Experience
Where I've worked
Resume (PDF) · TXTFeb 2021 — Present
Chief Operating Officer · Trainwell
- Trainwell is a 1-on-1 remote personal trainer and fitness app that has helped tens of thousands of people build healthier habits.
- Drove B2C ARR from $1k to $10M as growth leader before hiring a head of growth; scaled to $30M+ in revenue in the years since.
- Scaled the company from 3 to 125 employees as COO.
- Acquired customers on both $0 and $6.5M marketing budgets.
- Supported execution of a large-scale partnership with Peloton.
- Oversee all marketing/growth, customer support, and operations.
Feb 2020 — Nov 2021
VP of Business Development · Trainwell
- First full-time hire.
- Found initial user traction using the Bullseye framework outlined by Gabriel Weinberg (DuckDuckGo).
Feb — Sep 2020
Data Analyst · PNC Bank
- Extracted, cleaned, and analyzed millions of data points across home equity, mortgage, and credit card products (Python, T-SQL, Hadoop, PL/SQL).
- Defined the strategy for identifying mortgages with imperfect insurance termination dates, saving customers thousands.
- Key resource for the SBA Paycheck Protection Program — processed and approved hundreds of small-business loans.
Jul 2019 — Aug 2020
Founder · PocketPosture
- An ecommerce store selling posture-improvement devices. Broke even on sales.
- Primarily a space to experiment with off-the-wall marketing ideas — see the Towards Data Science article.
Dec 2017 — Jul 2019
Co-founder & COO · Community Phone (Y Combinator W19)
- Affordable cell phone service (MVNO). Bootstrapped from $0 to $300K ARR in one year.
- Wore many hats: sales, customer success, marketing, business development, analytics, retail management, recruiting, product sourcing, and more.
- Front-page coverage in the Boston Globe.
Nov 2017 — May 2018
Data Science Practicum Team Lead · LA County Elections Department
- Cut ballot collection times by 12% in the 2018 primary elections using the Google Maps API and k-means clustering.
Jan 2015 — Dec 2017
Graduate & Undergraduate Teaching Assistant · University of San Francisco
- TA'd Business Statistics, Calculus, Statistics with Applications, Intro to Data Science, and Bioinformatics.
- Lectured for the graduate Bioinformatics course as an undergraduate; graded assignments and led exam reviews.
Feb 2015 — May 2017
Event Staff · Planet Granite Climbing & Yoga
- Taught climbing technique and led team-building events.
Education
- Y Combinator — W19 batch (Community Phone)
- University of San Francisco — B.S. Data Science · Summa Cum Laude · GPA 3.85 · co-founded the Data Science Association
Skills
- Growth strategy
- Performance marketing
- Funnel optimization
- SEO
- Influencer marketing
- Python (advanced)
- SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- R
- Predictive modeling
- Google Analytics
Awards
- Most Impactful Graduate Research award — USF, 2017
- Inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics honor society — 2016
- 2nd place — Data Institute Data Science Hackathon, 2017
Publications
Published work
Towards Data Science · Dec 2019
Is it possible to predict poor posture?
Scraped ~1,000 websites to collect 200K+ public emails, ran a large-scale habits survey, and analyzed whether daily behavior predicts poor posture.
IEEE IEMCON · 2018
Applying deep learning to public health
Predicting thyroid disorder from imbalanced demographic data alone — +35% accuracy vs. the industry benchmark. Won USF's "Most Impactful Graduate Research" award.
Press
Coverage
Trainwell was previously called CoPilot, and before that DeltaTrainer — so the earlier coverage runs under those names.