Jim Goode

Hired as a contractor and quickly brought on board as a permanent employee to round out a very strong Product team. Author requirements documents for quick development cycles. Work closely with qa, development, marketing, and management to meet and report upon release goals and deadlines with emphasis on quality, stability, and user acquisition, retention, and engagement.

• Manage product features, design, and development through quick release cycles
• Author PRD and interaction design documentation and prototype designs
• Interface with executive team to develop features and functionality to meet all business objectives (marketing, advertising, partner relations, end user, internal programming systems)
• Collaborate with Metrics/Analytics teams to define KPIs and create reports
• Circulate status and weekly/semi-monthly/monthly product reports
• Monitor relevant business metrics including trending, spiking, and other KPIs
• Translated user and partner needs into relevant product features and enhancements
• Coordinated development, qa, and marketing efforts across regionally diverse teams located in Los Angeles and St Petersburg, RUS
• Solidified Partner Ingestion processes and simplified feed mechanisms to 99.7% accuracy rate
• Key Products:
  • Partner Ingestion and content management systems
  • Groups - user role-based collaborative video collections
  • 2008 Social Newsfeed - sitewide friend activity summarization
  • 2008 Homepage with featured, popular, and content summaries and account dashboard
  • 2007 Integrated Yahoo! Toolbar into VeohTV installer

Developed MRD and PRD for internal tools, variable data printing tools, and cross-platform plug-in tools. Worked with engineering and marketing to bring conceptual prototype to production in short cycles. Further developed product enhancements and Software as a Service model for scalable B-to-B deployment.

• Worked with senior management to realize market value and revenue opportunities for product enhancements and new products
• Lead product design of need-based software enhancements
• Documented detailed feature goals and product needs
• Managed product announcements and marketing including email campaigning, online webinar, collateral development, and ongoing product communications
• Led conceptualization, prototype design, and html/css coding for "first of its kind" ASP and .NET application
• Collaborated with regionally diverse groups of engineers and senior architect to rapidly develop and deploy software and enhancements
• Served as the company-wide XHTML and CSS expert, offering expertise and knowledge to technical support, design, and engineering teams
• Designed and coded XHTML standards compliant Enterprise level online applications and modules
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams for product development, production, support, sales, and marketing
• Developed internal processes for design production team members to use and learn proprietary software tools and resources
• Developed training program and technical support teams for complex online variable data printing software
• Interfaced with client base as tier 3 technical support contact, analyzed design proficiencies and deficiencies and contributed to development of further product enhancements and specifications

Senior marketing designer for an emerging Web 1.0 technology company. Designed, coded, implemented, and maintained the public website, affiliate websites, and e-commerce tools. Designed and produced marcomm literature, signage, and advertising.

• Initiated design, production, and placement of advertising across a variety of periodicals
• Worked with management and business development teams on new product messaging and positioning goals
• Collaborated with consultant and ad agency content development and production teams
• Managed in-house designer and visual messaging in conjunction with corporate messaging goals
• Coordinated various large trade show efforts including advertising, floor-space purchasing, drayage, booth design and graphics production, literature printing, and demo production and sales training
• Coordinated and produced creation of datasheets, white papers, and case studies for all products and product families

• Quickly designed, built, and managed the production of hundreds of product catalogs and marketing materials covering thousands of images
• Improved product speed to market and significantly increased sales revenues
• Designed, built, and maintained the public website
• Image scanning and photo touch-up for image archive
• Established color accurate printing workflow on Xerox devices

• Designed, managed and maintained the public website
• Responsible for custom and high profile paper forms design for fortune 500 clients (ie. tax returns, loan forms, mail order catalog forms, etc.)
• Analyzed client forms for scanning system compatibility
• Streamlined in-house forms production with re-usable form elements
• Managed industry marketing collateral and newsletter