Andrew Simone

Measurable Impact: Delivered a 10% increase in business unit margin and enhanced team utilization by 30% through improved program delivery and resource allocation.

Program Development: Conducted an audit of Merck Animal Health's global marketing consolidation program (700 to 70 websites across different language regions), identified critical gaps and new approach, resulting in a projected $20M in savings.

Crisis Recovery: Salvaged mismanaged $10M program discovery for New York City Housing Authority housing placement technology systems, driving stalled cross-functional requirements gathering & implementation forward.

Product Iteration: Drove a full UX revamp of Hilton Boost, an internal franchisee action-planning tool, by owning the product backlog end-to-end, resulting in a 13% lift in user retention.

Revenue Generation: Generated $2.6M in revenue by establishing project infrastructure and engineering teams for digital transformation program with Austria's largest real estate firm in strategic partnership with Google.

Platform Scaling: Contributed to RMS valuation growth from $880M to $2B through Moody's acquisition by overseeing 50+ design and engineering team members to accelerate development and modernize legacy products into scalable SaaS solutions.

Product Impact: Drove 360M annual impressions for Twitter's VIT native iOS app by defining feature roadmap and implementing celebrity-fan engagement features based on data-driven user research.

Project Delivery: Oversaw the 0-1 development and hardware/software integration for a mobile application for the Bruvi BV-01 coffee pod brewer (named "Best Overall" pod brewer by Wired in 2025).

Funding Achievement: Secured $1.7M in funding for Fluent Forever by creating rapid prototypes and then managing agile beta 0-1 launch with cross-functional collaboration between founders, engineering, and design teams.

Product Success: Delivered SanDisk iXpand USB app achieving 4M units sold and 4.5-star App Store rating by driving collaboration between design, iOS engineering, and external firmware vendors to overcome technical constraints.

Product Launch: Successfully launched (0-1) Bulbrite's first smart bulb product and companion mobile app by coordinating UX design, hardware integration with cross-functional team.

Risk Mitigation: Rescued Indi.com native iOS app three weeks before launch by evaluating critical product issues and implementing solutions to resolve 90% of defects, ensuring on-schedule delivery.

Business Analysis: Performed data analysis to optimize web enhancements and digital marketing efforts.

User Experience: Created UI/UX strategies and wireframes for client and internal web projects.

Business Transformation: Assessed technical feasibility and offered design input on web mock-ups to facilitate a digital transformation of the business.