Summary
Strong product executive with CTO background. Experience building high growth products into profitable businesses. Specialize in determining customer need through customer development, data-informed decision making, and rapid iteration. Systems thinker.
Experience
Product Director,
Flock Safety
2019–current
Machine Learning (2023-current)
- Lead all machine vision for flagship LPR products.
- Started and lead all video ML products.
- Started and lead all multi-modal products.
Video (2022)
- Lead company from single product to multiproduct, launching Condor solar video.
- Started with A/C video -- fastest growing product at Flock.
- Simultaneously lead solar hardware startegy for flagship machine vision platform.
Delivery Experience (2021)
- Lead all product experiences related to deploying large fleets of hardware.
- Unblocked bottleneck of growth and NPS -- getting cameras installed, quickly.
Product Manager,
Stripe
2019–2020
- Lead product strategy and roadmap for all multi-currency (FX) product experiences.
- Implemented metrics to align the team around customer impact and business contribution.
- Worked closely with sales account executives to propose technical solutions or distill new feature requests.
Co-Founder/CTO,
Tule
2013–2019
Technical responsibilities:
- Built initial version of product that helped us secure early customers and acceptance into YC (customer web app, data processing pipeline, sensor hardware, sensor firmware, and internal management tools).
- Hired and managed engineering, product, field technician teams.
- Stewarded product roadmap and engineering queue.
- Lead software architecture, reviewed pull requests, and individually contributed to codebase.
Business responsibilities:
- Lead angel and seed fundraising process to secure $2M funding from YC, Khosla Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta Ventures
- Recruited all non-founder key executives.
- Managed investor relations during growth phase.
- Managed accounting, financials, and taxes, and P&L.
- Responsible for cashflow forecasts and spending controls.
Founder/CEO,
FieldCheck
2012–2013
- Built initial product including iOS app, server backend, ember.js client, website, billing integration, and login authentication.
- Managed feature development prioritization with focus on validating product market fit hypothesis (inspired by Lean Startup movement).
- Initiated and fostered relationships with agricultural customers including Syngenta, GreyStripe, and LlanoSeco.
- Sold to a major customer who plans to convert the product into a proprietary internal service.
Founding Engineer,
Zoodles
2008–2012
- Responsible for large portion of initial product including website, parental controls, educational ontology modeling, educational game curation platform, customer email lifecycle, signup flow optimization, Chrome app client, and much more.
- Implemented infrastructure for data driven product improvement and scalability including instrumentation framework to understand customer behavior, A/B split tests, NewRelic integration, and production deployment automation.
- Grew to be #1 app for kids in the Android Play store.
- Acquired by HTC.
Skills
- Technical: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, javascript, AWS, Embedded C, iOS
- Product: Customer discovery, vision, roadmap, data-driven decisions
- Leadership: Cross functional collaboration, recruiting, managing P&L