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Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading People, Presence and Growth area in Microsoft Teams (300MM+ MAUs); managing a team of PMs.

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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Advise product managers of all seniority levels on how to excel in their craft and advance in their career.

Ottawa, On, Ca

Led Engagement & Conversion on Shop app, Shopify's foray into consumer products. 25MM MAUs, 4+ stars.Engagement Group (Recs, Product Details, Favorites, Cart, Checkout): Increased Shop’s GMV by 29% in 6 months• Captured “Buy Now” abandons in Carts: Saved 15k Carts / Week, with 10% later converting• Facilitated research on Storefronts by adding easy button & authentication, resulting in 15k Orders / Week• Overhauled recommendations on Order Management, increasing CTR by >300%• Incentivized purchase via Shop Cash Gift, driving over 4600 Orders / Week

Fort Mill, Sc, Us

Managed a team of 9 product managers & designers across Red Ventures' Entertainment brand portfolio: TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot, GameFAQs, GiantBomb, and CordCuttersNews. Our most recent work - the brand new TV Guide (iOS, Android, Web): #1 source for what to watch and where to watch it. 10MM+ MAUs.• Drove strategic overhaul to bring streaming focus to TV Guide, delivering new apps, site, catalog, emails, and more• Awarded “App of the Day” feature by Apple, becoming a top-100 Entertainment app

San Francisco, Ca, Us

CNET Media Group (CNET, TV Guide, Gamespot, Metacritic, and more) was acquired by Red Ventures in October 2020.Manage team of PMs & responsible for two squads within CNET Media Group:1) Native Apps2) Membership & Personalization

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led two teams for CNET:1) Native Apps2) Membership & PersonalizationNotable past projects:1) CNET.com homepage redesign2) CNET Tech Today App Launch3) CNET Notifications (cross-platform)4) CNET App Redesign

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Built up merchant team (KPI’s, roadmap, key products) from scratch to attract & retain high-quality merchants, expanding active partners by 26%. Also launched key user-facing projects and overhauled Sosh’s agile processes, introducing retrospectives & backlog grooming to inspire a reflective & data-driven culture.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led the mobile music product for Microsoft, spanning two major releases, while organizing & refining the team’s agile structures. Increased app rating from 1.8 to 4 stars. Also launched key non-music app media products – Cortana & Music (V1) and FM Radio.

Redmond, Washington, Us

WINDOWS PHONE - Music+Video & Games Groups- Designed & spec’d playlist creation & editing on the phone, SHIPPED 12/18/13- Designed, spec’d, & managed implementation of sharing games & achievements via social networks- Led post-mortem, collected feedback on previous release, & presented results to management

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Tested, restructured, and documented the DataCollaboration (DC) Toolkit in Matlab, under the supervision of Professor Andrew Packard.The DC Toolkit was designed and programmed at UCB as the PHD thesis of Ryan Feeley under the supervision of Andrew Packard. The DC Toolkit aims to handle high-dimensional set intersection of distinct but related experimental models in order to reduce the uncertainty of the parameters that make up those models.In short, it allowed data coming from many different places to be used at once for a more conclusive result.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Supported the Brigade Combat Team Modernization Network Management System (NMS) ProgramProgram Management Support -Developed and supported Excel macros to optimize reporting scheduling status to upper managementSystems Engineering Support -Created advanced Excel macros to trace related requirements in separate documentsSoftware Development Support -Automated bimonthly conversions to new releases of 3rd party infrastructure software Implemented sophisticated shell script utilizing sed (Unix stream editor) to edit NMS Java files Reduced conversion time from 8 man-hours to about 15 minutes. -Developed test data to exercise message traffic through NMS Controlled Data Gateway (CDG) interface Tested all types of NMS messages that will move through the CDG at unit time. Reduced system integration risk later in the project.

Taught the discussion section for Calculus II- Effected 15-25% higher exam scores for regular attendees compared to non-attendeesDeveloped the SI Data Collection process- Designed a data collection template via Excel for SI Leaders, including pre-formulated graphs- Compiled and analyzed total SI program effectivenessFacilitated and trained other SI Leaders for this pilot SI program- Led training sessions in instructional and data collection techniquesDesigned and compiled the “SI Starter Pack” for success of the SI program in future semesters