# Debbie C. > Wharton MBA Candidate | Product Management & Product Design (UX/UI) Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/debbiec1 https://www.debcheng.com/ I'm a product builder focused on AI platforms and developer tools. I'm drawn to problems where interaction patterns need to be invented - shaping how people collaborate with AI, reason about complex systems, and work confidently with autonomous tools. What I've been up to: → Wharton MBA Candidate — Relevant coursework: Applied Machine Learning in Business (model evaluation, tree-based methods, neural networks) and leading the Wharton Tech Toks podcast → PM Intern at Cisco Spaces — led product strategy for asset tracking across multiple verticals → Product Designer at Unqork (Series C startup) — designed IDE paradigms, debugging workflows, and AI-assisted features for enterprise no-code platform Let's connect if any of this sounds interesting to you! ## Work Experience ### Co-Host and Lead, Wharton Tech Toks Podcast @ Wharton Tech Club Jan 2024 – Present Grew streams per episode +90%, monthly plays +91%, and audience size +58% between Sept–Nov 2025. Launched new reels, newsletters, and a ratings giveaway, driving engagement across channels. Lead a team of 5 to produce episodes featuring tech industry leaders by overseeing publishing pipeline, editing, and new marketing initiatives to drive audience growth. 📧 Email: whartontechtoks@gmail.com for guest inquiries ### Product Manager, MBA Intern @ Cisco Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States Selected to join Cisco Spaces, a cloud platform turning buildings into smart spaces at the intersection of IoT, AI, maps and analytics. Spearheaded primary market research through 30+ interviews with key Cisco customer accounts, partners, and end users in healthcare, manufacturing, retail logistics, hospitality, and airports. Applied door-to-door tactics to gather end-user insights to shape core use cases and product requirements. Modeled market size using internal access point telemetry and public data, directly influencing product packaging and go-to-market priorities. Performed competitive analysis of 15+ location-tracking solutions; synthesized differentiators, deployment models, and price points into sales enablement materials. ### Product Designer III @ Unqork Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Prototyped, validated, and presented the next iteration of Unqork at AWS re:Invent Conference, introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) use-cases that help users configure applications more efficiently and accurately. Launched first mentorship program for the design and UX research team leading to a 60% increase in team satisfaction within the Learning & Development quarterly rating. Lead Designer for discovery, learning, and collaborative functionalities needed to improve product adoption in application building. ### Product Designer II @ Unqork Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Defined new features and go-to-market products in partnership with product and engineering teams. Proposed new workflows and tools that improve collaboration and speed up delivery times among cross-functional team members. Served as Interim Design Systems owner to release new design components across entire platform. ### Product Designer @ WANDR Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States WANDR is an award-winning product strategy and UX design firm that provides end-to-end strategy from design to development services for startups and enterprise brands. Created MVP prototypes and investor pitch decks for clients in the real estate, entertainment, fintech, and construction industries. Led the team's weekly design critiques. ### Independent Product Consultant @ debcheng.com Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, CA Offering product design & strategy services. Past work includes: Aquila Clouds (www.aquilaclouds.com): Completed end-to-end redesign of billing operations platform to secure deal with major player in Managed Cloud Services in Asia-Pacific region in under 8 weeks. Worked cross-functionally with Chief Product Officer, Head of Engineering, Lead Architect, and developer. Led design team in redesigning dashboard for cloud management SaaS platform to increase demo-to-close conversion rate. Collaborated with engineering team, conducted user interviews, wireframed, and prototyped MVP in 6 week sprint. --- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative + Adobe Creative Jam: **Placed Top 20 among 90+ projects in 3 day creative jam Prototyped Android app helping farmworkers sign up for services like legal aid, healthcare, housing aid, and food distribution, verify their identity using OCR technology, and access important news. ### Consumer Campaign Coordinator (CRM) @ Gucci Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York Prepared monthly eCard performance reports for executive team, analyzing post-deployment campaign metrics (click-through rates and revenue data) from Apache Superset and Google Analytics. Identified target users for direct marketing campaigns using MicroStrategy (BI tool). Tested email user interactions (links, ux writing, CTA) ensuring monthly KPI goals are met. Wrote various sales copy to increase number of client appointments scheduled. ### Training And Development Intern @ Fendi Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Owned development and execution of FENDI Americas Retail Seminar internal site for web and mobile. Developed information architecture, content, and rollout strategy in collaboration with President of Fendi Americas, Director of Training, and HQ’s Digital Learning Manager. Created and rolled out new Store Manager Induction Program digital toolkit to streamline onboarding process and improve new hire retention rates. Planned virtual trainings for store teams across the Americas network in support of global product launches, coordinating with merchandising, communications, events, CRM, and retail operations. ### Strategy Intern @ Siegel+Gale Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Applied exploratory and immersive research to create "Future of Storytelling: How Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence Will Impact Brands," presenting trend analysis to internal employees. Prepared brand user experience (image, voice, and language) workshop for American hospitality group by assessing user sentiment on social media channels and travel forums. Prepared internal audit with strategic implications to build out Siegel+Gale's employee engagement practice. ### Business Advisor Program Intern @ EY Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Assisted in implementation of SAP Cloud for Customer CRM software for Fortune 500 storage and data management company. Collaborated with data migration team, functional team leads, and developers to create data model of over 400 target fields in preparation for data loads. Cultivated understanding of client's B2B sales funnel and current Salesforce system. ## Education ### Master of Business Administration - MBA in Operations, Information, and Decisions The Wharton School ### Bachelor’s Degree in Bachelor of Business Administration with High Distinction, Minor in Entrepreneurship University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business ### High School Diploma San Francisco University High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/debbie-cheng - Portfolio: https://www.debcheng.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/debbiec1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/debbiec1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13