June 2016 — Present, New York City, NY: As a product strategist, I lead engineers to valuable, real world problems and steer their development efforts toward usable, scalable, and generalizable solutions. I am currently leading the product development work on a joint venture to overhaul and accelerate scientific research, starting with the search for a cure for cancer.
My current design philosophy is that non-negligible enhancements in the daily workflows of users will free up the mindshare necessary for those users to begin envisioning a more powerful software-assisted future. My goal is to be the interface needed between those users and the engineering team to shepherd that user-led vision into reality.
Contributions by industry: Pharmaceutical research, cybersecurity, health and property insurance, manufacturing, military intelligence, humanitarian aid/disaster response, energy production, and municipal government.
June — Aug 2015, Seattle, WA: Atlas is Facebook's product for extremely large advertisers. The problems are unique and high-stakes. Atlas users value efficiency and certainty above everything else - weaving this principle into the fundamentally speculative process of buying ads is the core problem that I tackled during my internship at Facebook.
May — Aug 2014, Palo Alto, CA: My first term at Palantir was to develop a robust analysis and monitoring tool for live-streaming quantitative information. The users were highly technical with deep domain knowledge, but their current tools were inhibiting rather than empowering them. The goal was to transform a reactionary workflow into a proactive one through highly manipulable and interactive data visualizations.
Jan — June 2015, Palo Alto, CA: The power of Palantir products is highly dependent on the data integration and management structure. The goal of my second term at Palantir was twofold. First, to tackle the problem (in the vaguest sense) of data provenance. Second, to design the UI for managing the catalog of an organization's data. This means tracking every version of every dataset and attempting to capture then surface the human knowledge surrounding that dataset (this column is good, this column is badly formatted, etc).
Aug 2012 — May 2016, Troy, NY: Product Design and Innovation (PDI) is a dual degree program that merges the ethical and sociological considerations of engineering with the technical education necessary to move into the workforce as more than a commentator. My chosen technical program was computer science, where I learned the skills that I leverage today to communicate with engineers effectively and jump into the codebase with confidence.