Jimmy Chen

Jimmy Chen Founder and CEO at Propel Greater New York City Area Connect Connect with Jimmy Chen Propel Stanford University See contact info 500+ connections Highlights Reach out to Jimmy for... Joining a nonprofit board. Message Jimmy Activity 1,971 followers View Jimmy’s profile Join us for a webinar this Wednesday 4/3! The shutdown this year rocked the lives of millions of Americans, particularly those receiving direct support from the government. Fortunately, some of those affected were able to use technology to survive a gap in critical benefits. Join our webinar with Propel, EARN, and the Urban Institute at 1pm ET on Wednesday. Register here: Jimmy shared this 17 Likes See all Experience Propel Founder and CEO Company NamePropel Dates EmployedMay 2014 – Present Employment Duration5 yrs LocationGreater New York City Area Propel builds software that helps people in financial need get back on their feet. We believe that everyone deserves safety net services that are modern, respectful, and effective. Fresh EBT is a free app, used by over two million families across the country, that helps people who receive SNAP benefits (food stamps) to improve their financial health. We're backed by great investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Nyca Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Flourish (Omidyar Group), and Kevin Durant. We've been featured in the New York Times, Wall St Journal, and WIRED.... See more eGovernment Payments Council Vice Chair, Communications Company NameeGovernment Payments Council Dates EmployedFeb 2017 – Present Employment Duration2 yrs 3 mos LocationWashington D.C. Metro Area The eGovernment Payments Council (eGPC) is an industry council that focuses on the business, policy, and operating issues involved in government electronic payment programs. The council is a public-private partnership consisting of state government agencies, federal government agencies, EBT processors, non-profit advocates, consulting firms, e... See more Significance Labs Fellow Company NameSignificance Labs Dates EmployedMay 2014 – Aug 2014 Employment Duration4 mos LocationGreater New York City Area We imagine a world where the 25 million American families living on less than $25,000/year benefit as much from technology as the well off. Through Significance Labs (which has since been rebranded as Blue Ridge Labs ... See more Jimmy Chen: Why I Want to Build High-Tech Products for Low-Income Americans Jimmy Chen: Why I Want to Build High-Tech Products for Low-Income Americans 3 Lessons For Building Tech for Low-Income Americans 3 Lessons For Building Tech for Low-Income Americans Facebook Product Manager Company NameFacebook Dates EmployedMay 2012 – Mar 2014 Employment Duration1 yr 11 mos LocationMenlo Park, CA I was the product lead for Facebook Groups, a product used by over 7% of the global population every month. During my tenure, we shipped a long list of features aimed at making Facebook Groups the best group communication product in the world, the product gained over 200 million new users, and the team tripled in size.... See more Why Facebook is suddenly smitten with Groups Why Facebook is suddenly smitten with Groups How Facebook's Groups Application Got So Big - And How It Plans To Get Bigger How Facebook's Groups Application Got So Big - And How It Plans To Get Bigger LinkedIn Associate Product Manager Company NameLinkedIn Dates EmployedJul 2010 – Apr 2012 Employment Duration1 yr 10 mos LocationSan Francisco Bay Area Worked on a variety of consumer products on the website you're currently looking at, including LinkedIn Today, LinkedIn Events, and LinkedIn Polls. Led cross-functional teams through every stage of product development, from the initial market research and design into implementation, launch, metrics analysis, and the next iteration.... See more CGAP (World Bank Group) Intern/Consultant Company NameCGAP (World Bank Group) Dates Employed2010 Employment Durationless than a year LocationWashington D.C. Metro Area Co-authored two papers on mobile money technology in the developing world for the G20 summit in June '10. Conducted research on mobile money interfaces, distilling a set of UI design best practices and recommendations for mobile carriers and banks. Yahoo! Software Engineering Intern Company NameYahoo! Dates EmployedJun 2009 – Sep 2009 Employment Duration4 mos LocationSan Francisco Bay Area Developed a new method of measuring advertisement latency with JavaScript and PHP. Worked with a team of two managers and one other engineer to create a script that runs on nearly all content pages served by Yahoo. Built several prototypes and shipped a pilot. As a side project, fixed several bugs in Yahoo's smush.it image compression service. ... See more Landmark Graphics Software Engineering Intern Company NameLandmark Graphics Dates EmployedJun 2008 – Sep 2008 Employment Duration4 mos LocationGreater Denver Area My first time writing code in a corporate environment! I worked on a seismic data analysis tool, primarily written in Java. I spent the summer implementing features, carving out performance wins, and generally wrapping m... See more Stanford University Research Assistant Company NameStanford University Dates EmployedApr 2007 – 2008 Employment Duration1 yr LocationSan Francisco Bay Area Human-Robot Interaction (Cliff Nass) - studied the effect of robot blame attribution on user responses, published in HRI February 2010. Invasive Species Ecology (Deborah Gordon) - studied chemical defense by the n... See more Show fewer experiences Education Stanford University Stanford University Degree NameBachelor of Science (B.S.) Field Of StudySymbolic Systems Activities and Societies: Symbolic Systems Academic Advising Fellow, Stanford Men's Ultimate Team, Stanford in Washington Licenses & Certifications GoodCompany Ventures GoodCompany Ventures 2014 Issuing authorityGoodCompany Ventures: For Doers, Not Dreamers. Issued date and, if applicable, expiration date of the certification or licenseIssued Oct 2014Expired Dec 2014 See credential