Pillar helps families within school communities connect, communicate, and get to know each other better.

Led several product teams and initiatives: a marketplace for neighbor-service-providers (launch), local businesses (launch), sponsored posts advertising, growth team, mobile team. A few highlights include: onboarding 13k neighbor service-providers, increasing mobile invitations by +83%, and generating hundreds of local press hits across the country about the Holiday Cheer Map as part of a growth strategy.

Led several product initiatives: mobile, trips, growth. Promoted to Director of Product.Couchsurfing is a hospitality marketplace and travel community. Couchsurfing enables its members to stay as a guest at someone's home (homestay), host travelers, attend meetups, and ask questions to locals. Unlike many hospitality services, Couchsurfing is an example of the gift economy; there is no monetary exchange between members and there is no expectation by hosts for future rewards.

Lead PM on Zynga’s largest game (Words with Friends) with 14M DAU. Managed roadmap and team of PMs that launched features to drive growth, engagement, and retention including: suggested friends, matchmaking, social reminders. Major contributor to Zynga's mobile playbook.Prior to WWF, I was a PM on Zynga’s most lucrative game (Farmville) with over $400M in revenue per year. This was an incredibly exciting time to be part of Farmville which was a juggernaut at the time. I learned about viral growth, data-driven decision making, and monetization from the best. PM on ‘Lighthouse Cove’ sub-team that won Zynga’s Innovation Award.

Vlingo was a voice-enabled intelligent personal assistant (similar to Siri). I designed and developed original prototype for "Vlingo Everywhere" that voice enabled any text field instead of only officially support apps. The feature (seen at http://vimeo.com/8085635) was part of the Vlingo Plus 4.0 release for Blackberry. I developed on BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. (yikes!)

I worked as a software engineer in the Pipeline group.