Paul Sizemore • 502-475-0069 • PaulSizemore.com •

Relocating to DC

  • Marketing Technologist
  • Solution Architect
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  • Business Architect
  • Project Manager

Professional Experience

Octoprise LLC 2014-current / Louisville, KY / Staffing & Project Development

Marketing Technology Consultant/ Provide a layer of deep product understanding and consulting to clients.

Responsible for Sales, Delivery, Strategy, and Growth

  • Organization Design: As the working group for Wax Communication doubled as a Vendor to Humana, I led the reorganization of the staff structure and created new business processes for the new deliverables.
  • Budget Management: With the expansion of the scope of work for Wax Communication I planned, forecasted, and ensured the weekly reporting of the budget.
  • Project Management: I was responsible for project governance for the Humana Active Outlook web rebuild and a email communication program.
  • Product Development:created the interaction design and provided project management for a platform that integrated an iOS tablet and web application to connect field technicians, sales, marketing, and administrators for beer distributors while creating a streamlined user experience (UX) and supplying managers with a detailed analytics dashboard. Technologies used: Axure, Jira, SOA, API, XCode, Javascript, .Net.
  • Strategic Planning/ Mobile:Gathered business requirements, created strategy, established a roadmap, and created a first generation prototype user interface for a mobile app for the Fund for the Arts.Technologies used: Axure.
  • Product Lifecycle, Leveraging Mobile: Protected legacy revenue of a CD based productby converting to an iOS & Android appfor American Printing House for the Blind.Technologies used: Adobe Captivate.

Community Involvement:

  • Selected and participating in Leadership Louisville Class of 2016.
  • Led a four-part series on the Louisville Entrepreneur Ecosystem.
  • Co-authored a grant application to the Kauffman Foundation on the behalf of the Louisville Mayor.
  • Consistently volunteering consulting hours to Louisville startups.

V-Soft Consulting 2013-2014 / Louisville, KY / Staffing & Project Development

Pre-SalesSolution Architect/ Provide a layer of deep technical understanding and consulting to Sales, Account Managers, and their clients.

Responsible for Key Areas: Sales, Delivery, and Company Strategy

  • Strategies, Agile, Cloud, Mobile:Responsible for marketing, sales, establishing selling techniques, negotiating, and delivery process of the off-shore managed IT services division, and the marketing of the staffing division. Established Agile software development by leveraging Scrum, Kanban and positioned development group as partners to select cloud providers while migrating teams to mobile development.Technologies used: Jira, PhoneGap, XCode, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Cordova,.Net, PHP, AWS.
  • Product Development: product marketing lead, and product manager of key productsincluding a mobile dining solution, a fleet management solution, and service contracts.
  • Successfully recovered the largest staff augmentation account, stale for two years, Trover Solutions.
  • Strategic Planning:Worked with customer Executives, Gartner, and internal stakeholders on gathering business requirements to create technology roadmaps, strategy, and execution plans to maximize value through leveraging existing and new resources in Salesforce, Workday, Azure, and Amazon Cloud.
  • Positioning:Provided lifecycleRFP support including feasibility, project planning, and final review.

Key Strategies:

  • Strategic Planning: Researched, championed, and created a strategic planfor the shift of the CMO’s IT spend outpacing the CIO’s IT spend.
  • Positioning for Mobile Growth:Created and implemented a strategy to compete in the enterprise mobile off shore development market, estimated by Gartner to be 70% of total mobile enterprise spend by 2017.
  • Positioning:Identified and developed key partnerships to protect legacy revenue in a world transitioning to cloud services, including Amazon Partner Network, Rackspace, Workday, Salesforce.

SiriusXM 2012-2013 / Washington DC /Entertainment

Business Solutions Architect/Led the business group that liaisonsbetween the Interactive Marketing department and IT.

  • Strategic Planning:Solved complex digital marketing problems by gathering business requirements, creating prototypes and interaction designs in Axure, consulting with Forrester Research as needed, creating functional requirements, and providing Agile software project plans to the IT department.
  • Mentored and trained a team of analysts to communicate solutionsfor the Interactive Marketing department to IT in actionable project plans. Technologies used: Kony, Java, Fatwire, Oracle, SAP, Axure, Excel, and Microsoft Visio.
  • Key liaison between the Marketing and IT department and repaired strained relations.

Specific Projects Include:

  • Application Design: Through an Agile software process product managed a messaging feature that reduced call center spikes by 75% during application outages.
  • Infrastructure Design: After recognizing business needs, created a system that allowed a new way to manage sports events by unifying the data flows from SAP and Oracle WebCenter Sites / Fatwire to eliminate employee touch points.

Humana 2010-2011 / Louisville, KY/Wellness & Health Fortune 100

Product Lead in the Innovation Center/Led the research, design and development of all the Innovation center’s consumer hardware and the software that supported them.

  • Project & Portfolio Manager:Manager of connected (IoT, Internet of Things) pedometer line that included a complete product lifecycle ofhardware devices and connected software applications. Software included data warehouse, mobile, and desktop products.
  • Business Case Development:Facilitated sessions with internal business partners to gather business requirements for new prototypes that were documented and presented to the Budgeting Committee to progress through a stage-gate process.Technologies used:Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft PowerPoint, Ruby on Rails ROR, PHP, MySql, SQL, .Net, Axure, Jira, VersionOne.
  • Project Management:Managed extensive vendor and clientsupply chain including Chinese & Taiwan suppliers, development firms, US electronic suppliers, The Humana Foundation, Humana Military, and Government Relations to build out & supply products.
  • Product Lifecycle:As projects grew through the innovation lifecycle, defined & completed supporting activities including product roadmaps, defining resource needs, business requirements, migrating to enterprise support, and identifying stakeholders & reporting.
  • Reported toC-level on programs health including key performance indicators, cohort usability, risks and dependencies. Successfully conducted weekly operational meetingsfor stakeholders giving them a hands-on understanding of the program status.

Smoothstone IP Communications, 2010 / Louisville, KY/B2B Cloud Communications & Telecommunications Mid-Stage Start-Up

Marketing & Project Manager/Led the creation of interactive marketing products and graphic design. These efforts included establishing a social media program, creating a content strategy, creating product management framework, andmigrating marketing automation from HubSpot to Marketo and Salesfore.

ViVoconcepts, 2009 / Miami, FL/B2B Marketing Early Stage Start-Up

Project Manager & Lead Developer/Designed and implemented new features for CitrixTraining.com that allowed more efficient lead nurturing through the sales cycle. All development was in ColdFusion.

Kinnser Software, 2008 / Austin, TX/Medical SaaS Early Stage Start-Up, on Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies

Product Manager & LeadDeveloper /Kinnser develops clinical software that automates the claims process for Home Healthcare companies. Key marketing initiatives wasproduct brand alignmentand marketing.

nFusion, 2008 / Austin, TX/Marketing

Project Manager & Lead Developer/Maintained best practices by communicating with the product team, developers and vendors wile working as lead in a ColdFusion environment.

HelloMetro.com,2006-07 / Jeffersonville, IN /Consumer Web Early Stage Start-Up

Technical ArchitectProject Manager / Product Owner for key features, SEO mentoring, managed vendor relationships, and maintained the product roadmap.

Consultant, 2003-2005 / Louisville, KY

  • Norton Hospital, 2005 Financial Services Developer / Provided leadership for a financial application that feed over $1 million postings into a booking application.
  • eVision Services, 2005 Lexington, KY / B2C & B2B Web – Product Developer / Acted as a ColdFusion domain expert and primary Product Developer for a Flash integrated application that was used for project portfolio management and deployed in Home Depot.
  • Peyton's (Division of Kroger), 2005 Louisville, KY/ Pharmacy & Retail Fortune 100 – Project Manager & Lead Developer / Project managed a Financial Services application build that increased Accounts Receivables process efficiency by 66% by automatically providing cross quarter journal entries for over $1 million in trucking back-hauls.
  • Kentucky Museum of Arts and Craft, Kentucky Propane Education and Research Council, Kentucky Medical Equipment Suppliers Association, 2003-4 Louisville, KY / Non-profit / Built and sold a ColdFusion content management solution product.

Finish Line, 2000-2002 / Indianapolis, IN/Intranet, Financial & ecommerce
Digital Project Manager/ Project managed an internal ColdFusion build of an Intranet

Leadership & Professional Development

Project Management:

  • Kentuckiana Project Management Institute’s Region 5 Leadership Training - April (2007)
  • Kentuckiana Project Management Institute’s Board of Directors – VP of Web Integration (2006-2008)
  • Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership: A Project Approach to Improving Schools (2006)
  • 087MBA: Project Management Practicum at University of Louisville Delphi Center (2005)

Product Management:

  • Louisville Startup Weekend: intensive lean startup methodology training over one weekend (2014)
  • Lean StartUp Machine Lean: intensive lean startup methodology training over one weekend (2012)
  • Product Management ProductCamp DC Steering Committee / Marketing (2012)
  • Product Management ProductCamp Steering Committee / Marketing (2008)

Education, Community & Skills Building:

  • Leadership Louisville Class of 2016
  • PubCon Austin 2010 Master’s Training SEO and Social Media Master’s Level Training (2009)
  • Candidate Training: Running for Elected Office - League of Women Voters (2006)
  • Ball State, Liberal Arts, Anthropology & Asian Studies (1993)

Strengths Finder: Futuristic / Strategic / Self-Assurance / Input / Ideation