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Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• I run operations and product for the Knowledge Futures Group, which builds infrastructure for a more effective, equitable, and sustainable knowledge economy. Our products include the publishing platform PubPub.
• Helped transition the organization from a group within MIT to a fiscal sponsor to an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit.
• Managed the organization's yearly audits, finances, forecasting, accounts receivable and payable, and with external organizations, HR and bookkeeping.
• Helped the organization budget, develop, rollout, and measure the success of its industry-leading benefits and culture programs, including writing our company handbook, convening our structural justice task-force.
• Contributed to our fundraising and sustainability strategies, helping us earn more than $10 million over four years through a combination of grants, memberships, and services revenue.
• Lead the day-to-day development of our flagship product PubPub, growing active users and communities by 4X, while building the platform to support innovative publishing projects including Rapid Reviews: COVID-19, the.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Lead product strategy and development for the open-source academic publishing platform PubPub, contributing to 2X user growth and 10X community growth during the period.
• Conducted hundreds of user interviews and launched the platform's first-ever user panel.
• Launched industry-leading features ranging from beautiful PDF auto-generation to page layout customization, site analytics, a peer review system, and much more.
• Wrote documentation and onboarding emails for the platform.
• Responded to and prioritized support, bug, and feature requests.
• Helped hire first non-founder software developer.

New York City, US

• Massive (https://massivesci.com) is a media and training company that trains scientists to communicate about their work and publishes accessible, entertaining, and accurate science stories written by scientists.
• Raised pre-seed funding to start the company from institutional and strategic investors.
• Hired and lead the founding team of four.
• Managed company finances and operations.
• Developed overall company strategy and business model.
• Managed development of our publishing platform, training products, and interactive audience evaluation tools.

New York, NY, US

• Helped shape company strategy with the CEO by serving as the bridge between the editorial, social, and engineering teams.
• Working with department heads, defined OKRs and collected metrics to hold departments accountable.
• Met with potential customers to discover their needs, informing product development.
• Designed processes to scale the company’s core paid reporting product from three customers to 20.
• Hired and managed a team of social media managers.
• Worked with engineering to scope and build the company’s core self-service reporting product.

New York, US

Focused on building Muck, a programming language that teaches journalists core programming concepts while making it easier for beginners to work on data-driven stories. The project also aimed to expand the industry’s notion of what constitutes data journalism by helping journalists think of anything that can be represented by a computer as data, allowing.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Worked with company leadership to define 6 to 12-month product strategy.
• Tested, validated and owned development of three new metrics to power Upworthy's next-generation content testing tools.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Owned development for Upworthy's proprietary CMS, optimization and distribution platforms.
• Lead a redesign and modernization of the CMS to keep it in sync with changing editorial practices.
• Owned development of Upworthy's custom social listening tools.
• With a team of engineers, pitched and lead development of Upworthy's next-generation CMS and testing tools.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Designed, implemented, analyzed and reported on tests for audience-related site features and new social network and email distribution ideas.
• Worked cross-functionally with Product and Engineering to spec, implement and QA new audience-related site features.
• Developed medium and long-term strategies for publishing Upworthy's content on new social media and content distribution platforms.
• Developed, pitched and launched Upworthy's first video licensing program, with distribution on YouTube and Facebook.
• Analyzed Upworthy's site, social and email analytics to find patterns and validate hypotheses about traffic, interaction and subscriber numbers.

• Invented, designed, implemented and tested experimental tools and projects to make the editorial process run smoother, collect better data, display information more beautifully and more in a variety of programming.
• Wrote, edited and assigned articles of varying lengths.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Managed internal and external support tools throughout their lifecycles from conception to requirements to development to testing to launch.
• Developed support tools using a range of front and back-end technologies to make service teams more efficient and empower proactive services.
• Built ad templates using HTML, CSS and JavaScript to incorporate advanced functionality like OBA notices and social icons.
• Solved the most difficult support questions from client-facing teams on issues like implementation of ad tags on publisher sites and custom modifications of ad code.

• Developed and pitched concept to transform this popular men’s fashion site from a standard blog into a modern web publication with customized outfit tagging and affiliate linking.
• Wrote scripts to convert old content to the new post format.
• Designed and developed the website on top of WordPress, including a custom recommendation engine that uses AJAX and a tagging system to suggest outfits to readers based on their preferences.
• Responded to user feedback by inviting detailed comment and gradually refactoring some functionality while staying true to the vision of the new site.

• Conceived, strategized and implemented UIs for a government client's CMS, blogs and mobile websites.
• Worked with the client's development team to overhaul their 7,000-page website.-Converted the site from legacy table-based to modern div-based layout.-Eliminated over 2,000 of lines of mal-formed or extraneous code in.
• Strategized and built proof-of-concepts for making the client's site mobile-friendly.
• Helped conceive and build three Wordpress blogs for the client, including custom themes and plugin modifications.
• Helped with strategy, technical specifications and animations for the New Balance Urban Dash iPhone app.

• Performed various web development tasks in HTML, CSS and jQuery.

• Worked in a team for a government client developing a new blogging platform, coding and editing html, css, and javascript, and helping migrate to a new CMS.
• Worked in a team with fellow interns developing a campaign pitch for a furniture store client.

• Made design and programming tweaks to client’s existing website.
• Helped client re-brand her site as a cooking strategies blog that teaches its audience how to make recipes healthier by using a library of healthy cooking strategies, rather than its previous branding as a healthy.
• Currently consulting on the development of an iPhone/iPad application and accompanying website.

• Developed the website using a Wordpress backend and custom template with custom plugins.
• Designed the initial website, logo, section headers and overall graphical style.
• Lead the re-design team that designed and developed the second version of the site.
• Developed an agile editorial workflow that gives our 30 writers and editors the ability to draft, edit, critique, and publish on the fly without emailing.
• Launched and marketed the website using a combination of social media and traditional campus marketing.
• Wrote occasional articles, including a RateBU story that was picked up by major national news outlets.

• Produced 42 30-minute episodes for a student-run political debate television show.
• Duties included: editorial planning, scriptwriting, editing, and graphic design.
• Directed a staff of 20 students.
• Bronze Telly Award, Episode 209, February 28, 2008
• Brzone Telly Award, Episode 602, 2011

• Produced a series of webisodes for the Embassy Website to promote Canadian universities to potential French students.
• Developed small web applications using a variety of technologies including PHP, MySQL, XML, XSLT, and ASP.net.

• Designed and programmed a new, modern and easy-to-use website for this large teaching ophthalmology practice.
• Used a combination of technologies to create an interactive website that allows patients to get driving directions, download forms, research eye conditions, and meet their doctor before stepping foot in the office.
• Created an optimized, modular user interface to drive customers through the site to relevant information, ultimately leaving them with multiple opportunities to contact the office on each page.

• Overhauled the website’s backend, preserving the simple design while adding blogging capability, better organization of content, and a social media presence.
• Taught client how to edit her website.

• Lead a group of 6 teenagers through all phases of production in the creation of a 5-minute short film during the course of an 8-week summer film camp.
• Supported camp directors in teaching and monitoring over 50 students, ages 12-17.

• Designed the frontend and leveraged the Wordpress backend to create a full-fledged community and portfolio website for a nationally syndicated cartoonist.
• Overhauled the website in January 2011, giving it a more modern, cleaner design and changing the user management and mailing system to something more stable.

• Founded, designed and wrote for this successful sports blog that received tens of thousands of hits per month during its peak.
• Deadspin Blogdom’s Best Silver Award, Colorado Rockies, 2006
• Deadspin Blogdom’s Best Bronze Award, Denver Broncos, 2006

• Edited a 15-minute test pilot for a kids TV show.
• Conceptualized and carried out special effects, logos, titles and animated sequences using Photoshop and Final Cut Pro.

US

• Produced short web videos on deadline and on location during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado for a 225,000 circulation daily newspaper.

Thornton, CO, US

• Provided live over-the-phone technical support for hundreds of company employees.
• Supported Windows and Macintosh systems and a variety of point-of-sale hardware and software.
• Managed hardware repair and installation.

New York, NY, US

• Provided daily coverage and analysis of the Denver Broncos for AOL’s Fanhouse Blog.