Head of Product at Once

Once helps every child learn to read. Students using Once receive 15 minutes of 1-on-1 literacy instruction every day from an in-person, caring adult, leading to life-changing results: last year, the typical student on Once accelerated from the 38th percentile to the 67th percentile on reading ability.

At Once, I lead all core product functions, including engineering, product management, design, and data.

CIO at Summit Public Schools

Summit Public Schools is a leading network of public schools that prepares a diverse student population for success in a four-year college and to be thoughtful, contributing members of society.

As CIO, I led a team of analysts and data engineers to support our schools with systems and insights to better serve students:

• Reimagined and redesigned core operational workflows using technology across attendance, enrollment, assessment, state reporting, teaching coaching, and more, eliminating tasks from school leaders while improving quality and compliance.
• Led organization-wide change management in the adoption of a new Learning Management System, including assembling an evaluation & selection team, managing buildout and customization, and coordinating training and rollout across our 12 schools and 3500+ students and families.
• Managed team through significant restructuring, reducing cost by 50% but noticeably improving team velocity and impact through investments in automation.
• Founded Marshall Data Partners, a new innovation initiative within Summit to provide data engineering and operations to partner organizations, including fundraising seed grants and landing initial customers.
• Designed and implemented performance management framework for the team, as well as designed and led Home Office professional development.
• Partnered with our executive team and school leaders to help them leverage technology and data to improve their team's performance, including our annual goal setting and progress monitoring.

Product Lead at Outschool

I had an amazing time working with a team of PMs, researchers, designers, and engineers to help kids and teens love learning.

I started at Outschool in 2020 as one of the first PMs, where I helped craft the product team culture along with leading our learner-focused products. Building products for kids was a blast - some particular highlights out of the things I worked on:

• Founded the initial Learner Product Group, growing it from single pod of 5 to a team of 20, including hiring and managing two PMs
• Launched learner-led class discovery, generating over $4M in bookings/year
• Proposed and launched Outschool Groups, interest-based social networks for kids aged 8-15, and Outschool's first mobile app.
• Collaborated closely with Trust & Safety and Legal teams to ensure learners were safe on Outschool, including introducing content moderation & administering our 100k+ account Zoom infrastructure
• Led weekly PM team training and created PM leveling rubric

PM Lead at Clever

I was very fortunate to spend over 5 years working alongside a talented and thoughtful team to build software that helps students learn and teachers teach.

• Built the Discovery team, a new line of business for Clever, from a 2 person experimental initiative into a 18 person cross-functional team, initial revenue, and top-level company priority.
• As part of the Discovery team work, built the Clever Library, the #1 place for teachers to find and adopt edtech, used by over 10% of US teachers.
• Previously led Clever's school-facing product work, growing our active users from 100,000 to 4.5M over 18 months.
• Built, launched, and scaled Clever Badges, Clever's highest NPS product, now used by 20% of U.S. K-2 students.
• Mentored, hired, and managed entry level and mid-career product managers.
• Taught "Freshman Seminar," a six week training program for new hires to learn about the K12 education ecosystem.

Head of Product Management at IFTTT

I worked with a team of 12 fantastic engineers and designers to build and grow IFTTT’s consumer products on iOS, Android, and the web. I headed up IFTTT's product roadmap, growth, metrics & user research, and day-to-day process.

As the first product manager, I established the role of product management at IFTTT, and built out the initial team.

• Built out a flagship product (Do) from initial conception to public launch.
• Increased success rate of the web onboarding flow by 43%.
• Coordinated a major brand update and simultaneous launch of 8 new apps across iOS and Android.
• Doubled the clickthrough rate and halved the unsubscribe rate of our email engagement efforts.

Founder and CEO at Filepicker.io

As the CEO, I drove the product, business, and technical direction of the company; as a founder, I did everything from UX design, fundraising, and hiring to coding the iOS product, content marketing, and customer support.

• Grew the company to 13 people and an AMR of $600,000 with over 1,000 customers.
• Participated in the YCombinator batch of Summer 2012.
• Raised $1.8mn from Andreessen Horowitz and other investors.
• Reached profitability in 18 months.
• Sold to Xenon Ventures in spring of 2014.

S.B. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT

GPA: 5.0/5.0. Minors in Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics.

• McGovern Award for significant impact on entrepreneurship - MIT, 2012
• Top 5 Graduating MIT computer scientists - ThePhenomList, 2012
• Whitelaw Prize for Originality of Design - MIT, 2010