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Speed everywhere else."},{"name":"Aligned Vote","position":"Creator","location":"Denver, CO","url":"https://aligned.vote","startDate":"2026-03-01"},{"name":"Oncade","position":"Product Consultant","location":"Denver, CO","url":"https://oncade.xyz","startDate":"2025-10-01","endDate":"2026-02-01","summary":"Consulting product strategy, brand, design, and marketing"},{"name":"Snug","position":"Co-Founder & CEO","location":"Denver, Colorado, United States","url":"https://joinsnug.com","startDate":"2025-05-01","summary":"Built a consumer AI-native dating product from scratch with a founding team of 5, handling all product design, user research, content strategy, and go-to-market execution. Onboarded 1,000 first-time users and achieved match-to-second-date metrics 15x higher than traditional dating apps by reimagining how people meet through shared venue experiences. Navigated App Store approval challenges and generated investor-ready product metrics."},{"name":"Justpoint","position":"Product Consultant","location":"Denver, CO","url":"https://justpoint.com","startDate":"2025-01-01","endDate":"2025-05-01","summary":"Helped Justpoint identify the need for a new consumer product offering, conducted research, and specced product for go to market"},{"name":"WorkMade","position":"Head of Product","location":"Denver, Colorado, United States","url":"https://workmade.com","startDate":"2023-08-01","endDate":"2025-09-01","summary":"Inherited a product with sub-5% activation and daily outages; rebuilt strategy from the ground up. 2x'd onboarding conversion and drove 2-3x penetration growth through contextual onboarding, referral programs, and narrative overhaul. Reduced CAC by 50% and achieved 99.9% uptime. Built an AI model using spending patterns and occupation to predict tax write-offs with 92% accuracy, increasing onboarding completion by 30%."},{"name":"First Round Fast Track","position":"Mentor","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","startDate":"2023-03-01","endDate":"2024-02-01","summary":"Bi-weekly mentoring within the First Round network"},{"name":"SmartAlbums Inc.","position":"Product Consultant","location":"Denver, CO","url":"https://smartalbums.com","startDate":"2023-02-01","endDate":"2023-07-01","summary":"Built product strategy for the team, job descriptions to build out a product team, and interviewed full product team including new head of product"},{"name":"Independent Product Consultant (Oncade, Workmade, Justpoint, Pixellu)","position":"Independent Product Consultant","location":"Remote","startDate":"2023-02-01","summary":"Consulted across multiple early-stage companies on product strategy, onboarding optimization, analytics platforms, and 0-to-1 product development. For Oncade, defined product strategy and rebuilt go-to-market execution. For Workmade, audited and overhauled onboarding strategy while building analytics infrastructure. For Justpoint, architected a consumer watchdog app for drug safety and legal representation. For Pixellu, validated product strategy and built hiring frameworks."},{"name":"Dropbox","position":"Lead Product Manager, New Ventures","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","url":"https://dropbox.com","startDate":"2021-10-01","endDate":"2022-12-01","summary":"Inherited Dropbox Paper, a product weeks from shutdown, and built the strategic case to transform it into an enterprise knowledge management tool (Dropbox Dash). Ran analysis on 300K+ customers and led design sprints with the CEO. Scaled team 4x and managed 100+ stakeholders to migrate 80K B2B customers to the new platform."},{"name":"Tally","position":"Product Manager, Tally Save","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","url":"https://meettally.com","startDate":"2019-11-01","endDate":"2021-09-01","summary":"Led a 40-person cross-functional team to launch a savings product achieving 60%+ four-week retention. Ran a post-launch sprint reducing CAC by 50%, improving WoW retention by 25%, and doubling onboarding conversion through 25 major product changes."},{"name":"Mischief","position":"Founder & CEO","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","url":"https://mischief.gg","startDate":"2018-04-01","endDate":"2019-11-01","summary":"Founded a gaming data platform and led a team of 8 from conception through product launch with zero marketing spend. Acquired 3,000 B2B users organically by building and managing a Discord community. Users showed 6x typical commerce conversion, leading to partnerships with Warner Bros., SEGA, and Square Enix. Owned VC fundraising, product roadmap, business development, and design."},{"name":"Walmart eCommerce","position":"Senior Product Manager, Head of Digital Gaming","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","startDate":"2017-08-01","endDate":"2018-04-01","summary":"Intrapreneurial role within Walmart's venture arm to incubate and lead Walmart's game streaming service from zero. Owned monetization strategy, studio partnerships, technical architecture, and led a $100M acquisition process."},{"name":"Jet.com (acquired by Walmart)","position":"Product Manager, Market Intelligence (Acquired by Walmart)","location":"Greater New York City Area","startDate":"2016-04-01","endDate":"2017-06-01","summary":"Built predictive analytics tooling for category managers that drove a 4x increase in pricing system throughput with material impact on site conversion. Improved team SLAs by 50% through log analysis and scalable resiliency solutions."},{"name":"Jet.com","position":"Manager, Consumer Electronics","location":"New York, NY","startDate":"2016-04-01","endDate":"2016-12-01","summary":"Developed a merchandising algorithm that drove 150% increase in browse conversion. Built an ML inventory planning model at a hackathon that shipped to production, winning company-wide recognition."},{"name":"Capgemini Consulting","position":"Senior Consultant, Strategy & Transformation","location":"Greater New York City Area","startDate":"2015-05-01","endDate":"2016-04-01","summary":"Built analytics capability that became the foundation for $30M+ in annual recurring revenue."},{"name":"KPMG","position":"Senior Associate, Management Consulting","location":"Washington D.C. 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Function: Business Transformation, Business Unit Strategy, Financial Planning & Analysis, Production Support, Process Reengineering, Change Management, Human Capital Analysis, IT Disaster Recovery, Management Information Systems, Regulatory Guidance, Network Optimization, Conducting Client Workshops / Client Interviews o Led as subject matter expert on Fortune 20 Financial Services project; directly managing 3 resources in Chicago and 2 in London for a revamping of a banking institutions derivative operations o Created Target Operating Model with estimated $7M annual savings for an Energy client’s Supply Chain & Production Operations/Maintenance business units through network optimization and enhanced maintenance machine learning"},{"name":"JP Turner & Company, LLC","position":"Investment Banking Summer Analyst","location":"Atlanta, GA","startDate":"2011-04-01","endDate":"2011-07-01","summary":"o Conducted commercial due diligence on prospective private placement memorandums. 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Tool was built via a chrome extension that users could download or affiliates could embed."},{"title":"Jet.com Hackathon - \"Most Likely to Start Own Company\"​","date":"2016-07-01","awarder":"Jet.com","summary":"Company wide hackathon competition - worked with team of 5 software engineers to design, architect, and present a machine learning forecasting model to the firm."},{"title":"KPMG Giving Tree Award","date":"2014-10-01","awarder":"KPMG LLP","summary":"Awarded to one office individual that represents company ideals through their involvement in Philanthrophy"},{"title":"HOPE Scholarship","date":"2009-08-01","awarder":"University of Georgia","summary":"Merit based scholarship that fully funded study"}],"publications":[{"name":"How Large Companies Can Deploy Minimum Viable Products (MVP's)","summary":"Leveraging resources and market penetration of being a blue chip firm can enable nimbleness when used correctly to launch iterative, customer driven products"},{"name":"Do or Die: Reinventing Business Models for the Digital World (Part 3)","summary":"Learning what qualities make companies able to avoid disruption, and what changes can be applied to a corporate culture to enable innovation"},{"name":"Do or Die: Reinventing Business Models for the Digital World (Part 2)","summary":"Understanding what makes an industry incumbent susceptible to disruption and how to interpret indicators that change is on the horizon"},{"name":"Do or Die: Reinventing Business Models for the Digital World","summary":"Emphasizing the threat of business model disruption to industry incumbents due to the agility of digital platforms and availability of funding by new comers"}]}