University of Washington

University of Colorado Boulder

Leading product design & development for a wide range of customers across industry and medium, with expertise in design engineering prototypes in the AI & Human-Machine-Interaction space.

Orchestra Inc. is a global leader in creating simple, powerful human-machine interaction using both conventional and non-conventional designs and utilities. Our products and experiences integrate advanced technology while maintaining simplicity, increasing value of connection between human and machine.

Orchestra Inc.

Founder & Lead Designer

Built and led a large global team of designers, product managers, data scientists, developers and business partners in designing, building, launching and scaling interactive products for internal and external customers.
- Evangelized and executed product org development in building a global team
- Utilized wide breadth of design, engineering and business experience to rapidly build products with measurable impact
- Auto HMI products
- Cockpit interfaces
- Computer Vision, SLAM
- Automation (ML, Conversational AI)
- Web and mobile design and development
- Internal web and mobile tools for productivity
- AI for financial services applications and interactions

Vice President & Global Head of Design

- Drove Captimo product to successful acquisition through rapid design engineering and development execution 
- HCI R&D
- Spec'd high-level business requirements into weekly sprints and continuous releases. 
- Designed and implemented UX/UI for mobile and web apps 
- Scaled and released products to enterprise level customers
- Managed tradeoffs between product roadmap and limited budget, producing high ROI

Captimo, Inc.

Chief Product Officer

- Built a startup from idea to revenue generation
- Self taught Objective-C and Ruby on Rails in building an end to end mobile app and web api focussed on advancing HMI
- Researched and applied product design principles in creating a highly rated consumer mobile app experience
- Created initial pro-forma financials & strategic documents, which were instrumental in capturing seed round investment
- Generated revenue through innovative pricing, marketing and sales strategies
- Designed, built , launched and scaled a successful technology interaction between customers and the hospitality industry

Spotze, Inc.

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

- Trained and raced as a sponsored professional triathlete for USA Triathlon
- Raced in International Triathlon Union races for Olympic development in preparation for Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics

USA Triathlon

Olympic Development

(Multiple Contracts in 2003, 2004, 2006)

- Developed initial pricing strategies for Xbox 360 pre-launch
- Game Theory economics
- Served as the primary Finance contact for the Xbox Peripherals Manufacturing team
- Drove the ongoing analysis and reporting over COGM and COGS
- Monitored, refined and automated existing financial processes and architecture
- Created advanced Visual Basic Excel spreadsheets for cost, accounting and reporting purposes
- Developed and maintained key team websites using JAVA, HTML, and MS FrontPage
- Left temp to perm role to enter Olympic development program

Microsoft

Senior Manager Pricing, Xbox

(2001-2002 & 2003-2005)

- Developed and implemented company plan and forecast models for senior management
- Tracked and reported variances to plan/forecast, quantifying expected impacts in excel models
- Created, Implemented and maintained company wide incentive compensation plan
- Tracked and analyzed consumer field marketing spending
- Assisted with the marketing budgets and forecasting process
- Contributed to the continued improvement of data management and reporting infrastructure

Jacob Timm