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Head of Product
Oversee one of the largest productivity apps globally, Google Docs
- Responsible for the core product of Google Docs, leading all aspects of strategy, roadmap and delivery... more of core features focused on increasing productivity for the users of Workspace
- Driving new functionality and innovation on a platform ripe for innovation as the world continues to shift away from print to digital native first experiences
- Working to deliver a new AI infused experience in Docs with the launches of “Help me write” and Duet AI
Product Lead, Google Search & Intelligence
Bringing the best of Google to Workplace by transforming communication and collaboration for billions of users by delivering new and innovative features to Search and infusing AI across Workspace
- Managed a team of Product Managers overseeing product for Search
- Led all of Workspace Search across Google Workplace products (Gmail, Chat, Meet, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Drive) with over 50+ launches in the first year of running the organization
- Delivered core AI feature sets in Google Meet with the launches of captions, real time translates, and transcriptions of text to speech
- Worked on core NLP/NLU technologies to build a one-of-a kind proactive assistant to all of Workspace integrated with search and LLMs
Senior Product Manager, Google Nest
Led Media and Chromecast/SDK experience team to deliver and manage how our users consume and search for media on Google Nest products.
- Managed all partnerships with the largest media players in the space (Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, etc) and created new opportunities for large sale distribution of Google Nest products
- Drove all Nest media requirements across all of Google including Google Assistant and Core Identity products
- Responsible for our Cast Developer Ecosystem which consists of Global media partners and major feature updates for Google TV
Product Manager, Google Payments
- Managed Chrome and Android Payments infrastructure which includes the Autofill product which allows users to pay seamlessly using cards on file within checkout experiences on both web and app
- Led global growth efforts working with major banks and key partners during the launch of Google Pay
- Team lead for both iOS and Android mobile app for Google Hands Free, which provided people the ability to pay w/o taking their phone or wallet out by leveraging Bluetooth, location, and facial recognition.
- Responsible for the core product of Google Docs, leading all aspects of strategy, roadmap and delivery... more of core features focused on increasing productivity for the users of Workspace
- Driving new functionality and innovation on a platform ripe for innovation as the world continues to shift away from print to digital native first experiences
- Working to deliver a new AI infused experience in Docs with the launches of “Help me write” and Duet AI
Product Lead, Google Search & Intelligence
Bringing the best of Google to Workplace by transforming communication and collaboration for billions of users by delivering new and innovative features to Search and infusing AI across Workspace
- Managed a team of Product Managers overseeing product for Search
- Led all of Workspace Search across Google Workplace products (Gmail, Chat, Meet, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Drive) with over 50+ launches in the first year of running the organization
- Delivered core AI feature sets in Google Meet with the launches of captions, real time translates, and transcriptions of text to speech
- Worked on core NLP/NLU technologies to build a one-of-a kind proactive assistant to all of Workspace integrated with search and LLMs
Senior Product Manager, Google Nest
Led Media and Chromecast/SDK experience team to deliver and manage how our users consume and search for media on Google Nest products.
- Managed all partnerships with the largest media players in the space (Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, etc) and created new opportunities for large sale distribution of Google Nest products
- Drove all Nest media requirements across all of Google including Google Assistant and Core Identity products
- Responsible for our Cast Developer Ecosystem which consists of Global media partners and major feature updates for Google TV
Product Manager, Google Payments
- Managed Chrome and Android Payments infrastructure which includes the Autofill product which allows users to pay seamlessly using cards on file within checkout experiences on both web and app
- Led global growth efforts working with major banks and key partners during the launch of Google Pay
- Team lead for both iOS and Android mobile app for Google Hands Free, which provided people the ability to pay w/o taking their phone or wallet out by leveraging Bluetooth, location, and facial recognition.
Exit
CEO
Fundly is a leading social fundraising platform for Social Impact used by individuals and organizations across the globe. We believe in inspiring people to make a difference... more through fundraising and focus tirelessly on creating the best experience for our fundraisers.
- Assumed CEO position in August 2013 as Fundly shifted focus towards a pure self service driven model to obtain and drive fundraisers from both individuals and organizations with a mission of powering Fundraising + Events + Commerce
- Within 10 months of our strategic pivot, was able to increase self service business 140% YoY
- Held core team in place and was able to increase revenues by 3X while driving down internal costs by nearly 2/3rds
- Doubled Pageviews to the site in less than 10 months from 1Million → 2 Million per month with new SEO and Marketing initiatives
- Increased campaign signups to over 120K campaigns created in 2014, compared to 70K in 2013 and 28K in 2012
- Expanded services in Canada, UK, and Australia
- Launched new College Ambassador program to nurture further growth in the education space and build out new affiliate model for the business
- Assumed all communication with existing and past investors through a restructuring of both debt and equity for the com company while also taking over as CFO & CMO roles.
Fundly is the largest social fundraising platform for Social Good (non-profits, schools, politics, and cause-based organizations). To date, Fundly has powered over 42,000 campaigns raising more than $300,000,000 ($300M).
- Head of Product and responsible for overall Product Strategy and Roadmap, reporting directly to the CEO
- Re-architected and re-designed entire new site launched in August 2012
- Revamped and developed entirely new social strategy for Fundly.com that drove over 10X growth in social impressions
- Driving YoY user growth and traffic by 5X
- Assumed CEO position in August 2013 as Fundly shifted focus towards a pure self service driven model to obtain and drive fundraisers from both individuals and organizations with a mission of powering Fundraising + Events + Commerce
- Within 10 months of our strategic pivot, was able to increase self service business 140% YoY
- Held core team in place and was able to increase revenues by 3X while driving down internal costs by nearly 2/3rds
- Doubled Pageviews to the site in less than 10 months from 1Million → 2 Million per month with new SEO and Marketing initiatives
- Increased campaign signups to over 120K campaigns created in 2014, compared to 70K in 2013 and 28K in 2012
- Expanded services in Canada, UK, and Australia
- Launched new College Ambassador program to nurture further growth in the education space and build out new affiliate model for the business
- Assumed all communication with existing and past investors through a restructuring of both debt and equity for the com company while also taking over as CFO & CMO roles.
Fundly is the largest social fundraising platform for Social Good (non-profits, schools, politics, and cause-based organizations). To date, Fundly has powered over 42,000 campaigns raising more than $300,000,000 ($300M).
- Head of Product and responsible for overall Product Strategy and Roadmap, reporting directly to the CEO
- Re-architected and re-designed entire new site launched in August 2012
- Revamped and developed entirely new social strategy for Fundly.com that drove over 10X growth in social impressions
- Driving YoY user growth and traffic by 5X
Exit
MerchantCircle
Senior Director, Product Management
- Responsible for the product roadmap and strategy for all Consumer facing sites for Reply! including the core MerchantCircle & Bloglines Websites
- Implemented a complete... more revamp of the development release cycle and Product delivery process with Scrum and Agile Development
- Lead for all new initiatives in Social for delivering and engaging a new channel for Merchants and Consumers to create online conversations between Consumers and Merchants.
- Currently leading efforts on full redesign of the website and evolve a new Consumer to Merchant experience for 15 Million UVs a month.
- Built a new team and project for Mobile Application development focused on driving in more Merchant engagement and subscriptions through iPhone and Android platforms (Available in the App Store as of May 2011)
- Managing weekly status meetings with the Product team and report weekly updates to the executive team on the status of the Product
- Implemented a complete... more revamp of the development release cycle and Product delivery process with Scrum and Agile Development
- Lead for all new initiatives in Social for delivering and engaging a new channel for Merchants and Consumers to create online conversations between Consumers and Merchants.
- Currently leading efforts on full redesign of the website and evolve a new Consumer to Merchant experience for 15 Million UVs a month.
- Built a new team and project for Mobile Application development focused on driving in more Merchant engagement and subscriptions through iPhone and Android platforms (Available in the App Store as of May 2011)
- Managing weekly status meetings with the Product team and report weekly updates to the executive team on the status of the Product
Product Director
- Managed a team of Product Managers to deliver a new System/Platform to revamp and re-architect Yahoo! Media Properties that included Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance,... more Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! TV & OMG!
- Product Advocator for Yahoo!’s new Content Management System for Yahoo! Media to centralize Yahoo! content across the board
- Build and expand on core technologies developed by Yahoo! research scientists on new entity detection and clustering algorithms to better organize content for users, drive further engagement, and deliver a personalized Yahoo! experience
- Responsible for the delivery of Yahoo! News onto a Global Stack across multiple countries and work directly with News Editors on backend tools to deliver and organize content
Sr. Product Manager, Yahoo! Media Integration Team
- Product Lead for Yahoo! Media on Project Rushmore to adopt/implement Yahoo! and Facebook partnership in 2010. Built out all new interfaces across Yahoo! Media to promote linking of accounts and sharing of Yahoo! Events to Facebook profile streams in first phase
- Delivered Comments across all of Yahoo! Media to further engage our users which achieved a 10x lift in social referral traffic back to Yahoo! Media Properties
- Lead for Yahoo! Media on enrichment technologies including clustering, de-duping, real time entity detection, and aboutness to be leveraged in next generation Yahoo! Properties.
Sr. Product Manager
- Managed and led complete end to end concept to design and development of one of Yahoo!’s largest business partnerships, a 600+ Newspaper Consortium with Yahoo! HotJobs and Local Newspapers from across the country.
- Drove Product from concept to design to implementation for one of Yahoo!’s top key initiatives which consist of a partnership with over 20 Newspaper Parent Companies comprising of over 600 Local Newspapers from across the country which drove in excess of $25 million in incremental revenue in the first year of launch
- Responsible for Yahoo! HotJobs Sales Lifecycle Product Line, which includes Recruiter Search Products and all Sales Applications including Siebel, Oracle and Business Intelligence tools
- Point contact and resource for all major decisions and backlog/prioritization for all Sales Applications that are critical to 200+ Sales Reps and day to day business for Yahoo! HotJobs
- Manage a team of Product Managers responsible for Newspaper Consortium, Sales Applications, Self Service and Self Care, Billing, Reporting, and B2B product lines
- Integrated Yahoo! HotJobs with over 600+ newspaper websites across the country with minimal Engineering involvement as well as interacted daily with Newspaper Product Manager counterparts and Executives to ensure successful launch of external newspaper websites
- Work collaboratively and closely with Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Sales Operations, Financial Operations, and Product Marketing to define and gather new product requirements for ongoing development with a focus on driving revenue and sales productivity
- Successfully launched a new sales system infrastructure to support Partnerships across Yahoo! HotJobs that were both scalable and expandable across new and existing Channels of business including Advertising Agencies and International Partners
Technical Yahoo! Engr Mgr
- Managed infrastructure/integration development team for Yahoo Internal Corp. Applications managing Siebel 7.x Applications and utilizing WebServices, J2EE, and TIBCO
- Led in design and development for key integration points within several Yahoo Business Units including Yahoo! Search and Marketing, Yahoo! HotJobs, Yahoo! IT and Production Operations
- Interacted and discussed with business users on a daily basis to gather requirements for future product releases.
- Built functional requirements documents for Yahoo! IT Ticketing release which has become the infrastructure for management of Yahoo!’s day to day activities of Yahoo! IT and Production Operations
- Designed and developed custom Request Tracking System, utilizing standard Web Services technology and Siebel Web Channel features
- Product Advocator for Yahoo!’s new Content Management System for Yahoo! Media to centralize Yahoo! content across the board
- Build and expand on core technologies developed by Yahoo! research scientists on new entity detection and clustering algorithms to better organize content for users, drive further engagement, and deliver a personalized Yahoo! experience
- Responsible for the delivery of Yahoo! News onto a Global Stack across multiple countries and work directly with News Editors on backend tools to deliver and organize content
Sr. Product Manager, Yahoo! Media Integration Team
- Product Lead for Yahoo! Media on Project Rushmore to adopt/implement Yahoo! and Facebook partnership in 2010. Built out all new interfaces across Yahoo! Media to promote linking of accounts and sharing of Yahoo! Events to Facebook profile streams in first phase
- Delivered Comments across all of Yahoo! Media to further engage our users which achieved a 10x lift in social referral traffic back to Yahoo! Media Properties
- Lead for Yahoo! Media on enrichment technologies including clustering, de-duping, real time entity detection, and aboutness to be leveraged in next generation Yahoo! Properties.
Sr. Product Manager
- Managed and led complete end to end concept to design and development of one of Yahoo!’s largest business partnerships, a 600+ Newspaper Consortium with Yahoo! HotJobs and Local Newspapers from across the country.
- Drove Product from concept to design to implementation for one of Yahoo!’s top key initiatives which consist of a partnership with over 20 Newspaper Parent Companies comprising of over 600 Local Newspapers from across the country which drove in excess of $25 million in incremental revenue in the first year of launch
- Responsible for Yahoo! HotJobs Sales Lifecycle Product Line, which includes Recruiter Search Products and all Sales Applications including Siebel, Oracle and Business Intelligence tools
- Point contact and resource for all major decisions and backlog/prioritization for all Sales Applications that are critical to 200+ Sales Reps and day to day business for Yahoo! HotJobs
- Manage a team of Product Managers responsible for Newspaper Consortium, Sales Applications, Self Service and Self Care, Billing, Reporting, and B2B product lines
- Integrated Yahoo! HotJobs with over 600+ newspaper websites across the country with minimal Engineering involvement as well as interacted daily with Newspaper Product Manager counterparts and Executives to ensure successful launch of external newspaper websites
- Work collaboratively and closely with Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Sales Operations, Financial Operations, and Product Marketing to define and gather new product requirements for ongoing development with a focus on driving revenue and sales productivity
- Successfully launched a new sales system infrastructure to support Partnerships across Yahoo! HotJobs that were both scalable and expandable across new and existing Channels of business including Advertising Agencies and International Partners
Technical Yahoo! Engr Mgr
- Managed infrastructure/integration development team for Yahoo Internal Corp. Applications managing Siebel 7.x Applications and utilizing WebServices, J2EE, and TIBCO
- Led in design and development for key integration points within several Yahoo Business Units including Yahoo! Search and Marketing, Yahoo! HotJobs, Yahoo! IT and Production Operations
- Interacted and discussed with business users on a daily basis to gather requirements for future product releases.
- Built functional requirements documents for Yahoo! IT Ticketing release which has become the infrastructure for management of Yahoo!’s day to day activities of Yahoo! IT and Production Operations
- Designed and developed custom Request Tracking System, utilizing standard Web Services technology and Siebel Web Channel features
Exit
Siebel Systems
Senior Software Engineer
- Part of Siebel Core Engineering Infrastructure team which developed base level product infrastructure in Enterprise Integration for Siebel 7.x/8.x platform/architecture
-... more Led design and development of Web Services for Siebel OnDemand Online Application to support the ability for customers to extend and customize their online CRM application to suit the needs of their businesses
- Was responsible for design and development (C++ and Java) of key modules to facilitate enhancements to current Web Services architecture to allow usage of custom fields during Web Service invocation
- Team lead with design and development (C++) for exposure of Siebel Customer Order Management through Siebel’s Web Channel Architecture based on Web Services Technology for Siebel 8.0 Product
- Implemented Web Services on all major platforms which provided data access through Siebel Integration Objects, Business Services, and Workflows with use of standards based on Web Services Interoperability Group and Web Services Security
- Mentored junior engineers on Siebel EAI technology, involving Siebel Integration Objects, Siebel Adapter, Web Services, XML Converters
-... more Led design and development of Web Services for Siebel OnDemand Online Application to support the ability for customers to extend and customize their online CRM application to suit the needs of their businesses
- Was responsible for design and development (C++ and Java) of key modules to facilitate enhancements to current Web Services architecture to allow usage of custom fields during Web Service invocation
- Team lead with design and development (C++) for exposure of Siebel Customer Order Management through Siebel’s Web Channel Architecture based on Web Services Technology for Siebel 8.0 Product
- Implemented Web Services on all major platforms which provided data access through Siebel Integration Objects, Business Services, and Workflows with use of standards based on Web Services Interoperability Group and Web Services Security
- Mentored junior engineers on Siebel EAI technology, involving Siebel Integration Objects, Siebel Adapter, Web Services, XML Converters
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Product Lead @Google, Google Docs, Nest, Chrome, Payments
Previous CEO @Fundly where I led the company an acquisition in 2015
Product Lead for re-write of Yahoo!’s core CMS that powered Yahoo! News, Sports , Finance, Entertainment
Y! Media Project Lego (CMS for Y! News, Y! Sports, Y! Finance
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