Real Estate Advisory and Consulting

1:1 client work with for job candidates and entrepreneurs. Negotiation workshops for companies with a focus on underrepresented minorities. Clients include Facebook, Google, Uber, Microsoft, Instagram, Lyft, Airbnb, Stripe, Waze, Gusto, Trulia, Carta, Boku, Clever, Common, and Rock HealthBackground: worked with Prof. Stuart Diamond (Negotiation at Wharton and Author of "Getting More") and Dan Ariely (Behavioral Economics at Duke University, Author of "Predictably Irrational") in training teams in the tech industry. Trained as a professional mediator with Community Boards and have done training in NVC and Mindful Communication. Also a crisis counselor volunteer with the Suicide Prevention Hotline in San Francisco.

Weekly shift as a hotline crisis counselor at the San Francisco Suicide Prevention call center. We also answer calls from a general crisis line, as well as the national HIV hotline and the drug relapse hotline. If you or someone you know needs support, please call (415) 781-0500.

Founded and built a web and mobile platform for runners and coaches, offering training programs, and an online community for amateur runners. Bootstrapped the company to a profitable team of 15. And along the way also built the #1 Youtube channel on running. Sold in to Ongo Labs, a health tech platform company in May 2022.

Kitara Media is a leading digital media and technology company providing video solutions to advertisers, digital marketers and publishers. With nearly 500 million monthly video advertising views, Kitara Media delivers strong engagement for advertisers, high revenues for publishers, as well as improved user experience with PROPEL+, an internally developed proprietary video advertising technology platform. Kitara Media owns and operates a portfolio of online media sites including HealthGuru.com and Adotas.com and produces premium video content. The company is now called Propel Media (PROM) and operates out of Irvine, CA.

Andover Games made mobile games for brands on iPhone and Android smartphone platforms.

Palindrome is a fellowship of technology advisors that have volunteered to partner with select non-profit organizations with the hope that knowledge transfer from the tech sector can improve the way the given organizations are run.

I run the mobile gaming team at Playdom where I focus on developing and implementing a mobile strategy for the company. Our team has currently developed 4 games on 3 mobile platforms.

Identified, negotiated and signed contract with ringtone providers and international ad agencies. Negotiated agreements with Comscore and Nielsen. Worked directly with Ticketmaster on contract terms. Designed web UI and A/B tested for 40% gain on adoption. Successfully pitched RFP responses and drove ad campaigns on iLike platform. Personally brought in over $550,000 from new partnerships in the last quarter.

Founded an outsourcing partnership focused on ground floor evaluation to find high quality service companies in India and bringing their services to the US. Drove US business development and managed projects for three outsourcing companies.

Spoke professionally teaching memory improvement techniques to students in High School and University, as well as professional organizations. Addressed varied audiences in Washington, Kentucky and Texas.

Program Manager, August 2003 - January, 2006Responsible for design of Vista Software Restriction Policy; designed key features to increase manageability and ease of use. External Evangelist for Vista User Account Control. Presented to and drove adoption with Dell, HP, Yahoo!, AOL, Symantec and other top companies. Student Consultant representing Microsoft, August 2002- May, 2003Spread Microsoft technologies (i.e. the .NET initiative) at Rice. Gave technical presentations on upcoming technologies, maintained an active student user group (50+ students and growing) and aided in projects using Microsoft technologies. Program Manager, May-August, 2002Passport Group - Discovered a way to automate deployment of performance counters on all Passport servers. Developed, tested and demonstrated solution to the Operations team. Became resident expert on performance counters.