Reprise is a no-code platform for product demo creation. The platform intercepts and records your application as it is experienced by the browser, and empowers sales & marketing teams to create sales demos and product tours without requiring engineering resources.I was the first non-founding product manager and led various remote development teams depending on our stage and needs. • Improved the screen capture success rate from 35% to over 98%. Built comparison and testing tools, collaborated with SE and CS teams, and performed level II support including hands-on triage and workaround development.• Developed a bidirectional javascript API and advanced customization options to help SEs to prototype prospect and customer solutions. Coordinated use case data to learn about unmet needs to help inform roadmap prioritization. • Operationalized a data-driven approach for both product and engineering teams:⁣　 ⤏ Leveraged Pendo’s feature tracking to tag Vue components for monitoring 500+ features across the core editor. Used initial learnings and examples to drive adoption across product, design, and customer success. ⁣　 ⤏ Built Datadog dashboards to monitor critical transactions including timing details and success/failures rates. Added detailed info so that all events could be tied directly back to the impacted customer during triage.⁣　 ⤏ Extracted historical feature data and guesstimated use cases from database json blobs using Sql and Jupyter notebooks• Reduced critical publishing workflow times by 90%, while decreasing the number of failures by 99% (< 1 a month). • Introduced screen sequencing to the editor, allowing builders to quickly capture and reorganize their demo storylines. Added advanced functionality for capturing, replacing and reusing portions of a screen across the demo in addition to core functionality like undo/redo, collaborative editing, and drag/drop for guide position and sequence.

Quantopian.com provides a platform to allow anyone in the world to pursue quantitative finance.• Launched self-serve dataset upload feature: from initial community release to upgrades for enterprise support including global asset support with multiple identifiers, dataset sharing, and complete re-architecture to support larger datasets. Facilitated new use cases like off-platform machine learning and Quantopian's Emerging Manager program. Increased datasets from ~20 to over 8k. • Delivered a new black box system for executing and analyzing crowd-sourced python trading algorithms using Kubernetes, Argo workflows, Amazon S3, and Amazon Athena. This allowed the investment team to rapidly iterate on signal extraction, enhanced alpha decay, and portfolio combination models. • Designed and executed weekly usage analytics for both the community and enterprise products.• Introduced two-week agile sprints to improve developer estimations and team velocity.• Systematized fund reporting, including comparison of algorithm simulations and live trading actuals.

InsightSquared provides a turnkey SaaS platform for business analytics, transforming the way companies operate "by the numbers."• Managed the core ETL development team responsible for 10 partners across 5 target segments (ATS, CRM, telephony, support/service, and finance), leveraging agile scrum in a continuous deployment environment.• Built internal monitoring dashboards for the entire data processing pipelines (leveraging Grafana and InfluxDB). Architected “smart-fields”, which dramatically improved data synchronization times by 75%. Developed prototype service/support offering to test market fit.• Worked with early adopters to expand Salesforce offering (sales, marketing, and products) driving adoption to over 250 customers. Created a rotating sales-engineering role to quickly prototype and test solutions.

The Venture Café Foundation envisions, implements, and manages initiatives and programs that enhance local economies by building and strengthening communities of innovation.• Directed core functions of Venture Cafe, the not-for-profit public purpose sister organization of CIC.com the largest collection of startups in the world. Managed 35 volunteers/staff.• Implemented the contributor model and expanded programing to include round table discussions, unconferences and collaborative training programs to boost weekly attendance to 350 entrepreneurs. • Prototyped Captains of Innovation (captains.cic.com) which connected 14 top startups to new international channel partners BT and NTT. Now established as a specialized program.• Designed and developed login and tracking systems for guests, users and program feedback.

• Helped entrepreneurs and small businesses determine optimized next steps towards their goals with a focus on product strategy, community and customer development (Build-Measure-Learn then Iterate).• Leveraged existing technology, APIs and products to architect customer development driven solutions and rapid feature/product prototypes focused on validated learning towards product/market fit.

• Directed core product functions for FirstGiving.com which processes over $55 million in peer-to-peer charitable giving each year, including developing the product roadmap and strategy, leading the design and user experience team, and serving as the product owner/business lead to conceive, develop, test and bring new features and products to market.• Created a data driven process for analyzing user engagement and product effectiveness to prioritize features and optimize existing user flows for non-profit clients, fundraisers and donors. Leveraged Minimum Viable Product (MVP) feature sets and A/B testing to optimize design, user experience and validated learning in a rapid iterative agile development environment.• Worked collaboratively with marketing, accounts and business development teams to drive incremental innovation by leveraging existing functionality for new business opportunities. Architected the Japan Disaster Relief campaign which raised over $1.6 million via community/corporate fundraising pages.• Optimized technical solutions across all customer touch points, including blogs, facebook, twitter, email, social media sharing, monitoring, and analytics. Leveraged APIs to architect prototypes for personalization, localization and other key product and Giving Group initiatives.

• Planned, outfitted, and completed a six-year, 33,000-mile sailing adventure (6000 hours at sea) including a 24-day non-stop passage across the South Pacific (svbillabong.blogspot.com).• Envisioned and developed multiple websites, blogs, and utilities to provide resources for fellow sailors/adventurers. - BlurbBits (blurbbits.blogspot.com) is a set of utilities that allows users to blog, map, and share photos using email. - Creative-cruising.com documented the technical details of my sailing experience and answers questions about what really works (and doesn't) in very remote locations.• Utilized social media to increase effectiveness and efficiency as both a consumer and publisher using limited resources (communication and unique data requirements).

• Led the successful development of an integrated electro-mechanical design automation suite, TransDesign, which was adopted by Ford Motor Company, Jaguar, Aston Martin and their respective OEM suppliers as their principal automotive electrical systems design tool.• Product manager for TransAct (physical schematic generation), which synthesizes correct by construction physical schematics using logical schematics and a physical wiring topology, including adaptive physical change management. Led project from conception through design, engineering, QA and launch/training. Delivered production software ahead of schedule, exceeding design goals and customer expectations.• Primary developer of TransHarness, a wire harness design tool that automatically generates connector face views and filters option/variants, to facilitate multi-level physical harness design from a harness schematic and physical wiring topology. Met with key players, from design engineers to manufacturing plant team leads (on site), and delivered a fully functional prototype in one month to meet a critical Ford supplier adaptation milestone.Innoveda acquired Transcendent Design and was later acquired by Mentor Graphics

• Managed consulting services, pre-sales/customer support, and engineering services: including quality assurance, documentation, and system administration with limited resources. • Utilized Viewscript and custom APIs to create a flexible, rapid prototype environment for solution architects. Resulting solutions often became core product features and functionality.• Principal architect of TransAct. Collaborated face-to-face with key customers and early TransDesign adopters to understand key usage models and translate requirements into actionable specifications. TransAct automates the time consuming and error prone process of manually generating physical schematics for design reviews, simulation, and service manuals.Formed during the merger of Viewlogic and Synopsys (Spinout of the Advanced Development Group)