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Berkeley, Ca, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Leading product and design for the White House experience portfolio

Washington, Dc, Us

Senior product manager leading the White House Experiences portfolio.

Springfield, Va, Us

White House Presidential Innovation Fellow detailed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. This program pairs talented, diverse technologists and innovators with top civil servants to tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges.Key Achievements:Group Product Manager: Led a team of 8 PMs and ~30 engineers delivering NGA’s shared development environment.* Redesigned and revamped a key product, increasing activation by X-Y%.* Crafted the division’s first product strategy, driving executives to refocus resources, reduce costs, and improve retention.* Coached PMs on skills, strategy, and execution.Technology Advisor: Advised the CTO on product management and policy.* Helped the CIO implement product management across the agency.* Contributed to policy incorporating product management into NGA’s AI adoption efforts.

San Luis Obispo, California, Us

Helping early stage startups execute, build scalable product discovery techniques, and iterate to find product-market fit. I love rolling up my sleeves, helping founders understand their customers' problems, and ship products they love.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I lead all things growth product at Imperfect. I craft strategies to grow and retain our customers, align on the plan with leaders across the business, and then execute on those efforts with a team of ~10 software engineers and designers. We're on a mission to change the food system and reduce food waste. Acquired by Misfits Market (IF's largest competitor) in October 2022.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Product manager who has worked on every piece of the product as the company scaled 11X in revenue: operations, merchandising technology, e-commerce experience, and growth. Currently focused on acquisition, activation and early retention.Impact includes:* Launched new homepage, leading to +13% conversion, + 2% activation and an estimated 5% increase in gross revenues for the company.* Launch improved signup experience, leading to +22% activation & +19% increase in revenue for first time customers* Launch new experience for users receiving third party deliveries to support expansion to 80% of the country. Revamped pricing model, leading to a ~$200k increase in revenue and reduction in churn.* Developed & implemented multi-prong strategy to improve retention, particularly around activation and habit-formation.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Product owner for Sunrun’s Energy Services platform. Bringing design thinking and agile to a historically waterfall organization.Key Responsibilities & Highlights:1. Built Sunrun’s first incubation product team, composed of engineering, design, and product, to execute on the initial concept of a virtual power plant (“VPP”). 2. Launched Sunrun's first platform to deliver solar + storage energy to California. Led from greenfield idea to launch, designing user experiences and everything in between. Led to to ~XX% energy delivered during California demand response events.3. Continuously articulate high-level vision and strategy to the organization, ensuring that executives, directors, and the team were bought in with the approach to building Sunrun’s initial energy services products.

Oakland, California, Us

Focused on growing user adoption and retention of smart home devices as part of OhmConnect's gamification platform. * Developed strategy, roadmap, and delivery of 40+ features* Implemented three-pronged growth strategy for increasing, maintaining, and re-engaging smart home device users, maintaining 10% penetration of smart home devices across users while user growth increased by 30%.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Product Owner responsible for ~8 -12 person Engineering team, managing the lifecycle of requirements gathering, development, and release for features affecting the core cloud product.

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

ANALYST, Demand Response Operations (March 2016 - Present).• Go-to operations professional to drive customer success in 10+ demand response programs across the US & Canada with the creation of customer-facing products, marketing campaigns, training tools, & other deliverables • Identified knowledge gaps in all demand response programs and users resulting in decreased revenues and lower SAT and engagement. Conducted market analysis to define the magnitude of the issue, presented a business case to Operations Leadership, and managed a group of internal stakeholders to execute a marketing campaign and training platform to 16k+ users across the US and Canada.• Championed the use of pre-existing data sets and tools to pilot feedback loops for all customers post demand response dispatch. Pro-actively collaborated with officials from other utilities to supplement user data and provide further feedback to Leadership team.• Developed the technical road map for a new demand response platform in a frequency-response market in Texas, collaborating with engineering teams in Berlin, Germany.ASSOCIATE, Demand Response Operations (June 2014 - March 2016)• Built innovative standard operating protocols (SOPs) to enable the successful execution of demand response programs by the 24/7 Real Time Operations team.