Resume (references available upon request)
Cooking.com, Marina Del Rey, CA, October 2011 - Present
Associate Product Manager
-Designed / prioritized / wire-framed / evangelized core features for various e-commerces store fronts
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA, July 2010 - October 2011
Mobility Development Executive, Apple Education
-Responsible for business development and field marketing activities for Apple's education business (K12 and HiEd) across nine western states
-Researched and tracked mobile education trends in all major subject areas
-Helped education leadership plan institution mobile strategy
-Keynote speaker on call for anything and everything related to iOS including app development, STEM, and digital content
Live Coupon iPhone App (real-time, location-aware, coupon system)
Founder, CEO
-Designed / prioritized / wire-framed core features, user interface, data architecture
-Led team to create partnerships with over 40 restaurants in Stanford, Berkeley, and Davis
-Collaborated with developers (including 2 from overseas) and legal
-Designed / produced marketing collateral, promo video, launch website
-Semifinalist in Stanford Business Plan Competition
Co-Founder, Director of Products
-Co-inventor of the world's first peer-to-per car sharing service (patent pending)
-Designed / prioritized / wire-framed features, user experience for 1st prototype (iPhone app, web app, car-kit)
-Collaborated with business development, finance, software development, operations team
-Designed product rollout strategy and produced technology demo video
Technology Catalyst
-Created technology partnership between Singularity University with Appjet (acquired by Google)
-Facilitated the deployment and rapid adoption of Etherpad, a real-time, collaborative note-taking system
-Designed and executed marketing strategies and improved traffic to www.singularityu.org by 25%
-Recruited and led team to win the Hack-a-thon competition at Yahoo iPhoneDevCamp
Product Manager - NASA iPhone App (over 3.5 million downloads)
-Designed / prioritized core features, user interface, data architecture
-Collaborated with NASA legal, software release, and public affairs team
-Facilitated technology relationship with Apple
-Produced promotional video
-Facilitated technology relationship with Facebook and Yelp
-Collaborated with public affairs team on content upload
-Developed and implemented social media strategies for NASA Ames
Virtual Worlds (Second Life) Deputy Architect, Community Manager
-Improved and maintained NASA JPL’s Explorer Island (over 1800 unique visitors per month)
-Collaborated with NASA Goddard on James Webb Space Telescope exhibit
-Planned and designed NASA’s first interactive exhibit with artificial intelligence (Phoenix Lander Exhibit in SL)
-Facilitated Phoenix Landing event (resulted in overcapacity on Explorer Island)
Eventrue LLC, Ann Arbor, MI, Nov 2005 – Aug 2006
Online marketing tool (2nd place in state-wide business plan competition) for businesses to manage/distribute e-coupons used by 13 Ann Arbor clients (Patent Pending)
Founder, CEO
-Designed core website features, user interface, and layouts
-Led team to create partnerships with over 13 Ann Arbor businesses
-Recruited and managed team of 10 (2 contractors, 3 MBAs, 7 undergraduates)
Note: completed all the responsibilities stated above while taking a full college course load
Ball Aerospace Corporation, Boulder, CO, May 2005 – August 2005
Systems Engineer
-Invented new process for updating specification files in DOORS (increased efficiency by 1000%)
-Refined and reduced specification files (decreased total requirements by 60%)
-Advised fellow engineers on requirements reduction
Boeing Satellite Systems, El Segundo, CA, May 2004 – August 2004
Operations and Software Systems Engineer
-Created flight code to optimize payload CPU usage (improved CPU efficiency by 2700%)
-Validated flight code and documented test procedures for telemetry operations (uplink, downlink)
-Debugged memory handling algorithms in ground support software
Student Space System Fabrications Lab, Ann Arbor, MI, September 2002 – Spring 2004
Payload Team Assistant Lead
-Led student team in designing a Get-away-special Space Shuttle mission
(Funded by DARPA, U.S. Air Force, NASA Marshall Center, Lockheed Martin, National Instruments, Keithley, JPL)
-Examined cold cathode field emission technology as a means of low power spacecraft electron emission
-Designed Langmuir Probe system and Contamination Test Coupons for characterizing ambient plasma conditions
-Created and delivered PDR presentation to DARPA reviewers at 2003 AIAA SmallSat conference
-Coordinated and performed vacuum chamber test
-Coordinated integrated systems test (Funct, Therm, Vib), assembled test hardware, wrote test code
Education
M.Eng., Systems Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Completed in May, 2007
B.S.E., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Completed in May, 2006
GPA: 3.65/4.00 (Magna Cum Laude), Earned 159 credits (128 required for degree)
Sigma Gamma Tau Aerospace Engineering Honors Society, Ann Arbor, MI
President (2004), Vice President (2003)
-Turned around $1,200 budget deficit to $2,000 budget surplus in one year
-Negotiated exclusive Sigma Gamma Tau interview slots with the Boeing Company
-Organized 13 social events (fully-funded) in 1 semester
-Organized 1st Campus-Wide Video Game Tournament
Skills
Excels in getting projects scoped, assigned, and completed on time and on budget while having fun doing it! Highly goal-oriented and love to think outside the box.
Skilled in the following tools
Project Management: Google Apps, Agile development, Confluence, Sharepoint, Basecamp, Microsoft Project
UI Design / Wireframing: Balsamiq, Photoshop, Pixelmator
Social Media Tools: Facebook, Twitter, youtube, digg, reddit, yelp
Video Production: Adobe Premier, iMovie
Programming: C++, Matlab, Labview
Languages: Chinese (Fluent), Spanish
Relevant Classes
Innovation Processes (MBA Class)
Finance Research and Commercialization (MBA Class)
eCommunity Design
Networks: Theory and Application
The Psychology of Decision Making
Information Theory
Awards
"Best Moneymaking App" in iPhoneDevCamp
Semi-Finalist in Stanford Business Plan Competition
4th place out of 20 teams in Microsoft Puzzle challenge
2nd place in state-wide Business Plan competition (Great Lakes Entrepreneurship Quest)
1 of 3 Finalist in “The University of Michigan Apprentice” Competition
“Who Wants to be a CEO” National Business Challenge Champion
Boeing Scholarship (3 years)
AIAA Foundation Scholarship (2 years)
Elk’s Lodge “Most Valuable Student” Scholarship (4 years)
Michigan Space Grant Consortium Award
University of Michigan Board of Regents Scholarship
Michigan Society of Professional Engineers Scholarship
Discover Card Tribute Scholarship
National Merit Commended Scholar
Michigan Scholar Athlete Finalist
Kiwanis Club Scholarship
AP Scholar with Honors
Michigan Merit Scholar
National Reading and Writing Association Certified Tutor
3rd place (40 competitors) in a no-limit Texas-Hold’em tournament held at the Luxor in Las Vegas (1st tourney experience)
Interests
Web 2.0, social media, mobile, apps, iPhone, entrepreneurship, inventing, developing partnerships, leading teams, volunteering, teaching, traveling, playing soccer, rock climbing
