Ever since I was a young, I have been fascinated by people and culture. After finishing an associates degree in psychology, I set out to discover the world on my own. For 3 years I lived with host families and did service work in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe while climbing mountains along the way. I returned to finish my Undergraduate and Masters degrees in business with a new found curiosity for how people identify with the products they use. Since then I have driven the startup of new ventures from advertising to technology as I have continued to examine and inspire the relationship between people and the products they use. Most recently, I launched my company pennypost to make it easy to send real postcards with digital and social photos.
pennypost | www.pennypost.me |
San Francisco
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Product Manager | Founder |
Nov 2015 to Current
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- Conceived of the idea. Built the MVP. Organized a team of 7 developers and designers. Launched our product.
- Raised seed funding and negotiated our partnerships with General Assembly, wework, and watsi.
- Accepted into Amazon Web Services Portfolio package for accelerated or VC backed startups.
sharingXchange |
Seattle
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Product Manager |
Mar 2014 to Jun 2015
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- Led the development of both our home sharing and host services products with an international team of developers and designers.
- Created road map, user personas, wireframes, mockups, and the first prototype we used to define our product requirements.
Other Experience |
Seattle/Abroad
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Associate Product Manager | Product Advisor |
2009 to 2016
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Joe App | Theo Chocolate | Finnriver | Kemik | Efinity
- Worked with founders to conceive of, launch, and scale products in Seattle, South Africa, and Guatemala
Class President Tsinghua PBC School of Finance |
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Seattle University | University of Cape Town | Tsinghua University · Graduated Cum Laude |
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International Volunteer Experience |
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Thailand | El Salvador | Guatemala | South Africa