I couldn't be prouder to have served with Peace Corps to Ukraine as an economic development volunteer.

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Served as volunteer translator for newly arrived Russian speaking refugees to the United States; primarily from Afghanistan and Iran. 

Role included  'adopting' families and helping them to assimilate to life in the United States. 

This included everything from introducing them to concepts like navigating a  US grocery store, to translation services between social workers and the families themselves. Would also work with children to help advance their English language skills and perform other miscellaneous tasks.

The time commitment was approximately 2-4 hours per week

-  Project leadership, primarily around creation and maintenance of financial trading platforms for institutional clients, successfully delivering multi-million dollar projects each year. 
- Factotum role performing facets of project management, product management, business analysis, strategic industry and business intelligence analysis, relationship management, pricing and quote creation
-  Product management of new product development, serving as primary driver for delivery of market-leading new product offerings for the institutional banking financial sector.
-  Hand-selected to perform strategic analysis of industry and environmental factors that would drive company strategy and focus, delivering high-quality reports to upper management.
-  Serves as relationship manager to clients representing approximately 50% of incoming company-wide revenue.

- Lead cross-functional teams of twenty plus members to create industry-leading financial research websites and applications for desktop and mobile platforms, including iPhone, Android, and Blackberry applications.
- Manage a portfolio including two Fortune Global 500 financial institutions, actively overseeing and growing $1.5 million annually in service-related revenue.
- Competently serve in all-in-one role as project manager, product manager, account manager, business analyst, and financial data subject matter expert for financial website projects and products.
- Maintained full workload after only 2 months of employment, and publically recognized by senior leadership for excellence through performance during first 3 months with the company.

- Directed product lifecycle development cycle through phases including the business plan, product requirements/validation, development, deployment, and post deployment feedback loops.
- Oversaw SDLC for two critical operational web-based software solutions as the company's first product manager.
- Served as liaison between business stakeholders and application development teams to complete ROI analysis and requirements review for projects and report on project timelines and milestone progress.
- Gathered business functional requirements by engaging the appropriate stakeholders in requirements gathering sessions using various methodologies including use case analysis, business process analysis, and workflow modeling.
- Supervised intensive UAT in the role of UAT Lead for enterprise Salesforce.com, Savvion BPM, and a PeopleSoft integration project, resulting in a functionally sound and successful product rollout.
- Managed the successful rollout and warranty support for two major operat

- Developed business training seminars on effective use of information technology in emerging markets presented to Ukrainian business leaders through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
- Appraised and provided feasibility and sustainability assessments on an average of fifteen technology grant projects per year worth up to $75,000 through the small project assistance (SPA) program.
- Created a Computer-Assisted Language Learning resource manual adopted into core university curriculum.
- Provided approximately 10 hours per week of private consulting sessions on strategic planning and business development fundamentals to small business owners and entrepreneurs.
- Successfully completed full period of service as a Peace Corps volunteer

- Assembled and repaired PCs across a range of hardware and software system configurations
- Web-site design and development for external clients, and created and maintained company’s web presence
- Performed direct and phone based sales, serving as subject matter expert on computer related products

<ul><li>Successfully built and lead a high-performing product management organization, driving a focus on feature delivery matching market problems while maintaining a high level of customer-service</li><li>Crafted and drove product-based strategy from inception to execution, leading market opportunity assessment exercises with the senior leadership team to build an achievable and valuable roadmap</li><li>Created and drove adoption of new workflow, documentation, and collaboration processes to drive efficiency throughout the organization - Oversaw successful launch of a satellite office and drove towards a single, shared vision across all team members</li><li>Established a disciplined approach to prioritization and delivery of products and features, as well as regimented process for intake of work across the company</li><li>Reorganize the product and software engineering organization to align with company objectives, while increasing the velocity and quality of delivery</li></ul>

<ul><li>Oversaw all product planning and delivery for company’s primary product, an eCommerce marketplace and platform directed at three distinct audiences: product creators, marketing affiliates, and end customers</li><li>Created and executed product-driven strategies focused on growth through new creator acquisition and “move the needle” initiatives for improving sales funnel conversion, driving double digit EBITDA growth in 2015 and 2016</li><li>Established high-performing product organization with six direct reports, overseeing product management, PMO, technical writing, and product marketing functions</li><li>Delivery of product strategy to internal and external stakeholders, including to the Board of Directors and conference event presentations to audiences of hundreds of current and prospective clients</li></ul>

<ul><li>Oversaw Product, UI/UX, Software Engineering, IT, and Operations; responsible for 50+ team members</li><li>Led revitalization of the technical organization through a laser focus on market-driven product strategy and a culture of empowerment with a consistent, shared vision focused on product-led growth; efforts helped drive to a profitable growth trajectory, leading to a successful exit via acquisition in October 2021</li><li>Drove company roadmap strategy and oversaw execution for full product portfolio, balancing new product development with efforts to address brittle legacy software</li><li>Oversaw all areas of product delivery, from growth and Innovation to core and platform. Work included new product lines (with full P&amp;L responsibility) and conversion / retention technical improvements for existing product lines</li></ul>

- Role expanded to leadership of Software Engineering, IT Operations, and general Operations areas of the company in addition to Product Management

Micah Evans

Results-focused product leader