Al N.
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Yukai Zhong
Al inspired me and played a pivotal role to grow me into where I am today. Al always put customer and clients first. While everyone gets allured into all the fancy technologies and cool models, Al is the one right there to make sure we all listen to end users and work backwards to find the data solution. Al is always passionate about innovative solutions. While everyone was busy in tackling OKRs and deliver outcome by the quarter end, Al was the one to help me look at bigger pictures together and connect dots with a long term vision. This significantly changed the way I was working and thinking and still inspires me today while leading my own team. It was my pleasure to report to Al right after I joined LinkedIn. I couldn't have asked for a better manager and mentor.
LinkedIn User
Al is a customer-centric product leader. During his time on Ads Measurement/Google Surveys, he led with customer need and incredible curiosity about the pain points that his products were solving. He is also a great team player, who pushes himself and the engineering & UX teams to innovate, he's a go-getter and not afraid to get into the details to solve issues for his customers. It was great to have AL on the team!
Yukai Zhong
Al inspired me and played a pivotal role to grow me into where I am today. Al always put customer and clients first. While everyone gets allured into all the fancy technologies and cool models, Al is the one right there to make sure we all listen to end users and work backwards to find the data solution. Al is always passionate about innovative solutions. While everyone was busy in tackling OKRs and deliver outcome by the quarter end, Al was the one to help me look at bigger pictures together and connect dots with a long term vision. This significantly changed the way I was working and thinking and still inspires me today while leading my own team. It was my pleasure to report to Al right after I joined LinkedIn. I couldn't have asked for a better manager and mentor.
LinkedIn User
Al is a customer-centric product leader. During his time on Ads Measurement/Google Surveys, he led with customer need and incredible curiosity about the pain points that his products were solving. He is also a great team player, who pushes himself and the engineering & UX teams to innovate, he's a go-getter and not afraid to get into the details to solve issues for his customers. It was great to have AL on the team!
Yukai Zhong
Al inspired me and played a pivotal role to grow me into where I am today. Al always put customer and clients first. While everyone gets allured into all the fancy technologies and cool models, Al is the one right there to make sure we all listen to end users and work backwards to find the data solution. Al is always passionate about innovative solutions. While everyone was busy in tackling OKRs and deliver outcome by the quarter end, Al was the one to help me look at bigger pictures together and connect dots with a long term vision. This significantly changed the way I was working and thinking and still inspires me today while leading my own team. It was my pleasure to report to Al right after I joined LinkedIn. I couldn't have asked for a better manager and mentor.
LinkedIn User
Al is a customer-centric product leader. During his time on Ads Measurement/Google Surveys, he led with customer need and incredible curiosity about the pain points that his products were solving. He is also a great team player, who pushes himself and the engineering & UX teams to innovate, he's a go-getter and not afraid to get into the details to solve issues for his customers. It was great to have AL on the team!
Yukai Zhong
Al inspired me and played a pivotal role to grow me into where I am today. Al always put customer and clients first. While everyone gets allured into all the fancy technologies and cool models, Al is the one right there to make sure we all listen to end users and work backwards to find the data solution. Al is always passionate about innovative solutions. While everyone was busy in tackling OKRs and deliver outcome by the quarter end, Al was the one to help me look at bigger pictures together and connect dots with a long term vision. This significantly changed the way I was working and thinking and still inspires me today while leading my own team. It was my pleasure to report to Al right after I joined LinkedIn. I couldn't have asked for a better manager and mentor.
LinkedIn User
Al is a customer-centric product leader. During his time on Ads Measurement/Google Surveys, he led with customer need and incredible curiosity about the pain points that his products were solving. He is also a great team player, who pushes himself and the engineering & UX teams to innovate, he's a go-getter and not afraid to get into the details to solve issues for his customers. It was great to have AL on the team!
Credentials
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Learning Amazon SageMaker
LinkedInJul, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
What Is Generative AI?
LinkedInMar, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Becoming an AI-First Product Leader
LinkedInApr, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Marketing to Humans
LinkedInJun, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
SCI 52: Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Stanford Continuing StudiesAug, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
Scala Essential Training for Data Science
LinkedInFeb, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
John Maeda on Design, Business, and Inclusion
LinkedInDec, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
Advanced SQL for Data Scientists
LinkedInJul, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
Why Mentoring Matters
LinkedInJun, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
Learning Hadoop
LinkedInMay, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
Hadoop Fundamentals
LinkedInMay, 2016- Sep, 2024 -
Customer-Focused Innovation @ Stanford d.school and bschool
Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessNov, 2010- Sep, 2024 -
Currently enrolled in classes on Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, Transformers, Embeddings, and Generative AI
CourseraFeb, 2023- Sep, 2024
Experience
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FedML
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Product Management
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Apr 2023 - Present
On a mission to remove the friction and lower the costs associated with deploying machine learning and artificial intelligence to production at scale. • I lead design & product management for FedML's Nexus AI MLOps and LLMOps (large language models) platform which includes distributed training, distributed serving, federated machine learning, a No-code Studio, an API, CLI, and observability. • Continuously seek new advantages in ease-of-use, workflow-compression, and utility for our… Show more On a mission to remove the friction and lower the costs associated with deploying machine learning and artificial intelligence to production at scale. • I lead design & product management for FedML's Nexus AI MLOps and LLMOps (large language models) platform which includes distributed training, distributed serving, federated machine learning, a No-code Studio, an API, CLI, and observability. • Continuously seek new advantages in ease-of-use, workflow-compression, and utility for our clients by listening then innovating, guiding, and challenging our PM & engineering teams to build the leading distributed training & serving compute platform. • Design our GPU marketplace's payment and payout system and its workflows • Lead product marketing and FedML product demonstrations at conferences like ICML and NeurIPS. • Designed product & other support to help raise & close our startup's seed round of investment. Our TechCrunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/19/fedml-raises-11-5-to-combine-mlops-tools-with-a-decentralized-ai-compute-network/ Show less On a mission to remove the friction and lower the costs associated with deploying machine learning and artificial intelligence to production at scale. • I lead design & product management for FedML's Nexus AI MLOps and LLMOps (large language models) platform which includes distributed training, distributed serving, federated machine learning, a No-code Studio, an API, CLI, and observability. • Continuously seek new advantages in ease-of-use, workflow-compression, and utility for our… Show more On a mission to remove the friction and lower the costs associated with deploying machine learning and artificial intelligence to production at scale. • I lead design & product management for FedML's Nexus AI MLOps and LLMOps (large language models) platform which includes distributed training, distributed serving, federated machine learning, a No-code Studio, an API, CLI, and observability. • Continuously seek new advantages in ease-of-use, workflow-compression, and utility for our clients by listening then innovating, guiding, and challenging our PM & engineering teams to build the leading distributed training & serving compute platform. • Design our GPU marketplace's payment and payout system and its workflows • Lead product marketing and FedML product demonstrations at conferences like ICML and NeurIPS. • Designed product & other support to help raise & close our startup's seed round of investment. Our TechCrunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/19/fedml-raises-11-5-to-combine-mlops-tools-with-a-decentralized-ai-compute-network/ Show less
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Google
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Group Product Manager, Ads Measurement
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Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
Led a PM team and partnered with engineering & ads sales teams to understand, invent, partner & build solutions for challenging ads measurement needs across the entire marketing funnel. Developed product strategy & launched products that improved brand & creative effectiveness at the top of the funnel, and collected ground truth data for improving deep learning AI ads conversion models at the bottom of the funnel. • My product ownership scope included: the Google Opinion Rewards iOS &… Show more Led a PM team and partnered with engineering & ads sales teams to understand, invent, partner & build solutions for challenging ads measurement needs across the entire marketing funnel. Developed product strategy & launched products that improved brand & creative effectiveness at the top of the funnel, and collected ground truth data for improving deep learning AI ads conversion models at the bottom of the funnel. • My product ownership scope included: the Google Opinion Rewards iOS & Android mobile app, a self-service study & survey builder, planet scale survey infrastructure, sampling system for mobile & ad networks, insights reporting, and a survey build & deploy API. • Sales teams & ads modeling teams used our products to go beyond clicks & impressions, by generating insights that close sales, defend budgets, drive creative effectiveness, and validate & explain conversion metrics. • Product teams, like Search, used our products to test highly personalized UX improvements with user feedback. • Invented & prototyped pioneering analysis approaches that combined brand lift data, attitudinal data, intelligent video tags, and marketing objective-based ads best-practices to bring our advertisers actionable insights, which drove improved engagement & lift with their brand ads on Youtube. • My leadership & execution made attitudinal & ground truth data accessible, useful, and actionable for our users & Google's artificial intelligence models. Products I worked on continue to touch & influence $xxB per year.
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Senior Product Manager, Core Data Solutions
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Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
PM in Google Search infrastructure where I designed & evolved Crawl, Indexing, and Serving end-to-end data products and infrastructure which empower all Google product teams to convert their visions into planet-scale user experiences. Key contributions included: • Initiated and led compute cost prediction machine learning modeling from features in our distributed tracing of crawl & indexing, which enabled observability & new efficiency gains across $xB of infrastructure compute… Show more PM in Google Search infrastructure where I designed & evolved Crawl, Indexing, and Serving end-to-end data products and infrastructure which empower all Google product teams to convert their visions into planet-scale user experiences. Key contributions included: • Initiated and led compute cost prediction machine learning modeling from features in our distributed tracing of crawl & indexing, which enabled observability & new efficiency gains across $xB of infrastructure compute costs. • Designed & launched a millions of queries-per-second API which empowers products like Search & Chrome to know & leverage Google's coverage of the knowable web, while respecting each page’s crawl & indexing preferences. • Designed & built an across-infra analysis tool leveraging our code-dependencies-graph to help Google's leaders assess usage & market share of major offerings in Google Core's infrastructure portfolio. • Provided design support to Core's finance operations team in building a Core-wide infrastructure cost assessment decision dashboard that enabled Core's clients like Search, Youtube, Maps, Ads, Cloud, etc. to have full visibility of the details behind their infrastructure costs
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LinkedIn
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Manager, Marketing & Product Data Science
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Oct 2014 - May 2020
Recruited, led, inspired, and managed a team of 10+ talented data scientists who empowered, measured, and derived actionable insights from Linkedin’s marketing & market research which, in-turn grew member engagement on Linkedin. • Executed a range of data science activities: from exploring data for insights, hypotheses testing, incremental marketing test strategy design & execution, joining qual & quant data, building models, building dashboards & tools. Led many ‘firsts’ in… Show more Recruited, led, inspired, and managed a team of 10+ talented data scientists who empowered, measured, and derived actionable insights from Linkedin’s marketing & market research which, in-turn grew member engagement on Linkedin. • Executed a range of data science activities: from exploring data for insights, hypotheses testing, incremental marketing test strategy design & execution, joining qual & quant data, building models, building dashboards & tools. Led many ‘firsts’ in causal-based marketing measurement for Linkedin • Evolved several product ideas, from our market research, that made it into Linkedin's product roadmap, had 2 patents granted, leveraged machine learning & NLP (transformers & embeddings) to auto generate marketing ad copy, and won a few hackathons. • Was known for: empowering marketing to do great work, compassionate leadership, recruiting & leading a strong data science team, and provoking an innovative work environment. • Transformed our entire market research survey data and insights pipeline: data ingestion through Gobblin, Hadoop workflows, and designed & built central dashboards in Tableau to cover product Csat and NPS for all of Linkedin's product lines, and deployed driver and NLP analysis tools to help product teams improve their users' experience. Regularly prepared NPS & customer experience metrics presentations for the CEO & exec staff. • Promoted several of my team to senior & staff level data science roles. Favorite project: helping our brand marketing team measure the causal impact on engagement from our first ever brand ad on TV, linked below: Show less Recruited, led, inspired, and managed a team of 10+ talented data scientists who empowered, measured, and derived actionable insights from Linkedin’s marketing & market research which, in-turn grew member engagement on Linkedin. • Executed a range of data science activities: from exploring data for insights, hypotheses testing, incremental marketing test strategy design & execution, joining qual & quant data, building models, building dashboards & tools. Led many ‘firsts’ in… Show more Recruited, led, inspired, and managed a team of 10+ talented data scientists who empowered, measured, and derived actionable insights from Linkedin’s marketing & market research which, in-turn grew member engagement on Linkedin. • Executed a range of data science activities: from exploring data for insights, hypotheses testing, incremental marketing test strategy design & execution, joining qual & quant data, building models, building dashboards & tools. Led many ‘firsts’ in causal-based marketing measurement for Linkedin • Evolved several product ideas, from our market research, that made it into Linkedin's product roadmap, had 2 patents granted, leveraged machine learning & NLP (transformers & embeddings) to auto generate marketing ad copy, and won a few hackathons. • Was known for: empowering marketing to do great work, compassionate leadership, recruiting & leading a strong data science team, and provoking an innovative work environment. • Transformed our entire market research survey data and insights pipeline: data ingestion through Gobblin, Hadoop workflows, and designed & built central dashboards in Tableau to cover product Csat and NPS for all of Linkedin's product lines, and deployed driver and NLP analysis tools to help product teams improve their users' experience. Regularly prepared NPS & customer experience metrics presentations for the CEO & exec staff. • Promoted several of my team to senior & staff level data science roles. Favorite project: helping our brand marketing team measure the causal impact on engagement from our first ever brand ad on TV, linked below: Show less
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MaritzCX
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United States
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Software Development
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300 - 400 Employee
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VP Data Science & Product Management
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Apr 2009 - Oct 2014
Joined Allegiance when they had ~20 employees and, as a member of the leadership team, grew sales and the company, which led to being acquired by Maritz Research in 2014 to form MaritzCX. • Transformed the company by leading a redesign of the original product portfolio into an enterprise class, cloud-based Voice-of-Customer platform & portfolio, with machine learning built-in, which empowered our clients to get, grow, and keep their customers. • Created & grew a new data science team… Show more Joined Allegiance when they had ~20 employees and, as a member of the leadership team, grew sales and the company, which led to being acquired by Maritz Research in 2014 to form MaritzCX. • Transformed the company by leading a redesign of the original product portfolio into an enterprise class, cloud-based Voice-of-Customer platform & portfolio, with machine learning built-in, which empowered our clients to get, grow, and keep their customers. • Created & grew a new data science team to bring our company & our clients new value & advantages from data. • Connected the dots between our clients’ needs & modern analytics to invent, design & pioneer the VoC industry’s first online machine learning product, called Spotlight (patent granted). Spotlight searches through trillions of patterns in a few seconds to find & present human-readable actionable insights across a mix of customer feedback, operations, behavior, and financial data. • Personally awarded ‘Technology Trendsetter’ in Market Research’s Survey Magazine March 2014 Favorite moment: hiring Billy Beane to come speak to our clients, before the Moneyball movie came out. See the videos below for the product for which I lead product management and design. Show less Joined Allegiance when they had ~20 employees and, as a member of the leadership team, grew sales and the company, which led to being acquired by Maritz Research in 2014 to form MaritzCX. • Transformed the company by leading a redesign of the original product portfolio into an enterprise class, cloud-based Voice-of-Customer platform & portfolio, with machine learning built-in, which empowered our clients to get, grow, and keep their customers. • Created & grew a new data science team… Show more Joined Allegiance when they had ~20 employees and, as a member of the leadership team, grew sales and the company, which led to being acquired by Maritz Research in 2014 to form MaritzCX. • Transformed the company by leading a redesign of the original product portfolio into an enterprise class, cloud-based Voice-of-Customer platform & portfolio, with machine learning built-in, which empowered our clients to get, grow, and keep their customers. • Created & grew a new data science team to bring our company & our clients new value & advantages from data. • Connected the dots between our clients’ needs & modern analytics to invent, design & pioneer the VoC industry’s first online machine learning product, called Spotlight (patent granted). Spotlight searches through trillions of patterns in a few seconds to find & present human-readable actionable insights across a mix of customer feedback, operations, behavior, and financial data. • Personally awarded ‘Technology Trendsetter’ in Market Research’s Survey Magazine March 2014 Favorite moment: hiring Billy Beane to come speak to our clients, before the Moneyball movie came out. See the videos below for the product for which I lead product management and design. Show less
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Medallia
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Product Manager
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Nov 2005 - Apr 2009
Joined Medallia when they had ~15 employees, as their first PM. Developed product strategy & designs for our enterprise-class actionable customer feedback management system for retail, hospitality, financial, B2B & call centers. • Led an innovative product team to build a comprehensive, loved, & easy to use analytics & insights product that enabled Medallia to grow and be profitable, pre-venture-capital funding. • Directly supported our sales team with demos & proof of concepts to… Show more Joined Medallia when they had ~15 employees, as their first PM. Developed product strategy & designs for our enterprise-class actionable customer feedback management system for retail, hospitality, financial, B2B & call centers. • Led an innovative product team to build a comprehensive, loved, & easy to use analytics & insights product that enabled Medallia to grow and be profitable, pre-venture-capital funding. • Directly supported our sales team with demos & proof of concepts to land early clients like Apple, Nike, Gold’s Gym, Sephora, several major hotel corporations, Nordstrom, Thermo Fisher, and Fidelity. • Our typical client was operations, rather than traditional market research. We built insights for the front-line. • Listened, planned, negotiated, tested, and launched the best technical & practical solutions to help our clients achieve their world-class customer experience metrics goals. • Launched products that joined CSat, NPS, unstructured data, and operational data; and converted these into easy-to-use & novel visual analysis and alerting tools that drove revenue and service. Medallia had its IPO in 2019. Favorite moment: I created and sent Steve Jobs and Ron Johnson their accounts on Medallia. Show less Joined Medallia when they had ~15 employees, as their first PM. Developed product strategy & designs for our enterprise-class actionable customer feedback management system for retail, hospitality, financial, B2B & call centers. • Led an innovative product team to build a comprehensive, loved, & easy to use analytics & insights product that enabled Medallia to grow and be profitable, pre-venture-capital funding. • Directly supported our sales team with demos & proof of concepts to… Show more Joined Medallia when they had ~15 employees, as their first PM. Developed product strategy & designs for our enterprise-class actionable customer feedback management system for retail, hospitality, financial, B2B & call centers. • Led an innovative product team to build a comprehensive, loved, & easy to use analytics & insights product that enabled Medallia to grow and be profitable, pre-venture-capital funding. • Directly supported our sales team with demos & proof of concepts to land early clients like Apple, Nike, Gold’s Gym, Sephora, several major hotel corporations, Nordstrom, Thermo Fisher, and Fidelity. • Our typical client was operations, rather than traditional market research. We built insights for the front-line. • Listened, planned, negotiated, tested, and launched the best technical & practical solutions to help our clients achieve their world-class customer experience metrics goals. • Launched products that joined CSat, NPS, unstructured data, and operational data; and converted these into easy-to-use & novel visual analysis and alerting tools that drove revenue and service. Medallia had its IPO in 2019. Favorite moment: I created and sent Steve Jobs and Ron Johnson their accounts on Medallia. Show less
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JobFlash
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Software Development
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Director Product Management
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May 2002 - Nov 2005
Joined Jobflash when they had ~5 employees and led product development planning, specifications, and go-to-market of our voice (VoiceXML) and web based recruiting and applicant tracking system, focused on hourly workers. • Led design of a product that enabled a job applicant to build a complete digital resume by telephone. • Our products transformed the hourly recruiting and hiring process. • Led data integrations with 3rd parties and led the way to JobFlash’s HR-XML… Show more Joined Jobflash when they had ~5 employees and led product development planning, specifications, and go-to-market of our voice (VoiceXML) and web based recruiting and applicant tracking system, focused on hourly workers. • Led design of a product that enabled a job applicant to build a complete digital resume by telephone. • Our products transformed the hourly recruiting and hiring process. • Led data integrations with 3rd parties and led the way to JobFlash’s HR-XML Certification. • Helped JobFlash to be awarded "Top HR Product of 2003" by Human Resources Executive magazine. • Eventually most Las Vegas hotels & casinos were using Jobflash for their workforce recruiting. • Played key roles in winning 2 Venture Capital funding rounds. Jobflash was acquired by Taleo, and later acquired by Oracle. Favorite moments: working with our amazing clients & partners at Hilton, Hyatt, IKEA, Cintas, Cintas, Hewitt Associates and many hotels in Las Vegas including The Venetian, Mandalay Bay, Palms, Silverton, Hard Rock Hotel, Aladdin, Boyd Gaming, Ameristar, and Station Casinos. Eventually almost all of Las Vegas. Favorite moment: live demonstrating our automated phone-based interview scheduling product, which I designed, to a standing ovation by staff at the Venetian Hotel & Casino. Show less Joined Jobflash when they had ~5 employees and led product development planning, specifications, and go-to-market of our voice (VoiceXML) and web based recruiting and applicant tracking system, focused on hourly workers. • Led design of a product that enabled a job applicant to build a complete digital resume by telephone. • Our products transformed the hourly recruiting and hiring process. • Led data integrations with 3rd parties and led the way to JobFlash’s HR-XML… Show more Joined Jobflash when they had ~5 employees and led product development planning, specifications, and go-to-market of our voice (VoiceXML) and web based recruiting and applicant tracking system, focused on hourly workers. • Led design of a product that enabled a job applicant to build a complete digital resume by telephone. • Our products transformed the hourly recruiting and hiring process. • Led data integrations with 3rd parties and led the way to JobFlash’s HR-XML Certification. • Helped JobFlash to be awarded "Top HR Product of 2003" by Human Resources Executive magazine. • Eventually most Las Vegas hotels & casinos were using Jobflash for their workforce recruiting. • Played key roles in winning 2 Venture Capital funding rounds. Jobflash was acquired by Taleo, and later acquired by Oracle. Favorite moments: working with our amazing clients & partners at Hilton, Hyatt, IKEA, Cintas, Cintas, Hewitt Associates and many hotels in Las Vegas including The Venetian, Mandalay Bay, Palms, Silverton, Hard Rock Hotel, Aladdin, Boyd Gaming, Ameristar, and Station Casinos. Eventually almost all of Las Vegas. Favorite moment: live demonstrating our automated phone-based interview scheduling product, which I designed, to a standing ovation by staff at the Venetian Hotel & Casino. Show less
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Product Manager
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Aug 2000 - May 2002
First PM at this Stanford funded early-stage EdTech startup focused on a search-based professional medical education. • Collaborated with upper management, customers, partners & engineering to design & build an integrated medical Search engine that transformed how physicians learned and were awarded AMA approved education credit. • Produced road maps and designs to effectively cascade and negotiate product focus across the organization. • Integrated textbooks, journals, drug… Show more First PM at this Stanford funded early-stage EdTech startup focused on a search-based professional medical education. • Collaborated with upper management, customers, partners & engineering to design & build an integrated medical Search engine that transformed how physicians learned and were awarded AMA approved education credit. • Produced road maps and designs to effectively cascade and negotiate product focus across the organization. • Integrated textbooks, journals, drug databases & demonstrated our solution to clients & investors. • Designed the ecommerce system to process payments & subscriptions. Skolar was acquired by Wolters Kluwer. Started at Skolar as an applications engineer (2000 to 2001), where I developed search engine and content management software features for our J2EE Websphere and Oracle platform using Java, JSP, HTML, Perl, PL/SQL. Specifically: wrote content parsing software, developed innovative user interfaces, and architect-ed the backend system, object oriented application, and the UI to manage continuing medical education credits and awards. I also pioneered work in mobile and VoiceXML applications. Favorite moment: meeting a medical professional at a party, I told him about Skolar, and he took out his credit card and bought many licenses from me on the spot. Show less First PM at this Stanford funded early-stage EdTech startup focused on a search-based professional medical education. • Collaborated with upper management, customers, partners & engineering to design & build an integrated medical Search engine that transformed how physicians learned and were awarded AMA approved education credit. • Produced road maps and designs to effectively cascade and negotiate product focus across the organization. • Integrated textbooks, journals, drug… Show more First PM at this Stanford funded early-stage EdTech startup focused on a search-based professional medical education. • Collaborated with upper management, customers, partners & engineering to design & build an integrated medical Search engine that transformed how physicians learned and were awarded AMA approved education credit. • Produced road maps and designs to effectively cascade and negotiate product focus across the organization. • Integrated textbooks, journals, drug databases & demonstrated our solution to clients & investors. • Designed the ecommerce system to process payments & subscriptions. Skolar was acquired by Wolters Kluwer. Started at Skolar as an applications engineer (2000 to 2001), where I developed search engine and content management software features for our J2EE Websphere and Oracle platform using Java, JSP, HTML, Perl, PL/SQL. Specifically: wrote content parsing software, developed innovative user interfaces, and architect-ed the backend system, object oriented application, and the UI to manage continuing medical education credits and awards. I also pioneered work in mobile and VoiceXML applications. Favorite moment: meeting a medical professional at a party, I told him about Skolar, and he took out his credit card and bought many licenses from me on the spot. Show less
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Founder
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Sep 1998 - Sep 2000
Location: Japan. I had the idea and created a web & mobile application to help travelers to overcome the the Japanese language barrier. Translated restaurant menus and published useful travel tips. Designed and built a web page around these to help the world to enjoy Japan in a new way. Built desktop, PDA, and i-mode versions of the product. We were featured in the New York Times & Time magazine. Software languages used: Perl, Java, HTML, cHTML, Javascript. This experience propelled me to… Show more Location: Japan. I had the idea and created a web & mobile application to help travelers to overcome the the Japanese language barrier. Translated restaurant menus and published useful travel tips. Designed and built a web page around these to help the world to enjoy Japan in a new way. Built desktop, PDA, and i-mode versions of the product. We were featured in the New York Times & Time magazine. Software languages used: Perl, Java, HTML, cHTML, Javascript. This experience propelled me to transform my career and join the high-tech space. Web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20071006221614/http://www.japaninyourpalm.com/ Show less Location: Japan. I had the idea and created a web & mobile application to help travelers to overcome the the Japanese language barrier. Translated restaurant menus and published useful travel tips. Designed and built a web page around these to help the world to enjoy Japan in a new way. Built desktop, PDA, and i-mode versions of the product. We were featured in the New York Times & Time magazine. Software languages used: Perl, Java, HTML, cHTML, Javascript. This experience propelled me to… Show more Location: Japan. I had the idea and created a web & mobile application to help travelers to overcome the the Japanese language barrier. Translated restaurant menus and published useful travel tips. Designed and built a web page around these to help the world to enjoy Japan in a new way. Built desktop, PDA, and i-mode versions of the product. We were featured in the New York Times & Time magazine. Software languages used: Perl, Java, HTML, cHTML, Javascript. This experience propelled me to transform my career and join the high-tech space. Web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20071006221614/http://www.japaninyourpalm.com/ Show less
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Ford Motor Company
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United States
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Powertrain & Engine Development Engineer (ex-pat in Japan)
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Sep 1998 - Aug 2000
Location: Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, Japan. Successfully integrated Ford engine software, controls, and diagnostics technology to enable the launch of Mazda vehicles in the US. Developed specifications, wrote algorithms, integrated software & hardware, conducted thorough test plans with vehicles and simulators. Collaborated and negotiated with Mazda’s engineering team to ensure engineering goals were met, communications were clear, quality was high, and delivery was on time. My… Show more Location: Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, Japan. Successfully integrated Ford engine software, controls, and diagnostics technology to enable the launch of Mazda vehicles in the US. Developed specifications, wrote algorithms, integrated software & hardware, conducted thorough test plans with vehicles and simulators. Collaborated and negotiated with Mazda’s engineering team to ensure engineering goals were met, communications were clear, quality was high, and delivery was on time. My expertise included: engine diagnostics, engine controls, sensors, transmission controls, tailpipe and evaporative emissions, fuel economy, and vehicle performance. Also pioneered & built websites to streamline engineering and communication between the US and Japan.
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Powertrain & Engine Development Engineer
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Sep 1992 - Sep 1998
Location: Dearborn, Michigan. Lincoln LS and F-Series Truck Engine Development Engineer. Successfully developed LEV (low emission vehicle) compliant engine control software, calibration and fuel system for Ford's Lincoln LS, the most advanced Ford V6 & V8 engine vehicles of that time. The systems engineering effort lead to a successful launch and a product that met the toughest emissions & quality requirements for the luxury car class. The Lincoln LS was awarded 2000 Motor Trend Car of the… Show more Location: Dearborn, Michigan. Lincoln LS and F-Series Truck Engine Development Engineer. Successfully developed LEV (low emission vehicle) compliant engine control software, calibration and fuel system for Ford's Lincoln LS, the most advanced Ford V6 & V8 engine vehicles of that time. The systems engineering effort lead to a successful launch and a product that met the toughest emissions & quality requirements for the luxury car class. The Lincoln LS was awarded 2000 Motor Trend Car of the Year. 1992 - 1994: Worked in several positions as part of Ford's College Graduate Engineering Training Program (akin to Google's Associate Product Manager program, but engineering focused). Positions included engine, transmission, manufacturing, software, engine calibration and systems engineering, powertrain business planning and world wide marketing planning.
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Engineering school
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United Kingdom
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E-Learning
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4 Engineering Internships while in Engineering School
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Jun 1987 - Sep 1991
Engineering internships during undergraduate and graduate school at: General Electric Aircraft Engines Allied Signal Aerospace IBM Corporation AT&T Bell Laboratories Accomplishments included developing: aircraft engine and electronics manufacturing automation software, thermal design tools for electronics packaging, robot controls for semiconductor manufacturing, and new thermal design analysis on ring laser gyroscopes. Engineering internships during undergraduate and graduate school at: General Electric Aircraft Engines Allied Signal Aerospace IBM Corporation AT&T Bell Laboratories Accomplishments included developing: aircraft engine and electronics manufacturing automation software, thermal design tools for electronics packaging, robot controls for semiconductor manufacturing, and new thermal design analysis on ring laser gyroscopes.
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Education
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Stanford University
Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering -
New Jersey Institute of Technology
BS, Mechanical Engineering -
2010 - 2010
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Customer Focused Innovation - Executive Education
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