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Greater Boston Area

Applying innovation strategies developed in corporate environments to solve problems outside of the corporate world. Designing and teaching innovation courses at Citizen Schools, teaching Lean Startup entrepreneurship techniques at The Possible Project, mentoring young entrepreneurs at Youth CITIES, and advising other nonprofits on innovation and entrepreneurship. Special focus on closing the achievement gap for underserved youth and underserved immigrants.

Wayland, Ma

Coaching young entrepreneurs in their efforts to change the world for the better. We start by developing deep empathy for our fellow humans, learning how to become aware of the problems that surround us. Then we explore creative solutions in teams with diverse skills, build prototypes, and test them with real customers quickly and cheaply. We then use what we have learned to do better on our next iteration. Rinse. Repeat.

Cambridge, Ma

Professional Development Program: Led two-day seminars for working professionals on how to build innovation into business strategy. Highlights included the opportunity for participants to try their hand at creating their own new business using Design Thinking techniques and the principles of Lean Startup. http://www.dce.harvard.edu/professional/programs/innovation-strategyHarvard Summer School: Created and delivered a course in Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking as a part of… Show more Professional Development Program: Led two-day seminars for working professionals on how to build innovation into business strategy. Highlights included the opportunity for participants to try their hand at creating their own new business using Design Thinking techniques and the principles of Lean Startup. http://www.dce.harvard.edu/professional/programs/innovation-strategyHarvard Summer School: Created and delivered a course in Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking as a part of Harvard's Pre-College Program for rising juniors and seniors in high school. This course helps students build empathy for the world around them so that they can identify the problems and opportunities in their midst. Brainstorming with their peers, the students build and test solutions to solve those problems or realize those opportunities and learn to pitch their idea to potential collaborators, partners, and investors. http://www.summer.harvard.edu/programs/pre-college-program/courses/entrepreneurship-design-thinking Show less

Waltham, Ma And Mountain View, Ca

As an experienced Innovation Program leader, advised Fortune 100 clients on strategies for driving engagement, fostering creative thinking, focusing ideas on real business challenges, and driving ideas to outcomes. Internal to Intuit, Innovation Leader of "Grassroots Innovation." Led many Idea Jams, Innovation Gallery Walks, Lean Start-Ins, and other innovation events and competitions.Trained "Innovation Catalyst" (see http://hbr.org/2011/06/the-innovation-catalysts/ar/1)

Conceived, designed, and led Vistaprint’s Innovation Program. Led the deployment of a web-based idea sharing platform. Evangelized participation in innovation activities such that the number of ideas being submitted doubled, the number of unique individuals submitting ideas quadrupled, and the number of ideas being deployed increased by 10X.

Led a team of New Products Project Managers with responsibility for oversight and improvement of the new product development process. Had responsibility for resourcing across all new products, drawing on a team of over 25 software developers.

Led several innovative new product launches, including website presentation and order flow, product materials selection, manufacturing equipment selection, manufacturing process design, factory-internal software design, and packaging design. Projects included the software component of Vistaprint’s initial North American manufacturing facility, Custom Printed Envelopes, T-Shirts, Sticky Notes, Hats, and Wall Calendars. In 2007, 80% of Vistaprint’s new product sales (and 24% of overall company… Show more Led several innovative new product launches, including website presentation and order flow, product materials selection, manufacturing equipment selection, manufacturing process design, factory-internal software design, and packaging design. Projects included the software component of Vistaprint’s initial North American manufacturing facility, Custom Printed Envelopes, T-Shirts, Sticky Notes, Hats, and Wall Calendars. In 2007, 80% of Vistaprint’s new product sales (and 24% of overall company revenue growth) came from projects that I led. Also led the standardization and scalability of the new product launch process. Show less

Designed and developed a key strategic component of Vistaprint’s software capabilities: a back-end order processing and print delivery system for high-volume online printing. Used VB, COM, SQL and XML to create a modular, scalable, multi-server application which converts XML-specified documents into press-ready format, and ensures that documents are printed and delivered in a timely and cost-efficient manner.In the start-up phase of this company, wore many other hats as well, including… Show more Designed and developed a key strategic component of Vistaprint’s software capabilities: a back-end order processing and print delivery system for high-volume online printing. Used VB, COM, SQL and XML to create a modular, scalable, multi-server application which converts XML-specified documents into press-ready format, and ensures that documents are printed and delivered in a timely and cost-efficient manner.In the start-up phase of this company, wore many other hats as well, including design of efficient and standardized manufacturing processes, and the initial usability analysis of the Vistaprint web site (commonplace in e-commerce today, but new to Vistaprint at the time). Show less

Postdoctoral Fellow, Neural Networks And Speech

Phd, Cognitive Science

Ma, Japanese Language Pedagogy

Ba, Chemistry, German

German Studies

German Studies