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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma * New York, Ny

Responsibilities: product strategy consulting & coaching, UX research & data analysis, user story writing, designing, prototyping, field testing, coding, and shipping digital consumer products, such as web or native apps, and e-commerce sites; product lead for all projects.Accomplishments:* shipped the mobile app MVP and served as Chief Product Officer and Advisor, leading product, design and engineering for Bookit Sports—a community for sports betting enthusiasts—driving 20k app downloads, 7% week-over-week WAU growth, 75% retention, and $22k revenue in the first 6 months after launch in the App Store & Google Play* launched first global hub for a University of Connecticut Health research community, connecting 4k users across 72 countries* delivered competitive analysis for cryptocurrency app, Fold, to support executive team in defining product vision and strategy* launched first e-commerce hub for bike retailer with 35k+ SKUs, which was the cornerstone of the brand’s growth from $3M to $10M in sales in 2 years* CEO strategy coaching, and led design sprints and product roadmap for a child’s wearable band and companion appMobius Innovations is an app and website development company, dedicated to preserving the human element and while pushing the boundaries of technical design and innovation. We specialize in designing, prototyping and building digital consumer products or online communities, such as e-commerce sites, and web or native apps. We love working with people who embrace an iterative collaborative style and share our enthusiasm for creating memorable experiences for people using the products we create.www.mobiusinno.com

Relish Life is a AI-powered healthcare app, delivering medical weight-loss at scale. Relish meets people where they are in their weight loss journey, providing holistic care and clinically-validated behavior-change and mental health programming to help people transform their lifestyle, lose weight and keep it off. https://relish.lifeResponsibilities: collaborate with key stakeholders to set a strategic product vision, product roadmap, and regular sprint planning; manage app development and design teams to ship features regularly and strengthen feedback loops to deliver outstanding, result-driven experiences to our customers.Accomplishments:* shipped a second-generation product, driving a 4x increase in engagement and 80% retention* defined product strategy to align with goals for D2C and B2B2C revenue streams

Social e-commerce mobile application for sports betting enthusiasts. * led product, design and engineering for mobile app and APIs, driving over 20k app downloads, 7% week-over-week WAU growth, 75% retention, and $22k revenue in the first 6 months* launched MVP on iOS and Android, with 3.8k MAU in the first month * collaborated with data science team to design social algorithms resulting in 2x engagement

Boston, Ma

Boutique creative agency that helps startups and fast-growth businesses tell their story through visual media and establish a strong digital presence for their brand. Products & services included: product management & strategy consulting, websites, web applications, design sprints, prototyping, video production, and photography.Responsibilities: product strategy, product management, UX research, requirements gathering, user story writing, web development, UI/UX design, prototyping, brand identity, video production, and photography.Projects: Entrepreneurship Web Series Pilot with Bill Warner (investor, mentor, inventor of Avid), web applications, e-commerce sites, short films.Awards: 48 Hour Film Project Boston - Director & Producer (best film finalist, best cinematography, best use of prop); MassChallenge - front-end design & engineering.

Boston, Ma

MIT tech startup that reimagines gift-giving for the digital age. To restore the traditional element of surprise to online giving, our platform provided a variety of interactive ways to reveal a gift that gift givers customize with personal content to create an emotionally engaging experience for the recipient. Interactive wrapping designs include a picture puzzle, scrapbook-style story, a collection of photos, and a treasure hunt map.Responsibilities: led product design and development of our digital gift-giving platform, which included a web application, e-commerce plugin and prototyping tools for designing new wrapping templates that connect the physical and digital worlds (ex - 3D marble maze).Accomplishments: * led product strategy, design and development of our digital gift-giving platform* signed first merchant partners to help validate customer acquisition and monetization strategies* designed, built and launched a mobile web application and Magento e-commerce plugin* spearheaded weekly field testing experiments, with a Lean Startup approach to continuously validate product and go-to-market strategy assumptionsAwards: MassChallenge Finalist, Lean Startup Winner, TieChallenge Winner, Boston New Technology Showcase "Best Product"Featured in: Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Thrillist, Boston Herald, Boston.com, BostInno, VentureFizzGift-giving stories & insights: https://medium.com/@Delightfully

Boston, Ma

Provided web development, branding, user experience design, and video production services to small businesses and startups, specializing in dynamic web and mobile applications.Projects: front-end engineer for MassChallenge finalist, SMAK, a startup providing a platform to streamline messaging across email & social channels; websites for restaurants and small businesses; ‘Sushi 101’ video web series

New York, Ny

Coordinated with global marketing executives and C-level executives across GroupM and its 3 primary advertising agencies to develop, ship and manage a suite of collaborative and digital asset management products to our internal and external client users across ~100 countries.Responsibilities: designed, implemented and supported a suite of proprietary web-based products; developed and implemented global training programs to empower teams to create and manage their own sites on the intranet and extranet platforms; managed a team of project managers, business analysts, and developers. Built relationships with 3rd party vendors and contractors.Accomplishments: * launched collaborative global intranet (16k+ users) and global extranet (10k+ users) to internal and external users across ~100 countries * launched custom digital asset management & video-sharing platform* launched qualitative research platform used by Fortune 500 client teams* launched global multimedia case study contest submission and voting platform* shipped custom features for social networking, multimedia, and workflow automation* promoted within 6 months from business analysis to project manager and then again to director of a new division within the IT department, formed upon my initiative. * through our leadership and products, this department ultimately helped spearheaded a company-wide transformation from a model of top-down, centralized information sharing to a decentralized, cross-discipline collaborative culture* established and managed relationships with vendors, and C-level executive stakeholders* developed and implemented global training programs to empower teams to create and manage their team’s micro-sites on the intranet and extranet platforms* initiated a pilot intern immersive mentoring program for recent college graduates

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

New York, Ny

Managed a team of financial analysts in the corporate actions division. Coordinated with portfolio managers, traders and analysts on my team to manage all IT projects.Responsibilities: business analysis for IT projects, requirements gathering, user testing and analysis; team management.

Boston, Ma

Coordinated with members of the Investment Accounting Department at Zurich Scudder Investments (acquired by Deutsche Bank) to define business requirements and functional specifications for their accounting software.Responsibilities: business analysis, requirements gathering and documentation, usage data analysis, user acceptance testing, management reporting.

Greater Boston Area

Assisted the lab with projects to discover inhibitor drugs for HHV-8 and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV); managed an independent project to isolate proteins expressing a gene that others in the lab would use for testing.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Assisted the lab with projects to discover inhibitor drugs for HHV-8 and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).

Bachelor'S Degree

Education record

Master Of Science - Ms (Not Completed)