Translating visual stories into business results.

Empowering a movement of professionals who choose to pursue side projects as a means of advancing in their career and realizing their fullest potential

took an extended break from work to welcome a new addition to our family and homeschool my second bilingual child. During this time, I honed my time-management, multitasking, and stress-resistance skills while caring for my two children under the age of 5. I also used this opportunity to launch an Etsy store selling bilingual educational posters as my side project.

- Launched the community and accelerator program for tech professionals who want to upskill and reskill through hands-on projects.- Grew the community from 0 to 100+ expert mentors and 1800+ professionals on Slack within 2 months, which enabled me to launch the accelerator program with a 300+ waitlist. - Successfully led three cohorts of the SIDE PRJCT Accelerator with highly engaged mentors and an average of 95% completion rate.

- Launched the group career coaching program to help women fast-track their path into product management- Grew a supportive community of aspiring women product managers- Co-developed the program curriculum applying product management principles to career coaching- Led two cohorts ensuring a 95% completion rate.

AI-powered meal planning and shopping platform- Provided product leadership to a rapidly growing cross-functional team to build and drive mobile app and data platform to market through the full development cycle- Successfully led a team through a major product pivot after acquisition and delivered the MVP on-time enabling quick learnings and improvements

Acquired by MieleKptnCook is a mobile app, combining curated recipes with location-based grocery shopping experience at local stores.- Partnered and managed relationships with major food brands and grocery chains to integrate with KptnCook - Built a network of recipe creators, who served as ambassadors for KptnCook and powered up our organic growth and making KptnCook a very loved and top rated recipe app in Germany- Led a highly effective team of talented professionals ensuring a very high loyalty and nearly 0% employee turnover

- Coached several founders and helped them solidify their investor pitches

- Analyzed business requirements and translated customer requests to user stories and features to enable smooth collaboration with software development team - Launched Shoe Fitter Tool that leveraged a mathematical model and helped reduce the shoe return rate by 5% - Conducted user surveys, interviews and performed regular A/B tests to further reduce the shoe return rate

Conducted market research studies and moderated user tests with 15-20 participants.

- Reviewed startup applications- organized „business model canvas“ workshops for portfolio startups - fell in love with fast-paced startup environment

Organized week-long workshops for high-potential students and adminitrativ support for other various events

qualitative marketing research in the field of B2B solutions