Chad Woodford
Product manager and Chief Privacy Officer with 8 years experience in computer & software engineering, including 2 years of graduate research in artificial intelligence, plus 11 years as a technology lawyer & product counsel advising executives and PMs at Twitter & Google.
[email protected]
415.573.2926
New York City
Product Experience
One More Company Inc., Oct 2015 – Present
Head of Product, Chief Privacy Officer
Launched Senders, a cloud-based email intelligence service. Led the acquisition and integration of Evercontact. Led team of graphic and UX designers on Senders & Evercontact products. Gathered user product feedback through surveys and live interviews. Managed all PR / comms / marketing staff & efforts. Managed all legal counsel matters, including patents, trademarks, privacy & cyberlaw issues.
Google, Inc., Sept 2013 – Oct 2015
Product Counsel, Axiom Global, Inc.
Counseled the Chrome product and engineering teams on periodic product launches & updates, including privacy, IP, cyberlaw, FLOSS, law enforcement requests, and other legal issues. Supported periodic hardware launches, including Chromebooks & IOT consumer devices. Collaborated with wider legal team on privacy policy updates.
Twitter, Inc., April 2011 – March 2013
Product & Business Counsel, advertising products as revenue doubled annually, the company grew from 300 to 3,000 employees, and went public
Supported the revenue product team and the sales org in launching Promoted Products worldwide — 58 countries, 4 continents, including specialty ads (e.g., political)
Counseled the launch of self-service Promoted Products, ads API• Developed, with the ads policy team, ads policies on a per-country & per-industry basis
Supported sales & BD in negotiating major partnership agreements
Brought security, ad ops, and other internal teams to consensus on securing and sharing user data connected with advertising, and ad ROI partnerships
Collaborated on Twitter’s open-source contribution policy and contributor agreement
Tea Time DJ
Skills, Tools
Product Tools
Trello, ProductBoard, Aha!, JIRA, Notion.so, OmniPlan, Google Analytics, Typeform, Balsamiq, Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop, Pixelkit, Invision
Technical Skills
Programming Languages: C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, Perl, Bash, Java, JavaScript, SQL, PHP
Software: Unix/Linux, Xcode, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Ableton Live
Education
Clarkson University, Potsdam NY
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, May 1993
Graduate Work in Computer Science & Engineering, 1993–1995
Fields of Research: Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Distributed Systems
University of Colorado Boulder School of Law
Juris Doctor, May 2004
University of Colorado Law Review, production editor, board member
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
San Francisco, 2009
Cooper Interactive Design
New York City, 2015
Legal Experience
The Law Office of Chad Woodford, San Francisco, CA | January 2010 – March 2011
Technology Transactions, IP Attorney counseling established and startups clients
General IP strategy, including copyright, cyberlaw, open-source & new media
Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA | January 2009 – December 2009
Senior Licensing Counsel
Drafted & negotiated licensing agreements for Dolby technologies, especially mobile
Cleared marketing campaigns from the content group for copyright, right of publicity & TM
Member of cross-department open source board, analyzing use of FLOSS 2/3
Conducted IP due diligence in support of corporate acquisitions
Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View + San Francisco | June 2005 – January 2009
Associate, IP Licensing/Tech Transactions Group
Counseled established companies (eg, Apple, Cisco) & startup clients on IP strategy, privacy, VC/M&A IP due diligence
Copyright, fair use, secondary liability, DMCA anti-circumvention & safe harbors
Open-source software licensing, recommending open-source best practices.
Conducted seminars on copyright, internet, open-source licensing, new media & privacy law
Wind River Systems, Alameda, CA | August 2004 – May 2005
Manager, Intellectual Property
Software Engineering Experience
Circadence Corp., Boulder, CO | Nov 2000 – June 2001
Led engineering team that implemented global internet traffic acceleration and prioritizationservice, proving SSL support and UDP/TCP/IP packet routing was not possible
eSoft, Inc. / Technologic, Inc., Broomfield, CO | June 1998 – May 2000
Designed and implemented advanced Linux firewall features as part of successful InstaGatefirewall products, including WAN connectivity integration and a Voice Over IP (H.323) proxy
IBM Inc., Burlington, VT | August 1997 – May 1998
Designed and implemented internal AIX (Unix) client/server microchip-testing software in C
Universal Micro Systems, Inc., Waitsfield, VT | June 1995 – August 1997
Led three-person team responsible for design, development, testing, and delivery ofinformational multimedia touch-screen kiosks for Massachusetts Depositors Insurance Fund
Unix-based server/network installation, support, and use
Other Experience
Radio DJ (KZSU Stanford, WTSC Clarkson)
Producer on a feature film - Mandorla
Non-profit board member — Headstand.org
Certified yoga teacher
