Adam Thomas

Experience

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  Columbia University

  Instructor

  Jan 2024 - Present

  Teaching graduate students in Columbia University's School of Professional Studies (SPS). The students I teach are going for their M.S in Technology.

  • Currently teaching a class on AI/ML
  • Currently teaching a class on Emergent Technology
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  SmartRecruiters

  Lead Product Manager

  Feb 2021 - Jan 2023

  Managed 8 product teams across two portfolios.

  • Spearheaded team growth from 6 to 30, driving over $50M in annual revenue.
  • Hired to realign product operations and enhance market share.
  • Implemented strategic product enhancements and analytics-driven initiatives, increasing market share by 10%.
  • Led team expansion, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
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  Informed.co

  Director of Product

  Jun 2018 - Dec 2019

  Managed the entire product organization with P&L responsibility.

  • Revitalized engineering and product development, tripling output.
  • Tasked with expanding the consumer portfolio and improving operational efficiency.
  • Adopted Agile and LEAN, expanding the product portfolio from one to three.
  • Built and mentored a cross-functional team, enhancing feature usage and improving NPS from 15 to 40.
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  Philosophie (Accelerate) by Infobeans

  Product Strategist

  Jan 2017 - Feb 2018

  Philosophie (Accelerate) by Infobeans is an end-to-end design firm that helps companies build products that they love.

  • I worked in a small, agile team along with the client(s), a designer, and developers to define and create a product that aligns with customer needs and business objectives.
  • * Conduct stakeholder and customer/user interviews and conduct competitive analysis for a variety of clients ranging from Google, PwC, and Sky Telecom.
  • * Lead collaborative workshops to define product vision and goals with clients like Turner Broadcasting.
  • * One of the UX leads for a client's 9 figure project where I created and executed research studies.
  • * Built Philosophie's "UX Stack" a methodology around research at Philosophie.
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  DTCC

  System Architect

  Jun 2014 - Jan 2016

  With 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes and bringing increased security, enhanced resilience and soundness to financial markets. In 2022, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $2.5 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $72 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 17.5 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. View our Social Media Community Rules of Engagement: https://www.dtcc.com/press-room/social-media-rules-of-engagement

  • Part of a small team that delivered long-term strategy and implementation of enterprise software/hardware and network for a group of mainframes that was responsible for the passage of up to 1.8 quadrillion dollars annually.
  • * Led the direction of five software products, determining installation, implementation, and support strategy.
  • * Led two clean-up efforts that saved the company $40k annual savings.
  • * Supported disaster recovery with a 100% pass rate from external auditors.
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  DTCC

  System Programmer

  Jun 2010 - Jan 2016

  With 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes and bringing increased security, enhanced resilience and soundness to financial markets. In 2022, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $2.5 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $72 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 17.5 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. View our Social Media Community Rules of Engagement: https://www.dtcc.com/press-room/social-media-rules-of-engagement

  • Part of a small team that delivered long-term strategy and implementation of enterprise software/hardware and network for a group of mainframes that was responsible for the passage of up to 1.8 quadrillion dollars annually.
  • * Handled 24/7 Support for Mainframe.
  • * Learned Disaster Recovery (DR) best practices by providing Mainframe.
  • * Programmed (using REXX/Java) automation routines.
  • * Provided support for High Output Printing Support (VPS).
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  The Gamer Studio

  Founder

  Jun 2008 - Jan 2013

  or some time, we've felt that there just wasn't enough gaming news websites in existence. Yes my friends, that is indeed a joke. What separates us from the likes of other groups, is our desire to have fun. The gaming industry has recently turned into a massive economical powerhouse, meaning the nasty face has come out to play. Step in with us, and rekindle the love for gaming, and the pleasure that it brings.

  • * Managed a staff (30 contributors).
  • * Handled advertising and business inquiry (Ad Buys).
  • * Did front (led HTML/CSS design effort 7 redesigned) and backend development (built a CMS in PHP).
  • * Growth hacking techniques (From 0 to 10k Uniques per day).