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Responsible for overseeing Crunchyroll's microservice and data platforms. Managed a global team of product managers directing the roadmap for 7 engineering teams, including Platform Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Science, Security and Privacy, Social and Community, and Internal Tools.

As the product manager for Wizeline Portfolio and Wizeline Roadmaps was responsible for setting and executing product and technical roadmaps looking forward six to twelve months. Working closely with the executive and cross functional teams to launch new products as well as improve and support existing ones. Lead the development, go-to-market and launch of Wizeline Roadmaps, developed over a 7 month period it more than doubled the number of active users across Wizeline products within 90 days of launch. • Lead go-to-market for Wizeline Roadmaps, working closely with the Marketing team to plan and coordinate early access, product launch and long term demand generation• Established and tracked KPIs for products, analyzing the effect of product changes and marketing initiatives• Lead customer and user research, identifying major market needs, pain points and product improvements• Supported enterprise sales and customer success teams with weekly product training, enablement content and direct communication with existing and potential customers as needed• Lead product pricing; balancing revenue, user growth and engagement goals

Held both Senior Product Manager and Engineering Manager responsibilities in parallel. As one of the first Engineering Managers, directly managed a remote team of 3 Engineering Managers, 11 Software Engineers and 2 User Experience designers. Holding weekly 1on1s, setting and tracking professional development plans, split time equally between the San Francisco and Guadalajara offices. Tasked with establishing engineering processes and culture found at New York and Silicon Valley tech startups in Wizeline’s international engineering offices. Conducted training and mentorship for first time engineering managers and developed the engineering career ladders as the organization grew from 20 to over 200 engineers.Additional responsibilities: • Lead Information Security initiatives and training • Advised on high-level technical architecture and processes • Interviewing and hiring

As one of the earliest members of Data Insights Engineers Team, an entrepreneurial group of engineers that works closely with Flatiron’s product teams to facilitate the process of market fit discovery, rapid prototyping and iteration. Used engineering and data science tools to unlock the most value from terabytes of clinical data, working directly with clinics, oncology experts and academic research centers to advance the goal of dramatically accelerating cancer research and improving patient care.

• Responsible for setting product and technical roadmaps looking forward six to eight months. Ensured product and features closely aligned with client needs and were developed into business cases which supported the business unit’s P&L. • Ran client advisory boards, spoke at industry events, and led user research studies to develop product requirements, analyze feature usage and engage early product adopters.• Developed definitions and processes for alpha, beta, and release candidate product stages. Created clear and consistent expectations of a product’s state for internal stakeholders and clients who were early adopters.• Designed and oversaw development of the first interactive, data driven visualization tool inside of AppNexus’ platform. It incentivized users to migrate to the newest version of AppNexus' buying platform with early indications showed a 20% reduction in redundant campaigns, and a 5% lift in the number of user segments being targeted.• Drove AppNexus’ company-wide user identity initiative, which included the design of a new privacy centric user data management platform and 3rd party data marketplace to develop new revenue streams for AppNexus.  Worked closely with legal counsel, external partners, clients and represented AppNexus at industry groups.• Built products on top of a variety of large scale data stores in a high performance computing application. AppNexus ingested over 80 TB of data a day, had over 8 PB of rotational disk space, and serviced billions of auction requests daily, each which had to be completed in under 100ms.

• Hybrid Product and Engineering role, focused on exploring blue sky features and products• Prototyped new features and products. Built minimal viable product prototypes to test viability and scalability of ideas before presenting them to the engineering team• Product lead for many large scale and complex data systems. Giving guidance in technical architecture and design to the team• Responsible for setting product and technical roadmaps looking forward six to eight months• Manage cross team and organizational dependencies, overseeing the design, creation and commercialization of products

Lead a team of 5 software engineers in developing embedded, android and web based push messaging clients for a variety mobile and tablet platform. Focused on the Asian and North American markets millions of units were shipped pre-installed on devices. Responsible for full-time and co-op interviewing, hiring and mentoring.

Worked for a variety of clients advising in any combination of product, technology and UX. Aiding in the development of new products, bring a user centric approach to improve user engagement and finding efficiencies in business operations through the use of technology.Projects include:Location and maps based construction permit and document management system built for tablets. Allowing users to quickly find and access needed documents for multi-site, largely geographically distributed construction projects such as petrochemical pipelines and oil sand extraction and processing facilities.Processing and visualizing information for a remote, wireless, meshed sensor network. Ensuring different stake holders could comprehensively understand real time information, alerts and diagnosis issues.

As a member of the Product team during the launch of the Twitter Peek, a twitter only mobile device, participated in pre-launch product testing, validation, go-to-market preparation and execution. • Ran the daily pre-launch bug status and prioritization meeting with engineering and product • Designed and developed a toolset based on the Twitter API to execute stress tests against Peek’s infrastructure and services in preparation for launch• Oversaw the kitting and distribution of pre-launch review packages for the media. Created a system that tracked the activation and usage of review devices, enabling Peek’s communications and PR team to proactively engage with tech journalists• Took the initiative to perform network traffic cost analysis between Peek's servers and client devices. Identifying a potential 30% savings in Peek's largest infrastructure operating cost

Work in the capacity of both a Product Manager and Technical Lead in designing, developing, launching and supporting The Weather Network's Traffic Eye. A B2C weather and traffic application for both Windows and OSX, it was built to help people plan their commute based on weather and traffic information. Overlaying both traffic congestion, weather advisories and real time traffic cameras on an interactive map. The application supported traffic information and cameras of over 20,000 municipalities across Canada and was downloaded over 200,000 times. Traffic Eye was showcased at Microsoft's Mix 08 in Las Vegas.

Designed and built the first autonomous, virtualization based server disaster recovery product which would become "PlateSpin Protect". Originally scoped as a server uptime detection service to be completed over a 4 month internship, it was completed in 1 month. In the remaining 3 months took the initiative to extend the product and integrate with PlateSpin's existing physical host virtualization and management system. Allowing for autonomous recovery by bringing up a virtualized copy of an offline host, notifying users of the event over email and offering a mobile browser compatible workflow, another industry first, to manage the disaster recovery event. PlateSpin Protect would become PlateSpin's 3rd major product and be the foundation of PlateSpin's 4th product "Forge", a disaster recovery appliance. PlateSpin was acquired by Novell in March 2008 for $205 million USD.

Contributed to the development of AppScan Enterprise, a web-based, SaaS, enterprise-focused product which quickly grew to match their existing desktop application in sales, driving double-digit millions in annual revenues. AppScan was a enterprise grade application security tool which would run a battery of security tests against online web applications. Watchfire was acquired by IBM Security in July 2007.

Built features on Awareness Networks' SaaS blogging platform, focused on helping enterprise companies use this emerging social media tool to engage their own employees internally and their customers externally. Focused on usability and development of many core features including a single sign-on process to authenticate users across a collection of 1st and 3rd party applications that were part of Awareness Networks, mobile uploading of blog posts and photos as well as content management.

VoodooPC was a luxury personal computer company that was known for unique, innovative products, outstanding customer service and a strong online community. Primarily worked as Product Manager, Software Engineer and Community Moderator; responsible for the creation, maintenance and moderation of VoodooPC's online community. The online forum was used by both existing and potential customers to talk about the brand and products and became VoodooPC's most valuable marketing asset and sources of demand generation.Additional responsibilities included product development, running marketing events and being a jack of all trades tech guy, fixing whatever was broken. VoodooPC was acquired by HP in 2006, and became HP's flagship brand for high end and luxury consumer computers.