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Menlo Park, CA, US

I help various startup technology companies however and wherever I can. I primarily help their product teams (PM and/or overall product development including Eng and UX) as they grow and build world-class products, teams, and cultures.

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

I led the Product and Student Success teams for this innovative non-funded personal and professional development platform unlike anything else out there.

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

I led our Product Management, Design, User Research, Data, Customer Success, and Operations teams. In total about 85 FTEs.Human Interest's mission is to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. The company prided itself on offering the easiest and most affordable 401(k) retirement plan for the modern workforce empowering.

Birmingham, AL, US

I led the Product Management, Product Design, and User Research teams.Shipt is a grocery delivery marketplace that gives members direct access to thousands of grocery items through a mobile app. The app allows customers to build their grocery lists and purchase items without ever visiting a store. Trained Shoppers then handpick and deliver the items.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• I led the cross-functional teams that built and delivered to market the BloomBoard product suite. Ialso oversaw day to day company operations.
• Total team under my management: 50+ FTEs across Product Management, Design,Engineering, BusOps, Content, Teacher Marketing, Implementation, Operations (Account Management and Customer Service), and PeopleOps. A number.
• The offering: BloomBoard is the leading professional development platform for empowering continuous, personalized, competency-based learning for K-12 educators. The company is backed by the Gates Foundation, Emerson.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

I led the cross-functional team that delivered the products that empowered LinkedIn's members to build, nurture and leverage their professional networks. Our product offering was multi-channel (Web, Mobile), cross-platform (desktop, iOS, and Android) and delivered horizontally and vertically. We were especially proud of building and delivering Connected.

San Jose, CA, US

• Product lead with joint accountability for delivering multi-billion annual Checkout revenue to the North American P&L.
• Product lead responsible for creating the global strategy for Checkout buying experiences across channels and driving alignment across all regions and product teams to that global strategy.
• Head of Testing and Optimization for PayPal North America’s large enterprise customers. Included leading the Checkout Product Innovation Lab which built new innovative Checkout solutions and drove adoption of those.
• Product lead in identifying, developing the strategy for, and delivering product solutions for the key consumer problem that has been plaguing PayPal consumer engagement for many years: weak consumer value proposition.
• People manager of multiple teams of Product Managers (Group Product Managers, Senior Product Managers, Product Managers) over tenure.

Founded and operated successful financial services startup business. Developed and leveraged use of technology in innovative ways in a moribund industry well-known for moving slowly in very non-customer-centric ways. Inquire for more details.

Co-founded start-up nonprofit to create innovative year-round independent school providing advanced leadership, environmental, and engineering skills to talented pre-college women. Inquire for more details.

Seattle, WA, US

• Senior Product Manager
• Lead Product Manager for development, launch and operation of the Target.com website built by Amazon (basically rebuilt Amazon’s existing front-end, back-end, and distribution systems to be used externally for partners.
• Product Manager on the initial product that proved the business & operations models and consumer engagement effectiveness of what later became Prime.
• Product Managed and delivered on time two new vertical retail product categories.Product Manager
• Product manager on the team which built Amazon Auctions in stealth. Post-launch led the team for all promotional auctions, the primary marketing strategy.
• Led transition of Amazon's overall product marketing plan ($55M/year budget) from a distributed to a centralized model. Assistant Product Manager

Public Middle and High School teacher in history and math. I earned my teaching credential in Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program.