Experience

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  Cut+Dry

  • Palo Alto, CA

  • Director, Coding and Taxonomy

    • Jan 2020 - Present
    • Palo Alto, CA

    Cut+Dry is the Foodservice Industry’s best end-to-end digital customer experience. We provide distributors, their customers, and their suppliers with a single digital platform to make food commerce a more enjoyable, more profitable, and less wasteful experience.

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  Foodservice Analytics

  • VP, Services

    • Sep 2016 - Jan 2020

    Foodservice Analytics (FSA) sole focus is on structured product taxonomy, content attribution, and the inter-operability of this critical information across many alternate sources, taxonomies and platforms.Foodservice Analytics was acquired by Cut+Dry (Codify AI) in January of 2020.

  • Contract Position (Various Data Normalization Projects)

    • Jul 2015 - Aug 2016

    Utilizing ground-breaking Taxonomy and a proprietary data mapping engine, Foodservice Analytics can transform raw data from POS, financial transaction, printed menu, supplier invoice and many other sources into highly structured and useful data streams.

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  Restaurant Sciences

  • Newton, MA (remote)

  • Product and Operations Manager

    • Oct 2010 - Feb 2014
    • Newton, MA (remote)

    Managed Data Group (below) became Restaurant Sciences in October 2010. Restaurant Sciences was a provider of syndicated data and insights on food and beverage consumption in restaurants, bars, nightclubs and other foodservice establishments. We delivered market share, market basket, competitive analysis, pricing, promotional, trend, segmentation and custom analytics to food and beverage manufacturers and distributors, as well as the broader industry they serve. Data was unified nightly from tens of thousands of restaurants into one single database. We standardized hundreds of millions of items by using a proprietary tool to code the restaurants to the appropriate industry category, assign numerous attributes to the item-level data and match disparate menu items to the products suppliers sell in restaurants & bars. Operators were offered free services via a restaurant-facing product, ThriveSpot, in exchange for POS data from independent restaurants. Members enjoyed free services like mobile websites, online menu management, and comparative reporting for allowing us to pool their anonymous product data with other member restaurants. Restaurant Sciences was acquired by its competitor, Guest Metrics, in February 2014 and operations were ceased.

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  Managed Data Group

  • Greensboro, NC

  • Client Services Manager/Product Lead/Various Roles

    • Oct 2002 - Oct 2010
    • Greensboro, NC

    Clarity (below) became Managed Data Group in October 2002. Managed Data Group was the provider of an enterprise reporting application for restaurants, dinePoint. We collected data from dozens of brands of restaurant POS and ECR’s covering the majority of systems used in restaurants in the U.S. Operators were provided a unified view of multi-unit data (even with disparate POS systems in place) via a SAAS model with modular subscription options.New partners were brought in and Managed Data Group became Restaurant Sciences in October 2010.

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  Clarity

  • Greensboro, NC

  • Business Manager

    • Jul 2000 - Feb 2002
    • Greensboro, NC

    Clarity was a local Point of Sale Dealership for the RCS-100/Veristouch POS system. The business ceased POS operations to focus on developing an enterprise reporting tool, which eventually became known as dinePoint under new ownership and an accompanying name change to Managed Data Group. New partners were brought in and Clarity became Managed Data Group in October 2002.

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  Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants & Hotels

  • Task Force Leader/Training Manager

    • Jun 1989 - Jun 2000

    Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants & Hotels is a well-respected hospitality group based in the Triad area. They operate various higher-end restaurant brands: Lucky 32, Green Valley Grill, and Printworks Bistro as well as two AAA Four Diamond boutique hotels: The O. Henry Hotel and The Proximity Hotel, which was the first Platinum LEEDS (a green, energy efficiency ranking) certified hotel in the U.S.