Entrepreneur in Residence
2020 - PRESENTCiti- Worked on cutting-edge projects in automated detection around anti-money laundering.
- Led organizational-wide programs around fostering innovative thinking and executing on improvements.
- Developed projects surrounding improving opportunities for African-American business owners.
Principal
2018 - PRESENTVictoriam Consulting Group- Created a boutique remote consulting firm to focus on product management, digital marketing, and IT project management for non-profits and technology startups.
- Worked with an on-demand photography company to revamp the engineering team, and instill correct product management practices in the leadership team.
- Ran the IT department for a California-based non-profit organization, and developed new CRM and Analytics systems for them.
Founder
2017 - PRESENTWealth Noir- Started a digital media site and brand to advocate for financial literacy and wealth creation among professional black millennials.
- Grew a fully-remote team to operate across nine time zones in a distributed work environment.
- Built writing, editorial, and marketing teams to produce weekly high-quality personal finance articles, and an email newsletter.
- Grew social media and website reach to over 100,000 views monthly on a shoestring budget by understanding our audience and using growth hacking strategies.
- Designed and Implemented Google Analytics and other data analytics systems to monitor marketing, website usage, and email marketing metrics in one platform.
VP of Product Manager
2019 - 2020Camillion- Led the company’s pivot from a social networking app to a B2B communication platform for teams during the COVID-19 outbreak, shifting to a more revenue rich market and generating additional fundraising opportunities.
- Introduced data-driven decision making to the product development process and created a product roadmap for the upcoming months utilizing Amplitude for data analytics.
- Designed and implemented their first product roadmap and product development process across engineering, marketing, user research, and design leading to.
Director of Programs and Operations
2017 - 2018Dev Color- Brought data-driven thinking into the development and monitoring of our core program, Strove to improve member satisfaction.
- Defined company-wide KPIs to track the quality of member experiences and success in meeting our organizations' mission.
- Managed and mentored three coworkers in personal and professional development within the company.
- Advocated and helped implement an early marketing strategy for the growing application and awareness of the organization across the US.
Product Manager
2014 - 2017Facebook- Led the Facebook Editor product, growing the quantity of location data added by people on Facebook over by 300%.
- Led the company's exploration into advertising measurement products focused on digital and television.
- Transitioned Facebook's crowdsourced location data qualifiers to a machine-learned platform for improved data accuracy.
- Brought a new Mixed Market Modeling (MMM) platform to Facebook's ad measurement options for large brand advertisers.
- Built out a community focused growth strategy for Facebook Editor, including a full rebrand and repositioning of the product.
Product Manager - Game Lead
2012 - 2013TinyCo- Ran the Super Slot game studio as TinyCo's major casino game studio, growing average user revenue and total users before sunsetting the game.
- Worked closely with the marketing team to drive up the quality of acquired users and drive down customer acquisition costs across several game titles.
- Developed and monitored key KPIs for various games at TinyCo, reporting to the head of product and CEO in monthly product reviews.
Product Manager - Intern
2011 - 2011Zynga- Managed the Android version of the Zynga Mobile Poker app as its first product manager.
- Implemented monetization in our Android app and grew the game to the #1 revenue generating spot on the Google Play store.
- Worked with local and international development teams to increase game features and grow our user base.
Associate
2006 - 2009Booz Allen Hamilton- Led the engineering development of DCAM, our proprietary Capabilities Based Assessment product for use with DoD and Civil US Government clients.
- Developed facilities assessment and a reporting analytics model for DoD clients to make strategic decisions on investments in facilities development.
- Revamped source control and DevOps systems for my engineering team leading in fewer bugs and higher team collaboration.
- Moved to Technical Lead for my engineering team to better impact team organization and throughput.
- Worked with the IRS to build improved fraud detections technical systems and processes across the organization.
Software Developer in Test Intern
2004 - 2004Microsoft- Created a new testing metrics monitoring dashboard for the Windows Mobile Device test team.