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Redmond, Washington, Us

Lanham, Maryland, Us

Led the Product team building an online higher education Marketplace (edx.org) to help learners find the right learning experience to unlock every career moment.

Boulder, Co, Us

Developed and aligned stakeholders behind a product vision and strategy for a V1 data platform that enables energy providers (utilities) to recruit their end customers and those customers’ smart devices (e.g., energy meters, thermostats, electric vehicles) into programs that help them reduce carbon emissions, decrease costs, and ensure grid reliability and durability. Delivered V1 data platform in 12 months, increasing onboarding efficiency by 30% for the first 5 utilities and 250k+ devices, compared to legacy platforms. Enabled 8 utility program launches over 18 months by delivering over 15 new data and analytics APIs to help utilities personalize energy-reduction programs for end customers. Scaled product team from 2-10 members over 2 years, enabling 70+ engineers. Acted as an individual contributor for the V1 data model, ingest pipelines and APIs ahead of scaling the PM team, and then coached and up-leveled PMs who owned these areas.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Acted as a technical lead and provided process, user experience and product strategy guidance for multiple clients. Designed and normalized relational databases, built APIs, and developed product features using Ruby on Rails and Elixir with Phoenix.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Spearheaded strategy and operations initiatives for the 30k+ person organization building Microsoft Office and Windows (support role to Vice President of Product). Enabled org to focus and deliver on 10 priorities semi-annually and improved planning efficiency by 50% over 18 months by developing and orchestrating frameworks and processes to focus value delivered across the org, better align teams delivering similar value, enable the highest impact marketing campaigns, and enforce an outcome-oriented, customer-first approach.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led team of 6 to build Set Up School PCs, a web app that helps K-12 IT Pros quickly and easily configure student PCs.Reduced average PC setup time by 10x and increased adoption by >200% in 12 months by adding features and optimizing the user experience via an iterative, data-driven approach. Initiated a global school engagement program to build partnerships, gather feedback, and prioritize education scenarios for Office.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Shipped software, phones, and docking hardware for V1 of Continuum for Phone, empowering people to be productive anywhere with a phone that powers a PC experience on any screen. Drove product from conception to launch in 2 years. Crafted pitch decks to secure support from senior leaders. Owned and evangelized the core user experience and developer tooling. Evangelized Continuum developer guidance at Microsoft //build/, customer events, and on the web.

Needham, Ma, Us

Designed and developed low-cost agricultural machinery for Ghanaian villages to reduce the physical burden and time spent doing manual agricultural labor in a safe and sanitary manner. Developed a supply chain and business model with local machine shop owners, enabling them to continue the business when we left Ghana.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Program Manager Intern on Windows Storage and File Systems team. Wrote and tested a set of scripts in PowerShell to automate bootable disk mirroring. Wrote a troubleshooting guide for Storage Spaces, Windows Server 2012.

Designed and developed a mathematical model in MATLAB to predict and analyze the steady-state geometry of blood vessel networks given physical and environmental stimuli. Extended this model to predict the geometry of vessels in hypertension, diabetes, and obesity.

Full Stack Web Development

B.S. In Engineering, Mathematical Biology

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