LifeArk is a pre-fabricated, modular housing system that can create self-sustaining communities on water and land. The low cost of production and quick assembly make it an ideal solution for homeless housing and slum upgrades in developing countries, including communities that are displaced by annual flooding. We are currently in the design phase, but have already won recognition as a Fast Company 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards Finalist and a Buckminster Fuller Challenge semifinalist.

Founder of Lumin.ai - "AI as a Service" that allows other companies and developers to build intelligent chatbots. The core of the Lumin platform is a Natural Language Processing engine optimized for messaging. Intelligent chatbots built using Lumin understand user intent, which is used to trigger bot responses and actions in automated conversations. Learn more at www.Lumin.ai

Idealab is a successful incubator founded in 1996, that has created and operated more than 125 companies with 40 IPOs and acquisitions.

Overall owner of product management and the user experience of a cloud-based file sharing, storage, and synchronization service (direct competitor to Dropbox).* Responsible for desktop application, web application, and mobile apps for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android, and iOS platforms.* Drove user growth by adding multiple viral loops around sharing and collaboration.Built key features to drive conversion to paid plans; tested many signup / conversion flows.* Key driver of SugarSync 2.0, a major redesign of the entire service. Led entire project from initial concepts, through focus group testing, implementation, and product launch. * Built product management and UX teams. Improved ease of use through user testing (in-house lab testing and usertesting.com) and A/B testing. * Responsible for product integration with key partners including Korea Telecom, Orange-France Telecom, Samsung, and Lenovo.

* Overall owner of product functionality and user experience for web-based scheduling application targeting consumers. TimeBridge improves the existing scheduling process and provides a platform for sharing availability information across companies, time zones, and calendar systems.* Drove new feature development through concept formation, product specification, interaction and visual design, implementation, launch, and post-launch evaluation. Also conducted low-overhead usability tests and implemented A/B testing of key features in the viral loop which drove user growth.* As core member of management team and first employee hired in the U.S., participated in business model development, positioning, evaluation of partnership opportunities, and overall business strategy.

Product management in Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Calendar. Responsible for designing and implementing next-generation search technology into the mail experience and designing new calendar product initiatives.

Product Line Manager, Incentive Compensation ApplicationManaged Siebel Incentive Compensation product line, which extended Siebel’s CRM software suite into sales finance applications that manage and calculate variable compensation plans for sales personnel.• Outbound Product Marketing: Responsible for product positioning, creation of marketing collateral, product pricing, customer and analyst presentations, partner management, and tracking of revenue opportunities. Frequently participated in sales deals.• Inbound Product Marketing: Managed product marketing group responsible for feature prioritization, requirements definition, release management, product documentation, and training of internal sales teams and partners. Led effort to re-architect Incentive Compensation Application to support high volume, complex, international sales environments while increasing integration with related Siebel applications. Included management of strategic charter customers.

Part of original group that spun Sales.com out of Siebel Systems, creating the first web-based ASP for sales force automation. Siebel reacquired Sales.com in March 2001.• Managed team of product managers responsible for inbound and outbound activities consisting of defining requirements, managing releases, coordinating software development with parent company, creating marketing collateral, and customer management.• Also responsible for third party vendor management, customer support, content management, and billing application in early phases of company.

• As Intern, defined and negotiated major international business initiative with third party vendors to improve international functionality and drive Netcenter portal revenues.

• Designed financial analysis software tools, which enabled senior management to better assess world-wide store performance. Responsibilities included collecting requirements from financial analysts, defining reporting processes, and translating into technical specifications.

• International Financial System Implementation: Led team implementing PeopleSoft Financial System for European headquarters of international clothing retailer. Led team through process reengineering, software configuration and testing. • Shared Services Implementation: Managed joint client/Accenture team though shared services integration project for Caesar’s World Inc., a large hotel and gaming corporation. Project included major employee reorganization and PeopleSoft Financials implementation.