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Fortellar (https://fortellar.com/) (2024-2025)• Product Lead for Customer Service domain at a healthcare startup, zooming in on member and provider pain points and building meaningful solutions within their current healthcare plans • Currently using AI to rebuild the software for large medical insurance companies from the ground up• Product Lead (IC) within a team of 10Bucket Listers (https://bucketlisters.com/) (2024) • Product Lead – reporting to CEO • Leading the consumer product vision, helping grow a brand that has ~20M+ Instagram followers IronVest (https://ironvest.com/) (2022 - 2023)• Head of Product – Mobile, reporting to CPO• Directed mobile product rollout and strategy, spearheading the launch of the IronVest mobile app to protect users from fraud through biometric authentication.• Delivered key product improvements, contributing to increased app adoption and user retention.Zette (https://www.zette.com/) (2022 – 2023)• Head of Product - reporting to CEO • Worked with CEO on product strategy during the beta launch, scaling the platform to thousands of subscribers.• Led the development and launch of a website and browser extension to enhance user experience and drive growth.

San Francisco, California, Us

Angel Squad – an affiliate of Hustle Fund – is an angel group consisting of 1500+ members around the nation.I lead Angel Squad Atlanta, a thriving community that supports early-stage entrepreneurs through fundraising, mentorship, and strategic guidance. Under my leadership, our group has grown by over 100% in the past year. I organize impactful events such as pitch competitions, networking happy hours, and community gatherings.

New York, Ny, Us

***My team disbanded due to changes in leadership. See more here: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/09/19/fevo-loses-founder-and-chief-financial-officer------Key achievements:• Built and launched a SaaS application (the "Shop With Friends" experience) that connects shoppers to the people who matter most during their shopping journey• Created product strategy and roadmap to align market trends and consumer needs with the vision of the CEO • Built deep relationships with Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to ensure both a seamless product integration as well as a successful go-to-marketHere's a sneak peek of my Product-Led Growth (PLG) playbook I developed with my design partners: • Content is everything. We used AI to bring in contextually relevant metadata to share with friends; • UX is also, well, everything. We made sharing feel like a natural extension of the platform; • We used a dismissible floating action button (FAB) to make the share experience visible on every page;• We enabled recipients to bypass third-party login/registration walls to reduce signup friction; • We sent push/email notifications in the moments that matter;• We made sure our UX was consistent with our third-party partners; • We ensured sharing was readily available on all platforms (web and mobile web);

I played a pivotal role in shaping strategies to activate users through logged out surfaces, balancing the need for upsells with enriching experiences that showcase Instagram's value. Key Highlights: • Helped activate and onboard new users by A/B testing 20+ key features on logged out surfaces, focusing on SEO and organic sharing that drove teens to content-rich pages; launched several features with remarkable KPIs and exceeded goals in most categories • Co-inventor of IG’s logged out experience (patents pending)

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

I led digital innovation at Macy's, overseeing the development of groundbreaking features in social commerce, augmented reality, and live video. As the first hire in Digital Innovation, I focused on launching zero to one features with a robust $100M product roadmap.Key Highlights:• Strategically focused on Fragrance & Beauty, a $3.5B business line, positioning Macy's as a leader in digital innovation within the retail sector (larger than the company’s entire market cap at the time of hire)• Established pioneering partnerships with Instagram and Snapchat, making Macy's the first multi-category retailer to collaborate with Instagram for Virtual Try On• Successfully launched Virtual Try On and Virtual Advisor across Macy's digital platforms, enhancing customer engagement during the pandemicAwards and Achievements: • Innovation Award - Fragrance team (Q1 2021)• Received year-end performance bonuses of 125% for 2020 and 150% for 2021• Regularly presented team vision and mission to C-suite executives, including the CEO, demonstrating leadership and strategic impact

During the pandemic, I founded Painted Countertops, a venture that provided the marble countertop look for a fraction of the cost. With an initial investment of $5K, I strategically utilized Google, Facebook, Yelp, and Nextdoor ads to kickstart growth. The business quickly gained traction and became a viral sensation, expanding exponentially through word of mouth.Key Achievements:• Generated over $200K in revenue • Pioneered cost-effective epoxy application techniques, while hiring and managing 7 employees • Managed marketing campaigns that propelled initial growth and sustained momentum through organic customer referrals

Oakland, Ca, Us

At Pandora, a pioneering audio discovery platform leveraging the Music Genome Project for highly-personalized listening experiences, I spearheaded transformative product initiatives powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.Key Achievements:• Leveraged machine learning (ML) to build a recommendation share sheet that enabled users to easily share popular music to their favorite social media pages (shipped Share to Instagram Stories and Share to Snapchat) • Led the rollout of new Share features with a referral conversion rate of 10%, including integration with Instagram Stories, which helped acquire and grow user base by deep linking back to Pandora for app installs (provided key benefits such as bypassing ads, temporarily skipping login walls, etc)• Implemented a permanent bottom navigation bar across platforms, incorporating machine learning models to optimize user navigation based on behavior patterns and A/B testing insights, ensuring quick access to key actions such as Search and Offline mode.• Received year-end bonus of 105% for 2019

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I focused on the Voice of Customer for Company Pages, contributing significantly to the platform's growth and member satisfaction. (Fun fact: you're reading this on LinkedIn right now and if you click that logo you can see my work first hand!)Key Highlights: • Promoted to Senior, and recognized by peers as “amazing at bringing people together” during year-end reviews• Built a suite of self-serve tools for admins of Company Pages, including the Email Admin flow where members can request access to become an admin of a company page Company Page, improving transparency and operational effectiveness• Played a pivotal role in driving a 30% increase in Company Page pageviews, scaling to over 20M total pages and 15k+ pages from enterprise clients. Reduced member complaints by 55% year-over-year, resulting in approximately $1.5M in cost savings• Identified new opportunities by running SQL queries to pull case volume on Company Page creation, then developed a one-click creation process that resulted in ~20M of revenue and reduced admin complaints by 80% in-category. Presented progress at a LinkedIn All Hands attended by over 10,000 employees• Improved efficiency for Eng and Sales by working on internal tools that helped perform backend tasks in company page management (for example, during a merger/acquisition, the ability to migrate employees and followers from one page to another) Additional Contributions: • Captain of LinkedIn volleyball team • Member of LinkedIn ice hockey team (Q2 2017 to 2019)Awards and Recognition: • "Most Creative" award team presentation - GCO Summit (Q4 2016)• "Top of the Charts" award - self-serve page deactivation and self-serve name change (Q3 2017)• "Members First" award - one-click CP creation and claim process (Q2 2017)• Received year-end performance bonuses of 150% and 125% for 2017 and 2018• Performance awards on 16 separate occasions - 15,750 Bravo peer-recognition points (Q3 2018)

Miami , Florida, Us

Key Responsibilities and Achievements:• Developed user flows with Engineering and Design teams to execute the first anti-cheating mechanism ever for the Bar Trivia industry • Managed four developers and two designers to prioritize features for upcoming sprints, foster agile development practices, and improve time-to-market by 30% • Executed quality assurance testing on iOS and Android for robust and rapid iterations on product• Raised 300k to build out mobile products

XO is a social discovery app that lets users ask opinion-based questions and get hyper-localized feedback from people nearby. Think Yik Yak or Twitter, but with a greater utility around asking and answering questions rather than posting random comments. • Managed Marketing and Product teams to create iOS and Android apps from inception to launch — this included product positioning, organic and inbound marketing, competitive analysis, and feature prioritization • Split-test ads through online social channels (Google Adwords, Facebook Exchange, and Twitter) to reduce user acquisition costs to 1/10th the industry standard• A/B tested email campaigns with MailChimp, optimizing reception of original thematic content to drive organic growth and help attain a viral coefficient greater than 1• Achieved remarkable KPIs — 50k posts/responses during beta launch of XO (averaging 2.7 per minute)

SetMeUp is a dating app that lets users connect to new people through their mutual friends• Launched SMU app and grew user base by 10,000 users within the first 30 days, and achieved MoM growth of over 100% (viral coefficient > 1) • Created a machine learning algorithm that utilized collaborative and content-based filtering within Facebook API, showing a relational mapping of 70 million friends-of-friends user profiles (with over 500 million data points, 100k total users)• Received several acquisition offers for the company• Managed a team of 14 developers, 8 full-time employees, and 50 interns — created over 20 sustainable internship programs across the northeast• Raised Seed funding (over 600k) from 25 successful entrepreneurs and investors (TiE Angels, Walnut Ventures, HBS Angels)• Brought on early-stage founder of Match.com as the company's formal advisor• Drove user engagement above 86% during Beta launch• Successfully registered several trademarks • Led team on data analysis, multivariate, and A/B testing• Accepted into Facebook's Startup Accelerator Program• Successfully partnered with OpenTable, Amazon, Groupon, & LivingSocial (SMU was the only online dating company to partner with OpenTable, as the API was closed to all US affiliates) • Handled all legal work for company, including drafting terms sheets, independentcontractor agreements, founders equity agreements, non-disclosure agreements, filing of trademarks, and writing the corporation’s bylaws

Singled Out is a dating app that lets girls ask questions and eliminate guys based on how they respond. • Featured in the Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, the Daily Collegian, the Washington Post, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Mail, and the cover of the Improper Bostonian.

Augo is a technology solution that uses augmented reality to transform outdated entertainment into interactive social platforms.• Led business and sales development strategy to negotiate six-figure deal with Fox Media in Singapore • Oversaw team that created customer case studies for Bloomberg, Fox Media, and GM• Prioritized marketing opportunities to identify particular verticals within target market• Enhanced in-product user experience by working closely with product and marketing teams to craft each AR experience prior to client presentations

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Recognized by my manager as being the most improved person on my team during year-end reviews.• Helped create an organizational push to focus on better market analysis and competitive intelligence for Pure Data for Analytics (PDA) by running multiple SQL queries, which forecasted revenue by product, region, and competition, that helped us understand historical trends, assess win/loss rates against our key competitors, and survey sales teams to get qualitative feedback on how customers perceived our product offerings • Worked cross-functionally between Marketing and Ops teams to create quality reports on quarterly win/loss data against competition. These reports were passed along up to the CFO at IBM.• Managed newsletter subscription list to assist Product Marketing team in communicating important updates from PDA – delivered to more than 1,500 IBMers worldwide• Leveraged social media platforms to enhance IBM’s social presence, informing customers and IBMers about upcoming webinars and Enzee events

Cambridge, Ma, Us

TiE Angels-Boston is an angel investment group comprised of accredited investors from TiE-Boston charter membership as well as other seasoned investors.• Worked directly with the chairman and founders of the organization to scout for new deals in the area• Delivered several presentations at incubators and accelerators in Boston to solicit new deal-flow for TiE Angels• Performed due diligence on multiple deals that were funded by TiE Angels, including adverCar and Mobee• Contributed to the surge in growth for TiE Angels, resulting in it eventually becoming the third largest angel group in the Northeast

Master Of Science In Analytics, Machine Learning

Software Development & Programming Certificate

Relationship Psychology

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Advocacy

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Independent Study In Finance & Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics