Resume

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

Education

Summer 2014, YC
2014–2014
MS Computer Science, Cal Poly
2001–2007
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