- State Coordinator, Generation Dean (Voluntary)Jan 2003 - Mar 2004 · 1 yr 3 mosSan Francisco Bay Area
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Purpose-Driven Product & Strategy Leader
Product leader with experience across early-stage to Fortune 10 companies, launching revolutionary products like Amazon Echo as well as new consumer products across climatetech, fintech, and healthtech. I have experience leading and building teams at various size companies.
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{"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"I provide fractional and advisory services to help companies from pre-seed to profitable large companies create new products, develop product and technology strategies, and craft their go-to-market strategies. Please reach out if you are interested in learning more.\n\nHere are some of the examples of what I have done:\n\n* Advising two different startups on what their first AI products should be and how to bring them to market\n* Utilizing market and user research, creating a new product for a fintech company\n* Creating and implementing the technology and product strategy at a business looking to increase profitability and digitally transform its business\n* Supporting the launch of a new product for the climatetech company\n* Manage the Cenegenics mobile app after leaving the company"},"1":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: Product Management · Business Strategy · Business Planning · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Go-to-Market Strategy · Product Design"}}
{"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"As a product manager on Echo, I worked cross-functionality with all stakeholders and a variety of technical and UX teams, owning six major products end-to-end, including software, hardware, firmware, and speech implications. \n\n* Drive Echo's productivity features (timers, alarms, shopping, and to-do lists), Audible (audiobooks), the first time user experience, and a variety of smaller one-off features\n* For products above, envision and secure buy-in for the roadmaps, define requirements, own and account for business metrics, evolve product roadmaps by analyzing customer feedback, market analysis, and customer usage\n• Wrote proposals to successfully convince executives to adjust product roadmap for three features based on customer research and market analysis\n* Worked closely with device firmware, cloud software, speech, and mobile development engineering teams in addition to the (voice and graphical) UX designers\n* Proposed and implemented the go to market strategy for new features; Echo team still uses that to this day\n* Secured the buy-in of VPs and company executives for my product vision"}}
{"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"• Developed market-sizing model and presented findings to board member\n• Refined financial and revenue model \n• Conducted competitive analysis\n• Interviewed senior executives at other companies to prioritize product development and pricing, impacting strategy"}}
{"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"•\tHeading up business plan competition efforts for Clean Tech Open and others\n•\tProspecting potential angel and other investors"}}
{"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"•\tSourced data deals for Israel, Bulgaria, and other countries for FluTrends, the product that correlates search queries with influenza\n•\tDesigned process for evaluating Geo Grants – grants initiative to support innovative geospatial applications on platforms like Google Maps and Google Earth – executing 14 international grants to nonprofits, governmental organizations, and universities\n•\tManaged seven grants totaling $1.21M including industry groups, grassroots organizations, research organizations, and think tanks\n•\tCreated and implemented an international distribution plan for The Final Inch, an academy award nominated film for Best Documentary (Short Subject), leaving the film in the top 1,000 DVDs sold on amazon.com \n•\tAwards: 1 Peer Bonus"}}
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{"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"* Analyze and evaluation renewable energy investment opportunities for Google.org\n* Conduct due diligence on companies considered for investment\n* Awards: 1 Peer Bonus"}}
Google, Google.org, Climate Change Team
{"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"As the Team Coordinator of the Climate Change Team, I managed the internal operations of the team, led small projects, and collaborated on larger projects. Google.org is part of Google and is its philanthropic arm. Google.org is a for-profit entity that focuses on climate change, public health, and global development. \n\n* Closed three deals totaling $6.75M in investments in plug-in vehicle and battery companies\n* Managed RechargeIT grants portfolio, totaling $1.21M in grants to research organizations, academic institutions, and advocacy organizations\n• Led Google’s advocacy on California’s Zero-Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Program, including analyzing policy, meeting with California Air Resources Board Chair and Members, meeting with stakeholder groups, developing Google’s position with clear recommendations, and presenting these recommendations to CARB at March 2008 Board meeting\n• Developed plan for and executed the RechargeIT Driving Experiment, open-sourcing data to the world on plug-in vehicle capabilities under real U.S. driving conditions, resulting in local, national, and mainstream international media coverage (e.g. Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, Earth2Tech, CNET, PC Magazine) \n• Founded and created the internal green team for the San Francisco office and led it to make significant improvements in sustainability, including an educational campaign around composting and recycling, and measure to reduce waste and energy\n* Awards: 1 OSO Recognition Award (prestigious department-wide award for OSO and Google.org) and received 2 Peer Bonuses"}}
{"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"My current duties include writing and editing the company's business plan, planning our semi-annual CEO Summit, and updating our databases and contacts. In a few months my position will evolve into a research-heavy role."}}
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