Digital Product Builder
Hi there, I'm Chip. I’m a digital product leader and social entrepreneur with a mission to create products and systems that support people, their health, and their communities. I care about creating equity, access, and dignity and I like building products that do the same. I proudly work in The Triangle NC tech ecosystem.
Overall: I care about, work on, teach, and advise folks on:
- Digital Product Strategy
- Technology x Healthcare and Government
- Startup Product, Engineering, and Data Architecture
Stories + Guides
Projects + Engagements
The Amalgamation
🏛️ Government Tech
Product Advisor | Marketplace and Product Strategy, Product Architecture
Guaranteed Health
🥼 Digital Health
VP of Product and Engineering | Digital Health Product Strategy, Product Architecture, Technical Product Management
Parachute Health
🥼 Digital Health
Product Manager | Marketplace and Product Strategy, Product Architecture, Technical Product Management
Tastemakers Africa
✈️ Travel
CTO | Marketplace Product Strategy, Product Architecture, Technical Product Management, Software Engineering, Data Science
Periodikal
🏦 FinTech
Product Advisor + Interim CTO | SaaS Product Strategy, Wireframe Prototyping, Product Architecture, Technical Product Management
NYC Office of Technology and Innovation
🏛️ Government Tech
Client Workshop + Engagement | Project Management, Mission + Brand Consulting
Collectively
Founder + Director of Studio | Team Management, Product Architecture, Mission + Brand Consulting, Community Engagement
GoodWerk
📣 Political Engagement Tech
Client Engagement | Product Architecture, Web Development, Social Community Engagement
Agritecture + AgTech-X
🌳 Environment Tech
Client Workshop + Engagement | Project Management, Mission + Brand Consulting, Community Engagement
Justice for Kurds
Client Workshop + Engagement | Product Management, Theatre Operations, Mission + Brand Consulting, Community Engagement
Media + Interviews
Resume
→ advisor @ The Amalgamation 🪧
→ former VP of product and engineering @ Guaranteed Health 🧑⚕️
→ mentor @ Five One Labs 🇮🇶
→ mentor @ Gaza Sky Geeks 🇵🇸
→ advisor, former interim chief technology officer @ Periodikal 🧮
→ former product manager @ Parachute Health 🪂
→ caregiver to my Dad, ALS patient
→ former chief technology officer @ Tastemakers Africa 🌍
→ partner nyc open data week 2018 📈
→ speaker @ impact summit 2018 💡
→ founder and former director of studio @ Collectively 🚀
→ former lead software engineer @ Referrio 📝
→ B.S. computer science @ Case Western Reserve University 🎓
→ caregiver to my Uncle, long-term brain tumor survivor
→ former software engineer @ Lean Dog 🐶
→ former paper boy @ The Patriot Ledger 🗞️
About Me
I've spent 8+ years as an entrepreneur, product builder, and software engineer with a passion of helping startups grow their platforms, ideas, and communities.
Since 2021, I’ve worked specifically with digital healthcare startups. As the VP of Product and engineering at Guaranteed Health, I lead healthcare product, engineering, and technology strategy and execution. I also worked at Parachute Health where I had the privilege of building and scaling their medical ordering platform for medical facilities, suppliers, manufacturers, and health systems, all to improve patient outcomes.
Pre-pandemic, I was CTO of Tastemakers Africa: a community platform centering Black experiences, Black voices, and Black stories across the world. It was the best startup I’ve had the opportunity to build with (and had the best founder I've had the opportunity to run a company with). We built a travel experiences marketplace at scale, created a global virtual community, and brought on fantastic investors - including Precursor Ventures and Flybridge Capital.
On the come up, I found my way in the startup world by founding and running a startup studio: Collectively. We brought on extraordinarily talented product designers and software engineers to work with startups, venture capitalists, and accelerators. We built digital products for some amazing mission-driven organizations and even ran discovery sprints for the NYC Mayor's Office. I’m most proud that we created a valuable community at the intersection of impact startups and product freelancers.
Outside of technologist-ing, I'm always (trying to be) training for my next marathon 👟, reading about politics 🇺🇸, and learning cooking from youtube 🍛.
As a product builder: I think the harder the problem, the better.
I care about clarifying + subdividing challenges, using + creating data ethically, and creating products that make us all better. I'm a resourceful nerd who loves focusing on user journey and business goals.
As a product leader: I think a product is only as good as the team behind it.
I care about building products that bring communities together, building teams that challenge and inspire each other, and scaling up while holding true to mission. I'm a team builder and an empathetic leader.
As a human: I think the internet is a beautiful place, in moderation.
I care about civic engagement, solving systematic societal inequalities, and supporting organizations that work with those who need it most. I'm a critical optimist - never losing appreciation for a challenge, while channeling the innate difficulty into motivation.
Causes I Support
Credits
My avatar is from Naddya Adhiambo Oluoch-Olunya from Nalo Studios (@nalostudios)
Notion Icons from NuttLabs
Photo Credits:
- Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
- Photo by Liam Edwards on Unsplash
- Photo by Eduardo Barrios on Unsplash
- Photo by Barney Yau on Unsplash
- Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash
- Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash