Education & Professional Experience

Ara has studied at Columbia University in the City of New York in Computer Science, then at University of Maryland College Park in Computer Science/Software Engineering, then at john f kennedy high school.

Ara worked for athenahealth as Executive Director, Product Management between 2018 and 2019, for GNS Healthcare as Vice President Client Services and Product Management between 2015 and 2016, for Healthbox (www.healthbox.com) as Mentor between 2015 and 2015, for lifeIMAGE as Vice President, Product Management and Regulatory Affairs between 2013 and 2015, for Healthbox Accelerator as Mentor between 2013 and 2013, for Silverlink Communications as Senior Director, Product Management between 2002 and 2012, for Empirix as Product/Marketing Manager between 1999 and 2002.

 Skills & Competences

Ara has the following skills : Leadership, Product Management, Strategic Partnerships, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Integration, Process Improvement, Healthcare, Competitive Analysis, SaaS, Team Building, Strategy, Business Development, Start-ups, Software Development, Product Marketing, Go-to-market Strategy, Product Development, Management, Agile Methodologies.

Ara graduated from the following courses : B.J. Fogg's Persuasion Book Camp, Competitive Selling Strategies, Relationship Selling, Managing the Sales Process, Reuse Planning using a Product Line Approach, Negotiating to Win, Writing Better Requirements, Software Reuse, Object Oriented Design, Total Quality Management, Introduction to the Software CMM.

Ara speaks the following languages : English, French, Armenian.