Zoomo is the world's leader in light electric vehicles (LEVs) and after-market servicing for delivery and logistics use, built on the experience of thousands of delivery riders around the world. Our mission is to sustainably transition billions of urban delivery miles from bikes, cars and trucks to light electric vehicles.We’re a fast-growing startup with a global footprint across the U.S., U.K, Europe, and Australia, and are now the trusted partner to some of the world’s leading and most innovative companies like Uber, DoorDash, Dexus, Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Wholefoods, Gorillas, Just Eat, Getir and many more.

I led a product management team focused on defining the on-road behavior of the Cruise AV, with a particular emphasis on creating a best-in-class transportation experience for our customers. The team takes a customer-centric, holistic view (integrating safety, comfort, maneuvers/capabilities, routing/dispatch, environmental and regulatory factors) to craft the product strategy, roadmap, and requirements for AV behavior.

The New Mobility (NeMo) organization is rapidly expanding the transportation services provided on the Uber platform, including electric bikes, scooters, transit, and more. Our vision is to identify, test, and scale the next generation of businesses.I served as the general manager & product lead for two initiatives within the New Mobility organization:• NeMo Robotics, which focuses on improving safety, rider experience, and operational efficiency through the integration of sensing, computer vision, and robotics technologies into light electric vehicles.• NeMo Platform, which focuses on developing partnerships that enable riders to locate, book, and pay for trips on vehicles provided by third party mobility companies within the Uber application (electric kick scooters provide by Lime and electric mopeds provided by CityScoot, for example).

I lead the New Mobility Robotics team, which develops systems and features that improve safety, rider experience, and operational efficiency through the integration of sensing and robotics technologies into Uber/JUMP's light electric vehicles (bikes and scooters).

Tule’s evapotranspiration monitoring service measures crop water usage and predicts optimal irrigation strategies for customers in the commercial agriculture industry. The service is enabled by a proprietary hardware sensor that is installed in every farm field Tule monitors. The company is backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures and Bloomberg Beta.As the first employee and core member of the team that grew Tule from prototype to 1000+ sensors deployed, my responsibilities at Tule included:• Product management, product strategy, and UI/UX design for all features, including predictive features backed by machine learning.• Contributions to production code for web applications (Ruby/Rails), sensor firmware (C++ on Arduino and Particle platforms), and machine learning pipelines (Python).• Contributions to 3 iterations of sensor hardware design and supply chain resulting in significant reductions in BOM cost and sensor failures.Past responsibilities (which have since been delegated to other teammates) included:• Monitoring, triaging and debugging the Tule sensor network• Hiring, training, and managing our team of field technicians that install and repair Tule sensors in farm fields all over California• Managing our warehouse where we do final assembly and distribution of our sensor hardware

I joined Constant Contact to help the company develop a new product initiative (details confidential). My role included:• Creating product strategy, developing functional prototypes (including software engineering), and leading customer development process for new product initiative.• Presenting to company board to secure approval for the new initiative.

Glyder was a mobile application designed to help small businesses turn fans & followers into customers with professionally designed, effective marketing. We raised a $600K seed round from investors including 500 Startups, Dharmesh Shah (Hubspot co-founder) and Bill Mooney (former Zynga exec) and grew usage to 10,000 monthly active small business users. As co-founder and CEO my responsibilities here included:• Key business operations including fundraising, recruiting, product strategy, and investor relations.• Product management and UI/UX design for the Glyder iOS applicationWe weren't able to cross the threshold into profitability or Series A funding and had to shut the company down after 2 years in operation. Many lessons learned the hard way on this one.

After Haku Wale was acquired by Nextive, I took over leadership of the newly formed Product group within Nextive. As team lead for this group, my responsibilities included:• Growing the Product team from team formation to over $2M revenue run rate.• Managing an organization of 20+ artists, designers, and product managers spread across 3 cities in 2 countries (70% of Nextive's staff was in Argentina).• Leading product management and UI/UX design for key projects and new business pitches• Interviewing, hiring, and mentoring designers and product managers• Leading regular product and design team reviews to maintain a high bar of quality across all client projects. • Conducting regular employee performance reviews and developing levels and salary bands for roles within the product team.Nextive was acquired by Globant in August 2011. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Haku Wale was a software design and development firm that I co-founded with Porter Felton. We started Haku Wale (it means "to make, invent or improvise" in Hawaiian) with a mission to provide software and media production services to companies with positive social or environmental impact. Our work included software projects for The City of San Francisco, The Glide Foundation, Children's Hospital Oakland, Yahoo, ebay, and DoSomething.org. Our software projects included iOS applications, Facebook applications, Wordpress-based web sites. My primary responsibilities included:• Product management and UI/UX design for all client software development projects• New business development and client interaction• Hiring, training and managing several junior designers• Hiring and managing contract software developersHaku Wale was acquired by Nextive in October 2010.

At the time I joined, Zynga was a small but quickly growing game company (about 130 people when I started, 900 people when I left). I joined the newly formed mobile team working on Zynga's first iOS games. Primary responsibilities were:• Product manager for Live Poker (Zynga’s first iOS game). Increased revenue by 490% in 6 months.• Product manager for launch of Scramble Live (Zynga’s second iOS game). Achieved #2 rank on app store chart in first week of launch.• Contributed to product management and design for PetVille (Facebook game) that reached 5M daily active users.• Management of a team of outsourced mobile developers hired to help increase iOS engineering bandwidth• Liason between web game and iOS game teams (the games had shared backend infrastructure, so feature releases and API changes needed to be tightly coordinated).

Affinity Labs was a social networking company that created online communities focused on specific professional career demographic groups (Police officers, fire fighters, nurses, teachers, etc). I started at Affinity Labs in an entry level web producer role, where I was responsible for sourcing and posting content, crafting weekly email marketing messages, and moderating the community. Within 2 months, I was promoted to associate product manager. Several months later, Affinity Labs was acquired by Monster.com for $62M, and I was promoted to Product manager shortly after the deal closed. My product management work (which also included all UI/UX design for our community sites) continued after the acquisition. Primary responsibilities here were:• Writing specs for new features• UI/UX design for new features• Triage and tracking of the product backlog for features and bugs• Data analysis for tracking key metrics for the community sites• Coordination of weekly email newsletter creation process for all Affinity Labs properties

While finishing my design degree at UC Davis, I started a freelance design business serving local companies. Projects included:• Web design - HTML & CSS• Basic software development required for the installation, configuration, and customization of content management systems (primarily basica PHP for customizing Wordpress)• Tradeshow booth design• Visual design for print collateral

I was a seasonal employee at the Apple Retail Store in Walnut Creek, California starting in Summer 2003 and returning several times during the holidays over the next few years. My primary responsibilities were:• Sales (I was the top ranked sales person for our store by the end of my first quarter).• Customer education and training (via the on site classes we held in stores)• Some technical support and IT work (configuring newly sold computers, helping customers resolve problems to prevent escalation to the Genius Bar).