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Career · 2013–now

By day.

Risk, fraud and compliance teams all run on the same data. I build the platforms that give it to them, usually where new technology meets finance.

2022–now

MoneyGram

Senior Product Manager

Remote

Payments · Crypto · AI

Global payments for 150M+ users in 200+ countries.

I work on the shared platform behind MoneyGram's risk, fraud and compliance teams: the case management, screening and investigation tools that new products depend on.

  • Helped launch crypto wallet, debit card and online bank account products by putting the compliance technology behind them in place.
  • Unified sanctions, AML and fraud reviews into one case management platform, setting up a vendor-agnostic move to a new system.
  • Led an in-house app to replace MS CRM for managing watchlists and holds: MVP in 3 months, full migration in 9, with less reliance on vendors.
  • Moved agent onboarding and investigation workflows from World-Check One into our case management system.
  • Now revamping agent onboarding end to end, bringing 7–8 teams into one new flow on a new case management system.
  • Leading AI summarization and decision-making for investigations.
  • Primary liaison for global reporting and investigation teams, finding ways to make cross-region work smoother.
  • Shape roadmaps with compliance, risk, data and IT teams.

2018–2022

Compliance.ai

Product Manager

San Francisco

Regtech · Machine learning

Financial regulatory change management, made simple. Acquired by Archer in 2024.

I built the pipeline that pulled in millions of regulatory documents from thousands of sources, the tools our data team ran on, and a new API product line.

  • Built a scalable way to collect millions of documents from thousands of sources, cutting the time to build or fix a crawler from weeks to hours.
  • Managed data acquisition and quality for 2.5M+ government documents feeding machine learning projects.
  • Created internal admin tools that let a data operations team form and scale, from zero to about 40 daily users.
  • Launched a new product line for API integrations and documentation, accounting for 20% of ARR.
  • Led a “Glassdoor”-style feature from zero to one, making content quality and issue resolution transparent to clients.
  • Led the Scrum of Scrums to keep teams aligned as the product grew.

2015–2018

FundPaaS

Product & Compliance Manager

San Francisco

Online capital raising

Funding Platform-as-a-Service: turned any business's website into its own crowdfunding portal, and its customers into investors.

Built the product that let businesses raise capital on their own sites, through an embeddable "Fund Me" button and APIs for crowdfunding portals and broker-dealers, just as Regulation Crowdfunding opened private investing to everyone in 2016.

  • First hire: set up the processes across marketing, sales, fundraising and recruiting, and helped grow the team to 10+.
  • Integrated payments, escrow and KYC vendors, and redesigned sign-up to cut its steps by 25% while collecting more of the data we needed.
  • Personally brought on about 80% of our clients, and turned their feedback into the product requirements.
  • Translated securities regulations into simple requirements for engineering, and ran QA on releases.
  • Acting Chief Compliance Officer for CustVestor, the company’s FINRA/SEC-regulated funding portal.
  • Shaped how deals were vetted: offerings scored by credit and risk tier, market and product research, with qualified deals shared with money managers through an API.

Earlier

  • 2018

    PayPal

    Product Risk (contract)

    Digital payments

    Internal control partner for the Merchant and Braintree product teams: tracked risk and compliance issues from discovery to fix, and built executive dashboards on key trends and risks.

  • 2014–2016

    New Resource Bank

    Compliance Analyst

    Banking for sustainability

    A bank for businesses promoting sustainability (acquired by Amalgamated Bank in 2018). Built a BSA/AML risk assessment approved by the board and the FDIC, cut transaction-monitoring false positives by 20%, and captured 30% more customer identification data.

  • 2013–2014

    Charles Schwab

    AML Analyst

    Where it started

    Started my career in anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) work at one of the biggest names in brokerage and banking.

Along the way

  • B.A., Economics and Philosophy

    University of California, Davis · 2013

  • Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

    ACAMS · 2015–2018

  • Speaker: FinTech and Startups

    Banking & Investment Association, San Jose State University · 2017

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