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Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
August 23, 2019
Innovative and forward-thinking, Ray is a hands-on product management and design executive with a focus on leading interdisciplinary teams bringing digital healthcare products to market. He specializes in building and scaling cutting-edge consumer-facing digital health products at the intersections of behavior science, digital medicine, ingestible computing, wearables, regulated medical devices, and highly-engaging medical mobile applications.
Project Highlights
Launched First in Class Regulated Digital Medicine Service Offering
Led the design, development, and delivery of Proteus Discover, the world's first commercially available digital medicine
Expertise
Work Experience
VP Product and Design
2017 - PRESENT
Vida Health
- Defined the product vision and product strategy to address patients with both physical and behavioral health conditions.
- Led the transformation of the digital user experience to drive more durable outcomes through systematic integration of over 50 evidence-backed behavior change techniques.
- Oversaw all phases of product discovery, product definition, and product design.
- Re-factored and hired a full-stack product design team inclusive of product management, user research, interaction design, visual design, content development, creative design, product operations, product reporting, and analytics capabilities.
- Partnered with clinical leadership to adopt agile-team based processes to efficiently define and develop new clinical programs resulting in a simultaneous launch of programs in 6 health conditions with expansion to 16 health conditions in less than 12 months.
- Partnered with technical leadership to define product and engineering principles for inclusion of multiple machine learning / AI models into the member-facing experiences to increase scale, drive outcomes and engagement while maintaining user choice and self-efficacy.
- Led organizational transformation and efficiency through advocacy and adoption of orgs, tools, and processes to support transparency, collaboration, and inclusion.
- Participated and anchored key external meetings in sales, partnering, board, and investor contexts.
- Served as lead product manager for behavioral health agile team to define and deliver programs across stress, anxiety, and depression and sleep conditions.
- Partnered with external clinical experts to define strategy and programs for new therapeutic categories as well as channel partnerships.
VP Product Management and Design
2013 - 2017
Proteus Digital Health
- Led the on-time, on-budget design, development and delivery of Proteus Discover, the world's first commercially available digital medicine product offering meeting key clinical trial deadlines.
- Created and led the product management function for the company incorporating product design, product management, and program management.
- Advocated for and implemented an enterprise-wide agile transformation based on scaled agile (SAFe®) methodology to increase product quality (Net Promoter Score > 65) and speed of value delivery (from 12 months to 3 months) while intercepting all major product development programs.
- Led the prioritization, scoping, definition, design, and delivery of 3 commercially available releases of the Discover system offering in 6 months.
- Recruited and built lean high-performance teams of creatives, product managers and software developers.
- Member of Proteus Operating Committee, a small group of C-level reports responsible for advising on and implementing corporate strategic objectives.
Various (GM, VP Platform, Director Strategy, and Business Development)
2008 - 2012
Ribbit, Inc.
- Served as the general manager of BT’s mobile application innovation hub. An internal lean startup, Springlab enabled BT to minimize time to market and minimize product risks associated with new product development while rapidly identify new intellectual property opportunities.
- Managed 14 direct reports across product management, product marketing, and marketing functions. Successfully defined and launched Ribbit Platform self-service developer offering which attracted 20,000+ developers creating Ribbit-based applications.
- Held full accountability for all business development initiatives related to 3rd party independent software developers (ISV), including contract negotiations and presentations in diverse venues, and media affairs.
Strategy Specialist
2006 - 2008
BT Group, plc.
- Recruited into two–year Future Leadership Program (FLP). Served as consultants to BT executives and managers across all business units focused on key strategic issues ranging from customer experience to corporate governance to strategic analysis and financial modeling.
Project History
Launched First in Class Regulated Digital Medicine Service Offering
Led the design, development, and delivery of Proteus Discover, the world's first commercially available digital medicine
Proteus Discover is the first fully integrated digital medicine service offering combining FDA cleared ingestible and wearable sensors encapsulated with prescribed pharmaceuticals to deliver the worlds more accurate and advanced medication monitoring and adherence solution.
Education
2005 - 2006
Master's Degree in Business Administration
INSEAD - Fontainebleu, France
1990 - 1995
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Certifications
MAY 2017 - NOVEMBER 2018
SAFe® 4 Program Consultant
Scaled Agile Inc
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