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California, United States

San Francisco, California, US

Head of product, design, and quality assurance. Responsible for defining and executing product strategy including product vision, roadmap, positioning, pricing, user acquisition, retention, and launch plans. Set goals and defined key success metrics. Managed the entire product lifecycle from conception to launch including ideation, scope, specifications.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Directed development, art, quality assurance, community, and product teams across multiple applications to deliver impactful products and features at a rapid pace in a high pressure environment. Developed and set.
• Regularly appeared atop the leaderboards for fastest growing applications on Facebook and MySpace.
• Directly managed cross functional teams including 5 engineers, 2 QA, 2 designers, a community manager, a game designer, and 2 product managers.
• Monitored, tested, and tuned conversion funnels and viral loops.
• Initiated and ruthlessly prioritized projects, tracked product development, and developed product launch plans.
• Assisted engineering team in determining the best technical implementation methods as well as reasonable execution schedule.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Developed product strategy and features based on analysis of user and business needs. Wore many hats, including business development, marketing, reporting.
• Drove user acquisition and monetization. Grew user base 120% during four month tenure.
• Managed customer feedback process, cultivating user community and brand.

Developed business and marketing plans for consumer-internet startups.

Boston, MA, US

• Marketing project: developed the marketing plan used by mobile startup WaveMarket, Inc. to build and market InterActiveCorp’s "Ask Mobile" product. Conducted primary research including deep interviews, surveys, and.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led market opportunity analysis of multibillion dollar mobile video opportunity. Analyzed markets and industries, created model to forecast subscribers and handset sales, analyzed competitive landscape, designed.
• Developed group specific and firm-wide strategy to capture up to $1 billion from mobile video.
• Assessed alternatives for addressing gaps in media platform through building, licensing, partnering, or acquisition.

New York, New York, US

Actively recruited by management to make unheard of move from IT into the Principal Investment Area after demonstrating superior mastery of PIA's business while serving as the Lead Business Analyst responsible for PIAs information technology needs. Performed investment and fund related analysis and reporting. Administered “Venture Technology” portfolio.

New York, New York, US

• Promoted from Developer to Lead Business Analyst and Project Manager. Identified and implemented global IT strategies and mission-critical technology solutions to increase revenues and operational efficiency and to.
• Concurrently managed $7 million annual IT budget, 12 engineers, 5 business analysts, 2 designers, and numerous clients.
• Product and Market Requirement Documents selected as "Best Practice" guides for peers.
• Developed comprehensive view of client’s business models, information needs, and global operations by building close working relationships with senior management and other professionals throughout the client.
• Drove product adoption by skeptical and resistant audience through creative messaging, promotion, and positioning.
• Led effort to re-engineer business processes, resulting in 30,000 hours of reduced work and $530,000 of cost reduction annually.

New York, New York, US

• Promoted to lead developer after first project. Designed, architected, and coded web based IT solutions including an enterprise content management solution and financial systems to hedge billions in FX exposure, track.
• Redesigned user interfaces and optimized back-end systems to significantly enhance usability and performance.

New York, New York, US

• Personally responsible for integrating firm-wide intranet with database containing complete details for firm’s physical IT assets (e.g. computers, monitors, etc.), thus minimizing loss and relocation costs. Developed.
• Initiated creation of customizable, “smart,” asset-reporting process using CGI, Perl, JavaScript, and DHTML.
• Helped team members troubleshoot development projects, earning the nickname “Bob Vila” (because I fixed everything).

• Technologist:
• Independently implemented all aspects of data driven e-commerce Web site from design to development to deployment.
• Developed program to analyze historical market data and automated “daily trade sheet” and trade reconciliation process eliminating over four hours of work per day for each trader.Financial Analyst:
• Analyzed market data and tracked “Money Flows” to assist in rating stocks and identifying potential investment opportunities.
• Created financial models and conducted various research projects on companies in U.S., international, and emerging markets.

Mba, Entrepreneurship

B.A., Computer Science, Economics (Honors)

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