Product Management
San Francisco Bay Area
Product Management
San Francisco Bay Area
Multi-purpose background as a product-focused leader with diverse technical, product, and business experience (Enterprise Software, Online Advertising, Internet Technologies).
I'm interested in all aspects of startups, emerging trends and technologies, social entrepreneurship, ideas, small teams, and what it takes to make them successful.
Products, Design, Strategy, HCI, Solving problems, Staying out of the way, Building consensus, Taking blame.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
LinkedIn advertising, DirectAds, other brand-new advertising products.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Worked on AdSense, helping to design and launch features and products. Managed business operational roll-out of numerous releases. Developed business cases and rationales for product changes. Made friends. Ate good food.
Products included: AdSense Front-End, CPA Advertising / Referrals, AdSense for Mobile.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 1 month)
Researched, designed, drove, and led new features and enhancements for the Customer Data Management team.
Products included: Oracle Trading Community Architecture, Customer Data Hub, Customers Online.
(Internet industry)
June 2002 — September 2002 (4 months)
Worked at a small startup building prototype Flash interfaces and infrastructure for Internet set-top boxes.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 1 month)
With two friends, started a small consulting firm that designed, built, and maintained websites for a number of health and tribal services organizations in rural Northwest Alaska.
B.S. , Computer Systems Engineering
sports, technology
Los Altos High School Basketball