Previous: Blockchain R&D at Nasdaq, Head of Product - uPort Serto at ConsenSysExperienced product manager with a strong background in software engineering, skilled in leading geographically-distributed teams and driving successful product development. Leveraging years of technical experience, I specialize in crafting and maintaining efficient software delivery processes while fostering a thriving remote-work culture. With a focus on the broader scope of product management, I bring a unique perspective to align technical solutions with business objectives, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products that meet user needs and drive business growth.
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Co-Founder & Managing Director/OwnerViabl Ventures Oct 2020 - PresentUnited StatesViabl Ventures is an innovation studio that combines the talents of designers, engineers, technologists and product professionals to create and manage new product ventures. We collaborate closely with partners and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions that reflect the collective excellence and value-driven principles of our members. -
Director, Innovation LabAkava Aug 2020 - Present -
Blockchain Practice AdvisorAkava Apr 2019 - Present -
Product Manager - Transaction ManagementSide Mar 2022 - Mar 2023- Led the replacement of a legacy real estate transaction document management solution, implementing best practices and eliminating technical debt.- Planned and managed major releases to introduce new capabilities, enabling agents to create, manage, and send DocuSign envelopes from the Side application for Listings and Offers.- Provided agents with tools to efficiently manage real estate transaction documents and signature workflows, addressing historical inefficiencies faced by agents and transaction coordinators.- Guided research initiatives to identify areas of customer delight and improvement for document management and send for signature workflows.- Analyzed current functionality and future capabilities related to document and checklist management, compliance review, team organizational hierarchy, and role requirements, considering real estate market locale.- Prioritized and planned enhancements and new product capabilities for internal and external stakeholders.- Identified analytical needs and guided the instrumentation of an analytics pipeline to enable informed decision-making based on product utilization and feature adoption.- Identified and led initiatives to reduce customer support incidents for common issues, leveraging direct and indirect feedback channels to prioritize high-impact improvements. -
Product Manager - ComplianceSide Mar 2021 - Mar 2022- Conducted research and development for real estate transaction compliance requirements and audit-ability.- Analyzed cost savings opportunities by comparing the development of an in-house compliance management system versus maintaining vendor integrations.- Improved auditor efficiency by 200%, doubling the monthly transaction processing capacity of the brokerage and reducing the number of auditors required.- Identified technical limitations and solutions to be considered for successful execution of innovation initiatives. -
Lead Product EngineerConsensys Jun 2019 - Aug 2020- Served as the Head of Product for uPort Serto, overseeing Enterprise Identity Management, Enterprise Credential Management, and Credential Marketplace.- Developed and executed product strategies for uPort Serto's enterprise offerings, addressing market needs and opportunities in identity and credential management. -
Product Engineer, UportConsensys Jun 2017 - Jun 2019- Acted as the Technical Product Manager for uPort's Developer Experience, leading and managing all developer-facing experiences.- Designed and implemented a developer documentation management process using GitHub markdown files and metadata to continuously serve documentation from multiple repositories.- Developed and maintained analytics to understand and address problem areas in the end-user documentation website.- Created developer documentation and examples that provided interactive walkthroughs for users to develop examples on their local machines.- Ideated and led the development of "uPortlandia," a product demonstration experience showcasing the various ways verified credentials can be acquired, presented, and verified in a theoretical metropolis adopting verified credential technology. -
Head Of Product, Uport SertoUport Jun 2019 - Aug 2020 -
Developer Experience Product LeadUport Jun 2017 - Jun 2019 -
Lead Senior Software Developer Specialist | Linq Platform | Enterprise Architecture TeamNasdaq Jun 2016 - Jun 2017San Francisco Bay Area- Served as the Technical Lead for LINQ payments PoC and integration with Worldlink/Citigroup, resulting in a successful completion publicly announced at Consensus 2017.- Represented Nasdaq at IDEO coLab fellowship programs, collaborating on R&D for Digital Identity solutions.- Conducted blockchain R&D related to energy, identity, payments, and provenance.- Managed AWS infrastructure for Nasdaq Private Market and performed Acquia/Drupal administration. -
Software Developer Specialist | Technology Lead (Npm West)Nasdaq Private Market Jun 2015 - Jun 2016San Francisco Bay Area- Participated in the architectural design and implementation of a cap-table system based on blockchain technology.- Implemented REST API strategy with Jbuilder and solutions for documentation, versioning, and testing.- Performed security scanning, maintenance, and remediation using vendors like Veracode, Synack, and tools like Arachni.- Fostered a culture of documentation using GitHub Wiki pages and maintained a lean agile workflow with daily stand-ups for distributed teams.- Collaborated with Operations and Product teams to triage priorities and provide technical details for stories and bugs.- Interviewed, hired, and onboarded new candidates to scale teams as necessary.- Performed release management for Flex, PHP, and Rails applications using AWS OpsWorks and custom Chef deploy scripts.- Migrated build pipeline from on-premises and third-party services to privately hosted EC2 instances, including re-tooling the entire deployment process and source control migration. -
Software EngineerTrumaker Apr 2014 - Jun 2015San Francisco Bay Area- Ruby 2.x and Rails 3.x development.- Maintenance of legacy EmberJS application.- Development of replacement application with ReactJS and Reflux.- Pragmatically researched and recommended technologies for replacement of client side applications.- Helped identify inefficiencies placing and fulfilling customer orders; implemented solutions to save the company money by lowering shipping costs, reducing labor costs, and lowering the space needed to fulfill orders in the warehouse.- Implemented a code review process using Github, pull requests, and labels to allow a distributed team to productively review and maintain code quality.- Guided and maintained an implementation of all marketing trackers using Segment.io which significantly reduced overhead adding new marketing campaigns.- Revised all marketing, sales, shipping and coupon emails to be responsive using Zurb/Ink. -
Api And Integrations Team LeadJiff, Inc. Jul 2013 - Apr 2014Palo Alto- Focused on development of an external API for developers to connect to the Jiff platform, and integrating with vendors that provide business value.- Integration with the following API providers: Nike, Moves, Fitbit, Jawbone, Fitbug, Withings, RunKeeper, iHealth and FatSecret.- My team performed the server side implementation of the Jiff Store, which I designed the architecture of. This involved integrating with payment processing services and tax calculation services and fulfillment of purchased items.- My team designed and implemented a system that synchronizes user data from 3rd party services which is made available to health-outcomes-based apps on the Jiff Platform. -
Software EngineerJiff, Inc. Apr 2012 - Apr 2014Palo Alto- Health Platform development with Ruby 1.9.x / 2.x and Rails 3.x - Adding value to the Jiff platform and integrations with 3rd party API's.- Developed and launch a pilot for Digital Diabetes Prevention and Control. I integrated with third party digital scale API's so that it automatically reported the users progress back to their health coach. -
Software EngineerCrushpath Oct 2011 - Mar 2012San Francisco Bay Area- Ruby 1.9.x and Rails 3.x platform development.- Experience integrating Salesforce, Linked IN, Facebook and Box.net to provide a social CRM platform for end users in sales industry. -
Software EngineerMindflash Mar 2010 - Oct 2011- Leveraged on prior experience in the Learning Management and Training Management industries to help create a cutting edge training platform for smaller businesses. - Flex 3.x application development using Swiz and Parsley on the client side and C# .NET (via WebORB) for the server side. -
Software DeveloperEcommerce, Inc. Jun 2009 - Mar 2010- Flex with Robotlegs and Mate on the client side and J2EE server side.- Implemented solutions for hosted customers utilizing Groovy to perform atomic file operations. -
Software Engineer ||Sophos Nov 2007 - Jun 2009Dublin Ohio- Software Engineer in the Network Access Control group dealing with InstallShield and the most current of the Microsoft technology stack. -
Software DeveloperBesttransport Mar 2007 - Nov 2007Worthington Ohio- Junior Software developer working with J2EE and SQL Server in the shipping management industry.
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Implementation ConsultantSumtotal Systems May 2006 - Mar 2007- Software customization and design- Web development experience utilizing AICC/SCORM standards -
Technical Support EngineerPathlore Software / Sumtotal Systems May 2005 - May 2006- IIS implementation and SQL troubleshooting- Partnering with customers to troubleshoot and resolve enterprise issues- Experience with Oracle 9i and Microsoft SQL Server databases
Levi Strope Education Details
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Devry UniversityCum Laude (3.50)
Frequently Asked Questions about Levi Strope
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Levi Strope works for Viabl Ventures
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Levi Strope's current role is Product and Innovation.
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Levi Strope attended Devry University.
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