Yu Chen

Co-Founder

2023 - Current

Fractional CTO/CPO and software development firm founded by "seasoned" engineering and product leaders from Google. We help early-stage startups build successful products and teams.

Startup Mentor

2021

MIT Sandbox provides a unique combination of seed funding, mentorship, and tailored entrepreneurship education to empower student innovators

Founding Member

2020

Modern, women-led community of accredited founder/operator angel investors.

Investor

2020

Member

2021 - 2022

Product Lead

2018 - 2019

Scaled our educational platform to expand access and increase outcomes: * Launched 2 new business lines (Data Science, Online Cohorts) generating ~ 50% of Flatiron's revenue * Launched service-oriented features that increased staff productivity ~5-15% * Lead team of 3 product managers and 3 squads (10 engineers)

Technical Program Manager

2014 - 2018

Built products from concept to xxMM users & commercial sales. • Launched Accelerator in the Philippines & Thailand (YouTube edge cache device for emerging markets) • Expanded Google Station across India and Indonesia. (Google managed fiber backed Wifi hotspots)

Sr Partner Technology Manager

2010 - 2014

Launched Google.org Crisis Response / Public Alerts in international markets, managed technical partnerships, scaled operations, and lead international ops teams. • Public Alerts in Canada • Public Alerts in Japan • Crisis Response in Taiwan • Crisis Response in Australia • Responded to 2014 Jakarta floods Drove Google Maps’ product and partnership success through building tools and processes that improve the efficiency and quality of deal execution, launch, and maintenance • Managed 300+ data acquisition accounts across EMEA and APAC • Led of team of 6 Technical Account Managers across 5 offices

Summer Associate

2009 - 2009

Owned workstream that validated and expanded the strategic initiatives of a 10 year, $30 billion capital program management project for major utilities client.

Client Solutions Consultant

2006 - 2008

• Designed, staffed, and managed projects, and achieved clients’ performance improvement and reporting goals through customization of and training on Utopy software • Developed a 6-month call center efficiency plan to automate sales verification. Led project execution and delivery, and achieved 75% drop in sales verification cost for client • Led Sales Engineering efforts on demos, sales meetings, and pilots. Secured contracts with large online payment solutions provider, and major international fast food restaurant chain

Senior Research Engineer

2001 - 2006

EVITA (Extensible VoIce porTAl) project • Led four person engineering team to develop multi-lingual voice UI software. Pitched the speech gateway project based on our software to Singapore 2nd largest hospital. Project signed for SGD$700k and awarded “The Enterprise Challenge Innovator’s Award” by the Singapore Prime Minister’s office • Consulted for COO and Operations Managers on project scope, technical design, implementation, and training. Project was delivered on schedule and opened to public beta-testing. Sentence Boundary Detection Research • Led three person research team to detect sentence units in speech transcripts (for semantic analysis of speech recognition results). IBM Websphere Language Integration • Delivered En-SG package for IBM Websphere Voice Server. Collaborated with IBM teams in France and Australia.