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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Upstart Auto is an AI-powered lending marketplace connecting car dealers and car buyers to more affordable auto loans.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Jobscan is an online subscription platform to help job seekers get more interviews by optimizing their resumes for any job description.I was hired by the CEO of a 15-employee startup to grow revenue and improve customer experience by leading website optimization and new product development.• Re-prioritized roadmap on NPS and Revenue with funnel optimization resulting in ARR +30% YoY and +20% NPS from 34 to 41. • Architected re-design of legacy website with intuitive UX & funnels wins to +20% subscriptions with 0% increase in support requests.

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

The Venue Report is an online marketplace for arranging corporate events and personal gatherings at exceptional venues worldwide. The company raised $3M from Los Angeles investors including Wavemaker Partners and Mucker Capital.I was hired by the CEO of a 25-person startup to execute a business turnaround, including by defining a new product vision, re-designing the legacy website product, overseeing engineers to rebuild the technology infrastructure, and streamlining all operations between Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service.

Santa Monica, California, Us

TTL is a boutique management consulting firm providing highly-specialized services in Eastern Europe for the US technology industry.I am responsible for the development of people, technology, and processes to create a culture of remote work collaboration that unifies teams between geographies. I work closely with US executives to develop incredibly effective strategy, recruitment, management and training to build directly-managed operations with 25-500 people to scale business operations.• Expanded U.S. employer brands to Ukraine by recruiting 100’s of engineers while coordinating compliance & performance with US HR.• Hired top 3% of candidates by personally interviewing 1300+ to develop a 5-step recruitment process integrated with US hiring managers.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

KEYPR provides a SaaS platform that connects hotels with guests to personalize and streamline the travel experience using cloud, mobile, and IoT devices. In 2018, Intelity acquired KEYPR to create the largest hospitality platform on the market.I was hired by CEO Nizar Allibhoy to launch the company’s new engineering office in Europe and oversee directly all aspects of its corporate operations, human resources, and product delivery, including its unification with the U.S. tech organization through a strong culture of remote collaboration.I managed a $2M budget and 25 people, reporting to the CEO weekly and working closely with the COO, CTO, VP Product and senior managers in the Los Angeles HQ.I launched the go-to-market strategy to promote our employer brand locally, handled logistics to open the office, and led full-cycle recruitment in-the-trenches with a small HR team to close vacancies for 24 senior engineering roles in an average of 52 days – 20% faster than industry benchmarks.Across the entire organization, I worked mindfully to bring people together through daily video calls and unbiased feedback to create shared-understanding that empowered individuals, resulting in a highly-engaged workforce with a 1-year attrition rate of 8%, nearly half the industry average. Following our $19M Series-A in June 2017, I worked with the VP Product to re-organize 30+ engineers across 8 product divisions to deliver several large initiatives to scale the business, including the migration from a legacy technology infrastructure and the development of a custom tablet and Android OS.

Aliso Viejo, California, Us

NotifAi is an IoT SaaS solution that provides enterprise asset protection through its IoT sensor network to reduce risk and deliver peace of mind to property owners.I was hired by the EIR at Anthem Venture Partners to help develop the product vision and recruit a small offshore engineering team to launch the MVP on a shoestring budget that resulted in a $2M financing.

Los Angeles, California, Us

OpenInfluence is a SaaS marketing platform for brands and advertisers to engage customers across social channels. I was hired by the CEO following a Series-A financing to undertake a number of initiatives to restructure the technology organization, including by:• Terminating underperforming US engineers.• Recruiting a new in-house CTO and VP Product.• Building a 10-person offshore engineering, data, and computer vision team.Within a year, the company relaunched a new technology platform that streamlined operations between internal teams and external partners, in addition to building a proprietary system for large-scale machine learning and image recognition to analyze billions of social data points to improve ROI for marketers.

Appigniter is a native advertising platform that connects desktop ads to mobile app installs. In 2016, Appigniter was absorbed by Audience Media, a 50-employee global advertising network.I was the second hire at Appigniter, which was founded my mentor and Ad Tech veteran, Paul Willmes. My role was 50% “technical product owner” and 50% “project manager.” I worked closely with the U.S. executive team to understand strategy and translate the initial concept to a workable product vision and engineering roadmap.• Managed a distributed team of 15 engineers between the US, Ukraine and China to build and launch a native advertising system that worked seamlessly within existing industry standards, generating 25M monthly impressions to validate the business model.• Led A/B testing for ad products, including the design of desktop display ads with a click-through-rate exceeding industry average by 250%.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Tapru is an enterprise-level SaaS loyalty marketing platform providing mobile app developers with a light-weight solution to engage and monetize audiences using intelligent advertising and behavioral incentives.I started Tapru to pursue the opportunity created by social games to engage audiences at unprecedented scale. The company fundraised $2M, opened offices on 3 continents, hired 40 people, built 3 software platforms, and battled through multiple iterations over 5 years to find product-market fit. This company was a spectacular flame-out, but the lessons learned were invaluable.As CEO, in 2012 I pivoted the business into a SaaS marketing engagement platform, opened a new office in Ukraine for R&D managed by an executive team of ex-Googlers, recruited a team of 20 engineers and data scientists, and within 6 months the company was named the '#1 Startup in Ukraine.'Prior to launch, I led Sales & Marketing resulting in deals with mobile game publishers reaching a combined audience of 20M monthly users and monetized by paying relationships with advertisers like Tapjoy, RadiumOne, Fyber, and AdColony, in addition to sourcing rewards through a deal with Amazon.com.As Chief Product Officer, I defined the B2B2C product vision, led UI/UX design for web and mobile, wrote product specs, and oversaw daily implementation with a team of 20 engineers. I led large-scale initiatives from concept through design and launch, including:• Proprietary universal virtual currency and rewards system — plus white-label platform• Website & Mobile Apps for the consumer brand GoSave.com• Developer SDK & API to display content on top of any mobile app• E-commerce system to redeem rewards• Developer's self-service Dashboard to create, manage, view stats, & turn on/off in one-click• Advertising platform for marketers to run targeted performance & brand campaigns

BluePrint Ventures was a startup accelerator and venture capital fund that invested $25k to $750k in US companies developing their technology from Ukraine as ‘the Silicon Valley of Europe.’As CEO of its first portfolio company, I advised on accelerator/investment selection and consulted on product strategy and tactical operations for startups in mobile, e-commerce, SaaS, and IoT. Also, I participated in due-diligence meetings regarding prospective M&A for a Ukrainian e-commerce company by executives from Google who had months prior completed the largest tech acquisition in Ukraine's history.

Extrabux is an e-commerce platform and shopping website with cash back on every purchase. In 2013, Extrabux was acquired by Ebates.I started Extrabux in 2006 as a student with my two buddies living in the freshman dorms at USC, Jeff Nobbs and Noah Auerhahn. Together, we learned how to build and operate a successful internet business.As the only co-founder with a technical background, I managed one part-time engineer to develop, launch and market the website and then release several new features that in 18 months resulted in 30,000 visitors and $50k monthly revenue through partnerships with Walmart, Target, Macy’s, eBay, Overstock and 2500+ online stores.After bootstrapping for 2 years, Extrabux won the USC student business plan competition to receive the first investment before eventually raising $1M.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business ¦ Focus In Marketing, Finance & Entrepreneurship

High School