Greater Chicago Area
Senior Product Manager specializing in Generative AI & Technical Innovation Technical Product Leader with 6+ years of experience launching 0-to-1 AI solutions in ambiguous enterprise environments. Proven track record of transitioning from Cloud Engineering to Product Leadership, bridging deep technical system design with business strategy. Expert in RAG, Large Language Models (LLMs), and AI governance. Successfully led cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact innovations at Ulta Beauty and nvisia.
I lead the strategy, design, and delivery of intelligent systems that transform how organizations access, interpret, and act on information. My work focuses on bridging business objectives with cutting-edge AI capabilities to deliver measurable impact across healthcare, distribution, and consulting organizations. Key Impact & Leadership ⭐️ Own End-to-End AI Product Delivery Lead the full product lifecycle for AI-powered platforms—from discovery and opportunity framing to prototyping, validation, and scaled deployment—ensuring alignment with business value and user needs. ⭐️ Drive AI Strategy & Roadmaps Translate complex organizational challenges into actionable AI product strategies and roadmaps, prioritizing high-impact use cases such as intelligent search, knowledge retrieval, and AI-assisted workflows. ⭐️ Deliver Enterprise AI Solutions Architect and deliver scalable AI systems leveraging Azure AI Foundry, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector embeddings, and semantic search to enable accurate, context-aware information access. ⭐️ Accelerate Decision-Making with Rapid Prototyping Facilitate hands-on AI design sessions and working prototypes that enable stakeholders to visualize solutions, validate assumptions, and make faster, data-driven decisions. ⭐️ Establish AI Best Practices & Governance Define standards for prompt engineering, model evaluation, and responsible AI, ensuring outputs are reliable, explainable, and aligned with organizational trust and compliance requirements. ⭐️ Modernize Legacy Workflows with AI Lead initiatives that integrate AI into legacy systems and business processes—reducing manual effort, improving data accessibility, and increasing operational efficiency. ⭐️ Influence & Educate Across the Organization Coach stakeholders and delivery teams on AI capabilities, product thinking, and Agile practices—building internal momentum and repeatable frameworks for AI adoption.
🌟 Defined product requirements for an AI chatbot powered by Google’s LLM, enabling fast, accurate product recommendations. 🌟 Managed end-to-end deployment of robotic eyelash (LUUM) and robotic manicure machines (10 Beauty), presenting findings to C-suite executives and securing technology expansion across 25 stores. 🌟 Piloted an end-to-end co-creation experience in collaboration with KIKI, allowing guests to vote on product development. Managed planning, execution, testing, design, and analytics for the project. 🌟 Planned and shaped content for holographic displays in stores, delivering immersive in-store experiences for guests which lead to a 200% in dwell times and over 25% increase in sales.
🌟 Led end-to-end design, testing, and iteration of a gamified loyalty platform for 30K members, achieving an 82% week-over-week return rate and a 25% reward redemption rate. 🌟 Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define and refine user stories and reward mechanics for Ulta's Roblox experience, amassing 12.4M+ views and 57K+ favorites. 🌟 Piloted the first ever VR experience in 5 stores for Ariana Grande's brand launch adding a differentiated experience for our guests. 🌟 Experimented with custom nail polish in stores with Ellure, collecting consumer insights to inform future product decisions. 🌟 Tested a live shopping experience, contributing to strategy development, brand partnerships, and analytics to optimize guest engagement. 🌟 Technologies used: Python, SQL, JavaScript, Swift, Google Analytics GA4, Google Tag Manager, Google cloud Platform, Data studio,Apple App connect, Oculus analytics, Unity Analytics, Tableau, Miro, Mixpanel etc.
🌟 Building and testing multiple Data pipelines, end to end ETL and ELT process for Data ingestion and transformation in GCP and coordinate task among the team. 🌟 Hands on experience in GCP, Big Query, GCS bucket, G - cloud function, cloud dataflow, Pub/Sub cloud shell, GSUTIL, BQ command line utilities and much more. 🌟 Created dashboards/reports for data visualization, Reporting and Analysis.
As a Best Buy Sales Consultant in Mobile Wireless I engaged with customers, utilizing selling skills to build connected solutions while maintaining a balance of high velocity and high service. I sold a broad range of mobile products and services using a proven structured approach while at the same time developing in-depth knowledge of the latest mobile technology. Job Responsibilities Include: • Provide personalized service and exceptional expertise for customers. • Handled all aspects of the sale including: customer contracts and warranties, customer payments, cash and credit card/check transactions. • Developed, maintained and communicated strong, up-to-date knowledge of wireless products, accessories, pricing plans and service features
• Developed www.ieee-uic.org , migrated old content to the newly designed website which increased traffic and helped create a more professional image for potential employers. • Used Squarespace alongside custom HTML/CSS code to provide a more tailored experience.
• Maximized consultant's utilization by providing key information using Salesforce Wave Analytics Cloud alongside Salesforce Einstein AI platform • Built visual dashboards to help management oversee resource utilization using SQL and data integration tools which were compatible with both web and mobile platforms • Conducted research which provided tailored suggestions in implementing managed services with the pre existing business model