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California, United States

San Francisco, California, US

Los Altos Hills, CA, US

Series Seed B2B SaaS startup that helped mobile product teams collaborate on their user flows. Think "Figma + Mixpanel." Our SDKs collected app screens and metadata, then our algorithms automatically organized them into user flows with analytics and API calls on a multiplayer canvas for easy collaboration.

San Francisco, CA, US

Built the financial and operational models for how CareZone "worked," in order to figure out the key levers we needed to move to attain unit profitability and revenue growth. Included analytics for marketing (CPI to revenue), our multiple business units, and operations (call center and pharmacy workflow).

San Francisco, CA, US

Built high-scale pharmacy business from ground zero, opening multiple locations. We served over 30K patients, dispensing medications in pill packets and bottles using robots.The app served as an HIPAA-compliant channel that patients used to communicate with the pharmacy, order refills, and check on order status.

San Francisco, CA, US

CareZone was a healthcare startup that made it easy for people to manage their medication list, along with other health information.Started as the first product manager when we were 13 people working out the CEO’s basement. Within 6 months, managed the engineering and design teams, while still wearing the product hat.Engineering teams were mobile-first.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Led the global mobile software team (400+ people in Shanghai, Beijing, Hefei, Marlboro, and Santa Clara) that enabled customers to build mobile devices with Marvell chipsets by delivering performant, power-optimized Android software for application processor and single chip solutions, supporting TD-SCDMA and WCDMA.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Had multiple leadership and management roles in the Mobile business unit, where we developed system software that enabled our Tegra ARM processor-based chips to be used in mobile devices (Microsoft ZuneHD media player, and Motorola’s Xoom tablet), automobiles (Tesla, Audi, BMW) and gaming devices (Nintendo Switch).Contributed to the first three generations.

San Jose, California, US

Business and technical marketing role, working with sales engineers and account managers to go-to-market with a formal analysis tool called Incisive Formal Verifier that is used to verify the correctness of complex chip designs.Working with the West Coast sales account teams, we grew the regional business from $200K to $2.5MM through 30+ customer.

San Jose, CA, US

Senior member of the design verification team for a 100 Gb/s linecard ASIC in the CRS-3 core router. Also, member of Cisco’s cross-business unit ASIC Process Design Council working on standardizing design verification methodology and defect reporting.

Worked on the constrained random design verification infrastructure for a packet content inspection security ASIC. Also helped on whitebox verification of the software that programmed regexes in the ASIC.

Worked on a 20 Gb/s scheduler chip for the 320 Gb/s Tellabs Multiservice Router 8860 that was used for AT&T’s wireless backhaul.Design verification lead for a highly fault-tolerant and reliable switch fabric chipset supporting OC-192 ports and scaling to 2.5Tb/s. Defined the design verification methodology, and developed the test bench and test plans..

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M.S., Cs

Ph.D., Information & Computer Science

B.S., Eecs