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Product Maestro helps companies build great products and amazing product teams through Product Advising, Strategy Consulting, Product Process and Innovation workshops and more. I am currently a strategic advisor for:- Wonders - End-to-end technology solutions for independent restaurants- Corner Market - Web3-enabled shopping platform for local businesses.- Deelz - AI-powered deal-search for used cars

Raised quality of Calling and Messaging by over 5% for 100+ Million Monthly Active Users. Launched Assistant Calling and Messaging on new tablets, phones, watches, and earbuds.

Grew Kids Program from 0 to 100+ Million Monthly Active Users in five yearsManaged a team of PM's driving frontend, infra, partnerships, compliance and much more:- Trust, Safety, and Legal Compliance: avoided $6B of GDPR fines for Assistant- First Party Kids Features: 20+ features launched, adding 1M Monthly active users- Kids Partnerships: Launched 12+ apps from Disney, Nickelodeon, LEGO accounting for 38% of all third party traffic on Assistant- Kids Platform: Launched Parental Controls, Kids voices, Kids Search and Kids Dictionary- Kids Integrations with Google products: Duo, Family Link, Android and SearchDeveloped Google Assistant for Kids 3 year Strategic Roadmap and Vision- Secured $15M annual additional funding - Drove executive buy in from external organizations including Search, Nest, and Android Led Partnerships with Disney, Walmart, Nickelodeon, and LEGO- Created Read Along with Disney and Penguin Random House which launched in 5500+ retail stores with a multimillion dollar marketing campaign that resulted in a 155% sales uplift of Little Golden Books and >100K Home mini sales

Designed and facilitated training workshops to make leadership teams more effective:- People Management and Culture Building- Developing Team Mission and Vision- Product Strategy and Prioritization- Decision Making and Structural Clarity

Built the pipeline for new Google X moonshots (businesses), launching 30 projects in areas including synthetic biology, transportation, food, energy, wearables, sensing, digital currency, machine learning, and medical devices- Led hiring of team members and external experts, going from 5 to 20 members and developed team processes that increased velocity of project development 5x- Led collaborations with researchers at HRL, Parc, Stanford, MIT, and Lawrence Livermore.

- Founded and launched Backdrop for Chromecast, reaching 30 million devices in the first two years- Launched Voice Search for LG's Google TV, the world's first voice enabled TV- Launched computable metadata structure and recommendation engine for What to Watch content recommendation card in Google Now

• Developed and evangelized a cross-functional User Experience Strategic Roadmap.• Evangelized Touch to Share: the inclusion of this feature in webOS was the cornerstone of the Touchpad announcement.• Led a prototyping team: explored new form factors, smart accessories, and software features to bring product ideas to life as part of the product planning and roadmap process.• Directed technology research: studied emerging technologies and worked with vendors to enable them on Palm products. Expert areas include inductive charging, pen input, gestural input, user input devices, biometrics, accelerometers, gyroscopes, mobile TV, wireless video, GPS, and haptic feedback.• Developed intellectual property: filed over 25 strategic patents.

• Developed innovative solutions: worked with hardware engineering, software engineering, product marketing, business development and external vendors to prototype and pitch new concepts to executive management.• Designed magnetic latching mechanism and mechanical components for the Touchstone inductive charging dock.• Established metrics for button feel, lighting, and keyboards: the inclusion into all products has greatly increase perceived quality of Palm products. • Analyzed consumer trends: analysis of competitive data, consumer data, and technology trends resulted in changes to the product roadmap.

• Developed a technology roadmap: published a quarterly roadmap of mobile technologies that fed into the larger product roadmap.• Conducted user testing: validated hardware and software concepts.

• Managed competitive benchmarking: analyzed competitive hardware and software and created a device library.• Drove a test-driven initiative to identify and fix the largest weaknesses in Palm’s devices.• Developed Soapbox: an internal tool for giving product feedback and recommendations.• Developed Sandbox: a method of sharing information internally on new technology areas.• Researched new technologies: made recommendations for investment in new technologies.

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