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Beaverton, Or, Us

• Formed an engineering team focused on driving technology innovation across all business functions and vertical units at Nike. Worked with multiple VP+-level stakeholders and partners to align initiatives toaddress systemic and high-impact business needs.• Led a key component of the digital transformation of product design. Delivered a combinedhardware and software solution to design teams across the company to accelerate workflows andallow collaboration between job functions.• Primary technical owner of research and strategic partnerships with three of the largest tech companies to unlock innovation in 3D and AI/ML capabilities. Worked closely with Legal and BD teams to ensure terms of agreements were sufficient to allow innovation while protecting necessary IP.Coordinated communication between multiple internal teams and partner leadership teams.• Participated in potential vendor evaluation and vetting processes on behalf of multiple differentteams across the company. Specifically asked to evaluate companies when business units withoutdeep technical expertise were looking to adopt technical solutions involving AI or other recentinnovations.• Developed an organizational strategic plan and communicated it both internally to the team and to stakeholders across the company.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Spoken Language Understanding• Manage a team made up of Software Development Engineers and Language Engineers, owning the core Smart Home voice experience• Delivered a new solution for device Entity Resolution, using ML models to more-accurately identify the device users are intending to interact with• Owned deterministic and statistical models for language understanding in the Smart Home domainPartner Insights• Led an engineering team delivering tools and insight around performance to assist our partners in making the best possible Smart Home experience for our customers• Redefined team charter to expand from reactive error notification to proactive insight generation and delivery• Designed and delivered developer recommendation system to communicate individualized opportunities for improvement via the Alexa Developer Console as well as developer-specific emails

Plantation, Florida, Us

• Manage a team of four engineers working on a full volumetric capture solution, including a custom 3D reconstruction algorithm and a production-ready capture stage• Guide short- and long-term development strategy of our reconstruction solver* Re-wrote native rendering code to allow 200% more vertices, while also allowing for more complex scenes to be rendered• Wrote custom capture software to receive and process large amounts of data from machine vision cameras to a proprietary video format

Plantation, Florida, Us

• Automated very time-consuming human scan process as much as possible, replacing months of human work with days of compute• Designed and implemented a new character inheritance pipeline, including full python API to allow a variety of queries from existing packages• Maintained existing codebase and wrote additional tools and interfaces to allow a small team of artists to be as productive as possible• Built devops system for deployment of tools and code to both workstations and compute nodes

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Designed analytics platform for all company monitoring, including evaluating potential providers and negotiating a contract with the selected vendor• Implemented customer tracking system on web, including cookies for acquisition tracking, server handling on Google App Engine, and data storage in analytics suite• Responsible for email marketing program, including email acquisition, messaging strategy, and implementation of designed emails• Responsible for working with all departments to determine key business indicators and set up automated reports• Assisted with strategic partnership planning and strategy

Responsibilities split over three broad areas: Marketing, Software Development, and Business OperationsMarketing:• Performed all quantitative analysis of user behavior in order to guide product marketing and future product development• Worked closely with Product Manager to consider user-facing implications of future development• Responsible for email marketing program, including email acquisition, messaging strategy, and implementation of designed emails• Negotiated contracts and managed relationships with several service providersSoftware Development:• Added iOS8 Today View widget to existing app in preparation for release and featuring• Built extensive backend RESTful endpoints in python to support app and website needs• Full-stack developer, working on mobile (iOS and Java), web (HTML, javascript, php), and server (Python) Business Operations:• Created presentations for board meetings and pitches• Worked with external financial consultant to prepare financial statements• Assisted with company-level strategic planning

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

• Appointed as chair of departmental advisory board• Managed a team of artists, including training, work assignment, ongoing guidance, and review• Delivered complex simulation-based effects for five films• Developed pipelines for preserving all information needed for 3D reproduction, enabling automation of tedious and labor-intensive processes and resulting in estimated labor reductions of 40%• Created user interfaces for FX artists to streamline workflow and reduce delivery time by 10% for simple effects• Architected and prototyped data input/output pipeline used by all effects artists

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

• Managed teams of Production Services Technicians for three, including training new hires, determining work schedules, and delegating assignments • Supervised operational resources and processes including allocations and budgeting of render processors and disk space, daily reporting and playlist generation, and quality control of pipelines • Worked with production management to determine staffing and coverage needs; interviewed potential candidates for additional positions on team • Created pipeline for handling digital media received from client, eliminating inefficiencies in multi-department workflows • Worked with several departments to create a new pipeline for handling digital media received from client, reducing processing time by up to 80%

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

• Responsible for final check of imagery prior to daily reels being sent out to film• Developed render queue booking algorithm that maximized processor utilization and also improved show-level render efficiency by better weighing short-term priorities against long-term development• Worked with artists from multiple departments to troubleshoot failing processes and escalate issues when necessary

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Entrepreneurship And Strategy

A.B., Electrical Engineering And Computer Science