Product Management, Data Science
Resume:
ANNA PANYU PENG
Innovation leader with *+ yrs of experience in consulting, product, data science, and fullstack engineering Berkeley Haas MBA UPenn M.S. Computer Science UT Austin B.S. Mathematics (honors) 512-***-**** *********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/1994annapeng/ California SUMMARY
Product leader with 8+ years of experience driving innovation across startup and enterprise environments. I have led product strategies and managed end- to-end lifecycles for impactful B2B and C2C solutions. With a strong foundation in data science, full stack development, and agile methodologies, I excel at turning user insights into measurable business results. Fluent in English and Mandarin and backed by advanced academic credentials, I am well-equipped to lead cross-functional teams and deliver transformative product initiatives. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director, Strategic Product Innovation
Matson 10/2022 - 02/2025 Honolulu & Oakland
140 years old ocean shipping company offering the fastest pacific shipping line Strategize, target, and implement the online assets for Matson innovation ecosystem by creating charters, innovation governance board, evaluating innovation vendors, and gathering strategic projects; Defined and executed the product roadmaps, integrating cross-functional insights to align with strategic business objectives and drive measurable revenue growth. Conceptualized and launched the Cost Engine, an AI-powered pricing calculator that empowers pricing analysts to generate optimal, high-margin shipping quotes by leveraging machine learning to analyze historical data, market trends, and competitor pricing
Collaborated closely with data scientists, full stack developers, and UX designers to build a scalable, user-friendly platform that reduced quote generation time by 40% and increased average profit margins by 15%. Built a brand-new innovation team by recruiting 2 full stack engineers, 1 senior business analytics manager, engaged 1 AWS architecture vendor Product Innovation Manager
Federal Reserve Bank San Francisco 12/2019 - 09/2022 San Francisco, CA
Advanced Data & Analytics Capabilities Group
Boosted economists' analytics productivity by 200% through building Board Data Platform (SaaS) on Cloudera for fast data monitoring and onboarding through SFTP or API; lead the data migration effort to AWS Cloud Strategized business roadmap and led a team of 8 data engineers as first responders to urgent data requests from governors at board, shortened work cycle by 75%, outputting critical data assets e.g. COVID-19 Survey Data directly impacting FOMC nation-wide
In 2.5 years, launched 5+ innovation products in RPA/ NLP/ Tableau/ RedShift/ Slingshot, etc.; Interviewed stakeholders and established and created strategic partnerships with 10+ organizations within Federal Reserve System, led budget negotiations and drafting charters/ SOW/ roadmaps with clients; reported product portfolio P&L A scrum master managing 3 projects' execution (worth over $5M+) and reporting via Agile on JIRA following roadmap, building a cross-functional relationship to resolve team conflicts and optimize team dynamics through trust-building exercises
Chief Product Officer/ Founder
BuzzzNow (https://www.buzzznow.com) 01/2018 - 11/2019 San Francisco, CA
A group social mobile chat APP for e-learners and experts; peak 20K users Implemented Design Sprint, pivoted 6 times with 50+ deep-dive user interviews and 100+ hi-fidelity iterations with validated learnings to arrive at the feature sets and user flows within MVP, reducing engineering refactoring cost by $100K; Led BD effort with Udemy and Udacity. Implemented A/B testing to optimize multiple features e.g. to decide the optimal size of a study group, improving monthly retention rate by 37% Ran Facebook/ Instagram marketing campaigns and accurately pinpointed target early adopters and evangelists 2X more likely to convert Growth hacking through building relationships w MBA programs, and cross- platform posting on Coursera, FB groups, Reddit to drive traffic, acquired 2000+ users within the first week post-launch
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Top performer with two Deloitte Applause Award
& Recognition for exceptional performance
Single-handedly built a command line software to
boost client's threat intel confidence by 40% and
fully automate the threat detection operation,
winning Deloitte an extended contract with a leading Financial Services company.
The Youngest Speaker at World Web Forum 2019
Zurich, Switzerland
Shared a unique research on GenZ "the Secrets of
Rising Stars from GenZ" for workplace retention,
featured in Global Talent Summit
Founder of Global Entrepreneurial Leaders
Institute (GELI)
Helped GenZ to pursue their passions and wildest
dreams through startups. Managed Global Leaders
Entrepreneurs and Altruists Network – a network of 2000 industry thought leaders including people like Guy Kawasaki etc.
SEA Education Association Scholarship
Sailed a 480-hour and 3597-nautical mile scientific research voyage to the Phoenix Islands Protected
Area (UNESCO World Heritage Site) with 20 selected students with world-renowned experts to create a
policy plan to ensure its protection, and conduct
oceanographic research on tuna larvae & coral reef. Meritorious Winner in 2015 Mathematical Contest
in Modeling (MCM), top 9% worldwide; Designed
an ML parallel algorithm Parallel Asynchronous
Greedy Dual Coordinate Descent and
implemented it in software library LIBSVM
CERTIFICATES/ TECHNICAL SKILLS
CSPO CompTIA Security +
GIAC Network Pen Tester
Scrum/ Kanban API SQL Tableau
JIRA Python Balsamiq Optimizely
Miro SDLC Agile Google Analytics
EDUCATION
MBA (Incoming Fall 2025)
University of California, Berkeley
08/2025 Berkeley, United States
Master of Science, Computer Information
& Technology
University of Pennsylvania
01/2023 - Present 4.0 GPA
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics &
Computer Science (Minor)
University of Texas at Austin
12/2013 - 05/2016 Austin, TX 3.8 GPA
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Data Scientist
First Republic Bank 03/2018 - 03/2019 San Francisco, CA Enterprise Data and Clients Insight Group
Worked w product planning team and built NLP models (topic modeling) on customer complaints data w tableau visualization, insights optimized resource allocation and boosted NPS from 88 to 95 for the 2nd quarter Worked w PM and led 2 other Data Analysts to identify Bank App improvement opportunities and test through AB testing using Optimizely, and provided technical input for product feature launch decisions Technology Consultant
Deloitte 05/2016 - 04/2018 Austin, Dallas, San Francisco The world's largest consulting firm
Launched Deloitte’s first threat analytics & intelligence confidence rating product, a command line software library that boosted threat intelligence confidence by 40% and reduced the time needed to evaluate the quality of threat feeds by 90% through built-in scheduled automatic vetting process Boosted client’s sales record by 10% via collecting Voice of Customers
(VoC) through social listening tools Synthesio, identified emerging risks on brand reputation, and suggested 5+ wording adjustments on market campaigns
Picked the right tool and saved client $10K a year after competitive analysis Visualized dynamic network relationships between patients and doctors to monitor in-network physicians' performance, efficiency, and influence Big Data Machine Learning Research Assistant
University of Texas at Austin 06/2015 - 12/2015 Austin, Texas Institute for Computational Engineering and
Sciences(https://oden.utexas.edu/)
Developed fast parallel algorithms and models in machine-learning library scikit-learn to solve optimization problems
Manipulated large data sets with a sample size over 1M in NumPy to create optimal models with the highest predicting accuracy; presented data findings, project updates, and diligence results to fellowship funders and research professionals
EDUCATION
Professional Certificate in Product
Innovation & Management
Northwestern University
01/2022 - 07/2022
Stanford Continuing Professional
Development (SCPD) 4.0GPA
Stanford University
08/2017 - 05/2018
Summer Semester 3.7GPA
Georgetown University
06/2013 - 08/2013
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature
(transferred away to UT Austin)
Shanghai International Studies University
09/2012 - 06/2013
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