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Nashville, TN, US

New York, New York, US

Lead the Product, Engineering, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams Built product team from scratch. Recruited, hired, and retained Product and Product Design growing headcount from 2 to 12 in 3 months Managed and mentored Directors, Managers, and ICs across multiple disciplines. Worked closely with them to identify their strengths.

New York, New York, US

Lead the Product, Engineering, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams Built product team from scratch. Recruited, hired, and retained Product and Product Design growing headcount from 2 to 12 in 3 months Managed and mentored Directors, Managers, and ICs across multiple disciplines. Worked closely with them to identify their strengths.

A leader in self defense and close combat, Krav Maga Institute is a respected training academy for self defense training at all levels, for civilians, security professionals, and instructors.KMI founder Danny Zelig is respected around the world as a source of genuine Israeli Krav Maga technique and philosophy, with 30+ years of experience after he began.

Los Gatos, CA, US

Designed and owned the product vision for a two sided music licensing platform that facilitates the usage and attribution of copyrighted content between rights owners (record labels and music publishers) and the world’s largest social media platform. Resulted in my contribution to two patentsLaunched Rights 360 Portal, an AWS Content Management System that.

Launched complex, technical end-to-end voice communication encrypted hardware accessory into Best BuyDesigned multiple marketplace apps including the solutions for text, photos, and voice which enabled encrypted communication between VYSK customersResponsible for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and making product decisions based upon app.

Managed internal and external QA teams responsible for the testing and the releasemanagement of three games available across multiple web and mobile platformsProcured 3rd party vendors, managed relationships and budgeted costs.Managed release cycle across all games: determining features/fixes for each release, drivingdeployments, and managing internal and.

San Francisco, California, US

Part of the engineering team that built and maintained all internal employee-facing web and mobile tools supporting 5000 employees around the worldLaunched Sales Force FIND IT and multi-platform customer-facing support portals (web, in game, and mobile) Designed/maintained java based automation suite as part of the team’s CI deployment frameworkManaged on.

Responsible for the release of all consumer products and marketing efforts for the largest legal U.S. based poker website. Worked closely with development, marketing, and management teams in fast-paced, startup environment.

San Jose, CA, US

Member of Black Box QA teams for the 4.0 and 5.0 releases of Photoshop Elements and versions 6.0.1 - 9.0.1 of Illustrator. Strong emphasis on image editing, image enhancement, Home Media Center, and Organizer features/ATM (Adobe Type Manager) and font compatibility with CoolType Raster engine.

Evaluated educational CD-ROM titlesDiagnosed/reported software bugs to third part developersTested configurations for Macintosh and Windows platformsDeveloped trouble shooting guides

Member of development team that produced 150 reference and educational CD-ROM titlesDeveloped multimedia presentations and scriptsComposed and edited graphics and edited audio Wave filesProducing, designing and editing independent CD-ROM titles

M.A., Art History/Humanities

B.A., Art History/Humanities