About

All the opinions expressed here are my own.

You can follow me on Mastodon or Bluesky if that's your thing. Warning: I mainly tweet about inclusion in tech and ways that we can do better, which means that I am a high volume Tweeter!

What would you like to know more about?

• Fitness stuff
• Impact investing
• Day job stuff

Worthy causes

I support organizations and individuals that focus on equal access to education, tolerance, or community development. Sometimes I donate money or time to these organizations.

• Embrace - Saving babies! Doesn't get better than that.
• Pomona College - Further educates brilliantly smart kids, and doesn't let them all become investment bankers. The ones who do become bankers have a sense of community anyway, so win-win.
• New Village Charter School - All women's school in Los Angeles doing great work.
• Prep for Prep - helping kids succeed in college and beyond, by giving them a solid foundation in an independent high school, and counseling.
• Kapor Center: Brothers Code - The Kapor Center focuses on "gap closing" endeavors. Brothers code seeks to close the tech knowledge gap by teaching young men how to code.
• 5C Hackathon - Inclusive hackathon put on by Pomona College.

Google #

I work at Google, specifically on Google Play where I am the General Manager for the Apps business. This includes Google Play Books. My job is to make sure that customers and developers can get more value from their investment in Android, both before and beyond the install.

Engineering Director, Google Play Growth #

Before being GM for Apps, I ran Growth engineering, and started Play Points, Google Play's Loyalty Program. I started the org, hired the team, and set the strategy. The Play website (https://play.google.com) and Play Points are two of the most visible aspects of this work. This isn't "growth hacking." Real growth is sustainable. And in commerce businesses, you grow by increasing user trust.

Before starting the Growth org, I started and ran Play Commerce for Google Play. I also built the Google Store, where Google sells next-gen toys like ChromeCasts, Pixel phones and tablets, Nest Learning thermostats, Pixel watches, Chromebooks, and where we launched old school products like Nexus devices, and Google Glass. We also ran the digital store for Play, where you could buy Books, Movies, Apps and Games, Magazines, and Music.

We're a customer focused store, so we like to make our content available to our customers on whatever platform they choose. While we think Android works best, we provide great experiences for customers on other platforms like iOS as well.

My teams at Google are great places to work! Reach out if you're interested in joining. LinkedIn

Amazon #

I used to work at Amazon, where I helped launch the Amazon Appstore and Kindle Fire. That was a lot of fun.

I owned a few start-ups back in the day. Sold. Small exits.

The one consistent factor in all the stuff I've worked on is it's all cutting edge. I never get to tell people what I'm working on until after it's launched. First world problems.