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More Voltage LLC is a product shop. Just like a dev shop, More Voltage specializes in creating full products at any stage, from ideation through post-launch. More Voltage uses in-house and contracted designers and developers, with experienced product direction, to produce world-class mobile and web products.

San Francisco, California, US

Teach User Experience Design to incoming students in 13-week program. Provide clear instruction and mentorship in design principles and best practices, practical application, design philosophy, and building a career in the field.

• Achievements:
• Contributing Editor at Mashable Tech (Current).
• Consulted on development and wrote copy for NVIDIA GeForce Experience software application.
• Published by AnandTech, IGN, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Venturebeat, Tom's Hardware, Kotaku, Destructoid, Total PC Gaming Magazine, etc.
• 1,000+ tested and reviewed consumer products.
• Co-created publication (bravenewgamer.com, now defunct) and brought site to 500,000 unique visitors monthly within four months.

Berlin, Berlin, DE

As a mentor for students learning User Experience Design, I train and teach students from all over the world all of the skills necessary to gain junior-level positions as a UX designer.

San Francisco, CA, US

Train groups of 3-12 in User Experience Design or Product Management. Provide clear direction for individual companies and employees based on their specific needs while providing actionable processes to follow in a corporate environment of any size and become successful, as a designer or product manager, at any level of seniority.

New York, NY, US

With the incredible Chris Graham we teach and train professionals interested in gaining new skills or transitioning into a new career product management. Our success rate has been historically high with students moving into new positions, starting their own businesses, or completing products they were already working on. We have had the highest rating of.

Calabasas, CA, US

• Responsibilities:
• Scrum master: keep development and product teams on track for current projects.
• Release manager: provide quality control, testing, and feedback for weekly sprints and releases. Provide detailed release notes, submit bug reports, and maintain development cycle based on priorities and timelines.
• QA: provide product testing on all new and existing products/services across platform.
• Support: provide support to sales, marketing, product, engineering, and customer success for all platform-related customer questions, bugs, and other queries. Includes regularly speaking directly with larger and.
• Product: work within product team to research, develop, and design new products and services for current and future deployment.Achievements:

Santa Monica, CA, US

• As Product Manager, my role at Calaborate was to ensure all employees had the tools and capability to do their jobs as best as possible. This included all of the following:
• Product Management: Successfully launched two mobile apps: "Atlas: Scheduling Reinvented for Mobile" (plus corresponding web app), and "Klutch". Managed two products simultaneously and a team of eight.
• Executive Management: Built and maintained Jira and Asana projects for development and non-engineering tickets, respectively, with over 1,000 completed tasks per project.
• Quality Control: Successfully launched over a dozen releases of both products publicly, and hundreds of releases during the Klutch beta. Conducted all quality assurance for iPhone, Android, and web. Trained the team on.
• Customer Support: Responded to hundreds of user inquiries via email, Uservoice, and social media with a 100% 24-hour response rate. Trained employees on technical and customer support protocols.
• Marketing: Successfully oversaw press relations to publication in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, etc.

Santa Monica, Calif., US

Managed and sold advertising campaigns for an international audience

US

Provided customer support for car dealerships using our proprietary retail software. Handled phone and email queries, supported the QA team, wrote daily analytics reports, and provided administrative support when needed. I also trained all new technical support employees during my tenure.