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Senior Product Manager @ Uber San Francisco, CaliforniaSenior Product Manager, Data Product @ Funding Circle US -build products empowering the company to make data driven decisions and navigate numerous regulatory requirements-build data models and reports enabling information to flow through Funding Circle's platform to both side's of the marketplace, borrowers and investors -bring together internal and external stakeholders, ranging from capital markets, risk, to finance and credit bureaus, each contributing to the data roadmap. Key metrics: cost of acquisition, loan originations-work closely with a talented group of Data and BI Engineers on a modern AWS stack (S3 data lake, Athena, RDS Postgres + read replica, Mesos)-collaborate with vendors to ingest and share data-evangelize data discovery with Tableau by directly engaging the business to create content on an enterprise wide BI platform From November 2016 to September 2018 (1 year 11 months) San FranciscoDirector of Product Management @ Cloudability -identify key strengths in the product offering and double-down the investment in those areas-work with the VP of Product on the company’s goals for the later half of 2016 and beyond-monitor and control cloud spend on Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure cloud-build accurate and easy to use accrual accounting reports for numerous AWS resources (EC2, RDS, Redshift, Elasticache, etc), helping customers plan for capacity and stay within budget-work with customers and prospects to identify concerns around cost allocation and come up with a product strategy to address them From January 2016 to July 2016 (7 months) San FranciscoLead Product (Program) Manager @ MicroStrategy -define product strategy for Analytics, balancing among others market opportunity, customer feedback, technical feasibility and trends in Business Intelligence and Big Data.-help build Data Visualization products with a focus on user experience, combining home-grown software with open-source frameworks and licensed products from partners.-work with Account Executives and Sales Engineers to identify early adopters / lighthouse customers, willing to put the software into production before it is generally available. -deliver presentations and demos to customers explaining the new features of MicroStrategy’s software, highlighting its self-service capabilities.-visit early adopters, helping them install and configure the software, run performance tests, demo the new workflows in the product and gather feedback as MicroStrategy is put to test in real-world scenarios.-responsible for all visualizations produced by MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform on mobile devices (Apple’s iPhone and iPad as well as Android devices) in addition to traditional Web browsers. The visualization library is well suited for numerous types of analysis, including categorical, comparison, trend, percent-to-total and multi-dimensional. -evangelize new features and create detailed specifications by working with customers, sales, engineers and graphic designers. Prioritize features and issues, helping the team cope with upcoming deadlines. Enable customers to slice-and-dice / swim through their data and gain insights into their business without being overwhelmed with auxiliary tasks such as formatting. Visualizations could be readily formatted when so desired, either by invoking a toolbar or the appropriate properties panel.-my work has lead to the creation of new products, including Dynamic Dashboards on Mobile devices and Governed Data Discovery, on premise and on the Cloud. From August 2007 to June 2015 (7 years 11 months) Associate Program Manager @ MicroStrategy -build visualizations for MicroStrategy’s widget library, including Heat Map, Gauge, Cylinder and Thermometer, with high attention to detail and overall user experience. Follow the Model View Controller (MVC) design paradigm, focusing on the visualization, while my teammates implement the model and the controller. -prototype new visualizations showing additional views of the data.-educate new hires in ActionScript (Flex/Flash); help setup a course to quickly learn Flex programming.-work with MicroStrategy's Web team to prototype Dynamic Dashboards.-develop a 3D engine in Flash to rotate any UI component. From August 2005 to August 2007 (2 years 1 month) Washington D.C. Metro AreaResearch Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -implement kd-trees in Rapidly-exploring Random Trees(RRT) and apply them to solar sailing. From August 2003 to August 2005 (2 years 1 month) Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -manage graders, homework, and exams.-lecture and hold office hours to help students comprehend the material. From August 2002 to December 2003 (1 year 5 months) Software Engineer @ Innovision -make applications for NEPAL, Innovision's Financial Product.-add HttpSession support to NEPAL.-make applications for Perforce, a code management program. From May 2001 to August 2001 (4 months) Kansas City, Missouri AreaDirector of Product Management @ DataHero -work with the executive team, up until our successful acquisition by Cloudability, to democratize the usage of Analytics for cloud services. While business users might know the questions they would like to extract from their cloud data, they tend to struggle formulating those questions with many traditional BI products.-discover and invest in niche markets, by building new workflows optimized for digital agencies. -prioritize features and products by balancing the voice of the customer via Sales and Customer Success, feasibility assessments from Engineering, and the overall market opportunity. -foster DataHero's partnership program, by engaging cloud service providers that are important to our customers, such as HubSpot, Desk.com, Zuora, Stripe and Marketo. Communicate best practices around API usage, stay on top of new features, visit partners to get a sneak peak into their roadmap.-participate in product spotlights hosted by our partners, demoing to their sales organization DataHero's value added proposition.-assist Sales by participating in discovery meetings, giving demos, answering technical questions, and building custom dashboards to meet the prospect's needs. Provide battle cards showcasing DataHero's strengths against competitors.-have direct communication with key clients, building analytical solutions for them post-sales. Capture their requirements and share with them our product roadmap.-maintain the product roadmap with the CTO, working closely with our Creative Director from mockups to usability studies and Engineering as features are built, tested, and frequently deployed to the market.-attend trade shows, staffing DataHero's booth, meeting prospects and conducting competitive market research.-debrief analysts, showcasing DataHero's latest features as promoted by Marketing. From June 2015 to January 2016 (8 months) San Francisco, California