Product and Business Manager, and Full-Stack Engineer; extensive experience with product management and business development at a small startup,technical project management, customerengagement, data analysis, leading internal and external teams,and web development.
I recently graduated from GalvanizeU's 6-month full-stack immersion program and am now ready to contribute to a development team and continue my technical growth. I learned organizational development, team building, and process orchestration while in the US Army; engineering project management skills from Bloom Energy; and product and business development from a small agriculture start-up Agrothermal Systems. I believe these previous experiences, coupled with my ability to build interesting web applications, allow me to make a unique contribution to the team.
BACK-END: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Mongoose, ExpressJS, NodeJS, Jasmine
FRONT-END: Javascript, AngularJS, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Capybara
Director of Product @ • Defined the product roadmap and its metrics, designed and conducted experiments, and analyzed data that drove product development, new features, and marketing content.
• Collected and refined feedback and success metrics from customers and partners, and collaborated with engineering and design to direct the product development process that lead to a 60% reduction in operating costs in 10 months.
• Created, launched, and managed our product-as-a-service offering across 3 states.
• Formulated, negotiated, and executed both the company and its business partners’ pricing and marketing strategy for product-as-a-service that allowed the company to reach small acreage customers. From August 2012 to April 2014 (1 year 9 months) Project Management Intern @ • Created and earned leadership support for a new engineering change process, streamlining the development of high impact engineering projects by better integrating cross function teams and a robust peer review that lead to an increase in project throughput of over 60%.
• Orchestrated two projects through materials procurement, production, and testing; increasing product life by 17% and 33% respectively, and decreasing 1st costs by 15%. From May 2011 to August 2011 (4 months) Equipment Regeneration & Integration Project Lead, Captain @ • Led a 4-person team, coordinating with over 20 agencies, to refurbish over 60K pieces of equipment valued at over $3.4 billion. Recognized as the best program in the U.S. Army by both the Army Material Command and the Tank-automotive & Armament Command.
• Directed the integration of over 30 types of new equipment and the transfer of over 5000 vehicles; resulting in a higher deployment readiness grade, enabling the unit to deploy to Iraq one year early.
• Managed the complete retrofit of over 300 combat vehicles with 13 types of command and communication capabilities, and protective measures. From July 2008 to August 2009 (1 year 2 months) Company Commander/Executive Officer, Captain @ • Commanded a team of 236 personnel through logistical support and counter-insurgent combat missions. Supported civil affairs operations such as road construction and humanitarian aid where I built bonds of trust between the coalition forces, the Iraqi police, and the people of Iraq.
• Planned and led over 40 combat resupply missions in support of 3 combat outposts, ensuring the constant resupply and support of a battalion of over 800 Soldiers.
• Controlled the maintenance, property accountability, logistical support, and administration of a company of 236 Soldiers and 32 combat vehicles valued over $120 million.
• Guided the redeployment of 92 vehicles and 59 containers valued over $560 million from Iraq back to the United States.
• Orchestrated the transfer of over $30 million worth of equipment between units leaving and entering Iraq. From July 2007 to July 2008 (1 year 1 month) Platoon Leader, Lieutenant @ • Built relationships with Iraqi community leaders to recruit volunteers for neighborhood security teams which lead to the formation of the local militias that dramatically increased the security of the local areas.
• Coordinated training exercises between the Iraqi National Police and the U.S. Army, strengthening the confidence of Iraqi forces, and resulting in successful integration of Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers.
• Commanded a team of 47 in combat in Iraq. Led over 30 counter-insurgent missions.
• Pioneered new tactics recognized by the senior Army leadership as “best practices”. From May 2005 to July 2007 (2 years 3 months)
Full Stack Development, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Development @ GalvanizeU - Full Stack Immersive Web Development From 2015 to 2015 MBA, Management, Operations, & Marketing @ Columbia University - Columbia Business School From 2010 to 2012 MBA Exchange Candidate, Technology/Entrepreneurship @ Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley From 2011 to 2011 Bachelor of Science, Chinese Mandarin with an Environmental Engineering concentration @ United States Military Academy at West Point From 2000 to 2004 Tony Nguyen is skilled in: Army, Leadership, Command, Operational Planning, Business Development, Financial Modeling, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Logistics, Security Clearance, Strategic Planning, Operations Management, Project Management, Program Management, Intelligence Analysis, Organizational Leadership