Founder @ Founder of new social networking site designed to support friendships and help friends help each other. Managed all company functions including product development, marketing, business development, sales, legal, and finance.
Our goal is to help people develop and maintain deep meaningful relationships that increase a person’s access to resources, help, information and support. Society as a whole wins when real friendships are developed and maintained.
The site focuses on helping people do things that enhance relationships such as:
• Sharing Resources
• Asking for help
• Helping others
• Recommending things
• Sharing skills and expertise
We are currently in an invitation only beta so email me if you'd like to see how it all works. From June 2012 to Present (3 years 7 months) Owner @ Our goal is to sift through information and provide metrics that allow users to get an unbiased window into issues that are important to them. The site is currently under development. From February 2011 to Present (4 years 11 months) Co-Owner @ The Shelley School of Irish Dance is the largest program in the state with over 200 dancers. We host a yearly competition with over 1000 attendees, have the premier Irish Dance Company in the state and have the most experienced teachers. We have classes in Cedar Hills, Saratoga Springs and Spanish Fork.
My wife is the director of the school and I run the operations, software and marketing. From October 2001 to Present (14 years 3 months) Product Manager, Director of Content, Developer @ • Worked with the development team and design teams in Utah, California and China to define product requirement stories for agile sprints
• Front-end development using HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery and AngularJS
• Created iOS and Android app using PhoneGap, Ionic and AngularJS
• Created and managed partnerships with other companies, government institutions and non-profits for acquisition and digitization of over half a billion records From 2011 to 2014 (3 years) Sr. Indexing Manager @ • Managed team of 18 people responsible for outsourced transcription of historical documents
• Defined, managed and hit the schedule for the development of the software tools consolidating 4 tool sets into a single more efficient and flexible tool set resulting in $285k in annual savings
• Managed outsourcing of $4 million spend with partners in Asia
• Grew outsourcing capacity by 100% and expanded the types of content that could be processed
• Conducted management meeting with partners’ executive leadership in Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, China and the Philippines to improve processes and communication
• Created, defined and managed a project to improve the quality methodology resulting in more thorough checks, a 75% reduction in cycle time, a 250% increase in capacity and $180k in annual savings From July 2009 to May 2011 (1 year 11 months) Provo, Utah AreaManager of Business Development, DPS @ • Conduct research and created business cases for over 50 possible production projects
• Lead a cross-functional team to create global production standards for the first time which resulted in improved efficiency for the acquisitions and production teams
• Worked with external companies to evaluate possible partnership opportunities
• Developed and presented the competitive intelligence for the Ancestry World Archives Project From July 2008 to July 2009 (1 year 1 month) Provo, Utah AreaInventory Manager, Project Manager, Sr. Quality Manager @ • Created a Six Sigma Quality team, established quality metrics and procedures for production
• Coordinated with marketing, development and production to ensure timely project delivery
• Developed an inventory team, process and system for the Production group including physical and digital data handling methodologies From October 2005 to July 2008 (2 years 10 months) Provo, Utah Area
MBA, New Product Development, Marketing and Operations @ Brigham Young University From 2001 to 2003 BS, Mechanical Engineering @ Brigham Young University From 1996 to 2001 Aaron Shelley is skilled in: Product Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Product Development, Management, Marketing, Analytics, Project Management, Competitive Analysis, Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Strategic Partnerships, Business Strategy, Analysis, Agile Methodologies, SaaS