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Mountain View, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Promoted from Director to Sr. Director in Nov 2015. Joined Glassdoor to lead international expansion and quickly took on PM leadership of Glassdoor's core content (UGC) and growth efforts. Helped solidify and grow core content verticals, launched new verticals and career tools, and greatly improved the user acquisition and content flywheel. Produced significant growth in monthly active users, user registration and content contributions, leading to eventual acquisition of Glassdoor by Recruit Holdings. Efforts of my teams included: Company reviews/ratings, salaries, interview experiences, benefits reviews, ML-based salary estimates for jobs, compensation validation (Know Your Worth), ML-based content moderation, tools supporting trust and safety teams, fraud prevention, user registration and onboarding, and app installs.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Led effort to create scalable Video and Editorial publishing platform tech to power Buzz Media's network of 30+ owned and operated sites.

Lead PM for TypePad, a platform supporting millions of bloggers worldwide. Invested in Freemium model to increase top of funnel trial and downstream revenue, introduced best of breed features through partner integrations, and developed concept work for SAY Media's next gen blogging platform.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Led teams focused on core search UX, vertical search, and partnerships.Selected achievements and responsibilities:- Ask Q&A Community- Universal web search- Vertical search experiences (job search, sports, etc.)- Home page site marketing framework- User personalization and privacy tools- Content generation for SEO-based user acquisition- Search Suggestions (a.k.a. type-ahead suggestions)- Partnerships and partner content integration

Oakland, Ca, Us

Managed a team of program managers working across the Ask Consumer experience, Operations / Data Center initiatives, Ask Partner Network and R&D. My team managed all major Ask.com projects. Assisted leadership team with project strategy and resource management/planning. Selected projects managed from inception to delivery:- Ask "3D" Web Search (industry-first blended search experience)- Ask News Search- Ask API (syndication of Web search, image search, etc.)- Ask.com Maps & Directions- Ask Sponsored Listings- Ask Mobile

Oakland, Ca, Us

- Created APIs for use by third party developers who were building sites to deliver Web search, Image search, News and Local search products- Provided pre-sales business development support- Managed relationship with third party developers to draw out API needs- Developed API documentation and training materials

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Software engineer and team lead on large scale custom software development projects for clients including Toyota, Honda, and Deutsch Interactive.