May 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

• Lead angel investor focusing on early stage startups with complex technical products

Aug 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Created a civic tech application to help people save time when voting.
• Built a chat based app, which grew to be the top calendar app on Slack.

Jul 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jan 2013 – Dec 2013 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Used customer development testing to identify and prototype front- and back-end features.
• Implemented and coded back-end features on Ruby/Rails/Mongo stack.
• Ran all user cohort testing, communications, and support with small group of beta testers (<100).

Sep 2012 – Present · 13 yrs 6 mos · Berkeley

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos

• Led strategic projects for Seed/SeriesA funded portfolio companies, Sociable, Rixty, and Overstat.
• Identified prospective investments, providing technical/market research on $250K-$4M deal flow.

Jun 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr

• Managed two direct reports.
• Served as the ‘social evangelist', driving internal awareness of Citi’s social collaboration strategy.
• Spearheaded communications for internal startup, Citi 2.0, a company-wide collaboration platform.
• Platform has grown from six to 15,000 users, boosting employee engagement and productivity.
• Successful employee pilot has created a new division with $2.8M annual spend.

Jun 2008 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr

• Championed social media tools, leading live-webcast training for entire 300 person global function.
• Created a cross-team collaboration site on SharePoint, tapping Citi’s existing Microsoft relationship.
• Partnered with Omniture to consolidate web analytics, reducing expenses by $180K in 2010.

Jun 2006 – Jun 2008 · 2 yrs

• Designed a customer-centric database model to support Citi’s international growth strategy by mapping out existing product usage and identifying unrealized opportunities globally.
• Optimized database ledger reconciliation process down from two days to 20 minutes, saving $20K

Oct 2005 – Dec 2005 · 2 mos · Macau

• Led initial expansion of nonprofit fundraising to Macau region, now generating $500K in donations.
• Overcame operational issues by establishing partnership with Macau Chamber of Commerce.
• Identified new local hires, fundraising targets, and coordinated entry with ORBIS HQ.

May 2005 – Sep 2005 · 4 mos

• Provided documentation and assistance for small businesses applying to government RFPs.
• Authored a comprehensive 35-page minority entrepreneurship report from first-hand research.

Aug 2002 – May 2005 · 2 yrs 9 mos · College Activities Board

• Led the Major Concerts division, negotiating artist shows, managing P/L, and directing a 15 person team during concerts
• Most proud of bringing artists like Ludacris, Talib Kweli, Kanye, and Dropkick Murphys to campus