Thirty years of shipping.

Building

Side projects and what comes next

Since leaving Google in April 2026 I have been building things with my own hands again: AI products and a handful of small tools.

YouTube

Director, Product Management · Viewer AI and Learning

Led product for YouTube Learning for the full tenure, and from 2023 defined how generative AI shows up for viewers across the platform.

Viewer AI · 2023–2026

• Defined YouTube’s multi-year strategy for AI in viewer journeys across the platform.
• Took Ask, Gemini tuned for video so you can ask questions about what you’re watching, from early prototype to hundreds of millions of monthly users across web, mobile and the living room. One of YouTube’s fastest-growing AI experiences.
• Aligned executives, policy and partner teams so Ask could handle sensitive topics and be available to under-18 viewers.
• Spotted the opening for AI Summaries, then prototyped and launched them across Home, Search and Watch.
• Founded and staffed a new team for generative video transformation and creation for viewers, combining Gemini and Veo.

YouTube Learning · 2021–2026

• Set the product strategy twice: first active learning, Courses and institutional adoption; then, in 2024, a pivot to AI-powered tutoring on YouTube content.
• Scaled Learning on Ask, built on the LearnLM model, to millions of monthly users at twice the engagement of Ask overall.
• Built YouTube Courses from zero to millions of courses from hundreds of thousands of creators.
• Grew Quizzes to tens of millions, made by millions of creators: the highest-engagement post type on the platform.
• Launched Player for Education, ad-free YouTube for schools on a licensing model that still pays creators.
• Brought teams from several Google product areas into one YouTube Learning organization.

Minerva Project

Founding Chief Product Officer

Minerva set out to build a university from scratch around what the science of learning says actually works. I led the technology that made it possible: Forum, a live video seminar platform designed so that no student could sit in the back row.

• Built the product organization from the founding team to 180+ people over nine years.
• Led development of the proprietary platform used by high schools, universities and corporations worldwide.
• Led Minerva’s partnerships bringing the platform and pedagogy to other institutions.
• Named inventor on the patents behind Forum, and co-author of the MIT Press chapter describing it.
• Built a team known for candid feedback, sustainable pace and continuous improvement.

Yahoo!

Senior Director, Product Management

Joined through the acquisition of Xoopit and led social and photo product initiatives across the company, including in Yahoo! Mail.

Alongside · advisor and angel investor

• Bagcheck (2010–2011), acquired by Twitter.
• Versly (2010–2011), acquired by Cisco.

Xoopit

Co-founder and VP Product

Xoopit turned the photos, videos and files buried in your inbox into something you could actually browse and share, first as an add-on for Gmail and then inside Yahoo! Mail. I owned the product end to end, including engineering, product management and marketing, and shared running the company with the CEO.

Tellme Networks

Senior Director, Product Management

Tellme put voice recognition on the phone network years before anyone carried an assistant in their pocket. I built its service-provider business.

• Took the Service Provider business from zero to more than $50M in revenue.
• Grew automated Directory Assistance from 0 to 60% market share in three years, owning the P&L for a third of company revenue.
• Launched Directory Assistance within four months of inception and rolled it out with Verizon and AT&T Wireless, leading a team of 25+.
• Delivered Voice Activated Dialing for AT&T Wireless.

Ignition

Entrepreneur in Residence

Developed business plans, ran diligence on prospective investments, and advised portfolio companies on technical and business strategy.

Microsoft / Vermeer

FrontPage and Office · Engineer to Program Manager

Joined Vermeer Technologies in Cambridge out of college. Vermeer made FrontPage, one of the first tools that let people build a website without writing HTML. Microsoft bought the company four months later.

• Engineered the FrontPage Server Extensions for web servers from Microsoft, Netscape and OpenMarket, on Windows and UNIX.
• Led the Active Web team: databases on the web made easy, and FrontPage as a platform with VBA, an object model and COM add-ins.
• Took over a struggling Setup team and shipped on time with Office.
• As Program Manager, defined how web services would integrate into the next version of Office.

Harvard University

A.B. Computer Science, cum laude · Phi Beta Kappa

• John Harvard Scholarship; Ford Foundation research grant.
• Teaching Fellow for CS50 and for CS 175/275, Advanced Graphics. Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
• Captain of Harvard Ultimate Frisbee. Time in the Radcliffe ceramics studio.