and utilities in North America

Responsibilities include:

• Identifying new business opportunities and providing business solutions in conjunction with guidance on implementation and schedule
• Leading discussions with potential customers; presenting customer feedback and business cases to appropriate stakeholders
• Assisting with responses to RFPs, client proposals, and the development of the overall company long-term and short-term strategies
• Creating mock-ups and prototypes, and coordinating with development, quality assurance (QA), and operations teams for resources
• Coordinating first-time installation, evaluation, support, and development of new features, modifications, and revisions to ensure continuing success of the products
• Implementing new processes to streamline and minimize repetition or duplication
• Working closely with Client Services team as well as EBTi clients to gather information about customer needs and pain-points
• Managing EBTi’s Quality Assurance and Business Analysis teams

• Product Manager for EBTi’s US market services, which successfully launched in states of Pennsylvania and New York in 2013 as well as EBTi’s online suite of applications, which successfully launched in Ontario in 2013. Was also responsible for creating the original prototype and initial front-end design of the application
• Heavily involved in the development of EBTi’s 5-year strategic roadmap
• Currently responsible for re-structuring EBTi’s QA department in order to increase efficiency while maintaining high quality

Manager, Retail Markets

(reporting to Sr. Vice President & GM of EBTi Toronto)

• Identified new products and services that can utilize existing processes and systems
• Developed business cases and assist with negotiations
• Identified third party solutions and partnering opportunities
• Initiated proactive customer contact and established alliances with potential business partners to grow the company’s services and products
• Consistently developed and expanded existing and new client relationships
• Ensured clients were trained on the effective use of products and services within the areas of responsibility
• Led ERTH Corporation’s Blue Ocean Strategy committee

Manager, Energy Market Operations

(reporting to Vice President, Energy Markets)

• Managed the Ontario operations teams, meeting all product and service delivery obligations (team of 12 individuals)
• Was responsible for setting department budgets, timelines, resources, and metrics
• Represented the company at the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) working group committee
• Prepared and reviewed clients’ monthly invoices
• Worked with both clients and SPi development team to create high-quality products and services
• Performed reviews, goal assignments, recruitment, staff career planning, and other HR related activities
• Was involved in strategic decision-making and overall management of the company

Web Designer

(part-time, reporting to CEO)

• Re-designed Teltub’s customer portal, as well as Teltub’s home page
• Worked closely with the CEO to design and develop landing pages for Teltub’s new products

Advanced Competitive Strategy

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Negotiation and Leadership

Harvard Law School

What Managers Can Learn from Great Philosophers

École Centrale Paris

Blue Ocean Strategy

UCSI - Toronto

Influence Skills: Getting Results Without Direct Authority

Learning Tree - Toronto

Bachelor of Mathematics, Honours Computer Science

University of Waterloo
Software Engineering Option