Managed and directed the creation of the hybrid mobile and web news aggregation product.Strategic development of the product roadmap and deliverables. Architected the front and back end components.Reached #25 rank in App Store Free iPad News appsCombined machine learning and metadata extraction APIs for content delivery

Set the strategy, priorities and direction of the Plaxo paid product lines. Successfully re-launched the premium Plaxo Personal Assistant, including front end improvements, multiple new data sources and a completely overhauled back-end. Initiated prototype work for new suggestion end-points and user experiences. Worked closely with Sales and Marketing to optimize trial signup and conversion rates.RFL: Company shifted to "maintenance mode" in my vertical and downsized product management.

Taught the Information Organization Laboratory, a hands-on crash course in online IO/IR technology. Students completed projects using HTML5, CSS3, git, jQuery, Google App Engine, 80Legs, PhoneGap, and more.http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/courses/290ta

Delivered the technical support interface allowing CSRs to remotely view, diagnose, and fix home computer networks, including real-time updates and remote access. Champion the conceptualization, development and implementation of products and services at all stages of the product development lifecycle. Driving product innovation differentiation positioning and messaging. Developing business and technical requirements and writing supporting MRD, PRD and Use Case documents. Evangelizing the product internally across all functional business teams and externally with customers partners and others.Recently led the team as we transitioned from Waterfall to Agile/SCRUM, while coordinating between software and hardware-driven timelines and requirements. Focusing both on customers and investors, demonstrating value while keeping it usable!RFL: Company ran short of funding and downsized product org.

Initiated the C3, (Community Created Catalogs) effort.Built and improved on Finding, Catalog/Categories/ClassificationIncreased product coverage and the buying/selling product match experience. Targeted high-revenue products and areas. Wrote extensive cross-team and cross-vertical PRDs, simultaneously coordinating $1M+ efforts with over 50 engineers, architects, PMs, and executives.RFL: 15% company reduction

Co-Founder and CTO of inChorus, with the goal of generating crowdsourcing effort "on the cheap" from casual site visitors.

During his time at SIMS, Benjamin worked as the Development Lead for the Mobile Media Metadata (MMM2) project with Garage Cinema Research, published papers on democratic online collaboration (VERN), built an AJAX-enabled calendaring system (Vern2), interned at Yahoo-Berkeley Labs, interned at Commerce.Net, built a crowdsourcing application, and generally enjoyed himself.

Research and investigation paper on early crowdsourcing techniques and frameworks.

Researched metadata and tagging propagation techniques

Gathered business requirements, and customized the workflow solution to optimize the customers' invoice workflows.

Everything! IT consultant that flew around the country, met with clients, understood their needs, distilled into use cases, designed solutions, learned new languages, implemented the solution.