I led our investments in Figma, Caffeine, Tumblr, Instagram, Dropbox, Quip, and others.

Various teaching roles at Stanford, currently lecturing in the Business School, previously a Consulting Assistant Professor at the d.school.

Advise the Sunnyvale City Council on issues relating to the Public Library.

At Mitch Kapor's Open Source Applications Foundation (http://www.osafoundation.org), we're working to reinvent personal information managers and the way that open source projects get built.

- Drove product strategy and roadmap through first 4 releases- Ran technical sales for the company – significant responsibility for closing early customers- Hired and managed team of seven people for pre-sales, post-sales and product management- Wrote majority of white papers, presentations, technical collateral- Created services organization and ran first several implementations- Major role in fundraising $6M and $10M rounds

During this time, Reactivity was a technology incubator, specializing in building first products and teams for hi-tech companies. Our more than 80 clients included Nuance, MetalSite, ChemDex, and Epinions. During this period, we also performed R&D and team building to start our own companies from scratch, two of which we successfully spun out: Zaplet Inc. (backed by KPCB), and CenterRun Inc. (backed by Sequoia Capital and recently acquired by Sun Microsystems).- Ran the new ventures creation side of the business- Significant involvement in creating and spinning out Zaplet and CenterRun- Managed operations for the company from inception through $2.5M consulting revenue in CY2000- Actively involved in staffing, including running the process for hiring CEO successor- Ran Series A fundraise for $23M from Accel, Austin Ventures and Maveron

Was a board member for CenterRun, a Sequoia Capital backed startup that focused on application provisioning for enterprise data centers. CenterRun was acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 2003.

Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology excelled in user experience research; the group that I was in focused on end-user authoring, allowing “normal people” to create content (and share it with peers, family, etc. over both proprietary networks and the Internet).- One of the youngest ever to hold Senior Scientist title- Work resulted in two U.S. patents for application server style technology- Performed research and early implementations of online communities

When I arrived, Trilogy had many customers but a large level of frustration with Trilogy's product's user interfaces. I created a new Design Group to address this need, and put into place a methodology and team that resulted in measurable new sales for the company and increased customer satisfaction. - Created and managed the Design Group – one of the first design groups in the enterprise software sector- Responsibility for redesigning the user interfaces across company’s product lines- Personally worked on projects with largest customers including Boeing, HP & Haworth- Developed and shipped several new products- Was member of Trilogy’s executive staff