# Nathan Straub > AI, AR, and Wearables Prototyping @ Meta Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nathanstraub ## Work Experience ### Sr. Staff Product Design Prototyper @ Meta Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Staff Product Design Prototyper @ Meta Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Staff Technical Program Manager @ Meta Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Sr. Technical Program Manager @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States TPM under the Envision Engineering org within Solution Architecture. I owned the US-Central region; worked with sales leadership to identify target customers and led a team of engineers to deliver rapid prototypes to solve some of their most challenging problems. Our focus was on delivering art-of-the-possible solutions using AI/ML, IoT, Robotics, or Spatial Computing. ### Solutions Architect @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Solutions Architect @ BP3 Global Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States Lead consultant responsible for technical presales; feasibility and impact assessments as well as business case and proof of concept development for large-scale process automation projects at numerous Fortune 500 organizations in financial services, insurance, and healthcare. I also managed and led project delivery including estimation, scoping, development, and creating roadmaps for both projects and enterprises to drive account growth. - Developed an internal assessment framework for conducting cost-benefit analysis for machine learning-driven automation projects - Recognized as the internal Thought Leader on Applied Machine Learning - Collaborated with marketing and engineering to develop and launch a new product that used machine learning for contact center automation; developed demos and participated in market positioning ### Senior Software Engineer @ blue 2.0 Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States ### Software Engineer @ blue 2.0 Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States ### Business Process Management Consultant @ CUNA Mutual Group Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States ### BPM Consultant via Beacon Technologies @ CUNA Mutual Group Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States Worked as an IT consultant specializing in business process analysis and application development in IBM BPM as a contract-to-hire through Beacon Technologies. ### Co-Founder @ Ballin' on a Budget LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States Ballin' on a Budget was a student travel company founded by my roommate and I in September of 2011. We specialized in low-cost travel options for students throughout the UW system, particularly during academic breaks. In our first year we took 500 students from various UW schools around Wisconsin, including 200 from UW-Madison. Duties included operations management, web development and server management, marketing strategy development and analysis (including advertisement design and strategy implementation), price negotiation, and payment tracking/invoicing. • Organized over 2200 students over three year period • Generated approximately $1.3M in total revenue • Developed and implemented an analytics-driven marketing strategy through the use of print, web, and social media • Personally designed flyers and advertisements, which combined with an early payment incentive generated an ROI of over 15:1 • Oversaw the web design process in order to create, implement, and maintain a functional business website; acquired working knowledge of HTML/CSS over a period of one week and subsequently developed and implemented a event registration system using Ruby on Rails deployed to Heroku • Invoiced and kept track of payments for over 2200 students on numerous trips • Developed several online process enhancements for payments and roommate pairing using MS SQL, PHP, and Excel • Acquired working knowledge of SQL (MySQL and MS SQL) to manage a customer database of over 2200 registrations ### Employee Benefits Consultant @ Cottingham & Butler Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States ### Financial Advisor Intern @ Walkner Condon Financial Advisors LLC Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States ### Senior Teller @ UW Credit Union Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States ### Teller @ UW Credit Union Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin-Madison ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nathan-straub --- Source: https://flows.cv/nathanstraub JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nathanstraub/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13