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CONTACT

3rent@protonmail.com

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SUMMARY

Skilled Technical Product Manager with 7+ years of Product experience - seeking to leverage product, technical, and leadership experience from fast-growing startups and large product organizations.

Led 15+ cross-functional teams to positive outcomes, including: reducing Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) by 60%, Time to Market (TTM) by 95%, and launching new product ahead of schedule and at 7x the scale of our goal (17.5k alpha users instead of 2.5k). Taught Product to 35+ Jr. Development teams, and trained 6 Jr. PM's through product work on my veteran teams.

Managed the full product lifecycle of most products I've worked on, with many starting from 0 lines of code. Drove several of these products from 0 to 1, reaching 100k+ users for some.

SKILLS

Product techniques

Agile Development Design Thinking Prototyping Lean Product Development User-centered Design Retrospective Journey Mapping Empathy Mapping Product Discovery Feature Validation User Research User Story Writing Scrum Kanban Acceptance Criteria Usability Testing Hypothesis Testing A/B Testing Data Visualization Trend Analysis Regression Analysis Outcome Based Roadmapping MVP

Product tools

Notion Confluence Miro Mural Aha! Productboard Trello Jira Asana Dune Analytics Mixpanel Amplitude Figma Sprig Typeform SurveyMonkey Zapier Airtable Pop Tuple Github Zoom Slack Discord

Technical

CI/CD Git CLI SQL IPFS Regex Ruby Go Ruby on Rails JavaScript AWS GPC Datadog Postgres Solidity

Business

Product Management Engineering Strategy Team Management Leadership Cross-Functional Communication Market Research Risk Management Growth Operations Security Onboarding Customer Support

EXPERIENCE

Senior Product Manager

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Gitcoin⁠

| Remote | 2021-2023

Shipping tools and infrastructure for developers to fund and build open-source software and public goods

Planned, built, and launched Gitcoin Passport - a self-sovereign data aggregation Product that issues digital identities to users (i.e. Passport Holders). Leveraged cloud solutions for infra on the protocol.

Regarded by Vitalik Buterin as one⁠

of the most exciting Products⁠

in Web3

Designed a protocol for Gitcoin Passport that is off-chain, decentralized, and privacy-preserving. Accomplished by storing Verified Credentials (VC) with Decentralized Identifiers (DID) as data streams on the Ceramic Network, and only sharing a proof of relevant evidence existence - behaving like a zero-knowledge proof

Released prototypes as the first Product Manager in Moonshot Collective - the innovation labs for Gitcoin. Ran lean engineering teams that shipped on 15+ prototypes to real users (0 to 1)

Product Researcher

Cloud and Block Labs (owner) | Remote | 2018-2021

Product discovery for distributed/decentralized projects powered by cloud infrastructure.

Advised startups on how to leverage cloud infrastructure to increase the performance of their decentralized Product while reducing costs - lowering clients cost by an average of 35%

Created a content delivery strategy that deployed a private cluster of IPFS nodes to distribute content, replacing the need for static hosting and increasing network redundancy exponentially in the process - between 5x and 10x per client

Attended Crypto and DeFi conferences globally to demo products, while advising projects and collaborating with over 50 developers cross-functionally

Technical Product Manager

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Lambda School⁠

(Lambda Labs) | Remote | 2019-2020

Y Combinator backed startup innovating in secondary education. In Lambda Labs, student teams build real products in a cross-functional, realistic environment.

Reinvented how Labs developed Product by designing a process for product discovery and better product documentation - managing 30 Labs products through 72 teams

Built new Product Documentation in Notion to make documentation scalable and cross-functional for teams - went from handling 50 to 1000+ students and staff at a time in 6 months

Developed a Data Science product discovery process and collaborated with Instructors and Engineering to improve quality of projects - resulting in NPS rise from a negative score to 60 for Data Science

Head of Growth

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CoinCart⁠

| Austin, TX | 2017-2019

Venture backed SaaS tool from BTC Labs to run compliant token sales.

Drove product strategy and direction for fundraising platform, growing the users from 0 to 12k+ while raising $40MM+ in investments across the platform

Improved the onboarding process through building automation and tools that took onboarding from 4 weeks down to 24 hours, reducing the Time to Market (TTM) for customers by 95%

Led a cross-functional team of 8 in building a payment platform using a microservices architecture and event sourcing with Ruby

Product Strategy

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BTC Labs⁠

| Austin, TX | 2017-2019

R&D and venture studio under BTC Inc. building decentralized products and services.

Drove product strategy for tools aimed to facilitate fundraising and equity issuance for venture-focused projects, resulting in $300MM+ worth of digital assets issued

Created the process for sourcing, hiring, and training tech workers to build blockchain and decentralized project, resulting in a portfolio of products with a valuation of $140MM in 2018

Executed on Product Strategy while managing an 11 member team w/ 35+ collaborators across BTC Inc.

Software Developer

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First⁠

| Remote | 2016-2017

Venture backed startup providing predictive analytics (SaaS) for Real Estate.

Maintained a web scraper written in Ruby using Nokogiri to crawl real estate websites gathering public data on realtors and saving it to a PostgresDB. Resulted in building extensive profiles on 500k realtors with data gathered from 15+ sources

Wrote an algorithm that used Redis workers to run over the database scoring realtors into leads, and updating them as more data is gathered. Leveraging 53 data-points, lead scoring brought the sales teams closing rate up over 500% while reducing time spent sourcing - resulting in 8x growth.

Worked cross-functionally with Growth and Engineering, while creating and owning the product roadmap. Contributed to rapid growth, increasing revenue by 12x and team size by 3x in a year

Onboarding Account Manager

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OwnLocal⁠

| Austin, TX | 2014-2016

Y Combinator SaaS startup providing marketing services to SMBs through digital tools and advertising automation for publications.

Managed significant customer growth of 1000+ publications worth $1.5M+ ARR contributing to hyper-growth of company from 400 to 2000+ publications, 15 to 50+ employees, and 10x revenue

Created a scalable onboarding process by building internal products in Ruby to automate the process - enabling a team member to go from handling 10-15 to 100-200 onboardings at a time

Managed the creation of the reports product - a cross-functional effort with Product & Dev teams to provide reports to SMB’s at scale, ultimately shipping 100k+ monthly reports to SMB’s

Account Supervisor

Zenuity Web Design and Development | Scottsdale, AZ

Private owned startup providing web and marketing solutions to SMB’s

Assistant Media Planner

Colling Media | Scottsdale, AZ

Agency that acquired and placed both traditional and digital media for SMB’s

EDUCATION

Back-End Engineering Program

The Iron Yard | Austin, TX | 2016

12-week immersive learning program. Learned Ruby on Rails framework for developing web applications.

BA Mass Comm - Advertising

Texas State University | San Marcos, TX | 2004-2009

Participated in several non profits. Member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, holding multiple leadership positions.