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Athena improves the professional lives of teachers through technology solutions that connect them across schools and regions, enabling collaboration that supports their work.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Mentor and develop a team of product managers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.• Collaborate closely across the organization, including engineering, design, sales, customer success, and marketing, to align product development and go-to-market strategies.• Define and execute product vision and long-term strategy, incorporating market trends, competition, and customer needs.• Utilize data-driven decision-making to prioritize features, optimize user experience, and improve product performance.• Encourage and support user research, championing user-centric design principles and incorporating feedback into product development.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

• Oversaw product strategy and execution across all product lines• Drove the launch of the company's second product, including vision, development, and go-to-market strategy.• Balanced feature demand from the existing customer base with innovation for new products.• Brought in for my experience in ETL and gleaning insights from large data sets to guide product direction.QuanticMind was acquired by Basis Technologies

I took some time to explore my passions for photography and serving the creative community. After years of telling people my secret ambition was to be a photographer for National Geographic, I honed my craft through travel excursions, weddings, and events. Additionally, I worked on developing a platform for helping private music teachers better manage their studios until getting tapped for another software company via my network.

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Led technical delivery of the platform, including custom development to meet customer needs.• Drove usability and customer feature request prioritization for Product• Synthesized customer insights and market research, leading to a pivot toward a more focused product.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Directed research and development efforts for ETL infrastructure for onboarding large-scale customer datasets.• Productized offerings, leading to a significant revenue stream for Gigya.• Collaborated closely with Product Management to drive the direction of core products.• Grew org from a handful to 35 project managers and engineers reporting to me

• Taught for 9 summers at the school’s flagship program, the Young Musicians Program, a 5-week summer program for kids 9-18• Taught for 2 summers at the Teacher Training Institute, a week-long program for training other music educators in our approach• Helped launch and taught the first summer of the Creative Musicians Retreat, a week-long program for adult musicians - Focused on encouraging creative thinking and a do what needs to be done all-hands-on-deck attitude

• Developed mobile apps and supported business processes and music communities as a freelance developer.• Consulted on system design and development for business processes, including feature request tracking.• Created custom software for live performances and memory consolidation sleep studies.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Created and taught course on technology and music, required for majors• Taught private composition students focusing on electroacoustic music• Guest lectured in theory, aural skills, and orchestration & instrumentation

Lehi, Utah, Us

• Owned two product lines (Site Search and Web Content Management) for business unit within Omniture• Developed first true product pricing structure• Face of product line at conferences

• Front-line R&D for customer product solutions• Identified what we needed to build and why and then built it• Worked with large brands like Verizon Wireless, Bloomingdales, and Sony Connect

• Created computer animated visualization of computational fluid dynamics solutions for X-33 vehicle• Developed CL program for automating the generation of animations from CFD solution sets, vehicle grids, and trajectory data• Developed web application for remote automation of CFD workflows• Authored paper (unpublished) on development of web-based automation of commercial software through scripting

Ba, Composition And Piano Performance

Mm (Incomplete), Composition

Work Towards, Computer Science And Applied Mathematics