As a professional in transition, here is a snapshot of some of my work from a Product Management perspective, as well as projects from additional training I’ve completed. Full resume here.
Product Improvement: Accelerator Curriculum Upgrade & Revamp
Competencies: Product management, Project Management, User research, Product evaluation.
Collab provides impactful, rigorous business support for Connecticut founders at the beginning their entrepreneurial journey. Collab prioritizes BIPOC and women founders who have historically faced structural barriers to entrepreneurial education.
I coordinated and executed the revamp and upgrade of Collab’s core product, the accelerator curriculum. This included collection of user and stakeholder data on the existing curriculum, researching, designing, and implementing improvements, and collecting ongoing data for improvement. See more here.
Product Creation (0-1): Collab Intensive (Business Funding Program)
Competencies: Product management, Project Management, User research, Stakeholder Management.
Collab provides impactful, rigorous business support for Connecticut founders at the beginning their entrepreneurial journey. Collab prioritizes BIPOC and women founders who have historically faced structural barriers to entrepreneurial education.
I spearheaded the creation of a brand new product offering, Collab Intensive, a business funding program. This included collection of user and stakeholder data on existing issues, scoping the problem and feature offerings, researching, compiling, and designing the program materials, and coordinating a pilot program to test for program outcomes. See more here.
Technology for Product and Business Folks Certificate Final Project
Competencies: SQL Querying, Database Schemas, 3 tier architecture, APIs.
In this exercise, a final project for a PM certificate program, I did a mock interview for Reddit answering the following questions.
- What are the technologies Reddit uses to deliver its app and website experience? Categorize these into front-end, back-end, and database.
- Pick any two technologies and provide alternative technologies along with possible trade-offs of using one over the other.
- Design a database schema that should work for the following features of Reddit:
- User Registration
- A user posting something in a subreddit
- The user creating a new subreddit
- User liking a post in a subreddit
- User adding a comment on a post
- Write SQL to:
- To show the recent 10 posts in a subreddit and information about the users who have posted those.
- Find the most-liked post ever
- Find the number of subreddits created by a particular user
- Find the user who has given the most likes
- Find all posts which have a URL in the description
- DuckDuckGo (Search Engine) and Reddit are looking to get into a partnership where every keyword search on DuckDuckGo would contain a link to a related post on the Reddit search results page. Reddit will share the revenue made from this traffic with DuckDuckGo. What would an API that helps connect the two would look like?