Vice President of Platform Strategy

Senior Vice President of Platform Strategy

As an Advisory Board Member for DESIGNATION, I help guide and support the leadership team in building one of the world’s best design education programs.

Advisory Board Member

Leading and mentoring teams of product managers and designers, I worked collaboratively across the entire organization to deliver the product vision and strategy, and help drive the execution and iteration of our products. With short-term client needs and long-term strategic needs in mind, I aligned our product evolution and overall mission.

VP of Product

Leading the Product, Design, and Front-end Engineering teams, I was responsible for the overall strategy, development, growth, and adoption of our products. Day to day I worked closely with cross-functional stakeholders, oversee numerous product and project teams, and mentored the team building the world's best loyalty program.

Chief Marketing Officer

While fostering a stronger relationship between the design and engineering teams, I helped multiple product teams with different initiatives including redesigning Groupon.com, numerous conversion optimization projects, building visual and interface guidelines, and a developing large scale front-end architecture.

User Interface Engineer

Working alongside the best and brightest, I routinely meet with and mentor with Techstars portfolio companies new and old. My relationships with these companies are deep as we cover opportunities ranging from product, design, and engineering to fundraising, recruiting, and leadership, or anything in-between.

Mentor

Amidst a rapidly growing business, I lead a team of multidisciplinary designers focused on our customers, ensuring we’re solving the right problems with the best solutions, delivering business value everyday. Collaborating with product, engineering, marketing, and the greater organization, my role includes building and mentoring teams as well as shaping our strategy and vision.

Vice President of Design

Executive Advisory Board Member

With growing involvement over time, I began as an advisor and mentor and later helped build and lead the design education program, including teaching the front-end development courses. Furthermore, I lead a product team to build a learning management system to expand the in-class experience.

Design Director & Instructor

(Acquired) Wanting to help others become better managers and foster high-performing teams, I co-founded Lead Honestly to help managers grow as leaders and actively engage their employees. Whether with design, development, marketing, finance, or anywhere in between, I work on every aspect of the business, helping me round out and strengthen my overall skill set.

Co-Founder

With Jon Buda, Anthony Zinni, and the late Matt Puchlerz, I’ve had the pleasure of co-organizing Refresh Chicago meetups for over five years. With roughly 3,000 members, Refresh Chicago is one of the largest communities of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors.

Co-Organizer

Prota Ventures is a venture-building and early-stage investment firm where I assist with business ideation, validation, and execution. It’s an all star team of operators on a mission to launch inspiring new ventures and invest in early-stage founders.

Partner

Venturing from web to product focused work, at lightbank I leveraged my multidisciplinary design and development skill set to help build different products and businesses, including working with Groupon, Belly, and Pawngo amongst others.

Product Designer & Front-End Engineer

Web Designer

Over the summer, I joined an all-star team of associates to help 10 companies with ambitious missions attack massive markets. Daily I worked alongside awe-inspiring founders, getting into the weeds of their product, design, and engineering as well as fundraising, recruiting, leadership, and everything in-between. Whatever it took to build their businesses, I dug in to help.

Entrepreneur In Residence

Alongside Brad Simpson and Russ Unger, I co-founded Chicago Camps, an organization with the intention of bringing high-value, low-cost events to the technology community. Our goal includes helping find new talent and topics and provide a forum for those to be shared.

Chief Strategy Officer

CSO at ActiveCampaign, Co-founder at 
Lead Honestly (Acquired), Builder, Designer, Engineer, Marketer, Cyclist

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Shay Howe

CSO at ActiveCampaign, Co-founder at Lead Honestly (Acquired), Builder, Designer, Engineer, Marketer, Cyclist