Jul 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

May 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Sep 2017 – May 2018 · 8 mos

Dec 2015 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As a member of the Heroku Product Management group and I worked directly with the Human Interface Team building dashboard.heroku.com. On this team I helped manage the user experience across Heroku products. I maintained a strong curiosity for developer collaboration, paired often with other product managers and engineering teams to build better developer tools across the Heroku and Salesforce Platforms.

Aug 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco

• At Substantial I work with a team of developers and designers to take product ideas from conception to launch. Along with daily product management tasks like reporting, data analysis, scrum management, I specialize in refining our communication and process, which helps us tone our weaknesses and improve our strengths. We employ a deep level of honesty and analysis for what we do and how we do it. My team is skilled at successful product launches that continue to grow in the real world. To help ensure future growth and stability, I empower my team by leveraging tools to help us succeed such as authoring Product Opportunity Assessment or Lean Canvas, defining our MVP criteria and hypotheses, collaborating to move past road blocks intelligently, and highlighting product market fit goals and roadmap.

Aug 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• At Disqus, I managed the core commenting product. Making and maintaining an established product with hundreds of thousands of users was daunting, and welcome. I was often diving deep into user experience challenges that may seem simple at first, but are almost always complex and fascinating just below the surface. I partnered with senior leadership, product designers, front-end, support and infrastructure engineers to cultivate an intense curiosity for understanding user happiness. Day to day we used a combination of user feedback, product design intuition and data to help us make decisions that result in everything from subtle to blue sky executions.

Aug 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• My work at Say began as the Product Manager for Mobile. My initial focus was to improve and manage the mobile product suite for network advertising. I worked to scale the mobile product to respond to a marketplace and revenue stream that continues to grow. Currently, I focus on building and maintaining a product suite that Say’s global studio uses to build, traffic and publish all of our ad units. Additionally, I spearheaded our HTML5 strategy, and am working to scale our capabilities around this technology.

Jan 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• At Hot, I worked with a cross-disciplinary team to identify product requirements for design, technology, and operations. Defining PRDs, constructing product road maps that pair with business objectives, wrote/estimated/prioritized stories; maintaining communication and flexibility through the agile process of product development was core to my role. I played a creative role, pairing with engineering to write HTML5 proof of concepts which increased my team’s productivity and contributed to the success of our products.

Dec 2006 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Engineering begins when the project starts. My promotion to Technical Strategist focused on identifying project requirements for engineering and design as they relate to publishing platforms and frameworks. These requirements informed recommendations for new technologies, and instructions regarding how to navigate and build within legacy systems.

Dec 2005 – Dec 2006 · 1 yr

• During my time at Hot as a front-end coder, I was a member of a very small engineering team, so I quickly learned how to wear many hats. My primary responsibility was both client-side programming for design template support, and for prepping CMS integration. Additionally, I often found myself as a lead technical consultant for our UX and Visual Design teams.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr

• When you're passionate about two things (running, and technology), and then a couple of US Olympians ask you to help them launch a new non-profit, you're not going to walk away.

Jul 2006 – Dec 2006 · 5 mos

• I worked on the Google.com client-side development team. My focus was on google.com/jobs, where I worked to maintain I18N across our international domains. Through collaboration with the Google’s global transltation and engineering groups, I developed key communication skills for working with remote teams. Additionally, I worked with the UX team to iteratively update google.com/jobs using end-user test driven design methodologies.

Jun 2003 – Aug 2005 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Guided clients (4 -13 in number) of various ages on day long bicycle tours.
• Delivered 20 minute speeches on the environment and history four times per day.
• Facilitated rescue in emergency situations as the lead guide.
• Judged safety conditions for departing tours on a daily basis.
• Assigned by manager to facilitate remedies to internal conflicts.
• Demonstrated flexibility with scheduling and maintained a positive attitude through long hours.