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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

- Consulted for a European Bitcoin company in launching their Lightning Network API by advising on API design and developer experience, applying understanding of Bitcoin technology and API best practices in project delivery.- Wrote articles for a serverless SQL databases company focused on SQL best practices, performance, and reliability to improve their.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Owned creation and publishing of documentation for API releases while overseeing second technical writer and collaborating with partner engineers, product managers, and engineers.- Drove ad spend through faster onboarding and adoption of less used features by creating getting started and use case guides providing practical explanations of how LinkedIn.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Teamed with engineering, product, and business development managing AdTech developers. This involved: * Owning technical relationships for strategic AdTech partnerships including HubSpot and Marketo. * Managing provisioning of API endpoints, OAuth scopes, and rate limits.- Onboarded new AdTech partners with a focus on reducing time to launch and building.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Collaborated with customer success and account managers on account renewal and growth serving as the technical subject matter expert for customers approaching contract renewal. This involved: * Communicating Recurly’s strengths and designing creative API workarounds to address objections.- Owned 17 VIP customer relationships providing white-glove API.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Generated new professional service revenue streams. This included: * Developing a subscription import tool for bringing over subscriptions from other providers. * Writing Ruby and SQL scripts for performing custom subscription updates not supported by the API.- Complied with PCI standards while performing credit card imports for customers moving from.

Remote USA

- Led data collection on 5K+ tech companies and products for market research product. This included: * Sourcing and managing web research and data entry specialists in the Philippines. * Creating scraping scripts in Ruby automating data collection.- Created content for company magazine and YouTube channel. This included: * Conducting interviews with.

Tokyo, Japan | Shanghai, China | Remote USA

Worked in Asia, splitting time between Tokyo and Shanghai offices, until Apr 2012, then worked remotely from USA. - Managed reseller partnerships with US companies looking to market and sell in Japan and China. This included: * Expanding product offering by securing strategic partnerships with Splunk, MuleSoft, and HubSpot. * Managing partner business.

- Created small service business helping frequent flyers optimize mileage earning and redemption value - Secured affiliate partnerships with travel bloggers that increased weekly leads by 200%- Designed automated email marketing campaigns with AWeber and ActiveCampaign- Integrated Google Analytics and SessionCam into Wordpress site to analyze visitor.

East Windsor, New Jersey

- Recommended credit exposure levels by analyzing financial and credit records of new and existing policyholders.- Researched and wrote 2 industry reviews on the jewelry and construction industries to advise on risk within these industries

Redwood Shores, California

- Processed daily ACH transfers.- Detected and stopped fraudulent transactions.- Analyzed historical chargeback trends.- Researched and recommended debt collection procedures.

B.A., Economics

Developed analytical and quantitative skills through coursework in Financial Economics, Accounting, International Trade, Statistics, and.

Mandarin

Tsinghua University's Chinese Language Program encompassed development of Mandarin reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Full-Stack Web Development

Graduate of Flatiron School's Learn-Verified program where I studied and built applications in Ruby, Sinatra, Rails, JavaScript, and.