Projects

Passion projects 

2023 - Appi, AI for Mental Health; pitched to multiple VCs
2023 - Published my first book, The 5-Step Job Search 
2023 - PowerBots - a platform to build and launch LLM apps, incld. course bot, book summary, wordl, PM simulator game, etc. 
2023 - 2 AI Chrome extensions - Prompt Assistant and Twitter auto-promoter
2023 - Started a community to help people laid off at Noom
2022 - Home purchase!
2021 - 21 Flowers: Color-it-yourself art for habits/goals
2020 - We know nothing: Discussion group to learn and be social
2020 - Bridge with Kista: live Bridge games + analysis classes  
2020 - 1:1 PM Coaching 
2019 - This blog 
2018 - Teach & Learn @ Quizlet 
2016 - Nuggets: Chrome extension to remember what you learn
2013 - Friend Central and apps for Windows phone
2012 - SQL Kinect: Manage SQL server with Kinect and gestures  
2009 - XClose: XML keyword search 
2008 - GPS Film: Film that adapts scenes to location


Work projects

Noom 
  • Leading a team of PMs focused on habit building and core app - several interesting features and experiments aimed at increasing retention and efficacy of weight loss program
  • Responsible for lessons, trackers and actions, food and exercise, progress, and gamification 

Lyft 
  • Insurance & financial marketplace (v1)
  • Road Safety & Telematics - offboarding, coaching, platform/model 

Quizlet 
  • Learn mode
  • Diagrams (v1)
  • Creation w/ auto-suggest and OCR
  • Smart study - grading, fill in the blanks, question recommendations   

Opower 
  • Data integration and insights platform 
  • APIs
  • Points & Rewards

Amazon 
  • Compliance checks platform 
  • Fraud 

Microsoft 
  • Backup & Restore on SQL Azure 
  • Backup on secondary    

MEST Incubator
  • Curriculum & Teaching in Computer science and business
  • Tech & business consulting for early stage startup teams  

Barclays Capital (internship)
  • Generating research reports for sales & trading teams