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New York, Us

Robotic massage. Growth and Marketplace Lead.

Taking a sabbatical in Mexico, building text-affirmations.com.

Los Angeles (Pasadena), California, Us

Feeding the world better food at lower cost by creating collaborative, robotic kitchen assistants for commercial kitchens.Marquee LaunchLed the design of Miso's flagship product, Flippy, and maintained timelines through the arrival of the pandemic. Led to 10x partnership growth with marquee client White Castle. 0→1 CookRight, New SaaS ProductLed the 0→1 creation of a new product line, CookRight, from design sprint to first contract. Led development of the product while landing the first marquee pre-launch contract with Outback Steakhouses. Network Operation Center (NOC)Led design and engineering in the development of a proprietary system that allows real-time monitoring of deployed robots. The NOC reduced the number of man-hours needed to support deployed robots by 5x and cost by >12x. Built the team that ran the NOC. Company ReorganizationAllowed for the clearing of long-standing technical problems by re-organizing mechanical, software, and product into problem-focused pods. Food DonationsCreated the food donation program, where properly cooked food from our lab and test sessions is donated to local charities, instead of going in the trash. In 2020, Miso had donated over 2,000lbs of food to charity through this program.

Moffett Field, California, Us

Leading a team of five to research, design, and build prototypes for Ames and Kennedy Space Center. Remit: the definition and execution of the work authorization processes used to build space ships and launch sites.

Bridging back-of-the-house (Product Management, Product Marketing Management, Engineering) and front-of-the-house (Sales, Account Management, Support) throughout client and product life cycles to ensure that our advertising products are a great fit for our clients. Consulting for Fortune 100 print and broadcast companies. - Successfully provided white glove technology consulting for over 100 clients per half- Research and implementation of a new tracking process for the Product Solutions team that allowed the team to requisition a new head at a time when hiring was frozen for the org. - Managed the build of a "space hack," a team of 5 from across the company that built a 6-foot tall pixel-art wall that currently stands in the lobby of FBNY 15th floor.

Pre-sales and implementation consulting, guiding projects to a successful launch on the LiveRail platform. Product expert and API specialist.Acquired by Facebook.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Scoping and development of custom projects for strategic clients. Acted as consultant, manager, and developer for custom ad server integrations. Managed the pipeline of custom development for strategic clients and prospects. - Scoping needs and requirements, - Writing project proposals and SOWs, - Developing code utilizing the OpenX Ad Server API and Javascript API- Launch and client trainingCreated business process for the Professional Services department, detailing how Professional Services interacts with Business Development, Sales Engineering, Monetization Management, Technical Account Management, Engineering, Product, Management, and clients. Other activities:- Interviewing candidates- Delivering training webinars

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Post-sale project management and implementation consulting for strategic clients.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Solutions architecture, deal scoping, and live demos for a social media marketing platform. Covered four salespeople in the eastern region along with coverage for other regions, including EMEA and LATAM. Responsibilities included: - Vetting deals and packaging them for production- Training/certifying salespeople - Training clients - Acting as a product expert to field internal and client questions- Performing demos in-person and virtually- Delivering webinars Engineered over $1.6M in deals in the first year with deal sizes ranging from $20k - $150k.Designed and implemented a rush process that allowed the landing of a marquee telecomm client. Worked with top agencies and Fortune 500 clients.

New York, Ny, Us

Full stack development for an online marketplace for antiques. Scoped, spec'd and built the Elle Decor Lookbook (lookbook.elledecor.com). Worked directly with then Editor in Chief, Margaret Russel and VP Publisher Barbara Freidmann to determine needs and requirements for Elle's interfaces. The product is a collaborative effort between 1stdibs and Elle Decor in which Elle Decor's archive of interior photography is tagged with items for sale in the 1stdibs marketplace. Productized the creation for Elle Decor and launched the 1stdibs Photo Archive (photoarchive.1stdibs.com). The 1stdibs Photo Archive works directly with interior photographers to provide them with a browseable archive of their photography assets. Those photos are then tagged with items from the 1stdibs marketplace, so that people have to opportunity to buy items similar to the ones in the rooms that they are perusing. Other work includes integration with Facebook APIs, Fedex APIs, UPS APIs, Solr search server.

Us

Web development for a vertically integrated suite of startup companies that revolve around the built environment.Integration with Google Docs APIs.

Cooperative work assignment (alternated between full-time work and full-time school on a semesterly basis). Programming projects included a redesign of the Copy Wizard, major updates to the Feedback System, and converting modules to support Time Zones. Technologies utilized include ASP, HTML, CSS, JS, VBScript, MSSQL, XML, XSL Stylesheets. Only coop ever placed on SWAT, a two week, rotating position in which the developer fixes real-time-reported bugs in <24 hours.

Masters, Human Computer Interaction

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science