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JOSHUA RAEL 2214 Riverview St [email protected] joshuarael.com Austin, TX 78702 505.690.9353
WORK EXPERIENCE
Meetup New York, NY Associate Product Manager, Starts June 2014 - October 2014
▪ Helped lead the team that researched, built, and launched new price points, projecting up to a $500k boost in revenue ▪ Increased visitors to the sales funnel by 50% YoY by identifying segments and creating target content ▪ Worked closely with the design team on a mobile-first redesign of the sales flow, to be implemented early 2015 ▪ Facilitated customer development using Jobs-to-be-done interviews with current and previous customers
One Kings Lane San Francisco, CA Product Management Intern, Mobile June 2013 - August 2013
▪ Led a team of three interns to draft and develop an internal AB Testing tool built on Rails ▪ Designed and created wireframes for the interaction of a “favoriting” feature, introduced in the mobile apps in early 2014 ▪ Researched and compiled a business case for a redesign of the mobile optimized website ▪ Implemented a monitoring dashboard for a local implementation of Storm, a real-time event processor
Atlassian Software San Francisco, CA Product Management Intern, Bitbucket June 2012 - August 2012
▪ Conducted a product analysis for Atlassian SourceTree that led to the development of a windows client ▪ Contributed to the discussion of a full website redesign of Bitbucket.org ▪ Performed a market analysis to determine potential partnerships in international markets ▪ Participated in multiple weekly development team scrums, in addition to product management and product strategy meetings
Intuit, Inc. Mountain View, CA (Remote) User Experience Design Intern, Mobile Payments March 2012 - May 2012
▪ Designed a new feature for Intuit GoPayment; presented to the senior executive team ▪ Created mockups and high-fidelity prototypes to AB test the iPhone app ▪ Interviewed potential customers and contributed to a detailed set of user stories and customer personas
CMC Forum Claremont, CA Graphic Designer September 2011 - December 2013
▪ Oversaw website and brand redesign ▪ Independently conceptualized and designed advertisements for both the online periodical and local businesses ▪ Discussed strategies for expanding readership
EDUCATION
Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science May 2014
Relevant Coursework: Mobile Software Development, Software Engineering (Senior Thesis), Algorithms, Data Structures and Program Development, Computer Systems, Digital Design
Programming Languages: Objective-C, Python, Java, C++, Haskell, HTML/CSS, Javascript, SQL
Agile Frameworks: Scrum (CSM), Jobs-to-be-done
SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES
▪ Hackathons – Greylock Hackfest 2013 Finalist; Phonesma.sh ▪ Improv Comedy – Student at Uptight Citizens Brigade ▪ Foreign Languages – Spanish; Summer 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina