I'm a Product Manager
with A Passion for Data
And Swiss Chocolate.

Professional Experience

Head of Product Solutions
localsearch
August 2018 – present

 

Senior Product Manager
Splunk
January 2015 – March 2018

Responsible for analytics capabilities centered around time series and metrics in the Core Splunk platform. Highlights include:

  • Shipped a Metrics Store, a marquee keynote feature at the 2017 user conference, which increases time series query performance up to 200x. Full responsibility for pricing and go-to-market activities.
  • Conceived Splunk Metrics Workspace, a user interface optimized for analyzing metrics. Contributions throughout product lifecycle, from inception through validation in an Early Adopter Program. Metrics workspace was a marquee keynote feature at the 2018 user conference.
    Partner / Technology Lead
    Halftone
    September 2012 – December 2014

    Helped clients manage, design, and realize data visualization projects of any size. Halftone’s mission was to solve industry specific problems and communicate effectively through data visualization and interaction design.

    Director, Engineering
    Visual.ly
    july 2011 – August 2012
    • Managed a team of 5 engineers.
    • Architected a browser-based visualization platform through all layers of the stack.
    • Followed and led an iterative development process.
    Lecturer
    UC Berkeley
    January 2012 – June 2013
    • Taught a graduate level class on Information Visualization.
    • Lecturing, evaluation, and on-the-project coaching for multiple project teams and 40 students.
    Data Visualization Analyst
    Statewide Database, UC Berkeley Law Center for Research
    August 2010 – May 2011

    • Created an interactive visualization prototype for exploratory data analysis based on census data, political indicators and location based data.

    • Created and implemented the communication platform for the Redistricting Group at Berkeley.

    • Developed an information architecture based on the group’s needs.

    Data Visualization Analyst Intern
    Google
    July 2010 – August 2010

    Developed an interactive visualization to facilitate visual correlation analysis of large-scale term corpus.

    IT Consultant in Risk Management and Data Processing
    SHS VIVEON AG, Baden, Switzerland
    November 2007 – January 2009

    • Managed a project that implemented a solvency check system for a major Swiss telecommunication company (SOA, Web Services, XML)

    • Provided integration support of standard software solutions into enterprise IT landscape (Oracle, Business Objects)

    • Consulted for data warehousing unit in a banking industry firm

    • Analyzed, designed and implemented data mapping user interface used to configure data warehousing process definitions

    Project Manager, Application Engineer (Oracle / Java)
    UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland
    January 2006 – September 2007

    • Developed and maintained company-wide data mart facilitating analysis of bulk risks associated with large group companies

    • Created requirements in collaboration with business analysts

    • Developed with an eye on performance management due to large volumes of data (in Oracle 10g)

    • Was part of an internationally operating project team (Zurich, London, Singapore)

    Co-Founder
    Opposite Web Publishing, Zurich, Switzerland
    June 2000 – December 2007
    • Developed online presences for NGOs and small/medium enterprises (PHP, HTML, MySQL/PostgreSQL, CSS, XML, RSS)
    • Developed database applications to manage inventory and payments for wine dealer
    • Integration of a credit card payment process into an existing shop solution
    • Consulting for web presence integration into communication processes
    • Internet marketing and optimization for search engines
    Software Developer, Online Producer, Project Manager
    Tamedia AG, Zurich, Switzerland
    January 2000 – December 2002
    • Developed various online games and sport event companion sites
    • Technologies: PHP, MySQL

    Skills

    • Experienced Product Manager for SaaS and On-Premise software

    • Strategic planning and execution

    • Managing collaboration with engineers and designers

    • New Product Development and Launch

    • Success mapping and metrics

    • Collaboration with partners in Marketing, Sales, Customer Support

    • Data Visualization (theory, practice) 

    • Data transformation, data exploration, data analysis

    • Full-stack product development