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Product thinker exploring real-user problems

Early-career product professional who completed the BeReal product management externship and focuses on turning user insight into product decisions.

Work samples

Portfolio of projects completed during the BeReal product management externship and related hands-on product work, showing process, decisions, and outcomes.

  • Process Improvement Initiative: Pareto Analysis
    Process Improvement Initiative: Pareto Analysis

    Designed multi-layered Pareto charts segmenting defects by product family, part type, and defect category to identify root contributors; findings set corrective action priorities and supported data-driven leadership decisions.

  • Personal Finance Automation Tool: Self-Directed PM Project
    Personal Finance Automation Tool: Self-Directed PM Project

    Led a project through the full lifecycle, producing a charter, scope, stakeholder register, 8-week milestone schedule, and risk register; managed tasks and progress in Asana.

    Asana

About me

Early-career product professional who completed the BeReal product management externship and focuses on turning user insight into product decisions.

I am a project and operations professional with almost three years of experience in manufacturing. My work involves implementing corrective-action programs, managing technology transfers, and launching new production lines, all while collaborating with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders. Currently, I lead the largest team at my plant, supervising over 20 employees. My experience includes serving as Interim Quality Manager and acting as a key liaison among operations, engineering,

Externships

BeReal Product Management Externship

In progress

Experience

Operational Group Leader, Small Shapes

Vesuvius · July 2026 – Present

Interim Quality Manager / QA Technician

Vesuvius · July 2024 – July 2026

Education

IBM via Coursera

IBM Project Management Professional Certificate (In Progress)

Rich East High School

Diploma · Class of 2018

Skills

Project Planning & SchedulingResource AllocationStatus ReportingRisk & Issue TrackingVariance Tracking & Corrective ActionExecutive & Stakeholder CommunicationCross-Functional CoordinationValidation, Training & Deployment SupportExcelAsanaTeamworkSQLMySQLphpMyAdminKPI ReportingPareto & Root Cause Analysis8D / CAPA

Process Improvement Initiative: Pareto Analysis

Designed multi-layered Pareto charts segmenting defects by product family, part type, and defect category to identify root contributors; findings set corrective action priorities and supported data-driven leadership decisions.

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Personal Finance Automation Tool: Self-Directed PM Project

Led a project through the full lifecycle, producing a charter, scope, stakeholder register, 8-week milestone schedule, and risk register; managed tasks and progress in Asana.

Asana
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Database Operations Lab: MySQL / phpMyAdmin

Built and managed relational databases, structured datasets, and ran queries and data workflows, applicable to project data tracking and reporting.

MySQLphpMyAdmin
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BeReal Product Management Externship

Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.

DesignProduct ManagementUI/UX

Overview

The externship analyzed engagement mechanics and competitor benchmarks for a social app, then designed and prototyped a growth-oriented feature that preserved the platform's emphasis on authenticity. Work included feature concepting, comparative analysis, and a low-fidelity prototype.

BeReal Product Management Externship

What I've accomplished

I reviewed major social apps, compared engagement features, and designed a prototype growth feature that aimed to retain authentic user interactions.

Project breakdown

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