My Story
Every product leader has a unique story and path. Mine started as an architecture student and an almost accidental class in the journalism school. At the time, I used a computer for word processing and I had just received my first school authorized email account. I did't use it.
1994 : Journalism 101 : Intro to The World Wide Web
My junior year at CU Boulder, I signed up for a crash course on the internet. It sounded interesting but was really just an easy elective and something I knew absolutely nothing about. The first week of class a new program called Netscape was released in beta. It fundamentally changed user experience of the web forever. That same semester, I built a 5 page website in place a 50 page thesis on the impact of ancient planning on modern civilization. It was the first time the professor had "surfed the web" and it set my career path.
1995 - 1998 : CPS Design - My First Company
Following my recent success at dodging a very lengthy thesis, I started taking on clients the following semester. Over Christmas break, I landed my very first customer. A local bank. I soon found a few others that had heard of the web and wanted in. I soon had a booming business. Well, honestly, website were pretty simple back them. This was a little more than a one man show. I made some money my last year of collage and had a nice little business running when I left school.
1997 - 1999 : Conference Planners - My First Job
I joined GPJ and shaped how they delivered conference registration tools. This was during a time when most event organizers still preferred registration by fax, phone and mail. My team delivered registrations products for large technology conferences for companies like PeopleSoft and Cisco. One of my home brewed projects was called the "onsite website". We build a website to be used on the terminals around the venue at Cisco Networkers in Las Vegas. Attendees used this site to access maps, the agenda, and session information. It was a first of it's kind in the conference industry. It was really just a reformatted version of the conference website!
1999 - 2008 : WolfSmith Media - My Second Company
My second company.
2008 - 2010 : Salesforce Video
Salesforce Video
After selling WolfSmith to an employee I joined Salesforce at an exciting time. I was looking for an opportunity to build my business acumen and I landed in the right place. Soon after joining the marketing team, I became the product owner of the corporate home page and login page. I landed this responsibility because I have extensive experience with Macromedia Flash. And ...gulp.... the salesforce homepage used Flash heavily at the time. This provided me the opportunity to work directly with senior execs. Ultimately, I also became product owner for all video used within marketing, sales and support.
2010 - 2013 : Salesforce Files
My first "real" job.
2013 - 2014 : Prosperworks CRM
Amazing Product. Amazing Plan. Not a good fit.
2014 - Present : Ideator
Innovation networks. Created from the ground up. Our biggest customer is Blackstone.
My Work
Now that you have my story, here are some of projects I have worked on over the years.
Files : One platform for all Salesforce files
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