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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

* Led a cross-functional research organization of 12 FTEs across design, marketing, operations, and quantitative research, achieving an 83/100 employee satisfaction score—outperforming 60% of company benchmarks and 70% of design organization metrics* Optimized $2M+ annual research budget, delivering $1M+ in cost savings through strategic vendor.

San Francisco, US

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San Francisco, California, US

* Founded and scaled a high-performing research team to 21 FTEs across marketing, operations, and user research functions. Directly recruited 15 team members including 5 managers, 3 of whom were promoted. Achieved top-quartile employee engagement scores (83/100)* Managed a $2M+ budget and identified ways to reduce tool costs by 25%* Streamlined the.

Jakarta Selatan, Jakarta, ID

* Increased the quality of research through 1:1 mentorship and group workshops

San Francisco, California, US

* Led a company-wide initiative that drove a $66M projected ARR increase through a redesign of the Uber app combining multiple lines of business, resulting in measurable increases in user awareness, trial, and engagement* Spearheaded market research that shaped Uber Eats' successful entry into grocery delivery, defining the service strategy and core.

* Developed and launched Q—a conversational interface that collects data using surveying methodologies* Measured the experience of WeWork members using Q in collaboration with the WeWork research team

* Founded and led a high-performing research team of 16 researchers, developing 2 into research managers, and accelerating career growth for 25% of the team through promotions* Managed a $1.6M research budget* Pioneered "Rolling Research", a rapid research methodology adopted across Facebook's global research organization, while reducing costs by 80% and.

Mountain View, CA, US

* Increased performance and reduced memory consumption in Chrome and Chrome OS developing and patenting (US8341519) an algorithm to manage tabs* Launched and patented (US20150052473) a tab and window manager for Chrome OS, which was empirically shown to improve the efficiency of window management over competitors, the results of which were published at CHI.

Bath, GB

* Provided advice and support to academic research projects

Redmond, Washington, US

* Created the first process for conducting user experience research at the Microsoft Canada Development Center (MCDC) in Vancouver, Canada* Saved more than 100 people-hours per testing cycle by developing a service to automate the process of provisioning remote usability testing for the Office 2010 beta* Developed a social media listening tool - Sylvester.

* Published 2 technical reports to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as well as 1 book chapter and 2 conference papers researching collaboration and project management in e-Science

Bath, GB

* Mentored a student project that won first place in a Vodafone student competition

Boulder, Colorado, US

* Evaluated the Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC) leading to a publication and invited workshop presentation at Creativity & Cognition 2007

Phd, Computer Science

Bsc, Computer Science