Jacob A. Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Took a chance and pursued a passion! Started a small business to source and serve coffee from world-renowned roasters. We eventually focused on weekly pop-ups and private workshops, but we experimented with different business models on the way there. Including a coffee box subscription and content marketing. We built up a network with local business owners.

Mountain View, CA, US

Here I got to try my hand at consumer products. I owned the mobile apps for Google TV, a TV operating system and service that aggregates recommendations from across streaming services. My goal was to increase weekly active users and time in app.The apps were a companion to the TV experience, allowing users to browse content and cast it to their TVs. I.

Mountain View, CA, US

I started the role just as the org started a major transition. Google Cloud Platform shifted focus to enterprise and regulated industries, and I was in the lead pack driving the change.I owned Cloud Data Residency and started with a single tech lead to develop the problem statement and opportunity. Within two years we grew to an 80 person team and once.

Redmond, Washington, US

I began my PM career leading the transition from waterfall to agile methodologies at Microsoft Office. My team developed common components for Office apps and I managed the widely-used rich text editor. We launched in Office 2016 and Office 365 in every Office app; if you read or typed text outside of the Word main canvas, that was my product. I worked.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

I worked on two teams during my time at Blackberry. I developed features for the Blackberry OS home screen, and parts of the test infrastructure for Blackberry Service Provisioning.