Alex Isken

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- Led the development and launch of an internal, wine-centric data analytics platform, used for the ongoing evaluation of product development - Collaborated with internal teams to define, prioritize, and deliver BI reporting needs - Defined requirements for data pipeline transformations & new data ingestion projects

- Developed and executed go-to-market strategy for Datadog SaaS, with a focus on AIOps, K8s, and incident management - Brought incident management to market in August 2020 - Designed and taught technical sales enablement courses for new product launches and competitive intelligence - Ran a technical deep dive + product demo certification process for global commercial sales team - Crafted assets cross-functionally with other marketing teams: written case studies, video testimonials, webpages, landing pages, etc. - Developed product demo flows for conferences & trade shows, including the new feature launch demo for Re:Invent 2019 - Organized Product Marketing planning efforts for product demos at Dash 2020

- Built a cloud (AWS+Azure) financial model for 2019, outlining requirements for $12MM+ in cost savings, published to the CIO - Cut $387,000 in annual cloud spend via S3 optimization pilot project, publishing an internal S3 optimization whitepaper in the process - Manually audited and integrated cloud platforms for 7 U.S. & Int’l acquired companies - Responsible for continuous data analysis (SQL + Athena) on cloud spend & cloud utilization data to find areas for opportunity and optimization

Rotation 4: Technical Product Manager (Milan, Italy) - Transformed a waterfall development team into a fully-Agile Scrum team - Translated requirements from Product & Engineering teams and architected technical features as part of development of a new global data ingestion system - Coordinated international Product & Operations teams across the U.S. and Europe to align stakeholders and conduct UAT, creating a feedback loop to the dev team Rotation 3: General Mills Innovation Client Consultant (Minneapolis, MN) - Queried and modeled Nielsen data to create and present several end-to-end product line studies with action recommendations to the client - Co-developed an extensive ad-hoc study on emerging food brands for client strategy Rotation 2: Technical Product Manager (Tampa, FL) - Led a 12-developer Agile team to replatform an $80MM product from Oracle to PostgreSQL and Java to Spark+Hadoop with 0 production impacts - Built product roadmaps and owned a JIRA board end-to-end through 2 planning increments, with high quality standards for acceptance criteria and requirements - Collaborated with Product Leadership to design product renovations and new features based on company data assets and competitive product research Rotation 1: Cloud Engineer (Tampa, FL) - Deployed 15 Lambda microservices (Python+Boto3) to production AWS environments for security and compliance automation - Architected and deployed a cloud financial dashboard using microservices + Spotfire

- Managed a staff of 16 Desk Receptionists. Responsibilities included interviewing, hiring, training, and supervising - Tracked and reported all facilities-related concerns within Abbotsford Hall - Tracked and distributed all building keys - Worked in conjunction with building staff including Resident Assistants, mechanics, and custodians

- Worked with sell side investment research to model company financials and pitch-out stock ideas to the equity team - Built a pricing model for municipal debt offerings using historical state finance information