Cornell University

Downingtown East High School

Product Manager at Compass /

- Recruited & managed 10 person eng, product & design team distributed globally
- Built Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) software used to manage & scale the Fractional CFO consulting business to grow its monthly revenue 2,000% in its first year
- Developed GTM strategy for selling FP&A software to external Fractional CFOs

Kordis

Co-founder & CTO & Head of Product

- Invented & engineered a proprietary catalog of 5k+ exercises/workouts to create the "Google of workouts" called Myworkouts that enabled TF-IDF search science principles on workout plans
- Coded the MVP search engine for Myworkouts with Node.js & NextJS. As CEO, managed a team of 8 engineers & virtual assistants to build the fitness catalog and product
- Grew Myworkouts usage to 1.1k WAUs & 14k monthly visitors through organic SEO

Myworkouts

Founder & CEO & Head of Product

- Led product for CRM, Building Pages & Marketing Center
- Based on agent user research, overhauled Compass's MVP contact management to a fully-functioning CRM in order to increase client retention. Unified Compass’s user data, real estate data, and marketing tools to create automation workflows specific to real-estate client relationship mgmt
- Led M&A integration with Contactually. Onboarded the team and led their roadmap grooming to incorporate it into the greater Compass product vision
- Launched 1M+ building pages to enable NYC & Chicago agents & consumers to do market research on buildings to help close more deals. Increased building page adoption from 5% WAU to 60% WAU in 8 months, reducing deal close time by 23%.
- Transitioned template-driven agent marketing tools to flexible canvas editor to reduce costs by 22% for supporting custom agent marketing materials

Compass /

Senior Product Manager

- Gave a lecture on the importance of collaboration in product management, sharing strategies and best practices for facilitating effective communication and teamwork between cross-functional teams.
- Provided comprehensive guidance on how to research your product area, covering methodologies, tools, and techniques for gathering and analyzing data to make informed product decisions

Product School

Guest Lecturer

- Acquired over 5 million new buyers in 8 months. Developed a new platform using machine learning to identify potential new buyers and filter out bad actors, in order to inject targeted cross-functional experiences to convert potential new buyers to make their first purchase and fuel growth
- Conducted quantitative & qualitative analysis to identify points of friction in the shopping journey & executed a plan to optimize these drop-off points with a mix of educational prompts, removed login barriers, and targeted coupons

eBay

Product Manager

- Increased buyer engagement by 11% for category pages, merchandising pages & eBay Stores leading to an overall 31% decrease in exit rate
- Improved SEO rankings of top-level category pages by converting image-maps with non-canonical links to text-based modules with canonical URL linking. This improvement was a core contributor to SEO’s GMV share (7%)

- Converted $30k in sales for MacroFuel using a custom-built e-commerce store in React & Node.js integrating with Braintree for payments & custom 3rd party fulfillment API
- Raised $22k Kickstarter campaign for MacroFuel launch

MacroFuel Food

Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer & Head of Product

- Introduced and deepened student understanding of Ruby and Ruby on Rails, laying the foundation for back-end development.
- Taught the principles and practical use of Git, enabling students to manage and collaborate on software development projects effectively.
- Covered responsive design principles and techniques, along with JavaScript and React.js, to equip students with the skills to create intuitive and dynamic user interfaces.
- Provided insights into server management and operations, essential for the deployment and maintenance of web applications.

Course Instructor

Designed, led, managed & prototyped development of the eBay Android and iOS application. Coordinated with multiple divisions to provide necessary services for the mobile applications.

eBay Inc

Mobile Product Manager Intern

- Recruited & managed daapr engineering & design team of 11 & launched 1.6k+ user beta app
- Product manager, engineering lead & engineering contributor for the daapr team building w/Ruby on Rails, Chef, React, Heroku & AWS

daapr, inc

Built Android App to create & view ratings of text synced between phone and server. Analyzed implications of UX on user experience through custom-built social network (www.daapr.com). Project chosen for eLab in Entrepreneurship@Cornell start-up program. Working under guidance of Dan Cosley PhD.

Research Assistant

Consult on tech problems for medical practice. Helped streamline patient onboarding process with EMR web portal. Administered production of new website. Liason between web developers & physicians. Handled transition from paper to Electronic Medical Records (EMR).

Brandywine GI Associates

Consultant

Worked with children ages 4-10 to teach team-building and cooperative skills through sports.

Alex Meyers