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Product Manager, Seller Experience @ Build products to support & grow the 1.5M active sellers on Etsy's global marketplace. From August 2015 to Present (3 months) Brooklyn, NYWriter @ The Art of Ass-Kicking is a blog about entrepreneurship, fitness & personal growth and reached over 232k readers in 2014. The blog has received mentions in Vanity Fair, Mashable, and The SF Chronicle. My writing have been republished on Lifehacker, Forbes.com and The Huffington Post. The Grasshopper blog named it "Top 10 Must Read Blog for Entrepreneurs in 2012"​. From 2010 to Present (5 years) Consultant @ I help organizations with the strategy, training, and development of compelling content and products that engage their audiences and tell their stories. This means I've worked anywhere from from international government agencies and billion dollar banks to startups and bootstrapped businesses. Clients include: Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Center (MaGIC) The Smithsonian Institution Perfect Audience (acquired by Marin Software) isocket (acquired by Rubicon Project) From 2012 to Present (3 years) Marketing Product Manager @ Percolate is a technology company building the system of record for marketing. Founded in 2011, we serve scores of Fortune 500 clients around the world and are backed by Sequoia and First Round Capital. I build compelling technology and lead-gen products to drive awareness and adoption of our world-class marketing platform among our enterprise and midmarket clients. From March 2014 to August 2015 (1 year 6 months) Greater New York City AreaProduct Manager / Presidential Innovation Fellow @ The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program was created by the White House under the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate during focused 6-13 month “tours of duty” to develop solutions that can save lives, save taxpayer money, and fuel job creation. – Selected by the White House out of to serve high-impact “tour of duty” at federal agencies – Led product management, usability research, and community engagement of crowd-sourced transcription site – Grew to 1,000 volunteers completing 13,000+ pages of transcription in From June 2013 to December 2013 (7 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaCo-Founder @ Ridejoy is a community marketplace for friendly people sharing rides. We've helped tens of thousands of people share rides across the US and Canada and to great events like Coachella, Maker Faire and Burning Man. Deeply involved in product, user acquisition and partnerships. Ridejoy was cofounded by Jason Shen, Kalvin Wang and Randy Pang, funded by Y Combinator in Summer 2011 and raised $1.3M in seed funding from Freestyle Capital, SV Angel, Founder Collective and some other great investors. We were written up in Vanity Fair, TechCrunch, and The New York Times. Apple selected Ridejoy as a featured iPhone app multiple times in the App Store. From May 2011 to May 2013 (2 years 1 month) San FranciscoCustomer Acquisition Lead @ isocket is a technology platform designed to simplify guaranteed media sales, and one of the first companies to facilitate the programmatic buying of direct, guaranteed display ad inventory. It was acquired by Rubicon Project in 2014. I headed our customer acquisition efforts and grew our publisher base by 16.6x and total revenues by 10.5x through in person / phone sales, email marketing campaigns, PPC advertising on Google & Facebook, custom landing pages, display ads & video marketing. I also was involved in customer support, product development, and social media (blogging & Twitter). From July 2010 to May 2011 (11 months) Co-Founder & Board Member @ Started a nonprofit with some friends at Stanford. Our mission was to engage students with microfinance and entrepreneurship to help fight global poverty. Ran entrepreneurial competitions at dozens of high school and college campuses, helped fund over 800 microfinance loans to members of the working poor in developing nations. Caught the startup bug and met some of my best friends and future collaborators. From 2007 to 2011 (4 years) Chief Operating Officer @ I worked full time to manage the staff, operations & financial performance ($740k revenue in ‘09) for Stanford's independently incorporated newspaper. We battled an economic downturn and brutal industry-wide revenue declines by overhauling financial operations, restructuring the sales team, launching print and email marketing campaigns and building sales partnerships. In 12 months I was able to stabilize the serious revenue decline while avoiding major cuts to the core business. I developed & launched our Daily Digest email, which grew from 0 to 260+ subscribers and our Twitter feed (0 → 1140+ followers) in only a few months. As Treasurer for the Board of Directors, I prepared and presented financial statements and guided the board on key strategic & financial decisions at monthly meetings. I also began and continue to direct The Stanford Daily's efforts to digitize and make available online the entire span of Daily papers (over 35,000 issues over 118 years) - a six-figure project coordinating between multiple external vendors and various departments within Stanford. From 2009 to 2010 (1 year) Team Captain of NCAA National Champions @ Captain of the 2009 NCAA championship-winning team - our first title in 14 years. Was a recruited scholarship athlete and trained over 20 hrs/wk, year-round. I was never particularly good on any one event but was a steady consistent competitor - reached 9th in the overall NCAA rankings in 2006. Suffered a total knee dislocation that required surgeries in 2007. Made a huge recovery and team reach #1 ranking in 2008 and closed the deal in 2009. I've been doing gymnastics since I was 6 years old and competition nationally starting at age 11. As a young gymnast, I earned a spot on the US Jr National team in 2002 and placed 4th in the 2004 Junior Nationals. I have competed in several USA Championships against World Championship and Olympic team members. From 2004 to 2009 (5 years)

Master's Degree, Biology @ Stanford University From 2004 to 2009 Bachelor's Degree, Biology, Philosophy (honors) @ Stanford University From 2004 to 2008 Front-End Web Development @ General AssemblyCo-founder of Ridejoy, Summer 2011 @ Y Combinator Jason (he/him) is skilled in: Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Blogging, Strategy, Leadership, User Experience, Management, Digital Media, Product Development, Nonprofits, Email Marketing, Advertising, Winning, Program Management, Community Building, Strategic Partnerships, Beast, Product Management