Stepchange is an early stage venture fund that invests in product-led companies that will make a step change impact on climate. Stepchange puts product leaders at the core of everything we do—from who we invest in and how we support them, to who we seek as LPs, partners, and advisors. We partner with founders at the very beginning, making investments in the first round of funding.

Climate Papa is a home for my explorations at the intersection of climate change, technology, and parenthood.I've been learning and exploring through conversations with other folks—product people, parents, kids, and other humans. You can listen to them on Spotify, Apple, Substack, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Just search for "Climate Papa" and it should appear.

Recently:Bayou EnergyAtmos FinancialAltus ThermalChanning Street CopperFlipturnEzra StudioBendChordioMoxieFringeCapitalOSConcurseUserfrontExplainpaperAt PresentVantaPreviously:AlchemyAstranisBright EnergySnowballUmano

Working on helping Stripe users adopt payment methods.Previously building and improving payment methods for the US & Canada.

Leverage: Support Products, Stripe Admin, and Stripe HomeCome work with me! https://stripe.com/jobs

Acquihired by Stripe.https://rep.aiRep is the first cross-channel customer assistance platform designed for customer-obsessed online brands. We help e-commerce and service businesses transform how they communicate and engage with their customers by turning one-off interactions into ongoing relationships, and helping brands use customer service to drive revenue. Some of our happy customers include MM.LaFleur, M.Gemi and Timbuk2. We are funded by Accel, First Round, Forerunner, and SV Angel.

- Lead PM for Google's mobile messaging and communication product, Hangouts, launched at 2013 Google I/O unifying Google Talk, Messenger, and video Hangouts into one product.- PM on Google Photos, launched Google Stories (Smart Albums) which makes automatic beautiful slideshows from your adventures.- PM on Google+ Mobile: Launched Google+ Messenger, Video Hangouts for mobile, and numerous Google+ iOS & Android releases.Google acquired everythingIsTheBest, LLC in 2010.

Plannr and other products have been acquired by Google!We are a small software company based in the Capitol Hill district of Seattle.We are currently investigating a collection of projects that apply simple technology to real problems in our lives. We are technology optimists.Projects include www.useplannr.com and www.ridepenguin.com

I returned full-time after the previous summer's internship. During my ~2 years I managed a couple different research projects and collaborated on 2-3 others. My initial focus was on extending the work from the previous summer and exploring future businesses for Microsoft Hardware. A product unit with 20 or so people was built out relating to these concepts. I served as a research arm for that product unit.My second main project was a collaboration with Jay Meistrich in building out a protocol and consumer experience for controlling all of the media devices in your life. It spanned an insane number of Microsoft technologies and resulted in a very compelling vision piece.I helped college recruiting doing 4-5 trips down to Stanford for recruiting events as well as hosting a couple high-talent potential candidates in Seattle. For our own team I ran our intern recruiting process and brought in some new full-time software talent to a traditionally physics/EE heavy team.Selected for and completed "High Potential Technical Leadership Select" trainingPresented SurfaceWare research at TEI2009: http://bit.ly/surfacewarepaperBuilt the first software demos for the Pressure Sensitive Keyboard: http://bit.ly/pressuresenskeyboardFiled a 2nd patent for work on multi-touch mice

http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/My job for the summer was to build something cool. About 3 months and $50k spent later I had hacked apart (both physically and in code) a Microsoft Surface unit and prototyped a new product line for Microsoft Hardware. It ended up being cool enough that I got to demo to Bill Gates, Ray Ozzie, and everyone in between them and my manager.As a side project I worked with Paul Dietz to develop some other use cases for Microsoft Surface. We submitted a patent soon after the summer that was issued in 2009: http://bit.ly/surfacewarepatent

Worked on all iPod products shipped Sept. 2006, but was primarily focused on the 2G Nano (http://bit.ly/2GNano). My team was responsible for accessory compatibility for the new release. There was a major architecture redesign in that product version and I worked with the development teams to solve a number of problematic edge cases the new design introduced. As a side summer project I built an automated testing suite that allowed testers to just 'hit go' and it would spit out an Excel result, rather than require manual log entry. I presented this to Tony Fadell (iPod VP) at the end of the summer.Most interesting part of the job: seeing what goes into pushing an Apple product out the door in the last 3 months and the chaos that ensues!

Built and developed a testing bed for a new MEMS deviceAnalyzed existing market products available for testing comparison

(while in high school)Examined an unexplored physical property of CdSe Quantum Co-authored “Carrier Temperatures of CdSe Quantum Dots using the Detailed Balance Method,” submitted to Chemical Physics Letters