Bill Leece Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Consulting & Fractional work* Working as an AI safety consultant to assess the risks and safety profiles of state of the art LLMs and systems for a well known company (redacted due to confidentiality)* Brought Ditro (as OpenDataDiscovery) into OpenGov, an a16z funded startup, and led the building of first data products there, while also leading other organizational product initiatives (defining product strategy, setting up the org's OKR processes, defining PM leveling rubrics)* Projected infrastructure savings of $3M/yr from 2024 onward* Fractional product work for a few startups* Building a GenAI solution to improve sales & productivity for Small and Medium sized (SMB) businesses (more coming here soon, see https://alunex.ai/)

Streaming data observability powered by AI: https://ui.docs.kafbat.io/

Ditro is a data product governance platform, open sourced as https://opendatadiscovery.org/

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Driving multi-billion dollar margin expansion across a suite of products.* Product manager for next generation role-based desktop and mobile CRM, driving multiple billions of dollars of margin expansion per year and $10B+ in aggregate through both cost savings and revenue uplift while maintaining 80%+ CSAT / 70%+ NetSat* Defined, launched, and landed workflow collaboration and information sharing features within and across Google products resulting in $50M+ cost savings/yr* Leading organizational modeling and complex role definitions via cross-platform Identity Management & Access control systems, reducing insider trading risk by over 20%* Built and published SQL-based success metrics dashboards; this is normally something the engineering team does, but I did it myself when the team was shorthanded (this was back when knowing in-depth SQL was a bit of an accomplishment, in the olden days before ChatGPT)* Won best new product idea in my second month at Google for a novel client communication visualization feature that I envisioned and built with our Shanghai-based engineering team

Santa Clara, California, Us

Cinarra Systems Japan (acquired by SoftBank in 2020) is a joint venture between SoftBank and Cinarra * This role is in addition to my full time role as VP of Product at Cinarra* I spend about 20% of my time in Japan, with the remainder in California

Santa Clara, California, Us

Cinarra (acquired by SoftBank in 2020) is doing groundbreaking work in IoT mobile carrier data analytics * Built product & product organization from $0 to $15M+ revenue/yr* Leading our Product organization: a team of product managers, data analysts, operations & customer support staff, and UX designers* Novel online to offline (O2O) audience measurements and attribution with 80+% y/y customer retention rates* Led the product definition and build of both a mobile DSP (Demand Side Platform) and DMP (Data Management Platform) from scratch w/ 75+% CSAT* Wi-FI & 4G/LTE carrier data monetization* Ensuring product, SoftBank venture partnerships, and operations are all in sync

Santa Clara, California, Us

* Went from an idea to a product* I also washed dishes and took out the trash

Led Product for Asia's first RTB-enabled programmatic trading desk (formerly AdzCentral)

Responsible for end-to-end development and deployment of mobile payment and mobile advertising products to market in China

Near Field Communication (NFC)-based mobile payment solutions for US and China markets

In 2002 I left my job at a great company to explore the world. In my two years 'walking the earth', I:* Spent six months at a language institute in Spain to become comfortably conversational in Spanish* Won a full scholarship to complete a 1 yr. master's degree in Biomedical Engineering in Australia* Trekked the Himalayas* Hitchhiked across Thailand and Malaysia, generally in the back of pickup trucks * Lived for a number of months in the backpacker ghetto of Bangkok* Generally succeeded in living on about 25 USD/day* Initiated some pretty amazing parties* Met great people, learned a lot about myself and others* Also did some surfing* I highly recommend this kind of experience for anyone who wants to 'think different'(ly)What I learned: Did I mention all the parties?

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

* Wrote C++ programs for verification of firmware algorithms designed to detect ventricular arrhythmias in implantable medical devices* Worked on an innovative pacemaker acoustic alert designed to notify patients of device issues, with primary harmonics in the hearing frequency range of the elderly* This product feature ended up possibly saving the life of the uncle of my best friend from high school who had an issue with his device; it feels good to have made a differenceWhat I learned: A meaningful mission makes a difference.

Mba

Mengsc, Biomedical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Chemistry