Sep 2015 – Aug 2016 · 11 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Product manager for Confluent Control Center: the most comprehensive tool for managing and monitoring Apache Kafka
• Led development from inception, through first prototype, through public launch
• Developed product roadmap, planned and tracked development and release process, built product demo, trained sales team, applied for patents, managed software license compliance, interviewed customers and prospects, and wrote documentation

Apr 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led product management and data science for a venture-backed enterprise software company building the fastest, easiest to use software for analyzing event data
• Took product from private beta through public launch and first dozen customers (like Tinder, Imgur, and Microsoft) and $3 million in revenue
• Work included roadmap management, product strategy, customer development, product marketing, recruiting engineers, building out PM team, developing demo and test data, pricing, competitive research, product specs, fundraising prep, and anything else we needed to make it work

Mar 2010 – Apr 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• I managed the platform team in data science (and did a lot of hands on work myself). We built systems to make it easier to test new content, improve standardization, and get data through crowdsourcing.
• Past projects include:
• The first comprehensive study of all email usage at LinkedIn (which users got which messages, how often they received those messages, and how effective the messages were)
• Built a system to generate email messages using Hadoop, enabling much faster development and experimentation (and used for dozens of different applications)
• Led content experimentation effort for network digest emails, leading to doubling of response rate
• Developed tools and processes for working with data at LinkedIn (ETL jobs to preprocess data, shared libraries for querying data)
• Brought Hadoop to decision science team in 2010
• Developed new insights and recommendations for LinkedIn users for testing in news feed

Mar 2009 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr

May 2008 – Feb 2009 · 9 mos · Los Gatos, CA

• Worked on improved algorithms for distributing discs between data centers. Developed a way to reduce the number of discs in active circulation by half, leading to capital savings of millions of dollars.

Aug 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Senior Product Manager for Broadband Content Services.
• Developed financial models and forecasts for content delivery to evaluate deal profitability
• Redesigned features for Kontiki Delivery Management System including access control, authentication, digital rights management, and reporting features to address requirements for enterprise and consumer customers
• Defined customer problems, wrote use cases and personas, and developed requirements for additional content monetization services

Apr 2004 – Jul 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Research and product development for VeriSign Security Services
• Projects involving payments, managed security services, intelligence from data, and RFID security

Sep 2004 – Present · 21 yrs 8 mos

• Author of two books on data science
• "R in a Nutshell" An introduction to the R language and popular R packages, including machine learning, data transformation, data visualization, and more. See http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801717/ for more information
• "Baseball Hacks." How to think about and analyze baseball statistics. See http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009427/ for more information.

Feb 2003 – Apr 2004 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Short term strategy consulting studies for Fortune 500 companies. Projects have included competitive research, financial modeling, and statistical modeling using regression, CART, and MARS models. Projects include:
• Assessed current risk models for a small business credit company, and developed and tested techniques for building more predictive models
• Developed and implemented reengineering strategy for a leading credit card company rewards program saving $50 million in annual expenses
• Designed new data modeling products for the leading business data provider

Feb 2001 – Feb 2003 · 2 yrs

• Planned and implemented hardware and software product plan for ReefEdge Connect, a security, mobility, and management solution for wireless local area networks.

Jun 1999 – Sep 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Designed user interfaces, determined business rules, and planned implementation for a variety of products including Internet advertising inventory management, DoubleClick Media, and DoubleClick Intelligent Targeting.

Jun 1997 – Jun 1999 · 2 yrs

• Consulted to senior management (i.e. SVP, CFO, and CTO) on strategic business issues, using many techniques including data mining, industry research, and detailed financial modeling. Presented findings to executives and led client staff in implementing changes.