Dr. Nancy Li

Co-Founder

Miami, Florida, United States19 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Youngest Ph.D. in Materials Science at 24
  • Launched award-winning traffic safety product
  • Founded non-profit for product management education
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert with a focus on AI and technology education.

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Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyGo-to-market StrategyAi

Other Skills

Executive CoachingPublic SpeakingTechnical Product ManagementTeam CollaborationRecruitingProduct DevelopmentMachine VisionEdge ComputingCloud ComputingCommercializationData AnalysisStart-upsSelling SkillsProduct LaunchProduct Marketing

About

I am an Entrepreneur, a Director of Product, a YouTuber, and featured in Forbes. I have 8 years of experience in developing and launching cutting-edge technology products. I have been invited to be a keynote speaker and a panelist at AI World Conference, AI4.io, LiveWorx Conference, KubeCon, GLOW Women's Leadership Conference, Global Edge Week, Edge Computing Expo, Women In AI podcast, FIREDrill podcast, MIT, Columbia University, Chicago Booth Business School, and many product management panels. Currently, as the CEO of the fastest-growing Product Management Professional Development Company in the industry, PM Accelerator. Our innovative and effective leadership has resulted in the company boasting the most engaging alumni network, the highest success rate in landing top-tier offers, and the top-rated program in the PM industry. Passionate about bridging gaps in education, I founded PMA Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free product management education training to high school teenagers. Grounded in the principle of social equity, our initiative aims at every paying student through PMA enabling one free education for a child from a low-income family. I was the Director of Edge Platforms at COX Communications, leading the go-to-market and product strategy of edge platforms. I launched the first 5G Edge product in collaboration with AWS Wavelength. I also launched an award-winning Machine Vision-based traffic safety product. It was awarded Boston Mayor’s Best Practice in 2017 and deployed in about 10 leading cities in the US. I co-authored the Enterprise Blockchain for IoT for 400,000+ IEEE members. I filed 3 patents. I got a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Boston University at the age of 24 (youngest in the program history) with 14 publications. I am an alumnus of MIT Sloan School of Management. Want to get coached by me? Subscribe to my YouTube channel and go to my website www.pmaccelerator.io to submit an application to the PM Accelerator Program and see if you are qualified for the program. Subscribe to Dr. Nancy Li’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/drnancyli?sub_confirmation=1 I'd love to grab a coffee to discuss education topics!

Experience

19 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Breed

Partner, Platform

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Boston, Miami · Remote

  • Breed VC is focused on early stage crypto investments and partnering with the worlds most ambitious and transformative entrepreneurs.
  • As the partner of platform, I help our portfolio companies in all aspects of building their business post-investment, from go-to-market strategy, product management, recruitment, and business development.
Product StrategyProduct ManagementGo-to-Market StrategyRecruitingProduct Development

Product manager accelerator

Founder

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Remote

  • 🚀 Immigrant Moved to the US with $800 | Featured in Forbes
  • 📚 Fashion --> One of the Youngest Engineering Ph.D. --> Director Of Product in 4 Years
  • 🤓 BU, MIT Sloan, Entrepreneur, Startup Mentor
  • 🔥 Helped 1500+ of aspiring product managers and seasoned PM land high-paying PM jobs in FAANG companies and unicorn startups. Highest salary so far: $800K Meta L7 PM role!
  • 😎Taught 600+ women how to negotiate
  • Here are the examples of services we offer. Check out our website (link under my profile) to learn more about our services.
  • 🚀 Product Management Interview Bootcamp and Certification
  • End-to-end product manager job hunting program that helps you master FAANG-level Product Management skills, conduct unlimited mock interviews, and gain job referrals through our largest alumni network. 25% of our offers came from tier 1 companies and get paid as high as $800K/year.
  • 🚀 AI PM Bootcamp and Certification
  • Gain hands-on AI Product Management skills by building a real-life AI product with a team of AI Engineers, data scientists, and designers. We will also help you launch your product with real user engagement using our 100,000+ PM community and social media channels.
  • 🚀 PMA Power Skills
  • Designed for existing product managers to sharpen their product management skills, leadership skills, and executive presentation skills
  • 🚀 PMA Leader
  • We help you accelerate your product management career, get promoted to Director and product executive levels, and win in the board room.
  • 🚀 1:1 Resume Review
  • We help you rewrite your killer product manager resume to stand out from the crowd, with an interview guarantee.

Get started by using our FREE killer PM resume template used by over 14,000 product managers. https://www.pmaccelerator.io/pmresume
  • 🚀 We also published over 1000+ free training and courses. Please go to my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/drnancyli and Instagram @drnancyli to start learning for free today.
  • DM me for resources to grow your PM career.
Product ManagementProduct StrategyExecutive CoachingPublic SpeakingTechnical Product ManagementGo-to-Market Strategy+1

Techstars

Mentor

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Greater Boston

  • Mentoring startups in the Allied Space program
  • Connecting startups with Fortune 500 enterprise customers

Cox communications

Director of Product - New Growth, Edge Cloud Platforms

Jan 2020Jan 2021 · 1 yr · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Creating the Edge Cloud strategic roadmap and shaping the direction of the business based on trends and customer needs, partnerships, competition and emerging technologies
  • Leading the commercialization, productization, and growth strategy of the Edge Cloud Platform
  • Leading the delivery team to drive new customers and leverage existing customers for future growth

Kayhan space - a techstars portfolio company

Advisor

Jan 2020Jan 2021 · 1 yr

  • Advisor of Kayhan Space: A automatic navigation system to make spaceflight safer
  • Earth’s orbital environment is a precious and limited resource that is critical for our everyday lives. It is, however, becoming increasingly congested and contested domain. Kayhan’s Satellite Collision Avoidance software analyzes incoming potential satellite collision events data and delivers timely notifications through various messaging channels, such as Slack. Their direct messaging integrations reduce operator response efforts by 95%.
  • If you are interested in their technology, please PM me for an introduction.

Verizon

2 roles

Group Product Manager, Cloud and Edge Computing

Jan 2019Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Greater Boston Area

  • Achievement:
  • Authored two patents in the field of machine vision, IoT, and AR
  • Launched the first 5G Edge product in the world in collaboration with AWS Wavelength
  • .
  • Responsibilities:
  • Leading and managing a team of senior product managers to define, launch and commercialize Cloud/Edge Computing Platform and Real-time Enterprise (solutions leveraging Cloud, 5G, IoT and Edge Computing).
  • Defining product requirements and roadmap
  • Creating business models, building GTM (go-to-market) strategy, and pitching innovative ideas to external executives to accelerate the early adoption of edge computing and generate new revenue streams.
  • Managing capital budget

Product Manager of AI Smart Cities and Blockchain

Jan 2016Jan 2018 · 2 yrs · Greater Boston Area

  • Accomplishments:
  • Co-authored a Blockchain for IoT course for 400,000+ IEEE members.
  • Led a team of 30 engineers and designers to develop one of the first solutions in the country to use AI, machine vision and an integrated IoT system to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries. It was awarded Boston Mayor's Best Practice in 2017. Led a team of sales, marketing, and operational experts to roll out the solution nationally. The product has been deployed in more than 10 leading cities.
  • Managed a portfolio of products including IoT Smart Cities5G, Edge Computing, and Blockchain by leading and working with an intelligent team of engineers, designers, and product managers.
  • Verizon signed a $100M PPP contract with the City of Sacramento, CA. I led the traffic safety product for Sacramento.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Conduct customer interviews and competitor analysis to understand the customer needs and drive product strategy and roadmap of the complicated IoT solution which is composed of AI, machine vision, deep learning, IoT platform, devices, big data, and connectivities.
  • Lead the software development team, UI/UX, and DevOps to create B2B products to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
  • Design product features, prioritize user stories and requirements, manage the trade-offs among product features, time-to-market, implementation, and scalability.
  • Design go to market strategy and help the sales team to understand the product positioning, core messaging, key benefits, and target customers.

Shell

Product Architect

May 2013Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Accomplishments:
  • Architected a $250M project to prevent the oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Built a startup within Shell Oil --Shell TechWorks (STW)
  • Joined as the 1st employee of STW; Engaged executive level stakeholders through proposals and presentations, which lead to $1MM in funding as the first early stage funding to accelerate the growth of the startup from 3 to 70 people
  • Published one patent of automatic pipe sensing technology:
  • System and method for positioning of tubular members
  • Patent date Issued Jun 30, 2016 Patent issuer and number us WO 2016106294 A1
  • Responsibilities:
  • Involved with recruiting, growth strategy, business development, systems engineering, project management and product development.
  • Identified and derived requirements, use cases and specifications for a fault-tolerant control system of a blowout preventer (BOP), which included software, hydraulic, human interface, subsea power and communication, structural and subsea battery systems; managed the interfaces between systems
  • Engaged stakeholders and end users to capture and interpret their needs, handled feature requests and sought feedback from customers to build the best product to solve their problems
  • Collaborated and brainstormed with a cross-functional team to prioritize product features; Built feedback systems to involve the team and ensure features meet the requirements

Schlumberger

Research Engineer Intern

Jun 2010Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, Cambridge, MA
  • Modified degradable fiber properties to increase the oil and gas production efficiency using plasma treatment, hollow fibers, catalysts and UV treatment.
  • Assembled the plasma machine and developed several treatment methods to optimize the fiber properties for well service applications

Boston university

PHD

Sep 2009Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Accomplishments:
  • Received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the age of 24 (youngest in the program history). Published 14 research papers; Invited to serve on the committee of 2 international conferences; Invited to review research papers for 8 academic journals.
  • Research Projects:
  • Discover Impact of Polymer- Substrate Interaction on Dynamics of Polymer Nano Film: Analyzed, transformed and reconciled large-scale experimental data using MATLAB to develop two-layer model to discover the effects of PMMA-silicon interaction on the viscosity of PMMA thin films (3~100nm); Designed experiments and utilized MATLAB and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) to build polymer models and database, so as to optimize materials selection process and reduced time-to-market
  • Research Impact of Solvent Quality on Polymer Nano Film: Fabricated nano-scale polystyrene (PS) thin films in Θ solvent using spin-coating technique to study the impact of the solvent quality on the relaxation behavior of polymer thin film; Invented a novel method to measure the viscosity of free-standing PMMA thin films using AFM and annealing
  • Synthesized transparent nano-ceramics.

National surface modification and composite lab

Group Lead

Sep 2005Jul 2009 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Shanghai City, China

  • Accomplishment:
  • Top College Graduate in Shanghai
  • 4 publications, 3 national awards during the college study
  • Projects:
  • Used Atmospheric Pressure Plasma to modify the surface properties of high performance fibers, including PE, Kevlar, carbon and glass fibers
  • Designed two soccer robots for national robot competition
  • Manufactured 3-D carbon fiber/ glass fiber/ kevlar fiber composite for military aircrafts

Education

MIT Sloan School of Management

Systems Design and Management

Jan 2014Jan 2015

Boston University

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) — Materials Science and Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

Donghua University

Bachelor’s Degree — Textile Engineering

Jan 2006Jan 2009

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