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Iron River, Mi, Us

New York City, Ny, Us

Collaborated with Data Scientists to productize price-forecasting models used by CPGs and merchant trading companies.

Responsible for research, development, deployment, and risk management of a portfolio of systematic multi-asset trading and hedging strategies.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Product Owner of one of the world's largest Content Delivery Networks. Collaborated with and executed on feature development for Fortune-500 clientele. Managed Engineering and Design teams' backlogs. Trained and mentored direct reports including Product Managers and Senior User Experience Designers. Re-architected institutional APIs from the ground-up, and designed the user experience for internal and external-facing platforms.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Ideated and created world-class digital products and user experiences to suit a large variety of clients.

San Francisco, California, Us

Developed product roadmap and owned backlog of epics and user-stories in a fast-paced Agile development environment. Collaborated with internal and external joint-venture stakeholders and clients to define product vision and strategy. Designed user experience and demonstrated functionality of new features by creating interactive wireframes and mockups. Defined user stories and authored detailed product requirements documentation for multiple product lines simultaneously. Integrated AngularJS frontend with RESTful web service. Worked with backend engineering team, frontend developers, and applied math team to determine the best technical implementation as well as execution schedule for key product enhancements. Managed all aspects of the product/project, and coordinated cross-functional groups in three different countries to build a computationally intensive backend integrated with a rich client-side UI resulting in the deployment of a fully-functional web application in less than four months.

Pasadena, California, Us

Directed operations, managed deal pipeline, and organized due diligence efforts that resulted in $4.2M worth of investments in over 30 different ventures in one year. Evaluated the strength and fundability of early-stage technology ventures in web and mobile, clean-tech, consumer products, entertainment, SaaS and Enterprise Software, media, IT, and biomedical technologies. Communicated with C-level executives, accredited investors, and entrepreneurs.

Founded startup and developed social iPhone app that enabled users to record, edit, and share video content. Assembled engineering team to design, manufacture, and test durable iPhone case for use in action-sports. Managed branding initiatives and designed/developed online store to sell product to target segment.

Created interactive wireframes using HTML & Bootstrap to illustrate workflow, user-stories, and features. Authored detailed functional requirements, use-cases, and workflows to articulate desired features and functionality based on business requirements, market research, and client discovery. Defined product requirements and roadmap to transform an initial concept into a fully-developed and deployed web application. Led four-person core team; managed two outsourced developers, two marketing interns, and an offshore graphic artist. Ideated and created a platform that combines social media, cause-related marketing, and real-world interaction to provide targeted advertising, increased marketing ROI, and brand equity development for Fortune 500 companies.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Led team of engineers and technicians on research and development project that successfully fabricated novel multilevel interconnect heterojunction bipolar transistor technology on gallium arsenide and indium phosphide for use in space-based defense and next generation satellite applications. Statistical process control lead and database developer. Semiconductor process engineer specializing in dry etch (fluorine and chlorine-based), sputtering (Au, Ti, Ni), chemical vapor deposition of thin dielectric films, spectroscopic and microscopic characterization (SEM, STEM, XPS, Auger, etc.), and root-cause analysis.

Defined personas, user-stories, and information architecture of a niche social-networking website. Managed product backlog, visual design, frontend and backend development, and strategic launch of new features.

Characterization of corrosion rates of aluminum alloys with and without barrier coatings under multifarious exposure conditions. Investigation of environmental corrosion rates for a vast array of commonly used structural alloys. Design, analysis, prototyping, manufacture, and deployment of corrosion test structures. Correlation of observed corrosion phenomena with electrochemical theory. Cathodic and Anodic protection of structures.

Mba (Full-Time Program)

Master Of Science, Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Engineering