Professional Summary

Award-winning Harvard product manager specializing in learning and development service delivery, 10 years of experience developing educational products, services, and systems across K-12, higher ed, and clinical research workforce, 7 years of classroom teaching experience, and background in interactive media and design. Passionate about creating human-centered digital learning solutions for a better world.

Relevant Skills

• Demonstrated experience product managing, defining product roadmaps with leadership, leading multiple product teams in Agile product development, and effectively managing stakeholder relationships.
• Well-versed in educational technology with familiarity of educational technology products and industry landscape, especially in public health and medicine.
• Practiced data collection and analysis, skillfully designing survey materials, operationalizing data collection, and synthesizing findings for data-driven decisions, effective storytelling, and product vision.
• Experienced at updating legacy products for contemporary and future users to re-capture value of existing product assets.

Work Experience

Harvard Catalyst, Boston, MA 

Senior Product Manager | 2024-Present 

Established and led the product design practice, developing and launching multiple digital learning products.

• Led multiple cross-functional teams and managed complex stakeholder relations, fostering a collaborative culture that encouraged open communication, integrated stakeholder insights, and leveraged team members’ unique skills and passion areas to drive development activity and improve overall product quality.
• Designed and implemented new (on-demand) modality for digital learning products, engaging qualitative and quantitative UX research methods to inform feature prioritization and user interface design, achieving a significant 133% increase in experience completion.
• Managed the entire product lifecycle for 7 digital learning products, conducting user research, competitive analysis, go-to-market strategizing, prototype development, through to launch.

Project Lead and eLearning Designer | 2022-2024

Led development and delivery of multiple digital courses.

• Led multiple course teams - including contracted Harvard faculty, researchers, and community practitioners - in the design, operation, and iterative improvement of digital courses using Agile methods.
• Collaborated with Harvard faculty and clinical investigators on curricular design for multiple digital courses using evidence-based pedagogic models and frameworks including Understanding by Design, Bloom's Taxonomy, and Fink's Significant Learning Outcomes.
• Collected and analyzed user data, presenting key metrics to faculty committees, leadership, and stakeholders, and using findings to steer product strategy.

MobyMax, Philadelphia, PA 

Curriculum Developer | 2017-2021

• Authored and edited K-8 math and algebra instructional and assessment content, including interactive digital media, video, and text, aligned with state and national standards.
• Structured K-8 math curriculum for adaptive learning paths, leveraging user data to differentiate instruction.
• Supervised and trained in-house curriculum developers in our operational workflow, including teaching foundational graphic design and front-end development skills.
• Innovated, tested, and operationalized UI for complex interactives, designing and developing wireframes, and implementing with product team.

Math Design Lead

• Designed and implemented overall design practice for math content, integrating with company branding and defining org-wide visual style-guide.
• Operated a team of designers, supervising development and use of graphic assets.
• Led visual projects, providing art direction and creating key assets across multiple teams.

Antionette Westphal School of Media Art and Design at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Adjunct Professor | 2019-2021

• Developed and delivered studio design curriculum in the Bauhaus tradition for in-person, hybrid, and remote learning.
• Connected highly specialized technical and academic topics to broader social themes to make subjects compelling and relevant in contemporary contexts.
• Introduced project management skills and productivity practices such to support the development of foundational habits of commitment to oneself, peers, and community, and to foreground responsibilities bound up with design.
• Updated department-wide curriculum for hybrid and remote delivery at the onset of the covid pandemic, designing, developing, and supporting implementation of new materials across multiple classes outside my own.
• Developed and implemented public-facing digital venues for student work on social media.

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