Experience

Director of Product Operations

@Metropia Inc. (2013 – Present)
As one of the first hires for the software startup, quickly rose through the ranks Product Operations Engineer >> Product Operations Engineering Lead >> Director of Product Operations and played a direct and critical role in the growth from a $500K valuation and three FTE to a B round pre-money valuation of $30M and 30 FTE.

Project Director

@University of Texas at El Paso (2011 – 2013)
During my graduate studies, I took a passion in extending my research outside the lab into real life. Started as a Research Assistant and moved on to Project Director as I was able to secure funding and, hire and lead student teams that brought a Bike Sharing System and Optimized Busing Routes for UTEP a 25K student commuter University.

Skills

This are some of the skills that I use during the day and sometimes at night too.

Product Management

Product Design and Development
Product Roadmapping
Budget Management
Product Leadership
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Strategic Business Development
Innovative Product Delivery

Product Operations

Mapping
Go-To-Market Planning
Market Launch & Operations
Post-Launch Optimization
Leading & Improving Customer Service
Cross-Functional Collaboration

Startups

Building & Scaling Successful Startup
Excel in Ambiguity
Hands on
Dynamic Environments
Lead and Coach Talent

Code

Python
SQL
Bash (Unix Shell)
Groovy (mainly for Jenkins scripts)
HTMl, CSS, Javascript

Design

User Research (Quantitative, Qualitative)
User Experience & User Interface (AI, PS, XD)
User Testing (Usability, AB, Focus Groups, Interviews, Tap Tracking, Hundred Dollar)

Analytics

SQl
Mixpanel
Localytics
Google Analytics

Databases

RDBS (MysQL, MSSQL, Postgres, MariaDB)
NoSQL (Mongo)
Graph (Neo4J)

Frameworks

Flask
Django
Web2py

Cloud

IaaS (AWS, Azure, Google Compute Engine)
PaaS (Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Google App Engine)