Experience

Materialize

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Product

  • Feb 2022 - Apr 2023

  Spearheaded the strategic transition from a source-available binary to a scalable SaaS cloud platform. Drove the first organizational roadmap, developed and launched the Materialize previews program and helped usher in the first quarter of revenue. Led the product and developer experience organizations and made the first hires in the new design, education and analytics organizations.



Dropbox

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Group Lead - New Products

  • Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

  Remote Led engineering for new products at Dropbox including Replay and Shop.

• Engineering Group Lead - Dropbox Evolutions (interim)

  • May 2021 - Nov 2021

  Led 10+ distributed teams across North America and the Middle East covering products and features like Backup, Passwords, Automation & Workflows, Families and Photos, Search and Tagging, Admin Controls, Sharing Policies and Data Governance.

• Engineering Area Lead - Secure and Protect

  • Jan 2021 - May 2021

  Managed the EMs and Staff Engineers of the engineering teams building Dropbox Passwords and Computer Backup. Led the strategic plan to migrate the desktop Dropbox Passwords applications to the browser, which unified the platform and increased product velocity.

• Senior Engineering Manager - Dropbox Passwords

  • Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

  Migrated Valt to the Dropbox stack under tight time constraints, oversaw the design and development of the iOS, Mac, Windows and Android applications, and successfully partnered with product and marketing to launch Dropbox Passwords on schedule. Dropbox Passwords increased retention of users on the Plus plan from 81% to 94%.



Valt

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO and Co-Founder

  • Jun 2017 - Oct 2019

  Massachusetts Valt was a visual password system that made password sharing easy. Valt was acquired by Dropbox in October 2019 and then migrated to Dropbox Passwords.



Williams College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor

  • Jul 2006 - Jun 2019

  Williamstown, MA Tenured professor and former chair of computer science. https://www.cs.williams.edu/~heeringa



BidMind

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Scientist

  • Jul 2013 - Jul 2014

  Focused on scaling machine learning algorithms and ETL processes via column-oriented DBs.



Boston University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Scholar

  • Jul 2009 - Jul 2010

  Boston, MA Assistant Professor Sabbatical from Williams to work with colleagues at BU and Harvard.



Fluent Mobile Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Jul 2009 - Jul 2010

  Greater Boston Area Helped design, develop and implement the clustering and ranking of news for the Fluent Mobile (now Fiksu) app Fluent News.



Cogo Labs

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Technology

  • Jun 2005 - Aug 2006

  Cambridge, MA First employee. Helped design and build keyword generation and bidding algorithms, large-scale campaign management tools, and creative development and testing platforms. Contributed core technology to two in-house companies, which were acquired: CourseAdvisor to the Washington Post Company and Autotegrity to ADP.