Helping consumers arrange their final wishes online, in minutes, with transparent pricing and a world-class product experience.

Providing customer research and JTBD guidance to Techstars portfolio companies.

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Trusted by teams at LEGO, Techstars, and Minecraft, I help innovators improve their product strategy. I collaborate with executive leaders to create roadmaps and establish product positioning. And I partner with engineering and design teams to build and ship products customers love.• Worked with CEO of a VC-backed healthcare startup to help third-party advisors manage complex portfolios. Assisted executive in defining product strategy, developed designs, wrote user stories for development team, and deployed site features increasing active users and MRR month-over-month for six months.• Partnered with CEO and COO of family research/genealogy startup. Identified key company differentiators and built landing page to convert visitors into customers. Created internal application to automate workflow and increased productivity of internal team. Contributed to fundraising pitch deck.• Led series of customer interviews with COO of camp management company to obtain customer insights. Helped direct product vision and direction for annual users’ conference and supported CPO in prioritizing feature development and allocating developer resources for upcoming 2 quarters.• Worked with founders of niche travel app focused on safety and security for female hosts and travelers. Built marketing site and 2-sided marketplace web app to manage all aspects of the offering (hosts, guests, property management, transactions.)• Partnered with founder of email productivity app to develop proof-of-concept. Outlined scope of product and designed, built, and delivered prototype for angel investors resulting in a successful round of fundraising.Pubilc speaking and workshop engagements include:⋆ DevOpsDays Denver⋆ Medical Technology UX / HF⋆ Rocky Mountain ProductCamp⋆ Boulder UI/UX Meetup⋆ Denver Startup Week⋆ Canopy Boulder⋆ RefactorU: Guest Lecturer on Product Design⋆ Boulder Startup Week⋆ Longmont Startup Week⋆ Boulder UI/UX Meetup⋆ Galvanize Mentor Study Hall

At GitLab, I held a pivotal role in Product Operations focusing on key responsibilities to streamline product operations through JTBD to improve PM workflow efficiency, increase customer satisfaction, and enhance cross-functional collaboration.- Delivered $400k+ in annual cost-savings with pipeline automations and process improvements- Improved adoption rate of automatic release notes generation from 32% to 47%- Designed, built, and deployed GitLab's first-ever release notes push notifications to customers

Binocs is a venture-backed company using AI/ML to change the way you find your files. As Head of Product, collaborated with CEO to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap to align with company strategy and fundraising efforts. Lead outsourced development team through execution of Chrome extension, OS X client, and iOS MVP.• Partnered with CEO and Co-founder (ex-CEO of Mocavo) to build a search-based product to find all your cloud-based documents in seconds.• Led remote development team of 5 and budget of $450K.• Contributed to raising $2.25M in capital to launch new venture and delivered monthly presentations to leadinvestors; reported progress of product initiatives and burn rate.• Collaborated with CEO to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap while leading development team.• Worked with external design team to create unified branding across web, desktop, and mobile products.• Built landing page, referral program, and product marketing efforts leading to Top 5 Product Hunt launch.

Championed product strategy and vision for user-facing, product experience for genealogy search engine. Oversaw development team and 3 shared resources and budget of $560K.• Grew site to 500,000 users prior to acquisition by findmypast.com for $25M.• Delivered quarterly presentations to the board of investors that reported product strategy, roadmap, and progress.• Analyzed competitive dynamics, identified and assessed product gaps, and led development team to designfeatures to improve company’s competitive position.• Grew Subscription Renewal Rate from 30% to 75%.• Conducted research with customer advisory board to increase monthly recurring revenue by nearly 3X in a year to over $55k/month.

Team lead, responsible for UX design and front-end development of features with primary objective to increase customer engagement.

Design and develop hand-crafted websites, user interfaces, mobile sites, and web applications utilizing expertise in Photoshop,Illustrator, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and Wordpress, among others. Provide SEO services, UI/UX Design and marketing strategies to a range of clients.

The Miller Company is a full-service performance improvement and recognition agency. We help our large business clients communicate their brands internally and externally through the development and operation of recognition systems, incentives, and promotions.

Lead students through the unfolding story of Art History through lessons based upon the formal elements of Design. - Recognized by Center for Educator Development in Fine Arts as a highly qualified fine arts education expert - Superintendent’s Advisory Council Member: elected by co-workers as representative to address campus and district concerns - Invited to present professional development sessions at Texas Fine Arts Summit; Promethean User Conference, among others - TExES Item Review Committee: 1 of 12 educators selected to review and revise Texas’ statewide Art Education certification exam

Responsible for designing line of headwear for brand-appropriate demographics - Collaborated with Sr. Designer to develop demographically relevant headwear for major brands such as Guinness, Red Stripe,Corona and Looney Toons. Weren't expecting the last one, were you? Neither was I. - Developed designs from conception to retail display, including: conceptual sketch, virtual mock-up, sample requisition from partnerfactories in mainland China, revision, mass distribution.