Portrait of Kent Warren

Kent Warren

Innovative technologist
20+ years leading digital products

  • Curious Innovator
  • High-Impact Executor
  • Forward-Thinking Strategist
Career Goal To enable innovation
while mentoring the next generation
of tech professionals

Experience

Highlights

Innovation Strategy & Organizational Leadership

  • Developed a facilitated innovation framework—including uniform templates for cost/benefit analyses, product proposals, and stakeholder handoffs—and authored enterprise-wide innovation strategy as co-lead for the Engineering Culture Council's Innovation Subcommittee.
  • Directed 2 cross-functional teams that emerged from prior framework iterations—Work Center's Next Best Action feature and Appointment Manager's no-show/cancellation ML prediction model—demonstrating a validated concept-to-scale transition.
  • Oversaw end-to-end launch of 4 products as an independent music entrepreneur, managing external vendors and investors, delivering on time and within budget, while leading a merchandise redesign initiative that drove over 200% revenue increase.

P&L Impact & Business Results

  • Directed initiatives targeting $6.45M in annual profit, conservatively, through validated ML-driven product features.
  • Led discovery and prototype development of a two-sided marketplace connecting clients with local business offers, projected to generate $8M/yr in profit.
  • Achieved 99.99% uptime, 35% YoY adoption growth, and 5.6M annual report views as product owner for a custom enterprise BI platform and content management system.

Enterprise Platforms & Emerging Technology

  • Directed development of an embedded self-service data analysis AI chatbot querying internal data to deliver stakeholder summaries and visualizations, reducing time-to-insight from weeks to minutes.
  • Directed prototype development across 4 other initiatives: a multi-AI agent orchestration system for store placement analysis, a real user monitoring system with ML-driven interventions to reduce onboarding friction, an AI browser extension for Azure DevOps, and a commenting browser extension for Microsoft Purview.
  • Served as tech lead for a custom enterprise BI platform and content management system—a full-scale internal build spanning architecture, SDLC and PDLC, and content management.

Program Director, Business Innovation & IT Alignment

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H&R Block

TypeScript · Node.js · Express.js · Python · FastAPI · Cosmos DB · React · Redux · Jest · React Testing Library · Power Automate · Figma

  • Developed a facilitated innovation framework to build cross-functional AI/ML product features, while establishing uniform templates for cost/benefit analyses, product proposals, presentations, and handoffs.
  • Directed 2 cross-functional teams that emerged from prior framework iterations—Work Center's Next Best Action feature, and Appointment Manager's no-show/cancellation ML prediction model which targeted $6.45M in annual profit conservatively, demonstrating a validated concept-to-scale transition.
  • Authored enterprise innovation strategy as the Engineering Culture Council's Innovation Subcommittee co-lead.
  • Served as product owner and tech lead for the Data Science & Analytics Hub website—a custom enterprise business intelligence platform and content management system; achieved 99.99% uptime, 35% YoY adoption growth, and 5.6M annual report views.
  • Directed development of an embedded self-service data analysis AI chatbot querying internal data to deliver stakeholder summaries and visualizations, reducing time-to-insight from weeks to minutes.
  • Directed prototype development across 5 initiatives: a multi-AI agent orchestration system for store placement analysis, a two-sided marketplace connecting clients with local business offers ($8M/yr projected profit), a real user monitoring system with ML-driven interventions to reduce onboarding friction, an AI browser extension for Azure DevOps, and a commenting browser extension for Microsoft Purview.
  • Facilitated 50% increase in YoY throughput by developing an automated work request process.

Web Developer & Graphic Designer

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Freelance

TypeScript · MongoDB · Mongoose · Node.js · Express.js · React · Redux · Bootstrap · AWS · Adobe

  • Drove product development from discovery to deployment for clients, combining software engineering, digital media, and hands-on project, budget, and vendor management.

Software Engineer

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Guaranteed Rate

TypeScript · Node.js · Express.js · React · Redux · TailwindCSS · Chart.js · Jest · React Testing Library

  • Deployed MVP in 6 months by leading frontend development for a new customer-facing web application.
  • Built an automated browser screenshot uploader as part of an error logging strategy.

Developer

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Virtual Service Operations

TypeScript · MongoDB · Node.js · GraphQL · Express.js · NestJS · Angular

  • Generated over $40,000 in revenue within the first month via velocity as a service.
  • Automated the manual frontend build process across 6 modules reducing build time by 1 hour.

Visual Information Specialist

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U.S. Geological Survey

Adobe Illustrator · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe InDesign · JavaScript

  • Advanced publishing lifecycle of 30+ digital and print products, including a Congressional Circular.
  • Built a website prototype allowing stakeholders to monitor the status of digital products.
  • Created and administered the product brief for Section 508-compliant digital and print products.
  • Established and administered the product review process for stakeholders across the organization.

Cavalry Scout

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U.S. Army
  • Oversaw maintenance program for $2.3M+ in assets by developing operational readiness processes.
  • Trained 3 team members on tactics and operations leading to a promotion for each.

Professional Musician

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Fools & Horses
  • Oversaw end-to-end launch of 4 products by managing external vendors and investors, delivering on time and within budget, while leading a merchandise redesign initiative driving over 200% revenue increase.
  • Managed production logistics by sourcing and coordinating equipment, locations, and talent, while facilitating national media exposure on MTV, A&E, E!, Fuse TV, and NBC.
  • Increased earnings by 10% through contract negotiation, international event logistics coordination, and campaign development including promotional content and market outreach.

Education

Master of Business Administration

UMGC

GPA 4.0 — Focus on finance, marketing, human resources, business law, strategy, and leadership.

Bachelor of Science in Management Studies

UMGC

GPA 3.72 — Business management principles focused on ethical decision making, problem solving, and leadership.

Bachelor of Science in Digital Media & Web Technology

UMGC

Summa Cum Laude, GPA 4.0 — Gained hands-on experience in web development, illustration, and photo manipulation.

Certifications

Agentic AI (currently pursuing)

Johns Hopkins University

18-week curriculum focused on RAG, multi-agentic systems, and evaluation of agentic systems.

Applied Data Science Program

MIT Professional Education

12-week curriculum focused on practical data science, machine learning, and generative AI.

AI & ML Technical Leadership Program

Codesmith

4-week program, and ongoing leadership circle, for hands-on AI and ML development with business and ethics training.

Professional Scrum Master II

Scrum.org

Gained depth of knowledge pertaining to the Scrum framework and its application.

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org

Gained depth of knowledge pertaining to the Scrum framework and its application.

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program

Hack Reactor

6-month full stack JavaScript development curriculum with lectures, pair programming, and mentorship.

Professional Music Certificate

Berklee College of Music

2-year diverse concentration in music performance, songwriting, production, law, and business.

Awards

Army Achievement Medal

U.S. Army

Awarded for exceeding Warrior Leader Course standards by demonstrating superior leadership and critical thinking skills in both professional and combat environments.

Army Achievement Medal

U.S. Army

Awarded for maintaining high standards and influential leadership while in a combat zone.

Combat Action Badge

U.S. Army

Afghanistan, 2013.

Projects

Dapper Applicant

YouTube

Tailor your resume to specific job descriptions directly from a browser sidebar.

AI Communication Coach

YouTube

Communication coaching with simultaneous AI coach participants.

Texting OpenAI

GitHub

Text OpenAI a prompt to generate a response.

wordie CLI

npm

CLI dictionary and thesaurus using Datamuse.

Publications

3 Chords

YouTube

Fools & Horses

Fools & Horses

Spotify

Fools & Horses

I Am the Ghost

Spotify

Fools & Horses

Off the Clock

Apple Music

Starbucks

Pop Filter: Rethoughts

Spotify

Fools & Horses

Pop Filter

Spotify

Fools & Horses

Saturday Morning

Spotify

Fools & Horses

All opinions are my own