
Senior Product Manager at MaMaSource
San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Product Manager at MaMaSource
San Francisco Bay Area
- 7 year product and project management experience of web applications, including content/advertising/ecommerce/Mobile/SaaS/CRM/Search product, with directly P&L responsibilities
• Proven ability of designing, developing and marketing applications meeting strategic objective and revenue target
• Extensive experience of web application development, project management and marketing/sales responsibilities
- Proven ability to work with senior executive team to draft product strategy, create roadmap then turn into actionable plan with a detail- and result-oriented approach
- Excellent decision making ability backed by strong data and web traffic analysis, using tools and datasources such as WebTrends/SPSS/Excel etc, and interpretation
- Significant communication and collaboration experience with both internal (Sales/MarCom/BD/R&D/Fin etc) and external (Channel/Vendor etc) stakeholders
(Internet industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Mamasource is an online community for mothers and moms-to-be. Our approach is very data-driven, so the analytics team works with product management, community, and senior management to provide the statistics that guide choices about product features, user acquisition, content relevance, and revenue. We look to web logs and application logs, plus user generated content, as the sources from which we extract the information to answer business requests.
(Graphic Design industry)
October 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Private digital graphical/printing service agency serving Fortune 500 clients including HP, IKEA, and ADIDAS etc
• Drafted e-biz strategy with CEO, created product roadmap and launched e-biz initiative to transform business
• Developed the first on-demand photo customization retail website in China selling paper greeting card, mugs, t-shirt etc that brought in new revenue stream and increased online brand exposure for the company successfully
• led marketing and sales team to build partnership with 6 top Chinese websites and HP China in 3 months to greatly increase website traffic from both online (co-branding/revenue sharing) and off-line (DM) channels
(Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 2 months)
PWC Consulting and VC backed early-stage enterprise mobile CRM provider for Fortune 500 CPG companies
• Developed SMS/HTTP Messaging Platform(Java/Oracle) and mobile CRM (WAP/SMS/J2ME)solution
• Managed partners across Norway, Australia and China to deploy mobile CRM at Fortune 500 customer
• Collaborated extensively with Sales Director to draft technical proposal, sales PPT and join pre-sales meeting
(Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 4 months)
Self-funded software startup focused on web-based knowledge and project management application for SMEs
• led every aspect of the business to develop and market one of the earliest on-demand web service in China
(Internet industry)
July 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 6 months)
The first portal site for global Chinese community initially launched in California and went IPO in Hong Kong
• Youngest manager led product portfolios including CMS, LDAP Single Sign-on etc across multiple offices
• Single-handed the development of the first student community website in China using Linux/Perl/MySQL at 23
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SINA; Internet industry)
January 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 9 months)
One of the earliest Java library founded by SUN Microsystems and SINA, the largest Internet company in China.
• Co-developed the pure Java Office suite on Solaris/Linux with word processor, email client and IM tools
Internet Group, Senior Java Developer/Team Lead
• Developed discussion board (10MM+ monthly visitors), internal CMS, greeting card, web mail etc stack at 23
MBA , High-Tech Product Marketing and management , 2006 — 2008
•Proven professional/academic competency won full scholarship as Babson Fellow (top 5% MBA class)
•Identified solution to improve online marketing practice (SEM/SEO/Viral) and ROI by analyzing data, interviewing ad agency and optimizing proposal for online IT service startup, Hiwired.
“Li and the team did a great job and found the best resources in the market to work with.” - Michael Phelan, VP of Marketing.
•Discovered unaware product opportunity worth $20M for outsourcing company by interview potential partners (SME/Fortune 500) and analyzing market data from Factiva/CapitalIQ/Forrester for KeplerTech.
“on time and with even deeper insights that we would have expected for the short period of time.” - Carlos Lewit, CEO.
•Generated insight by synthesizing disparate data from CapitalIQ/Thomson Financial/Factiva with SPSS at Arthur Blank Center at Babson; Coauthored research paper published at '08 national conference at UNC at Chapel Hill
bachelor , Computer Science , 1994 — 1998
•The first undergraduate at age 21 that passed all 7 courses of Novell Certified Network Engineer (CNE) at once
- continuously seeking business opportunities - discussing startup with others - helping anyone wants to start a company
SVCEF, the Stanford Club of New England, Stanford Club of New England