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United States

Remote First, Us

* Scaled USDC, a USD pegged stablecoin, to 15+ chains, CCTP to 8+ chains by setting metrics, dashboard, and driving product strategy* Drove the OKRs for the whole company

Remote First, Us

New York City (Soho), Us

* Trust & Safety - Prototyped and built an automated system which significantly reduced copymint/counterfeit NFTs

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

- Managed the product quality of Facebook Assistant (voice) by measuring user's experience- Sped up the manual feedback loop to improve the quality by identifying most significant issues- Protected ads revenue by A/B testing new features - Maintained the quality of Ads Manage by measuring and controlling its atrophy introduced by new development

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Wearing multiple hats: - Analytics and data science- Product management- Cloud Operation data analytics, built a dashboard to monitor AWS cost using Tableau- Program management- Measure and improve data quality- Extract structured data from unstructured data

New York, Ny, Us

- Managed a Machine Learning product: Centralized Statistical Analytics and Patient Profiles for fraud and anomaly detection in clinical trials

Nashville, Tn, Us

- Developed and implemented operation strategies- Managed the budget of $30MM/year

Nashville, Tn, Us

* Participated in a 2-year post-MBA General Management Rotational Development Program with 6-month rotations through 4 business functions.* First rotation - Product management, platform services for CommonWell Alliance - Drove the consensus among functional leaders of calculating service up time, which is critical in determining the profitability of platform services - Gathered the requirements to improve switch framework from users and translated them to technical and user interface requirements ready for the software team to implement* Second rotation - Product strategy: defined the patient engagement strategy with an anticipated revenue increase from $10MM to $15MM per year based on analyzing market requirements, technology trends and competitive landscape* Third rotation - Cloud operations: Analyzed the unit cost for serving SaaS

Jena, De

Bring cutting edge machine learning capabilities to market- Launched a major software release, leading to $120MM revenue/year- Drove the development of software features utilizing an Agile methodology with engineering- Conducted product demonstrations to executives and to customers during meetings and trade-shows- Curated a corporate site and promoted it on social media, attracting 2,000 visits/month out of a customer base of 15,000- Managed the biggest clinical validation in the company’s history: led a team of 6 colleagues including Quality Assurance, Clinical Affair and Marketing without direct authority; placed new products at multiple clinical sites across the U.S.; accomplished the validation successfully on time for the product launch

Jena, De

Fast prototype and productionize new analytics/algorithms - Initiated the development of a new product in China: learned local market preferences by interviewing 40+ local physicians; drafted the Product Requirement Specification; presented to CEO and gained his approval on this multi-million dollar project- Led a team of 4 product managers from the U.S., India and China to consolidate product specifications from individual markets into the aforementioned PRS, and gained approval from CEO- Conducted a marketing survey to understand the market size of a proposed product application; the senior management adopted my recommendation against investing millions of dollars into this application- Supported external clinical trials for 3 years by being the liaison between engineering and customers

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Improve medicine through machine learning- Increased the accuracy of diagnosing Retinopathy of Prematurity by incorporating clinicians’ insights into computer aided diagnosis algorithms using machine learning- Provided technical consultation and developed software application for clinicians to interpret 3D MRI data in order to understand depression using open source software, C++ and Perl- Published 5 peer-reviewed publications

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

- Invented a bio-marker for early detection of late-life depression via statistical modeling - Provided technical consultation and developed software application for ophthalmologists to aid the diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity using open source software, C++ and Perl- Published 6 peer-reviewed publications

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing, Strategy And Leadership

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

B.Eng, Electrical Engineering