Drew Gilliam - Experience and education

Startup / Freelance

AbbVie, Kohler, MMC Marsh - Freelance Product Consultant

Mobilexlabs.com - Technical Product Consultant

  • Led Product Management for Apps and Games Divisions of MobileX with 8 developers and 5 artists
  • Managed agile development for 10+ native iOS mobile apps and games built with objective-C, CoronaSDK, and PhoneGap
  • Co-architected application backends build in Python to support server-side interactivity of mobile apps

ForSaleByOwner.com - Product Consultant

  • Led product roadmap and development for 2MM+ monthly visitor and $12MM annual revenue site with a team of 5 developers, one UX designer and one visual designer
  • Coordinated with executive stakeholders, content, marketing, and operations teams to prioritize feature requests and translate them into stories for design and engineering
  • Aligned feature goals with business priorities and strict focus on user experience and customer acquisition
  • Supported design and development with UX flows and mockups
  • Developed deep experience in the real estate industry and built a team and instilled startup culture and values

Wavetable Labs - Founder in Residence

  • Led the ideation and execution of a mobile audio tour app - Guide.Me
  • As CEO of the app, activities included product roadmap, strategy, design, budgeting, marketing, SEM, content creation and investor pitches.
  • Led of a team of 4 – 1 designer, 1 developer, 1 content expert, and 1 business hacker/doer.
  • Prototyped and tested the concept with varying degrees of fidelity
  • A/B tested business models and performed detailed funnel and conversion analysis then built a business model from scratch modeled on cost per acquisitions and profit margins
  • Developed extensive planning material around marketing, go-to-market strategy, and operational finances

HaveMyShift.com - Co-Founder

  • Led business development, sales and strategic partnerships with clients like Starbucks, Best Buy, Accenture Technology Labs, Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants and Argo Tea
  • Bootstrapped business from MVP to 15,000+ users across the US.
  • Drove core product strategy and UX, working directly with CTO to launch major features and rapidly iterate based on direct feedback from users
  • Developed go-to-market strategy for multi-city growth and developed partnerships with regional
  • Led Social and SEO growth campaigns
  • Named one of WSJ’s Hottest Chicago Startups, also featured in the book ‘Coolest Startups in America’

Management Consulting

AbbVie Pharmaceuticals - Freelance Mobile Product Consultant

  • Developed an org and process strategy for developing and shipping mobile apps classified by the FDA as medical devices
  • Led team of 3 consultants to interview 20+ leaders in the organization and create a roadmap for improving the process and technical competency of the development teams

Diamond Consulting (Acquired by PwC) - PWC Technology Labs - Co-Founder and Product Director

  • Founded and directed an internal technology incubation lab. Primary role was lead product manager. My team launched cutting edge web applications from the idea stage through UX and visual design. Outputs included visual search travel app for iPad, shopping cart for a healthcare reagent manufacturer, and a demographic BI tool.
  • Client work included Fortune 100 clients in the Energy, Healthcare, and Insurance sectors, worked on a wide array of projects including organizational redesign, IT Portfolio assessments, supply chain, finance operations, and IT Strategy work

Technology

  • Mobile - Managed Design and Development of 5 native iOS apps (Objective-C) and games (Corona SDK) with Python API backends. Design and built responsive mobile sites using Twitter Boostrap framework.
  • UX - Mockups and information architecture with Sketch, Moqups and Axure
  • Ruby on Rails - Built, maintained and launched 5 separate full-stack projects of varying size and complexity. Technologies leveraged include Heroku, Redis, MongoDB, Javascript, Coffeescript, HTML5, CSS3, Puppet, and REST API services
  • PHP Codeigniter - Supported development and architecture, front-end support, high complexity environment
  • AngularJS - Supported development and architecture, front-end support, high complexity environment

Education

Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

  • MS Information Systems, 2008
  • BS Information Systems, 2006

University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  • Intensive Spanish Language Semester Program, 2005
  • Resulting level of ability: conversational spoken, intermediate written

Interests

  • Enjoys cooking, kiteboarding, scuba diving, mountain biking, home brewing, and hacking with Ruby on Rails, Rubymotion, public API’s and new web technologies