About

Me, really starts with We.

On July 29, 2017, there was no more solidarity me, I married an incredible woman, Lauren and then everything became about “WE”. Further, Lauren blessed me with an incredible son Ezekiel James Buell, born January 9, 2020. WE live in the beautiful (and rainy) Pacific Northwest in Seattle, a place in which I’m proud to call home.

Making the “Right” Turn

In February of 2011, 8 months after graduating from Lycoming College, I packed my bags and decided to move west to navigating my own path. I wanted to get into the tech world in hopes of eventually building my own company and figured I could be most competitive in Seattle, plus I had visited during the summer of '11 and really loved the city. After 2 months of working landscaping jobs and attending every tech event I could find, I got my big break in the form of an interview with a small consulting agency, Ratio, whom I owe much of my success. 6 years later and 15x growth with Ratio, I had the tools to move onto my next adventure, building the Social Impact companies in my vision.

Career Profile

9+ years experience with product management and business development roles in agile, cross platform digital agency delivering positive business outcomes for clients across multiple verticals. Strategic, analytical thinker with ability to execute tactically and lead cross-functional teams to solve complex business and technology problems.

Experience

Product Consultant: JB LLC (Seattle, WA)

January 2016 - Present

9+ years experience with product management and business development roles in agile, cross platform digital agency delivering positive business outcomes for clients across multiple verticals. Strategic, analytical thinker with ability to execute tactically and lead cross-functional teams to solve complex business and technology problems.

• Organized a short term design and development team to re-assess in market iOS application and update client application and backend services

• Responsible for defining product requirements while educating clients on product development lifecycle and agile principles

• Provide technical risk assessment for post-funding iOS, Android and server applications

• Lead branding and marketing for new industry vertical

• Provide marketing strategy and execution for new industry vertical

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Product Strategist: Ratio Cypress, LLC (Seattle, WA)

July 2014 - January 2016

Responsible for leading engineering, design and QA teams through strategic direction for clients and internal projects. Regularly interfacing with clients to help visualize project roadmaps, prioritize requirements and drive business value through multi-screen endpoints.

• Delivered over 40 mobile/ web applications across a variety of industries and platforms

• Serve as strategic lead on projects and new partnership opportunities

• Serve as mentor to junior engineering and design team members

• Drive internal Post-Mortem efforts company wide to enable growth with the company, team and individuals

• Lead research efforts for internal and client “green field” applications

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Client Development & Strategy: Ratio Cypress, LLC (Seattle, WA)

May 2011 - July 2014

During Ratio’s transition from 12 to 120+ employees, I was responsible for client success in a merged sales and product capacity. Worked closely with project teams across PM, Engineering, Design and QA to ensure a coherent product vision, which mapped to client requirements including but not limited to timeline, budgets, OS specific cadence.

• Supported across all areas of Product Lifecycle

• Sales Team representative for defining and role out of new Product Lifecycle

• Rolled out sales process’s and managed several successful campaigns across company and vertical

• Sold and lead Strategy effort with Intel and Startup accounts totaling over 2.5 million dollars in 2 year span

• Trained separately with both Project Management and Quality Assurance teams

• Helped transition flash and web practice into a focused mobile software offering with Director of Delivery

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Co-Founder, CEO: Virtuala, Corp. (Seattle, WA)

July 2012 - May 2014

Beta-launched a mobile web application on iOS and Android, featured in GeekWire. The application used various mobile location technologies to dynamically update virtual Avatar’s on 1st and 3rd party’s based platforms.  Application targeted teens and young adults who were looking for a new way to visualize their mobile check-ins and daily activities.

• Placed in top 3 of NWEN’s First Look Forum

• Team participated in Founder Institute Seattle ‘13

• Established relationship with 3rd party partners for development support

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Founder, CEO: Lotto Saint, LLC. (Philadelphia, PA)

July 2010 - May 2011

Launched new Members Benefit Club paired with legal lottery pool system. Worked with contracted design, engineering and legal resources lawyers to develop the second major legal lottery pool in U.S. Primarily learned business management through self-taught methods in addition to seeking respected advisors throughout process. Soft launched service on July 1, 2011. 

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