Odean Maye

Angel Investor

2022

Partnering with early stage businesses to deploy capital and create value together. Advising portfolio founders and teams on technology and business strategy. My areas of interest are: Neurotech, Artificial Intelligence, Sharing Economy and Sustainable Energy but I would be excited to look at anything that has innovative and proprietary intellectual property.

Angel Investor

2022

Partnering with early stage businesses to deploy capital and create value together. Advising portfolio founders and teams on technology and business strategy. My areas of interest are: Neurotech, Artificial Intelligence, Sharing Economy and Sustainable Energy but I would be excited to look at anything that has innovative and proprietary intellectual property.

Venture Capitalist

2022 - 2024

Forefront Capital is an early stage venture capital firm that backs exceptional underestimated founders in overlooked geographies. Our deep experience in finance, strategy, business development, operations, and governance, along with our network, allows us to provide significant value-added support for startups. Want to shape tomorrow together? Contact us via our website at www.forefront.capital! We look forward to connecting!

Senior Director, Product Management, Enterprise Data

2022 - 2024

Director, Technology, Data Exchange Platforms

2020 - 2022

Lead the Customer Success, Customer Engineering and Customer Support organizations for a large enterprise platform organization. Represent the voice of customers to influence organizational objectives, product roadmaps and the overall customer experience. Participate in periodic business reviews with customers to ensure business success and to align on ways to drive more value together. Work collaboratively with various departments, including Product, Technology and Design to ensure that customer needs are being met. Own the development of reports that provide qualitative and quantitative descriptions of business and process performance. Own key processes including FAQ analysis, support case reviews, and customer feedback analysis. Own the development of standard operating procedures and policies. Serve as a sounding board, a mentor, a knowledge resource, and an escalation point for associates. Achieve organizational objectives including the attainment of targets for customer satisfaction and service level objectives.

Director, Product Engineering, Technology Platform

2019 - 2020

Developed and drove the strategy, roadmap and implementation for the GSK API program. Developed objectives, key results and key performance indicators to drive the program towards customer and business value. Collaborated with business and finance to create a financial value model for APIs based on reuse cost avoidance and decreased time to market. Partnered with Risk, Security and Legal to ensure a regulatory compliant environment. Defined and drove the strategic APIs for the organization; collaborate across product, service and technology owners to deliver the APIs. Delivered progress reports and strategic communications to executives and senior leadership. Drove engagement and adoption of the API platform by evangelizing, hosting hackathons and facilitating hands on workshops. Defined API standards and governance model. Collaborated with product and technology to define developer ecosystem strategy. Developed and maintained active API developer community. Managed production and operations support. Lead a team of product owners and API platform engineers.

Director, Software Engineering, Technology Platform

2018 - 2019

Managed and led technical teams to deliver a globally available API gateway, multiple API products and other user facing business solutions. Worked collaboratively with peers across disciplines to meet business commitments. Led teams through the design, development, testing, operability, code reviews, and deployment of features and components. Hired, managed, and mentored software and devops engineers to foster their career growth and progression. Drove quality, predictability, and velocity leveraging an agile approach and a continuous improvement mindset.

Software Engineer, Manager, Technology Platform

2014 - 2018

Architected, developed and maintained Java Enterprise applications in AWS cloud. Architected, developed and maintained stateless, event driven microservice systems in AWS cloud. Designed and implemented OAuth 2.0 compliant authentication solutions to provide secure access to data. Troubleshot TCP-IP, TLS, cloud and software application issues. Produced high quality technical documentation to contribute to technical and business conversations. Produced high quality code to get things done. Mentored junior developers.

Software Engineer

2013 - 2014

Provided software design, development, and maintenance of web applications and software products for a nationwide leader in the multi-family real estate industry.

Founder

2008 - 2013

Jamedy was a brand analytics platform. We analyzed brand-consumer interactions across social media to identify insights that drive brand marketing strategies. I wrote the software and acquired a respectable number of customers for a bootstrapped venture.