Connor McLeod

Perspect

Perspect.xyz - The platform for high-performance software teams.
Gain real-time insight into the contributions and impact of your technology team, so you can optimize resources and reward high-performers.

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Chief Meme Officer 

Nerd

Managing a studio of 5 startups including:
-VPS/Webhosting 
-Recoverable blockchain wallet
-Gamified Developer Impact Tool, think Strava or Apple Health for Developers but with blockchain rewards instead of random internet points.
-HR Tech/Services
-Blockchain Rewards Platform


Lead the studio team across ideation, validation, MVP development, branding, GTM, marketing, & sales.

EVP of Platform Technology and Businesses

Interim CEO of one of our studio startups during the 0 to 1 / GTM phase. Led the team and led the CEO search process for the startup.

CEO of Perspect - Interim

Resumes, Linkedin, and interviews all have the same problem - they are horrible at telling the story of technology professionals. For developers who are looking for ways to prove their impact and credibility, Perspect is a performance & productivity measurement platform that proves a developer’s soft & hard skills using AI and Machine Learning. Unlike Jira or LinkedIn our product tracks skills in real-time from a wholistic set of data sources and creates scores that are owned and managed by the developer - not by the business.


Nerd is a Web3 startup incubator focused on delivering real value to people via the blockchain. We are working on cutting edge blockchain projects that will determine the future of software development, healthcare, efficient energy, and that is just to get started.

•Product-Discovery & Rapid learning to drive execution and product-market fit.
•Web3/Blockchain startup studio with a mission to elevate the status of technical creative professionals worldwide. 
•We support startups across many significant industries and help them build the best innovation/technology teams they can.

SVP of Product 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

•Define personalization and content discovery strategy/roadmap for the corporate investment bank (44k+ technology employees). Resulting in $XXm+ investment to build tech team and cover technology costs required to build out the personalization/discovery platform.
•Implemented product management best practices (OKRs, PRDs, Product Discovery Process, Agile Scrum, etc.) resulting in increased funding for product/engineering teams and visibility into product/engineering work.

VP of Product - AI/ML

Branded Entertainment Network

•Interim Growth Product Lead - shipped 10 major growth projects leading to 15%+ increase in YRR revenue.
•Defined product strategy focused on creators and the creator economy resulting in $Xm+ investment to fund engineering, sales, marketing, and product/design.
•Purchased and drove the implementation of core product analytics/growth technologies (Amplitude, Braze, and SalesForce) leading to the first quantitative product understanding of product engagement/interaction and +10% MAU
•Lead transition to Agile Scrum for product/engineering team resulting in increased engineering efficiency

Product Lead - Creators

Ancestry

•Lead product initiatives of 7-10 PMs and designers, drive product vision of Data Science and DNA Science projects, and define the product strategy/vision for 3 scrum teams.
•Used customer research to design, test, iterate, and ship end-to-end recommendation systems improvements resulting in 3%+ increase in sign-ups, 5%+ increase in site-wide key engagement metrics (Impacting 2M+ customers), 10% increase in Thrulines DAU, 21% increase in Thrulines CSAT (Impacting 100k+ customers)
•Used data analysis to identify and ship 3 platform improvements (algorithm, model, and search) resulting in 19% increase in discoverable content (~600m Historical Records) and a $2M/yr decrease in AWS spend.

Key Skills/Technologies: 
User-centered design, user research, Figma, SQL, data analysis, Tableau, A/B testing, machine learning models, search systems (ElasticSearch), graph systems, personalized recommendation systems, innovation/ideation, agile scrum, product roadmap definition, cross-functional team management, EMR, Neptune, Fargate, EKS, and Spark.

Technical Product Manager - Recommendations & Personalization

Crocker Fellowship (Startup Studio)

•Created a New Venture Dashboard utilizing design, technology, and commercialization best practices to identify milestones and next best steps for ventures leading to 60% YoY increase in startup commercialization.
•Consult/Coached startup teams on product roadmap, interdisciplinary workflow, project management, user-testing and IoT product development resulting in startups (on average) delivering functional MVPs 16% faster.
•(2020) Annual revenue of startups founded during my time in the incubator: >$1M, Investment in startups founded in incubator: >$2m, 1 Times Magazine top 100 invention, 1 Y-Combinator backed startup.

Key Skills/Technologies:
Python, SQL, Tableau, project management, agile scrum, startup consulting, founder coaching, donor/fund management, startup law, IP/patent law, social media marketing, online advertising, and user research.

Product Lead | GTM/Growth 

Portal Entryways, Inc.

YC W19
•Drove backlog and roadmap, helping our designers and engineers/developers to test with customers, iterate, and deliver our MVP 1 month ahead of schedule, resulting product led to $20,000 in YRR and 50+ presales.
•Used interviewing, surveys, and prototyping to move from ideation to nationwide deployment of hundreds of IoT devices with accompanying software and mobile apps resulting in 90%+ CSAT across 400+ customers.
•Managed investor and customer relationships leading to $300k+ in equity-free money, and $30k in beta sales.

Key Skills/Technologies:
Product-driven development, social-impact measurement, social entrepreneurship, investor presentations, marketing strategy, A/B testing, IoT product development, Python, mobile app development, Cordova, JavaScript, Swift, Java, B2B sales strategy, Figma, InVision, and human-centered design

Founder - CEO

Ballard Center for Economic Self Reliance

•Create and maintain relationships with socially minded businesses - including Google, Ashoka, Acumen, Appopo, Religious Freedoms and Business Foundation, Teach for America, and Fairtrasa.
•Assist in finding and organizing 30+ social innovation projects for incoming 120+ interns.
•Used VBA, and excel to optimize and/or automate different aspects of our work.
•Implement new CRM system and train staff on usage.
•Manage and Train 5 Internship Directors on topics including issue-spotting, project proposal creation, crucial conversations, project management, and Human-Centered Design

Program Director

•Advise and consult 4 teams of interns in project creation, management, and execution.
•Teach interns methods of innovation and human-centered design
•Train on and grade project proposals/final project presentations.
•Maintain great relations with partners representing organizations including: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Religious Freedoms and Business Foundations, Teens Act, Acumen, and Benetech.

Internship Director

Building Cool Tech? Let's talk - Gamified Developer Impact Measurement

As the SVP of Product at Nerd United, a Web3 startup incubator, I am passionate about delivering real value to people via transformational technology. I lead the product-discovery and rapid learning process to drive execution and product-market fit for 0 to 1 projects in various industries, such as software dev tools, healthcare, carbon capture, gaming and efficient energy.

I have a background in AI/ML, platforms, and 0 to 1 product development, with previous experience as VP of Product at JPMorgan Chase and Product Lead at Branded Entertainment Network and Ancestry. I have also founded and consulted several startups, and received multiple grants and honors for innovation and entrepreneurship. I am motivated by creating impactful solutions that make the world a more liveable place for the disenfranchised and sidelined.

SVP of Product

Nerd is a Web3 startup incubator focused on delivering real value to people via the blockchain. We are working on cutting edge blockchain projects that will determine the future of software development, healthcare, efficient energy, and that is just to get started.

We're hiring Product Managers, UX/UI designers, User Researchers and Software Engineers - reach out!
•Product-Discovery & Rapid learning to drive execution and product-market fit.
•Web3/Blockchain startup studio with a mission to elevate the status of technical creative professionals worldwide. 
•We support startups across many significant industries and help them build the best innovation/technology teams they can.

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