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Summary

Experienced attorney and product leader with a demonstrated history of work in the legal and compliance technology services industries.
Highly skilled in Project Management, Agile and Linear Team Management, Legal and Technical Writing, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Legal Research, Editing, and Public Speaking.

A strong legal, technical and management professional with an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. 

Experience

CS DISCO

Aug. 2022Present

Director of Product for Search & AI

  • Responsible for managing all product requirements and prioritization for Search related features at DISCO.
  • Designed primary generative AI prompts for DISCO's recently announced "Cecilia AI Assistant".
  • Promoted to manage 'AI Accelerator' team, focused on bringing new and transformative AI features to market.
  • Brought DISCO's revolutionary AI Auto Review product from conception to launch, enabling customers to rapidly tag documents using plain-language tag descriptions.

Director of Product for Regulatory Solutions

  • Responsible for product design and requirements, software development, and go-to-market for all Fyllo Regulatory Solutions products.
  • Spearheaded the post-acquisition migration and rewrite of an entire product suite onto a new platform.
  • Managed a four person product management team focused on improving the customer experience for Fyllo's Regulatory product offerings.
  • Led a keystone initiative to massively scale Fyllo's data pipeline; enabling wider municipal regulatory coverage.

RegsTechnology, Remote

20192020 (acquired by Fyllo)

Director of Product Development

  • Responsible for all product design, software development, and development resource management.
  • Implemented significant upgrades to the user experience for the flagship 'CannaRegs' product.
  • Led development of new automation systems to streamline regulatory data import & processing.
  • Prepared for and managed a successful company exit through acquisition by Fyllo.

Flagship Product Manager

  • Responsible for all business management, product design, and software development relating to the Fastcase legal research platform. 
  • Overhauled the company's software development process to implement agile best-practices, including standups, sprint planning, and sprint retros. 
  • Led a major company-wide initiative to entirely replace the flagship legal research application with a new version. Ran the team that designed, focus-grouped, built, tested and released the current 'Fastcase7' research platform. 

HMS, Washington D.C. Metro Area

20132013

In-House Counsel Legal Intern

United Nations Information Center, Washington D.C. Metro Area

20092010

Analyst

  • Compiled weekly digests of all major UN publications globally, to be distributed to members of congress and other interested parties.
  • Also compiled reports of major think tank publications in the DC Metropolitan Area, for distribution to various UN branches.
  • Attended congressional hearings and briefings, as well as important or relevant think tank presentations, in order to record noteworthy events and send summaries to headquarters in New York.
  • Assisted with public relations activities, including a visit by the Secretary General.

Partnership for a Secure America, Washington D.C. Metro Area

20082008

Project Management Intern

  • Conducted research on foreign policy. Wrote opinion articles for the PSA blog.
  • Drafted substantive policy statements to be signed by an advisory board of well-regarded scholars in the field of foreign affairs.
  • Edited nearly all materials prior to publication by the organization.
  • Managed and redesigned PSA website.
  • Formatted and contributed to several major PSA publications, including the complete design and publication of the PSA Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparedness Report Card

Education

Georgetown University Law Center

20112015

Juris Doctorate

Participated in the JD/MPP program and the Legal Realism curriculum.

Princeton University

20052009

Arts Baccalaureate

International Relations and Political Theory
Summa Cum Laude

Inter Community School Zurich

20032005

High School

International Baccalaureate (European AP Equivalent)

Skills

Product Management

Owning the success of a product, understanding and meeting customer needs, writing clear requirements, and ruthlessly prioritizing.

Team Management

Setting and monitoring achievable goals, mentoring and fostering team development, and owning team success or failure.

Generative AI, ML, & NLP
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Subject Classification
  • Entity Extraction
  • Sentiment Analysis
Writing and Editing

Communicating complex legal and technical concepts in a way that makes them understandable to people without domain expertise.

Data Analysis

Finding and exploiting patterns in large datasets to streamline and automate data-intensive processes.

Database & Search Frameworks
  • Vector search
  • PostGreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Cosmos DB
  • Elastic Search
Public Speaking

Experienced in training, panel discussions, and live performance.

Web Design

UX and UI best practices, as well as a solid understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Certifications

State Bar of California

2016

Admitted to Practice Law

Languages

  • French: Limited Working
  • English: Native
  • German: Professional Working