Elizabeth has spent the past 10 years in product development, specializing in web developer tooling and humanitarian technology.
The tl;dr CV
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Senior Product Manager, Google
2018-present
Working on tooling and guidance to help developers successfully measure, optimize and monitor their web applications.
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Adjunct Faculty, Santa Clara University
2017-present
Teaching graduate courses in the School of Engineering that apply technical and entrepreneurial methodologies to develop new products and services for international markets.
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Director Corporate Innovation, GSVlabs
2017-2018
Led core product and business development for corporate partners seeking to develop positions in markets adjacent to their core business operations.
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Director Programs and Partnerships, Frugal Innovation Hub
2012-2017
Managed full lifecycle development of software and hardware products for international humanitarian enterprise clients.
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Program Coordinator, Green Energy Agents
2011-2012
Implemented pilot educational outreach program for 500+ disadvantaged youth in SF Bay Area, managing grant due diligence and curriculum creation.
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Masters of Science, Computer Science and Engineering
2017
Santa Clara University, School of Engineering
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Bachelors of Commerce, Business Management
2012
Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business
And now for the full version…
Regular speaker since 2012 at both industry and academic conferences. In recent years, talks have been focused on web developer tooling and website quality measurement.
Topics of expertise include:
web developer tooling, humanitarian technology, web performance metric optimization and quality measurement, and… well, magical ‘unishunds’ (unicorn dachshunds) have also made the cut on occasion.
A few examples…
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Google I/O 2021
“What’s New in Web Vitals”
We share the latest in our research about how to measure and optimize Web Vitals with tooling.
Co-speaker: Annie Sullivan
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web.dev LIVE 2020
“What’s New in Speed Tooling”
Our understanding of how to effectively measure and optimize a user's experience is continually evolving, and we keep our metrics and tooling updated to reflect the latest in our learnings. This talk covers where to measure your Core Web Vitals in the lab and in the field, as well as how to leverage the newest features and products to build and maintain exceptionally fast experiences for all of your users.
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HolyJS 2020
“Core Web Vitals: Theory and Practice”
A deep dive into both theory and practice of Core Web Vitals, including: what CWV are, why they matter and how to measure them, how the Lighthouse score is calculated and what part CWV play in it, and how to optimize Core Web Vitals in practice (with a case study of a real site).
Co-speaker: Ivan Akulov
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Chrome Dev Summit 2019
“Speed Tooling Evolutions”
Our understanding of how to accurately represent and optimize for a users' experience continues to grow more accurate and informed. This talk covers the newest user-centric metrics in our tools, and how to leverage Google and Chrome's newest features and products to build and maintain an exceptionally fast experience for all of your users.
Co-speaker: Paul Irish
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Google I/O 2019
“Demystifying Speed Tooling”
Talk delivered on how to effectively assess and optimize site performance. Session dives into how to methodically diagnose, benchmark against both lab and field metrics, and monitor your site speed using Google's tools.
Co-speakers: Paul Irish, Amir Rachum
Elizabeth is currently a Product Manager at Google, working on the Chrome Web Platform team with a focus on developer tools.
Professional Experience
Product Manager, Google
2018 - PRESENT
Product owner of a portfolio of developer tools and initiatives on the Chrome Web Platform team that provide actionable guidance to developers to improve the quality of web content.
Products include Lighthouse, Lighthouse CI, PageSpeed Insights (PSI - front-end web app, API), web.dev, and Chrome User Experience Report (API, dataset). Portfolio is mission critical for several top level strategic interests for Web Platform, Chrome, and Search.
Adjunct Faculty, Santa Clara University
2017 - PRESENT
Teaching graduate courses that apply engineering and entrepreneurial methodologies to develop new technologies, products and services for international markets. Course includes masters engineering students from civil, computer, applied math, bio, electrical and mechanical engineering.
The aim of the course is for students to be able to:
Defend the value of acquiring skills to design impactful solutions for emerging markets, and communicate relationships between global stakeholders.
Craft business plans and product specifications geared towards emerging market consumers, and critically evaluate how likely they are to succeed as well as assess their impact on stakeholders.
Apply rigorous technical and entrepreneurial processes to implement new technologies, products, and services appropriate for emerging market consumers.
Director Corporate Innovation, GSVlabs
2017 - 2018
Successfully founded and shaped the core technology of 2 startups for corporate clients, translating broad patents into focused product strategies, deploying MVPs, and facilitating pre-seed and seed rounds.
Led development and execution of a suite of product and market services for corporate business units to:
Explore and validate markets peripheral to their core business
Develop innovative products and business models that strategically align with broader company direction
Partner effectively with early stage technology startups
Responsible for management of workflows around business strategy, product development, market research, and investment readiness including:
Scoping requirements based on user, technology, and market research
Managing technical development teams throughout the product lifecycle
Running pilots with field partners to validate MVPs
Developing phased growth and investment strategies alongside product strategy
Serving as primary interface for all project stakeholders, regularly re-establishing consensus about project scope and mitigating expectation misalignments
Director Programs and Partnerships, Frugal Innovation Hub
2012-2017
Managed full lifecycle development of software and hardware products for international enterprise clients as part of an externally facing program in the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University.
Responsible for scoping of customer needs, development of product requirements, and management of project teams across business and engineering disciplines against defined KPI’s.
Examples of products deployed:
HIPAA compliant cross-platform SaaS application
Smart water meter with predictive analytics
LAMP web application
EPA adherent heavy metal electrochemical sensor
Developed and led partnerships with corporations, social enterprises and universities resulting in such programs as the Summer Institute for Humanitarian Computing with Google, Social Innovation Workshops with Nasdaq-OMX, and a Mobile for Humanity online accelerator with Vodafone Americas Foundation.
Program Coordinator, Green Energy Agents
2011-2012
Implemented pilot educational outreach program for 500+ disadvantaged youth in SF Bay Area, managing grant due diligence and curriculum creation.
Intern, Motor Technologies Inc.
2010-2011
Assisted in patent drafting, international filing, and maintenance of two successfully issued patents for a proprietary internal combustion engine valve.
Industry Engagements
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Product Consultant
Over the past ~8 years I’ve been invited as a consultant for many seed and sieries A startups, with products ranging from 3D bioprinters with accompanying educational curriculum to vertical farming to charitable giving portfolio management (SaaS product). I’ve provided market analysis and product guidance for these firms, serving in formal and informal capacities.
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Technical Reviewer
Getting to participate in different conferences, competitions, and committees as a technical reviewer and judge is something I enjoy deeply. From reviewing academic paper submissions to the Global Humanitarian Technology conference to being a judge for the Tech Awards for the Tech Museum of Innovation, or being a Board Committee Member for SXSW Eco., I’ve been lucky enough to participate and meet a whole slew of insanely intelligent, passionate people.
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Mentorship
Either formally as an entrepreneurship mentor for programs like Startup Weekends with Google or attending sessions as a panelist for women in tech, or informally having 1:1 career conversations with current students or professionals looking to pivot into product management… I regularly engage and enjoy mutual learning opportunities.
Degree in Business Management with a pre-law focus, a minor in Middle Easter Foreign Policy, and a masters in Computer Science and Engineering.
Education
Masters of Science, Computer Science and Engineering
Santa Clara University, Graduate School of Engineering, 2017
Some might say I did my degrees in the wrong order…. and they’d be right. Starting with a non-technical degree and then having the epiphany that you love working with engineers and diving deep into technical products is not the most ideal order of operations.
Within 6 months of working with engineers of all types - from bioengineers to electrical to civil and computer - I knew that these were my people. I also knew that my skills and passions lay adjacent to being a practicing engineer. But in order to serve a technical team well - even in a non-technical capacity - I would need to know my stuff.
So, I did a year of technical prerequisites to apply for the graduate engineering program, and then began 2 years of learning how to code in C, make sure packets weren’t lost, and debug Verilog. (The latter of which can kindly go fly a kite.)
The masters restructured how I think fundamentally; the flow of my thoughts and how I frame problems will never be the same. I also came away from the masters with:
a deep appreciation for how stunningly complex even simple implementation decisions can be,
an informed domain graph for knowing how to classify technical problems and ask the right questions, and
a firmly held belief that all of my teachers were lying to me and computation is in fact made possible by microscopic elves and not a repeated layering of logic on top of ‘on/off.’
Bachelors of Commerce, Business Management (Minor in Middle Eastern Foreign Policy)
Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business, 2012 (Cum Laude)
My management degree was a solid, neutral foundation of skills and knowledge upon which I could grow. That’s the genteel way of saying that when I started my degree, I had no &$*%ing idea what I wanted to do with my life.
Upon reflection, I had a few important things going for me. First was a genuine curiosity about - well, basically everything. While this generalist nature is a double edged sword that - if unfettered - can lend to unfocused direction, it served as a fire for me to take obscure classes and venture outside of the core curriculum. This led me to uncovering new passions, and resulted in my getting a minor in Middle Eastern Foreign Policy.
Another factor I had going in my favor was an engrained ‘Filter 0,’ which served as a starting point for whittling the 360 degrees of possible career directions down to a more manageable set. This filter was (at the risk of sounding like a bleeding heart millennial) the knowledge that I wanted to do something that had a tangible positive impact on society. Throughout my career thus far, I’ve managed to stay true to this filter and found roles that serve this need to varying degrees.