AI PRODUCT MANAGER

Product Manager & Founder, Meadow Mentor (AI Health App) | Dec 2024 - present, Los Angeles, CA

• Defined product vision and roadmap for GenAI-powered therapeutic diet health app, from concept to MVP launch.
• Led user research with 14+ prospective users, translating qualitative feedback into a refined UX and feature set.
• Authored PRDs and user stories; managed development backlog for features which used LLMs for personalized analysis of health data and dietary guidance.
• Leveraged Gemini multi-modal vision to allow users to scan food ingredient labels for dietary compliance and safety.
• Designed MongoDB model schemas to store rich user food journal data, enabling AI to analyze compliance within therapeutic diets and detect health trends.
• Shipped MVP on Google Cloud Run using a MERN stack with an integrated Google Gemini API; now tracking signups and weekly user engagement to inform V2.
• Achieved an 11% visitor-to-signup rate on MVP launch.
• Analyzed early-funnel metrics from 400+ unique visitors to diagnose a drop in user activation, leading to a strategic pivot from new feature development to optimizing the core user onboarding experience and clarifying the premium value proposition.
• 25% reduction in critically incorrect AI responses by integrating LangChain tool calling to look up food database information.
• Proactively sought mentorship in areas like product advice and app security to ensure a well designed end to end solution.

Volunteer Associate Product Manager, Novella AI | Nov 2024 - Mar 2025, Los Angeles, CA (remote)

• Contributed to the creation of post-beta user feedback surveys, providing input on questionnaire structure and Likert scale implementation.
• Executed pre-beta UAT (User Acceptance Testing) plans, identifying and documenting bugs and UX inconsistencies to support the engineering team.
• Handled coordination and scheduling of our 30 users during the beta test.
• Conducted user onboarding sessions for beta testers, demonstrating core editing functionality and gathering initial product impressions.

Volunteer Scrum Master, Raspberry (Open-Source Dataset for GenAI) | Sep 2024 - Oct 2024, (remote)

• Drove agile development for an open-source GenAI project, leading stand-ups, and retrospectives for a remote team of software engineers.
• Increased team-wide GitHub commits by 25% by instilling the agile ethos of iterative development.
• Facilitated communication between developers to unblock technical challenges related to synthetic data creation pipelines for use in training GenAI LLMs.

Founder & Conference Director, JumpCut Conference | Oct 2022 - Jul 2024, Los Angeles, CA

• Strategically pivoted launch date 7 months early from a multi-day to single-day event in response to industry strikes disrupting financial stability of attendees and sponsors.
• Communicated frequently with stakeholders including speakers, vendors, and attendees via email, social media, and in person meetings.
• Recruited and worked with speakers to program a day of holistic content covering career paths, technical skills, and mental health.
• Coordinated with volunteers to ensure all attendees had the best experience possible.
• Negotiated sponsorship and vendor deals.
• Conducted pre-event surveys with target customers to understand their needs in a conference event.
• Defined MVP based on target customer needs for networking opportunities and content.
• Used JIRA and Google Sheets for planning, resource allocation, and scheduling to coordinate 12 volunteers, 2 staff, and vendors leading to a 100% successful on time launch.
• Measured outcomes from post-event customer surveys achieving 100% positive feedback.

Assistant Editor, Freelance | Sep 2018 - Jun 2024, Los Angeles, CA

• Worked on large-scale TV reality shows which aired on Amazon Prime, ABC, Bravo, and Disney+ to name a few. This direct experience highlights opportunities for AI to solve creator pain points in content creation, organization, discovery, and post-production workflows.
• Tracked $300K of assets in Avid Media Composer and MS 365 Excel, cutting organization and search time by 20%.
• Reduced technical issue resolution time by 94% (3 days → 4 hours) by designing an issue-tracking system for freelance editing teams.
• Setup best practices for metadata tagging media files to ensure asset searchability, and interoperability of video, MX, SFX clips into other non-linear editing systems for vendor handoffs.
• Identified and fixed critical editor workflow inefficiencies by engineering metadata and asset management best practices using Avid Media Composer’s Bulk Edit feature.
• Logged large-volumes of individual video and audio files and organized into media bins.

High school film teacher, A3 School, Springfield, OR

Video Producer and Founder, Sparkplug Creations, Eugene, OR

Senior Game Designer, Buzz Monkey Software, Eugene, OR

Game Designer, LucasArts, San Francisco, CA

Level Designer, Ritual Entertainment, Dallas, TX

Product Designer, DOOM 3 CC: Designed a mod of Doom 3 that adds closed captioning for deaf and hard of hearing players.

Product Manager Association of Los Angeles Talk on Context Engineering

Development Journal on AI and development

LinkedIn posts about how to use AI and automation tools

YouTube channel covering how to collaborate with AI