Platforms and Distributed Systems | Tinkerer | Amateur Computational Linguist |
I am a Software Product Manager.
Professionally, I have worked in the identity and access management space, consumer lending space, and second language acquisition space.
Personally, I research the role of technology (like AI) in second language acquisition.
Things I believe in Product Management:
A lot of cool innovations start from taking a solution and then finding a problem. Many cases, technology precedes theory.
I don't like the crawl, walk, run mantra. Implies that the solution will run. I prefer nail it before you scale it or gotta survive before you thrive.
Build great systems and environments and teams to let great products happen.
Be willing to lose a little in order to gain a big payoff. Agile is a good mindset.
If your product is already successful, purposely break it to make it better.
Here is a snippet of what I worked on at some places.
IdentityNow and IdentityAI Platform Services
Leading transformation from Product to Platform, Developer Partner Program, API Gateway, Integration Services, Authentication/Authorization Services,
Dealertrack F & I Compliance 1.0 and 2.0
Document management systems, task management systems, AWS migration, microservices, APIs for awesome subscription product that saves dealerships millions in dollars in fines from Federal and State consumer credit regulations.
Check out this video for the product
Consumer Credit Compliance Certified Professional through NAF Association
Certified Scrum Product Owner through SCRUM Alliance
DecisionLender 3.5 and 4.0
Replatfoming next generation loan origination systems with client side configurable auto decisioning rules, classifications, event trigger systems, integrations and data transformations. My favorite feature was A/B testing framework for credit policies.
Check out this video for the product
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner
ping2pong
Instead of 1 to 1 reciprocal language exchange model, we built ping2pong, a broker of language exchanges. See video to get a sense.
My background is in Languages / Linguistics. I still try to keep up with learning Japanese and Mandarin Chinese
MA Candidate in Second Language Studies
Copy Editor - Reading in a Foreign Language
Research in Curriculum Development Based on Grammar Frequency - Computational Linguistics and Computer Assisted Language Learning.
Academic Advisor: Dr. Graham Crookes
BA in Languages emphasis in Japanese
Student Showcase (Senior Year) - 英語の冠詞の指導方法
Academic Advisor: Dr. Hiroko Harada
Taught English as a Second Language at Anchorage Literacy Project
Study Abroad during undergrad Junior Year
Austin, TX andrew@lupong.com