Nov 2016 – Nov 2019 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led overall product strategy and directly managed a cross-functional team of 20 -- including product managers, designers, content creators, and growth marketers for the Innit platform.
• Innit set out to become the “operating system” for the kitchen, stitching together the fragmentation that exists across the entire consumer meal journey — into a platform that seamlessly fits into the lives of consumers. We built a market-leading platform from the ground up, enabling personalized & customizable meals, integrated food delivery, guided assistance, and deep support for connected appliances. Our work resulted in being 2019 CES Innovation Award honoree — and was featured globally by partners like Google, Electrolux, GE Appliances, and countless others.

Dec 2015 – Nov 2016 · 11 mos · Redwood City, CA

• Stepped in (post-acquisition) to lead Yummly's overall product strategy & product development, including managing a team of PMs across mobile & web platforms, AI, growth, and revenue initiatives. Yummly is an award-winning personalized recipe & food platform w/ a growing community of 30M+ users.
• During my tenure, we delivered a number of high-impact initiatives to drive longer-term retention & monetization, including launching video content across all platforms, launching a ground up re-design of Yummly.com to drive deeper personalization + SEO growth, and launching personalized commerce across Yummly mobile apps in partnership with Amazon.
• Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool.

Jun 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 9 mos

• Advise startups on product & company strategy, typically with focus on IoT, food tech, digital health and/or mobile.

May 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, CA

• Led overall product strategy & product development, directly managing a cross-functional team of product managers, hardware & software engineers, and designers. Also supported fundraising & partnerships.
• With a deep passion for health & food, our founding team re-imagined how technology could bring simplicity and transparency to consumers when preparing food at home. Our flagship product, Prep Pad, was a smart kitchen scale that brought a simplified visualization of nutritional information in real time. In addition to having been amongst the first wave of IoT products nationally distributed at stores including William-Sonoma, Brookstone & Apple Stores, the product received national awards for its industrial design, user experience & innovative approach. The connected kitchen vision that was established by Orange Chef would pave the way for the “smart kitchen” industry — driving substantial changes within legacy appliance companies and spawning a wave of new startups tackling various parts of the ecosystem.

Apr 2013 – Dec 2013 · 8 mos · Burlingame, CA

• Responsible for overall product roadmap and development of the Breathometer breathalyzer, mobile apps, and the corresponding breath analysis platform. I also was part of the team that helped launch Breathometer onto Shark Tank (Season 5), which resulted in a $1M investment by all five sharks, a first in the show's history. I left after a short stint to pursue Orange Chef full-time as a co-founder.

Feb 2012 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mountain View, CA

• Hired as the first hardware product manager, driving product experience for the flagship Lytro camera, which included owning new product features (hardware, software, mobile, accessories), product roadmap strategy, and i18n.
• Lytro’s breakthrough technology enabled seemingly “impossible” features to be brought to consumer cameras, allowing captured photos to be refocused after the fact via computational processing. Lytro was ahead of its time in many ways — with the rapid growth and sophistication of mobile phones with high-quality cameras driving down the consumer demand for dedicated point-and-shoot cameras. Many of the image-processing magic that originated at Lytro has served as a blueprint for features on Apple & Google phones today.

May 2008 – Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Boston, MA + San Jose, CA

• As a Sales Engineer for one of the world leaders in optical sensors, I worked with companies across a wide-range of consumer, industrial and enterprise applications as both the technical and business lead for technology integration --- identifying $10M+ of new business in under 18 months.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Fremont, CA

• As my first post-college role, I designed and developed optical systems for LED lighting and display units, with an emphasis on driving optimization of its optical characteristics. I also had an opportunity to serve as a primary interface to key customers which eventually led me to want to pursue a career path that was more strongly intersecting the product and customer needs.