Manager Computer Science

Adam Mathes

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Objective

To create products that are beautifully designed,

functional, and delightful.

Key DifferentiatorsYears of product management experience launching and improving

software at Google along with experience personally creating

products as an entrepreneur.

An education in library science in addition to

computer science that brings a unique perspective to projects.

ExperiencePrincipal, Mermodynamics (2010 – present)

Solely designed, developed and launched products for the web, Mac OS, and iOS including,,,,,

Product Manager, Google (2005 – 2010)Google Book Search (2005 – 2007)Oversaw user experience, search quality, metadata,

and library facing features.

Created the world's largest downloadable digital book

repository by providing PDFs for public domain books.

Led design of tools to automatically extract structural

information, keywords, citations, and common phrase re-use

from books along with reviews and references from the web to produce

book reference pages.

Increased library books available to users from single digits to millions

through the launch of public domain and in-copyright books

scanned from libraries.

Launched corpus browsing features to enable exploration of

books beyond search.

Orkut (2008)Owned media and photo features.Grew daily photo uploads 5x over the year to become the largest photo sharing site in the

world by volume. Doubled photo-related pageviews.

Launched photo comments (leading to millions of

comments added per day) and other features to scale the

photo experience: albums, bulk uploader and editor, reordering,

higher upload limits.

Android (2009)Determined product direction for the web browser

and media applications in the Cupcake, Donut, and Eclair releases.Drastically reduced end-user latency of the camera and web browser through interface redesigns and performance improvements focused on the most common use cases.

Cofounder, Consumating.com (2003 – 2005)Sold to CNet in 2005.Co-created dating site that was a first to use tags for communication and search.Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Library and

Information Science, UIUC (2004 – 2005)

Assisted with graduate level courses in electronic

publishing and document modeling.

EducationMS in Library and Information Science,, 2005

BS in Computer Science,, 2002

o millions

through the launch of public domain and in-copyright books

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