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Chicago, IL, US

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Chicago, Illinois, US

• Dynamic Airspace Sharing: Shorter Flights, Lower Costs, and Reduced Emissions.
• Technical Leadership: Responsible for building the technical team, recruiting top-tier developers, engineers, and data scientists. Built the product roadmap and launch our initial product suite within 6 months.
• Customer Success: Fostered robust partnerships, negotiating and securing pivotal contracts with key industry players like Delta, Southwest, and UPS, enhancing the company’s market positioning.
• Strategic Advising: Functioned as the interim COO, orchestrating the strategic planning and assisting in raising two additional rounds of investment. Vetted all hires and worked with cross-functional teams to execute.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• A clean energy start-up, Oklo builds next-generation nuclear power plants that bring clean, reliable power to the world.
• Performance Management & Operations: Improved operations, productivity, and engagement by reorganizing company as it expanded from 20 to 60 employees – streamlined processes, implemented management systems, and added.
• Capital Raising: Initiated process for phase 1 application to secure $750M in government loan guarantees for new reactors in collaboration with the Loans Programs Office.
• People Management: Managed 25+ technical employees by providing guidance, establishing priorities, developing weekly, monthly, and yearly strategic plans, goal tracking, and sprint planning.
• Strategic Advising: Spearheads revenue generation and Series B fundraising efforts by developing visionary ideas aligned with the company’s mission, vision, and objectives by providing strategic guidance to the CEO and.

San Jose, CA, US

• PayPal enables users to easily and securely spend, send, and manage money via an app.
• Product Development: Ran infrastructure product management and operations for PayPal’s Braintree brand spanning multiple teams and 50+ developers – restructured and transitioned strategy from disparate groups to a.
• Hardware Migration: Decreased transaction process and time by 90% by designing and directing hardware migration from a legacy data-center-based infrastructure to AWS.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• IBM acquired Cloudant March 2014.
• Acquisition Transition: Facilitated Cloudant’s acquisition, transition, and assimilation into IBM’s cloud organization – served on the leadership team, supported 90% of remaining employees (75% remained through the.
• Product Management & Development: Introduced and shipped six significant projects and countless updates over five years as manager of a portfolio of products – spearheaded a shift to a hybrid cloud model and led a.

• Technical Leadership: Oversaw all aspects of product strategy and execution. Recruited, grew, and managed development and product teams. Provided pre- and post-sales support to build strong relationships with our.
• Strategic Advising: Hired replacement CEO before transitioning to Chief Product Officer, advised CEO on all technical and product aspects, and served as an executive committee member during IBM acquisition.

• Innovative Leadership: Founded, built, and ran a software company – raised $2M in seed funding and raised another $14M in venture funds. Grew annual recurring revenue to $1M and customer base to 1000+. Set company.
• Business Development: Wrote a business plan, accepted to start-up incubator YCombinator (one of 20 accepted), identified market, found investors, defined product strategy, built initial team of 15, then hired and.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Fundamental Science: Researched the properties of sub-atomic particles by observing and analyzing the collisions of highly-energetic polarized protons. Specifically, my research explored the contribution of gluon spin.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Particle Physics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Physics

Physics