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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Innovated: Conceived and built an AI-powered video editing plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro, introducing advanced AI functionality to streamline workflows.• Automated: Leveraged transcription AI tools and LLMs to automate multi-cam editing, reducing hours of manual media ingest.• Led Strategy: Developed a product roadmap informed by competitive analysis, market research, and subscription models, ensuring product market fit.• User-Centric: Conducted extensive research with 25 creative professionals, launching a time-saving, intuitive product that addresses key pain points.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

• Led the design, development, and UX for advanced biomedical software, turning cutting-edge AI technologies into intuitive, user-friendly tools used by medical professionals and technicians.• Collaborated with designers to create a mobile-first, consumer-facing web app that enables med-spa clients to quantify skin metrics and receive personalized product recommendations.• Pioneered the development of the “Skin Age Score” metric by simplifying complex ultrasound and biometric data into interactive visualizations, providing consumers with actionable, meaningful insights.• Managed and mentored development teams, guiding junior engineers and making key technical decisions to drive project success.• Partnered with leadership, cross-functional teams, and medical professionals to develop and execute a product roadmap that aligned with market research and business strategy, ensuring the product met both technical and market needs.

- Transformed and scaled a traditional career counseling business into a modern SaaS platform, significantly reducing operating costs, automating workflows, and achieving 125% year-over-year revenue growth.- Designed and launched a modern, mobile-first, responsive web application featuring intuitive data visualizations, a user-friendly data entry experience, and seamless customer onboarding process.- Collaborated with leadership and sales to launch a freemium model with tiered plan offerings and implemented a new payment system (Stripe), improving user acquisition and conversion rates by 40%.- Defined and tracked KPIs with Mixpanel to quantify user behavior and inform key business decisions.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Co-founded a hardware/software development and design agency specializing in product design, prototyping, and product/business validation.Assisted many companies in finding product-market fit, reaching funding goals, and bringing their product visions into reality.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led the design and development of an innovative hardware device to control head-worn Augmented Reality displays during military exercises, enhancing real-time situational awareness, communication, and safety.Conducted extensive user research with active Navy SEALs, skillfully managing strong opinions, managing expectations, and incorporating ideas and feedback into fast-paced, iterative two-week design cycles.Delivered a product that met rigorous user standards, technical requirements, and manufacturing constraints that impressed investors and led to RAVN's acceptance to Y Combinator.

Designed and built Tubulr. A social video discovery platform revolving around crowd-sourced content curation. Think Pinterest for videos.

New York, Ny, Us

Worked on creative side of a Google/VC tech start-up (originally called Bedrocket Media Ventures), owning and running 6 premium YouTube channels.Collaborated with Interlude.fm on software-based dynamic media projectsShot and lit technical, multi-camera productions both in-studio and in the field.Post-produced high-quality, original content for all verticals via video editing, motion graphic design, and color correction.Pitched show ideas and came up with concepts for new episodes.

Product Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology And Economics

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