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Have been working with VC firms to incubate their startup ideas from scratch Currently working with AyaFitness and OpenEXAPrior: lead Product at SaasDirect to build out Accountero, their first MVP.

Leading the payments space for Rakuten Rewards, which is its core value proposition. Revamping a 20 year old system to bring it in line with what is needed today. Redefining what membership means at Rakuten Rewards as part of the membership squad.Creatively optimized methods for onboarding new members resulting in a 150% increase in vital profile completion and a 7% YoY increase in retention.Successfully designed and drove the multi-group platform changes to allow for real time cash back redemption in customizable amounts for paying out $500M+/yr in rewards.Spearheaded the design of robust APIs to support real time disbursement of rewards, which led to strategic decisions to invest in new technologies and partners.Drove the integration with American Express to pay rewards in American Express Points, resulting in onboarding of a new segment of users with 200% greater LTV, new partnership opportunities and a 2% overall revenue increase.Laid out the roadmap for an intelligent feature recommendation decision engine across the lifecycle of each member to yield an estimated 5% lift in overall order volume.

Lead the launch of WU's high growth payroll partner services product on their new platform. Designed the product for a couple of next-generation WU initiatives.Designed features and improvements for 4 other areas of the WU product line. Was invited to join the product strategy team but company went on a hiring freeze.Have spent the summer in India helping out with a non-profit.

Helping out with Watsi.org a site for crowd-funding of medical treatment. Writing user profiles and helped a bit with the automation of operations. Serving as editor now. Watsi is very cool, one of the nicest things you can ever imagine. Check us out and contribute if you can. Give someone the gift of good health, the most precious gift you can get.

Served dual roles as PM and technical architect to lead the end-to-end launch of FairFinTech's flagship income verification product, Trulify, in preparation for a trial partnership with ADP, the largest payroll provider in the US. Managed the product development program including coordinating releases, allocating release priorities, planning user stories, wire-framing UI, modeling data flow, selecting vendors for billing, designing the API.Laid out features roadmap and integration strategies for coming year. Planned and designed the future payments product. Interfaced with customers and partners to determine their needs, find the best design and provide great user experience. Completely re-architected platform that was spread across multiple servers into one compact lightweight multi-threaded process (using sidekiq on Rails). Reduced access time by many orders of magnitude.

Was part of the first technical product management team at PayPal. I wrote the specification to integrate PayPal with airline website businesses. This was a complex third party integration that involved finding bridges with disparate, legacy systems. Designed a new API to fit what the travel business needs. I also wrote the specification to redesign the PayPal p2p model to integrate PayPal with Big Merchants and channel partners like Dell and Paymenttech. Designed a new API to fit what the big merchants need.Both were two-three hundred million dollar businesses.

Wrote PayPal Buyer Protection and a whole lot of other stuff including features for session validation, credit card processing, transaction reconciliation. Was on the team to build the first China product. Language used was primarily C++.Was was in charge of cleaning up the software release process when the PayPal site went down for 5 days due to release of bad code. The process was a mess so the software released was inadequately tested and of poor quality. I instituted processes to make the release process more efficient. Clean up was a huge success, my job was no longer required