Focused on user growth, paid & free user monetization (subscriptions, eComm, advertising), and international expansion for Life360, Tile and Jiobit, mobile & web. We've been growing the business! Follow LIF on NASDAQ

My teams are responsible for the core UX on mobile and web, payments and subscriptions, and growth initiatives for international and revenue, for the combined Life360 Tile and Jiobit products. We work in tight partnership with the Product team to bring great features and experiences to our customers.Life360 is among the top apps in social networking. We are very much looking forward to this next phase of bringing the people, pets & things we care about closer together.

Increased focus on technical strategy, partnerships, and infrastructure.Tile was acquired by Life360 in January, 2022.

Building a great Tile engineering team and awesome products. The Tile tech stack is broad, spanning hardware, firmware, mobile, web, cloud services and data. Bluetooth (BLE), location data, and large scale are key themes. My team over time has also included data analytics, manufacturing operations, and parts of product management - currently about 75 people.Some highlights:- Amazon product ratings 4.6 stars- iOS and Android app ratings 4.8 stars- Introduced replaceable battery products- Solidified category leadership with ~90% market share- Launched a successful subscription business with Tile Premium- Launched Premium Protect, an item reimbursement service- Launched embedded firmware partnerships on audio headsets, PCs, and other devices- Service uptime exceeds 99.99%- Overhauled device connection, privacy & security models- Great data pipelines & analytics- Reduced hardware RMA rates 75%- Made the Great Places to Work list- Opened and staffed a Vancouver office (now about 1/3 of Tile Engineering), expanded into LATAM- Completed B and C funding series- 180+ company patentsSee our blog for a view into life at Tile Engineering

Reported to the CTO, managing the engineering teams that operate multi-tenant game services (chat, guilds, storage, leaderboards, ...), web and mobile payments, advertising, client technology, cloud operations and site reliability - a team of about 100 total. Migrated trouble-free from a private cloud to AWS, and reduced overall costs by 40%. Stabilized the team and tech through several years of corporate restructuring.Managed the engineering team who built the New Words with Friends product. Assisted them with staffing issues and helped sort out their launch schedule.Managed a mobile platform infrastructure team, building authentication, single sign on, social channel features.

Managed the engineering team of ~35 for ChefVille, built and launched a profitable product. Staffed a team, refined processes, helped make them efficient. ChefVille was a major new game on the Facebook platform, we shipped it on time, while maintaining excellent team health and retention.Managed the engineering team of ~25 for Café World, one of the top Facebook games at the time with a peak of 10m daily users. Café World had a bumpy start but the team hustled and created a product success with an annual run rate around $100m.Worked closely with the engineering and product teams to fix a number of issues, creating effective processes for scrum, status reporting, weekly planning, specification iteration, design reviews, code reviews, release efficiency.Partnered closely with HR to scale up recruiting during hypergrowth period (~20 new hires per week).Recipient of Zynga Spirit & Atlas awards.

Led development of various storage management applications (web, native Windows and Java) for NetApp through its growth to $4B in revenue. This included the storage management apps FilerView and NetApp System Manager (now OnCommand System Manager), noted for their simplicity and ease of use. Led teams of up to 25 engineers, mixed between US and India. Helped NetApp start its Bangalore office. Authored a NetApp corporate blog for two years. Did UX work focused on workflow simplicity. Coded in C on the ONTAP embedded OS, Java servlets, and C#/.Net.

Worked with a research group on some cool tech (common authentication, firewalls, caching, IP telephony, chat/collaboration, 3D) during the dot com days. Java and C++ on Windows and a bunch of web programming.

Client/server and database development in rapid prototyping team (agile before it was called agile). Wrote software for telephony services and diagnostics. End-to-end development of user interface, database and networking software. These projects were in C on Informix / X11 OpenWindows.