Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
I'm co-founder and CEO of Parkade. We help apartments, condos and offices around the world ditch spreadsheets, paper and stickers, and digitally manage all of their parking. I want to create a world with far less parking, and Parkade is helping make parking far easier and rarer. Before Parkade, I led the product and design teams at Chariot, reworking most of the product and scaling the product from one market to 10. Chariot was acquired by Ford Motor Co. Prior to Chariot, I was the first product manager at Lyft, scaling Lyft from initial launch to household name operating in 65 cities across the country, in the heyday of the Lyft/Uber wars. I started my career at Ning as a PM/community manager. Recruiters: Please do not reach out to me. Any job applicant can apply on our web site, but we are not going to hire your recruiting firm.
Parkade is modernizing an absolutely massive-but-overlooked market: private parking. We're a tech-enabled parking-management system that helps apartment buildings, condos and offices automate their parking workflows. Rather than signing paper leases, paying by check or having property managers maintain spreadsheets, tenants can directly manage their parking needs using our mobile and web apps. Payments, maps, gate access, enforcement, subleasing tools and guest access are all included — completely changing how tenants park in our partner buildings. Parkade reduces emissions, reduces congestion and gives parking space back to cities. As Chief Parking Officer (and CEO/cofounder), I lead the team and our strategic vision. Come join us!
As a lifelong part-time resident of Lake Tahoe, I became increasingly worried by the housing crisis facing locals around the lake, and the difficulty for homeowners to find tenants in a small-town area like Tahoe. So, in my spare time, I partnered with some full-time Tahoe residents to create Placemate. The organization fills a much-needed gap, and partners with vacation towns around the United States to incentivize homeowners to activate new long-term rentals from existing housing inventory. I work with the team to improve their digital product, streamline operations and strategize the future of the business, and serve as a member of the board.
Helping a fantastic org that works to prevent homelessness in the Bay Area.
Chariot was on-demand shuttle technology and service acquired by Ford Motor Company. We utilized 15-seater vans and offered both consumer and private (enterprise) routes to passengers who booked/paid via mobile phone. It was faster, more reliable and more comfortable than mass transit and cheaper than rideshare/driving. In my role, I… - Led the company's product direction during a period of explosive growth, as we scaled from one city to 10 and pivoted from a focused on consumer products to B2B. - Led the complete overhaul of the company's driver and rider mobile applications. - Recruited and hired a diverse team of — by the time my departure — a dozen product managers, designers, trainers, data analysts and researchers. - Served as the organizational interface between Chariot's product team and a wide array of executives and stakeholders at Ford, our parent company. - Helped the company culture, team and processes transition from a tiny startup of 14 people to a large division of more than 100 employees, within the world's oldest automaker. - Helped to hire, and work with, executives and department heads from across Chariot growing organization
Aside from leading the Product and Design units, I also led Chariot's Engineering department, after the post-acquisition departure of Chariot's original CTO, until we hired a new VP of Engineering and CTO in 2017. This involved: - Helping to guide technical decisions - Keeping team retention at 100% - Keeping up system reliability even after the loss of significant technical platform knowledge - Recruiting and hiring contractors to fill the gaps on our engineering team - Defining and writing the job descriptions for our open roles - Interviewing and helping to select our new CTO and VP of Engineering (who then took over the Eng team) - Spinning up a Chariot's Engineering intern program, and recruiting/screening/selecting interns
I was Lyft's first product manager, starting at Zimride in January 2012 right before we launched the Lyft app. I reported directly to the CEO for the first three years, pairing with him to quickly execute the product roadmap we needed to scale — and stay ahead of Uber. I made the product decisions that scaled Lyft from its first users into a beloved household brand and (later, after I left) a publicly traded company. I touched most aspects of the original Lyft product, and later focused on the driver side of the business. In 2014, I pitched Lyft's CEO on splitting off a new org within Lyft, the product line now known as Lyft Business. I led the effort on the product side and designed the product/business line, which was Lyft's foray into B2B, selling rides to companies, health systems, municipalities and schools at an enterprise level. The business line now has a billion-dollar run rate. Later that year, I again pitched Lyft's CEO on a different project: Rolling out paid parking to our own employees for parking at HQ, to solve our terrible HQ parking issues. The project was a massive success, and made parking reliable for staff. The project sparked my interest in private parking, leading me to quit my next job and start Parkade.