Storyteller and Chief Product Officer
2018 - PRESENTProduct Maestro- Delivered new revenue streams via product-market-fit expansion.
- Trained 500+ product managers on storytelling skills using our proprietary storyteller-type system.
- Delivered knowledge as the keynote speaker for eCornell University on the topic of storytelling in leadership.
- Helped 20 clients tell crystal clear stories about their products with Product Maestro's storytelling workshops (custom).
- Built, advised, and restructured design, product, and marketing teams to enable the next stage of growth.
Chief Product Officer
2021 - 2021Chartbeat- Established the innovation pipeline and the discipline for evaluating the product-market fit.
- Led workshops to arrive at the product vision and clarify their two-year product roadmap.
- Restructured the Product and Design team to reduce overhead and increase productivity.
VP Product and Marketing
2019 - 2020OMG Network- Shipped a layer 2 Etherum (OMG) network that reduces gas cost by 3-10 times. OMG token value went up 6x.
- Cultivated a marketplace of vendors using OMG network including DeFi, banks, and NFTs.
- Led the re-brand of the company from OmiseGO to OMG Network.
Chief Product Officer
2016 - 2018Carrot Inc.- Co-built and led team of 20+ to deliver a product (five direct reports in PM and tech support; cross-department: four designers, 15 engineers).
- Shaped the Carrot product from greenfield—turning academic papers into a mobile-delivered, year-long.
- Pitched as part of Series A3 raise.
- Identified tech to enable faster MVP delivery of >600 mobile screens, cutting development time to half.
- Sourced and integrated vendor tech including Layer, Zendesk, Freshdesk, Tableau, WordPress, Mixpanel.
- Contributed to product strategy, product go-to-market, company culture, and Agile development.
Head of Product, Marketplace and Developer Ecosystem
2013 - 2016Atlassian- Built and led a team to deliver the second largest B2B apps marketplace and grew from $20 million ARR to $200 million ARR with 2000+ apps from a community of 800+ vendors, 100% YoY growth of add-ons in 2016.
- Drove product roadmap definition and analysis of specific market needs.
- Defined pricing and packaging strategies across behind-the-firewall and SaaS business models.
- Built a vendor advisory board of key partners to give input on a two-year roadmap.
- Led team on two re-designs and one architectural re-factor to boost UX and team agility.
- Led rent vs buy decisions such as rental of Algolia search service and eCommerce service.
- Led curation programs to improve inventory quality, example programs include Atlassian Verified, and Cloud Security program (CSA backed).
- Co-produced marketing events Atlascamp and Connect Week to grow apps and dev community; Partnered with BD to identify new integration partners.
Senior Product Manager
2012 - 2013Microsoft- Collaborated with world-class partners to co-design their News experience within Microsoft's Win8 News app to bring news sources such as AP, WSJ, and NYT to millions of users worldwide.
- Launched 15 inaugural partners in the Microsoft News app including Wall Street Journal, AP, Reuters, New York Times, and News Corp.
- Shipped the first Microsoft News app to millions of Windows 8 users in 40 languages.
- Drove product changes to reduce partner launch time by 1/10th via infrastructure standardization.
Product Consultant
2011 - 2012Sourcemap- Built social media campaign and did competitive analysis.
- Presented on stage at Google Tech Talk and Natural Products Expo West as a spokesperson.
CEO
2009 - 2011RealMealz- Designed and built a web-app on Ruby on Rails from the ground up with the CTO.
Product Manager
2007 - 2009Sunpower- Headed the product roadmap and product innovation.
Product Manager
2004 - 2008Cypress Semiconductor- Oversaw a dual-ported memory product used to power cell phone towers by companies like Siemens.
- Drove pricing strategies that resulted in a 12% growth in profit.
- Supported sales to achieve $6 million in design wins.
- Drove programs to identify over $2 million in new business opportunities.