I founded Modern Product Minds — and the Webby-honored podcast CRAFTED. — to tell stories and interview top technologists that surface what it *really* takes to build incredible software. And we can pair with you so you can discover, build, and grow game-changing products, teams, and companies.Let Modern Product Minds be your guide. Dan and team can guide you through:* Unlocking growth opportunities* Building from zero to one* Discovering and validating customer needs and possible solutions, using lean startup-style, hypothesis-driven experimentation* Making the tough calls necessary to prioritize your product and growth roadmap* Navigating choppy waters. Dan is also a kayak guide and knows how to steer a group to new horizons.

On the weekends, I guide tours on the Hudson River, mostly from Cold Spring, NY for Hudson River Expeditions. It's beautiful here and you should come join me for a paddle! DM me and we'll go out.Meanwhile, future blog post: Why Guiding Kayak Tours Is Like Product Management... You need a plan, the team is relying on you to stay calm, small adjustments make a big difference, sometimes you need to perform a rescue...

Helping your business innovate and grow... I served as fractional Chief Product/Technology Officer to startups and enterprises. I also built Artium's brand — by launching the Webby-honored CRAFTED. podcast and speaking at industry events — and drove new business.

- Building new consumer banking products — and a better engine for growth — as part of D10X, Citibanks's innovation center.- Product discovery and validation lead for major Wealth Management initiative. - Identifying customer jobs-to-be-done, running in-market experiments, and employing/evangelizing human-centered design techniques.

- Delivering agile, digital transformation — and innovative products that solve real problems — as a consultant to large enterprises.- Product lead for an engagement with a top insurance company in commercial real estate.- Built a modern platform to enable buyers, sellers, lenders, etc.. to get deals done more swiftly and securely (protecting against wire transfer fraud).

- Led the News product team, building products to foster community and conversation around the news.- Drove major gains in user engagement: increased user sessions, contributions (posts, comments), and quality of conversation by building products to highlight the best member commentary on LinkedIn. - Launched the "Daily Rundown" and "Storylines" to hundreds of millions of members worldwide, in several languages. - Built human-in-the-loop (HITL) products that married human smarts (LinkedIn's editors) with machines (LinkedIn's relevance algorithms and AI)- Enabled LinkedIn's editors to create original content in order to curate and cultivate the insights of 500 million members.- Led major improvements to the content discovery, content management (CMS) and notification tools used by editors so they could find, curate, and promote the best user-generated comments (UGC) on LinkedIn.

Led the product team behind the NYT’s biggest growth initiative: engaging readers outside the US. - Built custom products and content to spur users to form a daily NYT habit, e.g. personalizing (geo-targeting) the home screen and push notifications, creating local editions of the “Morning Briefing”, developing free trial and user onboarding programs, growing NYT en Español, improving site speed.- Fostered culture change in the newsroom, tech, marketing, advertising, etc. so non-US users are always top of mind.- Employed a human-centered design approach (i.e. talked to users) and ran lots of experiments.

I helped grow the NYT's mobile audience by millions by launching the Times on Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, Flipboard, Google Play Newsstand, MSN News and more. As the product lead for off-platform partnerships, my gig was to figure out how best to represent the Times's brand, business model and content on platform apps. I also grew audience on the Times's own apps/sites by: - improving the onboarding of new users and new subscribers- leading a major change to the Times's push notifications strategy by championing new technology to enable targeted push notifications and working with the newsroom and marketing on strategies / campaigns for its use- delivering e-commerce features enabling subscriptions to be sold via free trial- dreaming up and shipping one of the most popular email products at the Times, "What We're Reading," in which Times reporters recommend some of the best stories from around the webHear me discuss these and other projects on This Is Product Management's podcast: http://www.thisisproductmanagement.com/episodes/media-monetization-and-distribution-is-product-management

Breaking new ground in book discovery, Bookish was a joint venture of three major publishers: Simon & Schuster, Penguin, and Hachette. It was acquired in 2014.- Delivered web and mobile products to encourage book discovery and purchase (e-commerce).- Product owner of Bookish's reading apps, including HTML5-based cloud reader and native iOS and Android apps.- Built custom CMS tools, enabling editorial and data teams to write and manage content related to five million books.- Managed off-shore developers and QA in India, Ukraine, and Turkey using agile methodologies.

Honored by Mayor Bloomberg as a "popular choice" at the 2012 NYC Big Apps competition, Scene Near Me alerts you on your mobile phone when you are near a famous movie shoot. I met my cofounders at the NYC Big Apps hackathon, where we took Scene Near Me from concept to reality in just 36 hours. Later, I helped develop Scene Near Me's first product roadmap and business plan and ran the social media marketing campaign that resulted in our "popular choice" prize, as well as press from The New York Times, Associated Press, GigaOM, Japanese TV, and more... For more, see this video, which I wrote, produced, and — briefly, manically — starred in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZbPQo8BoA

Member of honors program. Focused on marketing, data analysis, and entrepreneurship.

BBMG is a nationally recognized brand innovation firm that specializes in sustainability.I helped create a product roadmap and business plan for BBMG's The Collective, a market research online community that links brands with eco-aspiring consumers.

I frequently filled in behind the microphone as the host of WNYC’s marquee news programs: Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and The Takeaway. I anchored newscasts, interviewed newsmakers (e.g. NJ Gov. Chris Christie), and was ready for breaking news.As part of my 10 years in public radio, I was also the supervising producer of WNYC's Morning Edition. (See below)

I was the supervising producer behind the most listened-to show on the nation's largest public radio station. Beginning each day before dawn, I directed and edited the show's host, producers, engineers, and reporters. We energized the broadcast by adding more breaking news, live interviews, music buttons, and unexpected moments. I pushed our radio reporters to think digital and helped launch the WNYC News Blog. I also helped modernize the WNYC newsroom by demonstrating how to get the most out of our new digital audio system and studios.

All Things Considered is a very fast paced show, with lots of breaking news. I assigned reporters, edited their stories, and directed the show’s host and engineers.

Launched by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes in Nov. 2010 (and acquired by GOOD in Aug. 2011), Jumo enabled people to create lasting connections with social impact organizations.

Friends kept telling us they didn’t trust the food and nightlife sites out there, so my partners and I created Citiology.com, where savvy New Yorkers guided each other to NYC’s best restaurants and nightlife. I imagined, wireframed, and shipped features. I also helped establish the site’s brand and voice as the site's managing editor.

Throughout my career in public radio, I filed breaking news and feature stories for national broadcast on NPR. I reported on elections, financial scandals, plane crashes, baseball games, you name it…

My career in news started fast. The 9/11 attacks occurred just five days into my first post-college internship. Before anyone at the station even knew my name, I was off interviewing Senators and reporting on Chicago’s new security precautions. Soon I was hired full-time to produce WBEZ’s coverage of the seminal 2002 Illinois election (Rod Blagojevich became Governor and Rahm Emanuel won a Congressional seat). After the election, I became the associate editor of Eight Forty-Eight, a highly acclaimed news and culture program.