AJ B.

Experience

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  MxP Studio

  Founder, Fractional Product Leader

  Mar 2023 - Present

  Applied research and innovation studio offering advisory, engineering, and design services, utilizing AI-driven digital twin advisors and expertise from seasoned practitioners.

  • Executive advisor and Agile coach, specializing in team development, product roadmap, technology architecture, and strategic planning, achieving an average of 20-50% reduction in time to market and feature development.
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  Amazon Web Services

  Global lead, HCLS Innovation Advisory

  Jan 2020 - Mar 2023

  • Led cross-functional customer product and engineering teams responsible for maturing early-stage initiatives from ideation to pilot product 24-36 weeks.
  • Drove substantial revenue growth across diverse projects, industries, and business models including B2B, B2C, B2B2C.
  • Served as liaison between executives, business, and technology organizations to accelerate the delivery of proof-of-concept and products, achieving time to market reductions as high as 75% in highly regulated markets.
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  Accenture

  Director of Innovation, North America

  Sep 2014 - Jan 2020

  • Held multiple leadership roles requiring $25-50M yearly P&L oversight, resource management, sales, and delivery responsibilities.
  • Established joint delivery and go-to-market partnerships with cloud, technology, GSI, and product companies.
  • Emphasized experience and customer first philosophy, advocating for modern architectures, cloud native, and managed multiple internal engineering teams, partners, and offshore teams.
  • Delivered $100M+ engagement pipeline across North America, and managed $2M/year internal innovation fund successfully building proof of concepts across multiple computer vision, AI, AR/VR, and IoT use cases.
  • Featured speaker at industry and technology conferences, leading C-level workshops on emerging technologies.
  • Drove strategic architecture and solution designs across enterprise-wide initiatives.

• Crown Venture Group

  Founder, President

  Jan 2013 - Sep 2014

  • Founded and scaled a retail chain specializing in bespoke connected lighting solutions, achieving zero to $200k monthly gross receipts across three locations by month three, hiring and training a team of sales representatives
  • Built proprietary IoT signal exhaust sensing hardware enabling customer trend analysis, enhancing sales via targeted promotions and personalized interactions, achieving a 75% return customer conversion rate.
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  LineRocket Entertainment

  CTO

  Jan 2010 - Sep 2014

  • Developed a proprietary HD streaming platform in partnership with Nasa JPL and Amazon Web Services, supporting over 40,000 concurrent viewers across web, mobile, and broadcast, using cloud based real time transcoding network, CDN, and deployed using Cloud
  • Deployed proprietary tap to pay systems, content distribution and management, and variable event pricing models, generating and aggregate of $5M in revenue.
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  Claims Compensation Bureau

  Principal Engineer

  Apr 2008 - Sep 2014

  • Developed the Global Class Action Platform, performing complex securities trading analysis, achieving >60% reduction in manual effort.
  • Developed a sophisticated dynamic SQL solution enabling custom big data queries and algorithms from a point-and-click interface to analyze over 500 million rows of financial trades.
  • Developed industry leading proprietary options trading analysis, improving accuracy of trading analysis by 50%.