Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I've helped accelerate the careers of 10,000+ product managers through my courses on Reforge.
• Take the courses on-demand today or join us for a Spring/Fall cohort:
• AI Productivity - Learn how leading product managers use AI to become faster, smarter, and gain super powers beyond their traditional role.
• Mastering Product Management - Level up your product management abilities by mastering each of the 8 critical product management deliverables (vision, strategy, customer insights, roadmaps, specs, and more).
• Product Innovation Strategy - Getting to product/market fit isn’t a straight path. Learn a systematic approach to iteration and idea validation to make your new product idea a reality.

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

• As a new father, I'm eager to share every life lesson I've learned with my daughter, Zoe. In that vein, I've started LettersToZoe.com, where I share letters to my daughter on such lessons and the journey I went through to learn them.

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Notejoy is a fast and focused notes app for you and your team.
• Available for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and the web. Signup for free at Notejoy.com

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I regularly guest lecture on product management in Professor Karl Ulrich and Professor Lori Rosenkopf's Wharton MBA and undergraduate classes.

Jul 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I've advised 20+ startups on product strategy, including:
• Beeloo - a daily alternative to screen time for kids
• Accord - a customer collaboration platform
• Lyra Health - a smarter approach to mental health
• People.ai - know what your sales team is up to
• Accompany.com - unleash every relationship's potential (acquired by Cisco)
• Hightail - collaborate on creative projects (acquired by OpenText)
• Kite - AI powered code completions
• DarwinAI - accelerate deep learning development with explainable AI
• Maker.me - share the stories behind your products
• Node.io - account based intelligence (acquired by SugarCRM)
• Pattern.ai - the intelligent sales workspace (acquired by Workday)
• Simppler.com - build teams collectively (acquired by Teamable)
• Zently.io - simplifying rental living (acquired by Uber)
• Weave.in - a personalized professional introduction every week
• Bonafide.co - unlock your team's entire network

Jun 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Incubated and launched the all-new LinkedIn Sales Navigator, a premium solution for turbo-charging social selling in B2B sales organizations by helping sales professionals gain insights into their prospects, expand their network within their company, and reduce their number of cold calls.
• During my tenure, grew the Sales Solutions business to north of $200 million annual run-rate and established Sales Solutions as the third pillar in LinkedIn's Hire, Market, and Sell monetization strategy.

Oct 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led the team behind LinkedIn Contacts, a smarter way to stay in touch with your most important relationships, based on the acquisition of my startup Connected by LinkedIn.
• Also led the integration of LinkedIn into OS X Mavericks, enabling members to connect, share, and be notified of their LinkedIn activity throughout the desktop OS and core applications.
• Managed the Relationships team, comprised of 3 of LinkedIn's acquisitions, including Connected, Rapportive, and CardMunch.

Feb 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Connected enables contact management without the work. It pulls in data from your email, calendar, and social networks to bring all your contacts and conversations together in one place.
• Connected raised seed funding from Trinity Ventures, 500 Startups, and Ignition Partners in June 2011.
• Connected was acquired by LinkedIn in October 2011 and relaunched as the new LinkedIn Contacts in April 2013.

Mar 2009 – Jul 2009 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Explored what would eventually become my next big venture: Connected.

Jan 2008 – Mar 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led emerging monetization efforts, including international monetization, online audio advertising, and imeem VIP, a premium subscription service.
• Drove the product development of the imeem Media Platform, allowing third party developers to build compelling media centric applications leveraging imeem's music streaming, playlisting, and recommendations infrastructure. Led platform design, product management, developer relations, business development, and platform evangelism, resulting in the platform reaching over 250 million daily API requests.

Jun 2007 – Dec 2007 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Anywhere.FM is a web music player that allows you to experience music where you want it.
• Championed the voice of the customer through customer feedback, led user acquisition, drove the investigation of the business model and associated financial projections, as well as analyzed business development opportunities.
• Anywhere.FM reached over 15 million user uploaded tracks and over 100,000 registered users.
• Anywhere.FM raised seed funding from Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Paul Buchheit, and Mixin Capital.
• Anywhere.FM was acquired by imeem in December 2007 and relaunched as imeem VIP in 2008.

Jan 2007 – May 2007 · 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Product Manager for Visual Studio Team System - Team Foundation Server, an enterprise version control solution.
• Led product planning for TFS Enterprise Edition through extensive customer research, segmentation, and financial analysis. Drove the Hosted TFS pilot program to investigate both the technical feasibility and business model around building a software-as-a-service model for Team Foundation Server.
• In addition, led marketing for the devBiz acquisition, in charge of pricing, announcement, and rollout of the acquired TeamPlain Web Access product.
• Also responsible for competitive analysis for all of Visual Studio Team System and developed sales tools to win customers away from competing products.

Jul 2005 – Dec 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Envisioned, designed, and executed the database unit testing, database refactoring, and data generation feature areas for the V1 edition for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.
• In addition to product development, led the development of process guidance for the toolset, reviewed and wrote a foreword for the premier Refactoring Databases book by Scott Ambler, as well as authored a popular white paper on database unit testing methodologies.
• Presented on database development best practices at conferences, including Tech Ed Boston 06, Tech Ed Malaysia 06, Dev Connections Los Angeles 06, and Wash DC DB Pro Launch 06.