Craiyon🖍

Craiyon, formerly DALL·E mini, is a research group building generative AI models with focus on text to image.  

Try for free at www.craiyon.com

Co-Founder- all around generalist

humanpredictions

Helped tech companies find the right tech talent. 

humanpredictions is the most comprehensive database of people who code. We leverage public data to help our customers find hidden tech talent outside of LinkedIn.

Leveraging large and niche public datasets, humanpredictions helps our clients find hidden tech talent with general and hard-to-find skillsets outside of LinkedIn, as well as their up-to-date skills, personal email addresses, and other background information.

Beyond being the largest, most robust, and accurate tech talent database, our algorithms predict tech talent events and movements, such as which engineers are most likely to switch jobs in the near future.

Account Executive

Serenity Rose Farm, Cabins & Event Space

Boutique vacation rentals and venues. Oversaw sales, managing clients and construction projects and developed and maintained relationships with employees for start-up retreat center with overnight accommodations and 2 event venues.
-Conducted business development activities including handling leads, customer demos and negotiating contracts
-Managed construction and projects to get six buildings  (2,000-6,000 Sq. ft) functioning for generating revenue
-Created name, logo, branding, website, and online presence including Airbnb, Google, TripAdvisor, Facebook, Instagram, and more with a focus on event and overnight accommodation bookings

Sales & Account Manager

Avenida Brazil Churrascaria Steakhouse

Managed daily operations and consistently executed territory management plan for 3 award-winning restaurant locations leveraging SEO, SEM, sales, and social media driving high volume B2B leads and exceeding monthly sales goals.
-Increased restaurant revenues from $3.5 million to $8 million+ by reimagining events and creating gold standard in customer experience becoming area’s best small group weddings and corporate restaurant destination 
-Introduced private dining and off-site catering program increasing events sales revenues from 3% to 25%+ 
-Built team of 3 sales members and developed sales goals, corporate administrator presentations, and networking strategies using a trusted advisor approach
-Delivered strategic staff training and updated online and in-person marketing materials communicating catering and event benefits to prospective customers
-Met and exceeded monthly quota and commission structures by leading and supporting management on accomplishing key revenue-generating initiatives including marketing, promotions, and contract negotiations 
-Prospected companies, tracked, and maintained consistent follow up nurturing them until appropriate time 
-Managed 1,500+ onsite and off-site events with personal and corporate clients including negotiating, budget proposal, organization, communication, and follow up
-Opened 1 location while rebranding 2 other locations including logos, online presence, website, signage, menus, and printed marketing collateral

Director Sales, Marketing / Operations

HCSS

-Created great experiences for visiting clients by organizing meeting rooms, giving campus tours, and assisting with in-house events for high purchasing clients
-Made outbound communication to customers for software renewals and maintained accurate and timely records in Salesforce

 Customer Success Representative 

City Chick Fashion

Created and developed online lingerie store that obtained eBay top seller status with 100% user satisfaction and stable profit growth
Oversee pricing, market segmentation, and rhetoric of posting for 10,000 items and over $100,000 of merchandise

Sales and Marketing

Austin Technology Council

Conducted market research, collected data, sell memberships & advertising, coordinated promotional activities, liaised with members, delivered presentations, and implemented digital marketing strategies.
-Prospected new members, followed up on sales, negotiated membership rates while developing and maintaining executive level relationships
-Created sales strategies through cold calling, networking,  email marketing campaigns and promotions

Sales and Marketing Associate

Amazon Outreach

Translated discussions between Portuguese and English speakers for 15 hours a day
Travelled into the Amazon rainforest to bring medical support and basic amenities to over 500 families in impoverished communities

Portuguese-English Translator

Solar Meninos do Luz

Coordinated physical education programs with 60 elementary and middle school children in the slums of Rio de Janeiro
Specialized in female motivation and creating progressive, experimental activities with a purpose and life lesson

Education Leader

University of Texas Division of Housing and Food Services

Served as para-advisor to 40 undergraduate female students and addressed academic, mental, and social needs through programming
 Highly trained to respond to emergency situations, customer service, and administrative duties

Resident Assistant

Hiiiiiiiiiiii!! 👋 I'm Melissa! I love getting to know new people and make friends. 

I'm always striving to  improve my personal and professional development in an innovative space. 

Some interesting facts about me! 
-I live in Houston and totally dig it! If you are here, lets meet up for tacos! 🌮
-I love meeting interesting people and making friends!! 
-My dog is a rescue terrier mix named Roux
-My hobbies include watercolor, ceramics, fishing, reading and learning new things
-I'm multi cultural Latinx (Brazilian) & Pacific Islander (Filipino)
-I LOVE food! Trying new and delicious foods is very important to me

Melissa Abrantes🖍

Product Pursuits

I founded Product Pursuits to help early stage and venture backed startups build great products and create impact. My focus is on making companies become product-led, through product strategy, customer and product discovery, ongoing experimentation, launching and scaling.

Founder & CEO

AccelIQ.digital

AccelIQ Digital is a digital transformation firm focusing on innovation and disruption within legacy industries. As a Head of Product, I led the discovery, strategy, and development of a marketplace that connects enterprise clients to startups, utilizing AI/ML to solve critical corporate problems in a lean and cost-efficient manner.

Head of Product

Outfitch

Co-foundered a sustainable e-commerce marketplace that offered curated outfit suggestions for second-hand women fashion. Conducted customer discovery and research based on 30+ potential users, and focusing on 2 buyer personas. Developed a clickable prototype in Figma used for customer, sales, and investor pitches. Spearheaded the MVP, defined the scope, and led development teams. Oversaw a GTM strategy that resulted in six new partnerships.

Co-founder and Head of Product

Redbend

RedBend Software (Harman) was a leader in mobile and car technology, audio innovations, design, analytics, cloud services, and IoT. As a Group Growth PM, I oversaw product changes leading to better customer base growth and retention, improving the onboarding process, and creating more value for the users. I lead a product marketing team of GTM strategy for Samsung dual-persona Galaxy phone launch in 5+ Asia-Pacific countries and led the Product side of a $140M RedBend Software M&A deal with IBM.

Group Product Manager - Growth

As a Product Manager for SAP SaaS applications, I managed a team 6 to launch an internal Travel Management and Sustainability add-on with a carbon emission calculator. Improved SAP customer-partner interaction from partner-only to customer direct; and architected the development of a new SaaS product overseeing facilitation of the data migration process. That placed me in top 1%of SAP employees globally for 2 years in a row.

Group Product Manager

Led full-cycle development of the Sales and Procurement functionality of SAP's first SaaS ERP product for SMB market.

Senior Product Manager

As a Product Marketing Manager, I ensured that SAP values resonated with the company's ecosystem around the world through powerful storytelling, strong messages and positioning, GoToMarket strategy and proven results through continuous sales enablement.

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Concentrix

Product Marketing Manager

Seasoned Product Leader | ex-SAP | Founder | Mentor @ Women in AI | LinkedIn Top Voice | Startup Advisor

A PM leader with 20+ years of experience in discovering, developing, and delivering Enterprise, SaaS and AI products. 

I led the product management due diligence of an M&A deal that surpassed the $140M mark. 

My experience is a unique blend of > 10,000 hours of business acumen and a hands-on approach. I have driven product innovation identifying top market & customer opportunities and risks through collection and analysis of user, customer, product, and market data impacting millions of users worldwide.

As a Product leader, I am known for agile and proactive delivery, operational excellence, AI transformation, Voice of the Customer, and GoToMarket enablement. 

I help and guide startup founders, entrepreneurs, and junior PMs navigate the intricacies of product development lifecycle. I am passionate about building products that improve people's lives in meaningful ways, cultivating a growth mindset toward every opportunity.

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