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An accomplished VP of Technology Product Management with 15 years of experience scaling…
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4½ Simple Rules for Spectacular Presentations
4½ Simple Rules for Spectacular Presentations
By Bruce Allen
Contributions
Activity
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"Our quick wins are leading to a slow death" This was said in a meeting recently. I love it. It's so true in the context of the work that was being…
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Started this morning with a little Plug and Play Tech Center in McKinney, TX. For The #FinTech and #Ai startup meeting. Always a great group of…
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Experience
Education
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Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Managing Products as a Business. Pricing models, business models, transformations, GTM (go to market),partner ecosystems, product evolution.
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Activities and Societies: Performed in 15 plays including lead and supporting roles in major productions and graduate student projects, one each academic quarter.
Cum Laude graduate. 27 graduates from freshman class of 125, 4 with honors.
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Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam preparation including project management concepts, principles, and formulas.
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Post-Graduate/Professional training for first career as a professional actor. Associated with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the conservatory closed in 2012.
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President's Scholarship recipient
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Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Fundraising Events Operations
Malaika Orphanage Children Foundation
- Present 8 years 1 month
Poverty Alleviation
Orphanage in Uganda providing healthcare, education and love to abandoned and abused children in one of the most impoverished areas of the world.
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Technical Theatre and Front of House
Resolute Theatre Project
- Present 8 years 1 month
Arts and Culture
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Production Volunteer
North Central Ballet - Keller, TX
Arts and Culture
Courses
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AWS CloudFormation Best Practices
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Advanced Architecting on AWS
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Advanced Developing on AWS
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Architecting on AWS
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DevOps Engineering on AWS
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PMP/CAPM Certification Exam Prep Course certificate
D & L Training, LLC
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Product Strategy: Discovering, Developing, Managing and Marketing Products as a Business
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Public Speaking at AWS
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Honors & Awards
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AWS ID&E Innovation Fund Award recipient (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion / DEI)
Amazon Web Services
Won cash grant for non-profit training autistic adults for tech careers. Project managed 3-month grant program in which autistic adults built gamified training to reinforce math skills for middle school students. One of 24 winners at AWS in 2023.
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North Texas LEAD (Leaders & Executives Advocating Diversity) Endorsed Candidate
North Texas LEAD
Recognized for building, promoting and advocating a diverse workforce through hiring practices, education and volunteering. Record of hiring with DEI sensitivity to ensure multiple backgrounds have voices on the team.
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Top 10 Beta Team Contributor - Microsoft VFP 8.0
Microsoft Corporation
Recognized by Microsoft as a Top 10 contributor on the Visual FoxPro 8.0 Beta Team. Award bestowed based upon the number of unique, verifiable and reproducible bugs reported in pre-release builds of the product.
Participated by invitation alongside book authors and international speakers in this private Beta program.
Organizations
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Amazon People with Disabilities (PwD)
Board Member
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North Texas LEAD (Leaders and Executives Advocating Diversity)
Endorced Candidate
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North Texas SQL Server Users Group
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Actors Equity Association
Member - Stage Manager & Actor
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DFW FoxPro Users Group
President, Treasurer, Program Chair, Presenter
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