
Product Management
San Francisco Bay Area

Product Management
San Francisco Bay Area
Workhorse PM, generalist, doer more than talker (except wrt to office gossip). Digs into whatever job is necessary to make things run smoothly. Most importantly, I love working with highly motivated, intelligent people on features and products that matter.
(Privately Held; Mental Health Care industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
We connect mental health providers with clients for treatment via video, phone, and web.
Press from our recent launch at Techcrunch50:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/tc50-have-you-considered-tele-psychiatry-schedule-a-session-with-breakthrough
http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/15/mark-goldenson-internet-technology-internet-breakthrough.html
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
March 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 6 months)
Currently focused on leveraging LinkedIn's unique data asset to build data-driven products:
1) Led small team of engineers to conceive, launch and iterate on LinkedIn's Company Research product (Company Profiles and Search)
2) Also responsible for LinkedIn's data standardization platform (How to map messy, free text entered by users into meaningful, normalized data). This includes building products and designing algorithms to standardize company, title, job function, education, skill, seniority and location data.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Back in the days when there were only 3 full-time product managers and everyone worked on everything, I tried to choose problems based on importance to the company rather than sex appeal, e.g.:
* Redesigned invitation templates
* Decreased spaminess of marketing emails (via targeted, personalized content and data).
* Created new invitation flow that doesn’t require email addresses, making it easier for users to connect, without risking abusive behavior
* PM for location-based search features (made them work internationally, and much more useful in the US)
* Defined the customer service experience (led integration of CRM vendor Kana, revamped specialized, back-end customer service tool, set up customer service workflows and wrote canned response templates)
* Analyzed feature performance and site usage in attempt to keep us honest (lots of SQL).
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2006 — October 2006 (10 months)
Whatever Sarah Imbach (then acting VP Product) told me to do . . .
(Higher Education industry)
September 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 10 months)
*Playing at the #2 spot, helped team improve from #30 to #19 in the National Rankings
*At various times: led practices, coached beginners, recruited players, generated squash propaganda, raised money and organized travel.
*Recruited Mark Talbott (former world #1 and coach of the National Championship Yale women’s team) to become Director of Squash at Stanford.
*Successfully lobbied the Stanford Athletic Dept for Varsity status (making women’s squash the first team in 10 years to be promoted)
*Helped raise ~$800k in donations
*Rebuilt and maintained www.stanfordsquash.com website
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Research industry)
June 2003 — January 2004 (8 months)
Researched the effects of P2P file-sharing on CD revenue and concert revenue in the music Industry. Wrote STATA code (and a bit of PERL) to merge two large concert sales and CD sales datasets and ran regressions on the merged dataset.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)
June 2002 — August 2002 (3 months)
Developed economic and financial analysis for litigation. Focused primarily on a corporate veil case and an antitrust case in the pharmaceutical industry. Work had both quantitative and qualitative elements, including financial and economic modeling, examining market and industry behavior and presenting findings to experts and clients.
MBA , 2009 — 2011 (expected)
Bachelor of Arts , Economics and Human Biology , 2001 — 2005
*Sports columnist and beat writer for the Stanford Daily.
*Financial Manager of Kairos Cooperative (a Stanford Housing Cooperative) (2003-2004 and 2004-2005)
1996 — 2000
product management, squash, basketball, running, hiking, soccer, France, reading, the history channel, audiobooks, aviation
At Stanford:
Phi Beta Kappa
Finalist, Boothe Prize for Writing
Stanford Daily Award for Best Sports Article of the Volume
Stanford Squash Founder's Vision Award