Resume

Head of Product - Crisis Text Line

12/2016 - Present

Introduced the engineering team to a formal scrum process and ran all estimation, grooming and requirement gathering meetings
Managed and grew a team of Product Managers and a Designer from across the business into a cohesive product group with defined best practices and guiding principles
Developed a new company-wide product process that incorporated clear problem statements, design iteration, and user testing to ensure effective use of engineering time
Developed a fully prioritized initiative backlog and 3 month visual roadmap to help the executive team prioritize and manage expectations
Created a monthly user testing cycle for the product and created a user group for testing
Secured a 10k grant from usertesting.com to support our testing and iteration efforts

5/2016 - 11/2016

Collaborate with internal stakeholders to on all aspect of the WSJ’s technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals, market needs and tech best practices.
Regularly advised C-level executives on technical opportunities, risks and trade offs, oversee budgeting for the Wall Street Journal tech teams and am single point of contact between the newsroom and technology organizations.
Onboarded and managed an external development partner to augment our development efforts leading to faster iterations on editorial and technical initiatives
Collaborated with partners across Dow Jones to define shared initiatives that would provide value to across the company such as a shared user prefs service, a better event tracking system, a shared market data center, and a shared UI component framework for websites
Nominated for and member of a Product Guild that brought together the product leads from NewsCorp companies to collaborate on Product strategies and best practices

10/2015 - 4/2016

Led roadmap planning, Agile scrum processes, testing, scoping and communication with stakeholders for The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s mobile applications
Managed the successful development and release of a new Barron’s iOS app in 8 weeks with an international development vendor which led to a 100% increase in conversions and improved our app store rating from 1.5 to 4.5 stars
Led scoping and development of The Wall Street Journal’s implementation of Google’s AMP article pages which led to a 22% reduction in bounce rate from pages
Taught coding to employees in weekly meetings culminating in a web site as part of a Code@DJ program
Selected by the CEO to lead a cross-functional group which improve our mobile advertising capacity by 130%

2015

Developed Computer Science curriculum focused on Ruby and Front End technologies for use with Flatiron School’s summer precollege program used by over 600 students across 10 cities
Coordinated a team of 5 Flatiron consultants to provide training and support to over 150 Google engineers as teachers and TA’s
Developed Computer Science curriculum focused on Python for use with Google’s CSSI program by 150 students across 5 cities
Co-taught Google’s CSSI program while supporting engineer teachers in-class, leading technical content reviews, facilitating team-building activities for students, and providing critical feedback to teachers and administrators

2014 - Present

Volunteered to teach Web Development (HTML, CSS, Javascript) at Brooklyn International High School
Created lesson plans that effectively break down complex computer science principles into quanta appropriate for high school students

2014 - 2015

Launched a website that made discovering local concerts simple and efficient
Led product development by conducting user research interviews, incorporating technology considerations, and implemented an agile workflow
Designed logo, wireframes, site layout, and UX for the website

2010 – 2013

Designed and implemented a UI feature for managing and saving user layouts of Outlook
Prototyped a new Outlook Calendar for Windows 8 focused on natural gestures and a simple yet intuitive UI
Participated in UX research as the developer representative for the prototyping efforts and helped translate user feedback into product components
Created layout components to manage dynamic movement, placement and animations of arbitrary elements

Team Management, UX Design, Agile Development, Scrum, JIRA, Pivotal Tracker, Python, Rails, C++, C#, XAML, Ruby, JS, JQuery, Gulp, Git, Haml, Sass
Pottery, Glassblowing, Sculpture, Drawing, DJing, Fire spinning, Kitesurfing, Climbing, Capoeira, Cooking, Clarinet, Yoga, Uncle-ing, Dancing, Chess, Biking, Piano