Education and Experience

Mr. Olsen offers clients a unique combination of technical, product, marketing, and business skills and experience.

• MBA, Stanford University
• Master of Engineering Administration, Virginia Tech
• BS, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University

• Intuit, Group Product Manager
  • Led Product Management Team for Quicken, the leading personal finance software
    • Grew number of users over 15 MM and annual revenue over $100 MM.
    • Consistently achieved over 75% market share, one of the few products to succeed against Microsoft.
    • Determined product strategy, wrote PRDs, and designed qualitative and quantitative market research.
  • Led Product Management for Quicken Online Brokerage
    • Launched competitive online brokerage from scratch in 8 months.
    • Developed unique trading screen UI that was patented.

• Friendster, Senior Director of Product
  • Friendster is a social networking site with over 14 million users and over 2 billion monthly pageviews (a top 60 site).
  • Defined product roadmap. Launched major features including address book import, chat, forums, groups, and blogs.
  • Significantly increased viral marketing and retention metrics to grow US active users by over 40%.

• Naval Reactors, Lead Product Manager
  • Naval Reactors is a joint Department of Energy and Navy organization responsible for the Navy’s nuclear reactors.
  • Managed steam plant design and acoustics for the Virginia Class submarine.

• Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and Photoshop.
• Fluent in Spanish (raised bilingual).