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New York, NY, US

Responsible for the Founder Experience on Republic, I lead efforts to migrate internal processes from spreadsheets to a robust Airtable database, and to migrate from the Pipedrive CMS to Salesforce. I lead the design, development, and launch of Teaser Pages, the fastest way to start raising with Republic.

New York, NY, US

Charged with expanding the presence of equity crowdfunding platform Republic on the West Coast and throughout Silicon Valley.

San Francisco, California, US

As an elected representative of the Rally Creator Ecosystem, I advocated for Creator Coin utilization by the broader Rally developer ecosystem by building a grant in-take system, and provided guidance and feedback on marketing efforts, and worked with the other members of the Community Developer Council to deploy 1 million $RLY per quarter to grant.

San Francisco, California, US

Oakland, CA, US

Providing product design, product strategy, marketing, and launch guidance for the world's top makers, entrepreneurs, and internet innovators.

San Francisco, California, US

Participating as a fellow in the On Deck Cohort 4. Learn more about the program here: beondeck.com

San Francisco, California, US

New York City, New York, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Executed branding, product and UI design (iOS, desktop and mobile web), product and launch strategy, onboarding the first 200 influencers, and building the initial community, and growing Molly's subscriber base to 20K members.

Redmond, WA, US

I provide strategic and product guidance to Tagboard, working closely with key leaders at the company to develop, deploy, and iterate on products and services targeted at brands that capitalize on the hashtag phenomenon.

San Francisco, California, US

Nurturing, expanding, and championing on behalf of the Uber Developer Platform ecosystem.I lead Uber's participation in over 20 developer events, from hackathons to high profile technology events like MobileBeat, Slush, and the LAUNCH Festival. I worked with the developer relations team to triage developer feedback and requests, and partnered with teams.

Providing design, strategy, product, and vision for a number of organizations — from pre-money conceptual projects to funded startups, including:Depict, lead product designer. My responsibilities included redesigning the iOS app, Frame's embedded OS UI and overhauled significant portions of the web app including user authentication and checkout flows.

Mountain View, CA, US

Lead two major redesigns of the Google profile — providing product, interaction, and conceptual leadership, taking these projects from conception to mocks to interactive prototypes through to execution.I also worked closely with engineering and product management teams to redesign aspects of the Google+ platform — including designing embeddable publisher.

Mountain View, CA, US

In addition to planning several internal hackathons and providing leadership to internal Google teams on how to approach social software, I lead the creation and development of the Google Developers and Google Developer Groups brands working with the developer marketing, developer relations, and Google+ teams, along with an outside agency. I promoted.

Elected to a two year term at the OpenID Foundation emphasizing usability, security and focusing on brand messaging, community development and marketplace adoption.

Co-founder and lead strategic agent. Working directly with clients, building out communities, applying design and open source principles to consulting and good ol' advice.

Portland, OR, US

Responsible for the development of the DiSo Project, an open source project to create implementations of a model and framework for distributed social networking using open formats and protocols. Contributed to the interaction and usability design of various security products and lead the visual redesign and rearchitecture of various company and product.

Community advocate and proponent.

San Francisco, CA, US

Consulted on Songbird open source product strategy and social media efforts; initiated Open Media Project event series

Wrote up a blog post about the idea for the hashtag, brought it to Twitter who rejected it, and set about establishing it on my own.

• Responsible for the design, planning and programming for a half dozen websites and identities
• Drafted and negotiated several continuing maintenance contracts
• Designed, deployed and administered e-newsletters
• Offered full service website and e-mail hosting
• Provided analysis of website traffic and promotional advice

Menlo Park, CA, US

Provided strategic and overall product vision, community infrastructure planning, website and identity design, swag design and fulfillment, party planning, community ambassadorial work and telling the Flock story and Barcamps and events around the the western hemisphere.

Bfa, Communication Design

Accelerator, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies