Principal Product Manager

• LinkedIn
• Oct 1, 2011 - Current
• Bringing Connected and our vision of contact management without the work to the world's best professional network.

Mentor

• 500 Startups
• Sep 1, 2010 - Current

Founder & CEO

• Connected HQ
• Feb 1, 2010 - Oct 1, 2011
• Connected is contact management for professionals without the work. It pulls in data from your email, calendar, and social networks to bring all your contacts and conversations together in one place. It integrates with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and Google Voice to make it easier than ever before to stay on top of your most important relationships. Connected was seed funded by Trinity Ventures, 500 Startups, Ignition Partners, Christopher Michel, Michael Hoydich, and Mark Gray in June 2011. Connected was acquired by LinkedIn in October 2011. Website: http://connectedhq.com

Founder & CEO

• Feedera
• Aug 1, 2009 - Oct 1, 2011
• Feedera is a personalized Twitter digest delivered to your inbox every morning. Experience the best of Twitter without the noise. Content is ranked by the FeedScore algorithm, which finds the best content for you based both on friend relevance as well as popularity metrics from across the web. Feedera was acquired by LinkedIn in October 2011. Website: http://feedera.com

Entrepreneur in Residence

• Trinity Ventures
• Mar 1, 2009 - Jul 1, 2009
• Thinking about the next big opportunity...

Senior Product Manager

• imeem
• Jan 1, 2008 - Mar 1, 2009
• Led emerging monetization efforts, including international monetization, online audio advertising, and imeem VIP, a premium subscription service. Drove the product development of the imeem Media Platform, allowing third party developers to build compelling media centric applications leveraging imeem's music streaming, playlisting, and recommendations infrastructure. Led platform design, product management, developer relations, business development, and platform evangelism, resulting in the platform reaching over 250 million daily API requests.

Co-Founder

• Anywhere.FM
• Jun 1, 2007 - Dec 1, 2007
• Anywhere.FM is a web music player that allows you to experience music where you want it. As co-founder, championed the voice of the customer through customer feedback, led user acquisition, drove the investigation of the business model and associated financial projections, as well as analyzed business development opportunities. Anywhere.FM reached over 15 million user uploaded tracks and over 100,000 registered users. Anywhere.FM was seed funded by Y Combinator with additional angel funding and based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anywhere.FM was acquired by imeem, Inc. in Dec. 2007.

Product Manager

• Microsoft
• Jan 1, 2007 - May 1, 2007
• Product Manager for Visual Studio Team System - Team Foundation Server, an enterprise version control solution. Led product planning for TFS Enterprise Edition through extensive customer research, segmentation, and financial analysis. Drove the Hosted TFS pilot program to investigate both the technical feasibility and business model around building a software-as-a-service model for Team Foundation Server. In addition, led marketing for the devBiz acquisition, in charge of pricing, announcement, and rollout of the acquired TeamPlain Web Access product. Also responsible for competitive analysis for all of Visual Studio Team System and developed sales tools to win customers away from competing products.

Program Manager

• Microsoft
• Jul 1, 2005 - Dec 1, 2006
• Envisioned, designed, and executed the database unit testing, database refactoring, and data generation feature areas for the V1 edition for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. In addition to product development, led the development of process guidance for the toolset, reviewed and wrote a forward for the premier Refactoring Databases book by Scott Ambler, as well as authored a popular white paper on database unit testing methodologies. Presented on database development best practices at conferences, including Tech Ed Boston 06, Tech Ed Malaysia 06, Dev Connections Los Angeles 06, and Wash DC DB Pro Launch 06.

Program Manager

• Microsoft
• May 1, 2004 - Aug 1, 2004
• Served as a Program Manager for the Visual Studio Core Team, which is responsible for Visual Studio infrastructure common to all languages and project types. Led several projects, including developing the functional specification of the Export Template Wizard, a new feature shipped in Visual Studio 2005, as well as the long term investigation of large enterprise support (nested projects) inside of Visual Studio.

Software Engineer

• Goldman Sachs
• May 1, 2003 - Aug 1, 2003
• Developed C# / ASP.NET applications for the banking technology division of Goldman Sachs. Applications included Project Central, a central repository for tracking the status of all projects, as well as a best practices app, tracking all learnings and howtos for the division.

Software Engineer

• Paetec Communications
• May 1, 2002 - Aug 1, 2002
• Developed Oracle-backed MFC C++ applications for the billing department of PaeTec Communications, a long distance telecommunications provider. Applications included PaeTec's first online billing system, automated phone record error detection and correction, and a system to optimize billing between carriers by reducing redundant payouts.