Experience

Curious Learning

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Product Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Austin, TX • Creating, improving, and maintaining a portfolio of 4 consumer-facing products and 2 internal products that has led to 945,428 hours of engagement with early literacy content. • Increased grant and philanthropic revenue 327% by adding to organizational narrative through data collected from products and product efficacy. • Lead technical development in a multi-year edutainment research study in conjunction with the Development Impact Evaluation group at the World Bank. Reduced lead time… Show more • Creating, improving, and maintaining a portfolio of 4 consumer-facing products and 2 internal products that has led to 945,428 hours of engagement with early literacy content. • Increased grant and philanthropic revenue 327% by adding to organizational narrative through data collected from products and product efficacy. • Lead technical development in a multi-year edutainment research study in conjunction with the Development Impact Evaluation group at the World Bank. Reduced lead time to studies by 92%, reduced cost by up to 99.7%, and dramatically increased reach in comparison to traditional methods. • Product Owner of organization-critical next generation platform for increased engagement, retention, and content scalability. Coordinating multiple teams, prioritizing, and generating, testing, optimizing, and iterating on team processes. • Align leadership group through roadmapping, outcome generation and analysis, KPIs, and participate in strategy generation for reaching curious learners worldwide in 50 languages.

• Product Manager

  • Dec 2016 - Jan 2022

  Austin, TX and Cambridge, MA (Remote) • Product managed the full software development lifecycle of a suite of mobile learning products ranging from games to interactive stories, guiding and encouraging distributed teams of developers (between 1 to 5 developers per team), designers, and content creators. • Utilized agile methodology in project managing multiple initiatives simultaneously and developing apps that have reached 1,398,000+ learners in 227 countries and territories. • Managed the technical development and performed… Show more • Product managed the full software development lifecycle of a suite of mobile learning products ranging from games to interactive stories, guiding and encouraging distributed teams of developers (between 1 to 5 developers per team), designers, and content creators. • Utilized agile methodology in project managing multiple initiatives simultaneously and developing apps that have reached 1,398,000+ learners in 227 countries and territories. • Managed the technical development and performed Scrum Master role in an EdTech research collaboration with the University of California San Francisco, the University of Connecticut, and MIT on a mobile early literacy and cognitive assessment for 3 years.



Burrage Consulting

• Product Management Consultant

  • Aug 2014 - Dec 2016

  Cambridge, MA Client: TIMEFRAME VENTURES, INC., Naples, FL (fixed contract) • Translated user stories into technical product features, collaborated in database schema design, and generated key performance indicators to measure success. • Managed and collaborated with distributed product design teams in creating clickable prototypes using Photoshop and Invision. • Managed engineering backlog for distributed developer group through the creation of project management framework in Trello. • Collected… Show more Client: TIMEFRAME VENTURES, INC., Naples, FL (fixed contract) • Translated user stories into technical product features, collaborated in database schema design, and generated key performance indicators to measure success. • Managed and collaborated with distributed product design teams in creating clickable prototypes using Photoshop and Invision. • Managed engineering backlog for distributed developer group through the creation of project management framework in Trello. • Collected and analyzed product data for feature improvement and validation. Client: LOCALYTICS, Boston, MA (fixed contract) • Established 6 new ad technology partnerships by performing technical integrations to the Localytics platform. These integrations aided large media corporations like HBO and NHL in being more informed about their ad revenue spend. • Streamlined ad network partner onboarding and retention process through the creation of hybrid technical/non-technical troubleshooting and setup documentation for ad network partners, customers, and internal reference. Client: TECHSTARS, Boston, MA (fixed contract) • Worked with 4 startup tech companies (2 product and 2 SaaS-based) at the Techstars venture accelerator in both a business and technical capacity. Additionally aided in running the Fall 2014 Techstars program. • Led a multi-tiered customer insight initiative for ROCKI. Crafted a quantitative customer survey with a 20% response rate and follow up qualitative interview script. • Created a 600% increase in mobile purchases in one month for Fortified Bicycle by redesigning their Shopify-based store product pages. Show less



New World Readers

• Founder

  • Jan 2013 - Aug 2014

  Cambridge, MA • Founded software company based on growing marketplace for mobile children’s content. Focused on the creation of interactive branching children’s books to increase reading engagement and empower children through decision making. • Conceptualized, programmed, authored, scored, illustrated and animated interactive, branching prototype for iPads and web browsers in two months with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PhoneGap. • Collaborated with an award-winning author in creation of interactive… Show more • Founded software company based on growing marketplace for mobile children’s content. Focused on the creation of interactive branching children’s books to increase reading engagement and empower children through decision making. • Conceptualized, programmed, authored, scored, illustrated and animated interactive, branching prototype for iPads and web browsers in two months with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PhoneGap. • Collaborated with an award-winning author in creation of interactive children’s book web application. Show less



Museum of Science

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Systems Administrator

  • Nov 2010 - Nov 2011

  Boston, MA • Managed 16+ servers including business critical systems like Visitor Access Control, Credit Card Processing, and Human Resources Management. • Coached two employees on Systems Administration.



Wheaton College Massachusetts

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Systems Administrator

  • Jun 2007 - Oct 2010

  • Managed 25+ physical and virtual server environment and solved many complex technical problems and user pain points.