Friends Academy

Duke University

Co-Founder at Paloma

New York, New York, United States

Paloma helps businesses build automated, conversational e-commerce experiences in Facebook Messenger. Customers can discover and purchase products without leaving Messenger, cutting acquisition costs in half.

Paloma

Co-Founder

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The Rotation

Co-Founder & CEO

Capital One

Senior Associate Product Manager

- Revolutionized the way people interact with their finances by building and iterating on Capital One’s digital banking products.• Set product vision using clear and measurable objectives and key results.• Interviewed customers and analyzed usage data to uncover and understand customer pain points and areas of opportunity in the documents and messaging spaces.• Worked on cross-functional sprint team to rapidly prototype solutions and validate concepts with real users.• Defined product features, drafted technical requirements, and coordinated efforts between engineering, design, risk, and legal teams to deliver a brand-new Capital One product, Document Center, to 3M customers.• Utilized A/B testing and rigorous experimentation to drive future product iterations and inform comprehensive product strategies.

Associate Product Manager

- Leveraged my engineering background to work as a junior product manager in Capital One's Innovation Labs.• Practiced human-centered design principles to create intuitive customer experiences.• Defined product features, drafted technical requirements, and coordinated product launch between engineering, design, risk, and legal teams.• Wrote and deployed production code utilizing Django and Angular frameworks.

Associate Product Management Intern

- Founded application development firm that provides high quality design, iOS, Android, and web solutions to startups and enterprise clients.• Built up a large in-house staff of college-based talent to scale operations and deliver with unconventionally fast time-to-market.• Completed 3 full apps (in house start-to-finish) and grossed over $50,000 in revenue since beginning operations.

Podbela Applications

Company Founder, Lead Developer

- Collaborated with two peers, a marketing manager and graphic design artist, to create the world’s first mobile lottery application.• Accepted into 2014 class of LA Incubator, Mucker Labs.• Collaborated with rest of executive team and incubator network of industry experts to reform our product and establish a solid business plan.• Independently managed all of the startup’s technical operations by designing software structure, launching new app features, implementing Flurry analytics, and maintaining and updating existing app.

Lotto 23 Inc.

- Scanned and fixed main and alternative web sites for bugs and handled small daily programmatic tickets.•	Headed programming and development of the Fox college web site, FNCU. (<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/fncu)%E2%80%A2">www.foxnews.com/fncu)•</a>	Worked with the product development team to program new features in PHP and HTML and ensure smooth launch in production environment.•	Attended meetings pertaining to future website plans and led the programmatic presentation for a new rework of the FNCU web site.

Fox News Channel

Web Development Intern

- Interned here during the summer after graduating high school.•	Supported the Fixed Income desk at Wall Street trading firm helping with organizational jobs and research tasks•	Spent 1-2 hours a day working with a trader on a Bloomberg terminal, learning how markets are created and doing valuable research and analysis in the Taxable-Muni fixed income sector.•	Attended meetings pertaining to fixed income funds to observe and discuss how the funds operated (or planned to operate) in the currently weak fixed income markets.

Maxim Group

Compliance Associate Intern

- Interned here during the summer after my junior year of high school.•	Collaborated on the Client Services Desk at international trading platform development firm managing data and confirming trades.•	Answered inbound calls from customer to support them on the system.•	Organized database records and kept customer information up to date.•	Made calls to customers reminding them of pending trades to ensure transactions ran smoothly.

Zachary Podbela