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San Diego, California, Us

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Tokyo, Jp

New York, Ny, Us

- Led a product team of four junior & senior PMs in building residential listing search tools for 35K+ real estate agents & staff.- Led the release of the web app redesign to all agents across 33 markets with a 90% adoption rate and a significant increase in active user %.- Oversaw the prioritization and launch of 26+ high value and highly requested features on top of the initial search redesign.- Championed ETL architectural changes by identifying technical issues and highlighting potential user experience gains to leadership.

New York, Ny, Us

- Led planning for complete search web app redesign, in support of IPO, and presented to CEO and CTO, which was ultimately greenlit.- Entirely spec’d and managed 17 out of the 21 milestones of the redesign while coordinated with 13+ external teams for integrations and over 100 stakeholders.- Achieved the highest DAU% in the history of the search app two months after launch in the middle of peak pandemic.- Redefined analytics for search from the ground up, which served as the gold standard for the rest of the company.

- Founded a company with the mission to help people connect more genuinely with friends and family.- Planned, designed and coded both the frontend and backend for four different iOS apps in the social consumer space.- Conducted hundreds of user tests and reviewed analytics regularly resulting in many iterations for each app.* Trufetti: send and receive anonymous messages for honest positive feedback (Apr 2018-Present)- Coded the backend REST API in Django, client app in Swift, and chat functionality on Firebase Realtime Database.- Achieved effective user acquisition ($0.89 per user) and strong usage rate with 25%+ of users posting link to social media. * Up2 v2: find restaurants & other places to go to and coordinate plans with friends (Nov 2016-Apr 2018)- Developed an efficient new-user funnel with 70% of users completing on-boarding and using the product.- Designed and built swipe interface that enabled users to quickly indicate preferences for different restaurants and locations.- Built mechanism that provided ranked suggestions based on location, time of day, day of week and popularity.* Graffiti: share photos and tag each other’s photos with annotations and drawings (Jul 2016-Nov 2016)- Pivoted to this concept from Up2 v1 based on usage data, building and deploying to the App Store in under two months.* Up2 v1: collaboratively create real-time group photo albums (stories) with friends and family (Jul 2015- Jul 2016)- Designed a timeline-based interaction paradigm for displaying photos, giving more context to when they were taken.- Coded the backend on Parse and client app in Swift, while managing external design contractors in Norway.

Dallas, Tx, Us

- Managed the Data Axle, a real-time data platform made up of 35+ MM business listings, consumed by Google and Bing.- Led a team of developers, local and remote, in building a new ETL for the Data Axle, increasing flexibility and efficiency.- Owned BulkUpdate, which allows enterprises to update multiple listings at once via an API and spreadsheets.- Managed ExpressUpdate, a web app where small businesses can update their listings for free.- Worked closely with remote sales teams in planning and delivering new features and providing enhanced customer support.- Engaged directly with 10+ enterprise customers of all managed products in determining future roadmaps.- Conducted agile project management using Pivotal Tracker and JIRA, modified to mirror Pivotal best practices.

Austin, Tx, Us

- Worked with three clients on the deployment of a foreign exchange (FX) trading platform and integration with legacy systems.- Architected and implemented FX post trade systems, which connected to IBM WMQ and Tibco EMS messaging systems.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Owned the client platform for OneDrive, including event notification stack, data transfer layer, and device/resource awareness.- Received a patent for the underlying data transfer abstraction layer.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Managed a team in building standards-based graphics features shipped in IE9 that enable the graphically rich web.- Led a team in implementing IE8’s layout and rendering engine, including CSS sizing & positioning, zoom and High DPI.- Managed the completion of IE8 user experience features, such as manage add-ons, the new tab page, the landing page, and the overall UI polish and visual freeze.- Received two patents for enhancements to the IE8 zoom feature.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

- Taught 6.UAT: Effective Oral Communication for Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Students

New York, New York, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science And Engineering

Master Of Engineering, Computer Science And Electrical Engineering

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