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California, United States

San Francisco, California, US

Austin, Texas, US

• First PM hire at Series A startup helping people vote and run for office. Grew team from 6 to 15. Grew portfolio from 1 to 3 products:
• Flagship campaign data platform had been on hold for 2 years. Ran user research to define roadmap, shipped in 3 months, won statewide partnerships.
• CRM platform had been in beta for a year. Defined features needed, shipped in 3 months, increased usage 8.5x.
• Grew SaaS texting platform usage and revenue 4x year over year.
• Aligned company on Scrum, mentored 3 junior PMs, led user research.

Austin, TX, US

• PM at Series C startup connecting people to social services. Grew portfolio from 1 product to 7, owned 2 LOBs. Grew team from 3 to 12. Offered promotion to Group PM. Accomplishments:
• Doubled engaged users.
• Overhauled flagship case management platform with first tools for triage, collaboration, and follow up.
• Led company in alerting and performance reporting.
• Performed first retention analysis, overhauled onboarding.

Berkeley, CA, US

• Recruited and led an amazing team of 12 engineers, designers, and researchers as we worked to simplify voting and civic engagement.
• Led product design and managed our engineering team as we conducted extensive user testing and built a cross-platform mobile app that provides personalized voting guidance based on users' location and political.
• We're finalizing integration of our product with another political tech platform that reached several million users in 2018.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Worked with SVP clients on growth projects ranging from a comprehensive enterprise salesforce restructuring at Dell to developing a new product line at VMware. Our team led key elements of Dell's $67B acquisition and.

Arlington, VA, US

• Researched prevalence of gender-based violence in Uganda through a meta-analysis of prior studies
• Improved efficiency of case tracking software used worldwide through collaboration with IJM engineers
• Led an evaluation tracking a new plea bargaining initiative using key performance indicators
• Built a statistical model that predicts costs for IJM’s fleet of vehicles and flags possible fraud
• Coordinated a new partnership with an international NGO, including legal trainings for over 100 officials

North Adams, MA, US

• Produced analytic reporting on client's health plan trends using carrier’s claims databases
• Led the development of a comprehensive record retention program based on extensive data collection
• Implemented a new risk management software suite and trained the IT department to administer it
• Fortified MountainOne’s cybersecurity by researching new measures to combat mobile deposit fraud
• Analyzed data to demonstrate compliance with federal and state banking regulations

Williamstown, MA, US

• Supervised and trained approximately 30 student technology consultants for their work in OIT
• Provided on-demand technical support to Williams faculty and students

Williamstown, MA, US

• Designed and executed a month-long independent research project in Zanzibar
• Recorded oral histories from eyewitnesses and compared them with records in the Archives to synthesize a narrative of the Revolution and identify inconsistencies in the official account
• Established productive cross-cultural relationships with government officials and village elders

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Streamlined the Senator’s correspondence system using Excel and database software, saving over 2,000 person-hours per year
• Conducted quantitative and qualitative research on foreign policy, infrastructure, energy, and more
• Guided the Senator’s votes with decision memos that analyzed political and economic factors

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science (International Relations), History, And Leadership Studies (Minor)