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Woodinville, Washington, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Led the development teams responsible for building out Concur’s corporate travel solutions and products including Concur’s online booking tool, TripLink, Locate and Compleat. The development teams reporting in to me have grown from 25 developers globally and 1 main product (the online booking tool) to over 120 developers across seven development centers across the globe and over half a dozen different products. • Drove both technological change and process improvement across Travel and the company.• Instrumental in bringing in Agile methodologies, and drove process change by example. • Led the charge for technological change to improve product performance, uptime, and scalability by migrating from Microsoft based technologies and two tiered architectures to containerized applications built on Go, Docker, and Kubernetes with the ability to run in both private data centers and clouds as well as AWS.

WDPRO is the organization within Disney responsible for building and maintaining the online presence for all the Disney Parks and Resorts. Responsibilities within WDPRO include leading the teams responsible for the websites of Disney Cruise Lines, Disney Vacation Club, Hong Kong Disneyland, Shanghai Disney Resort, and a collection of 20 sites that include RunDisney, Adventures by Disney, Weddings by Disney, and Disney Convention Tickets. • Led the team that is building and maintaining the online search and discovery experience for all the brands within the Disney Parks and Resorts portfolio, are distributed globally with presence in 3 locations in the US, 2 locations in China, 2 locations in Argentina, and in the Philippines.

WCT (World Choice Travel) is the platform that drives distribution of travel products for Travelocity to partners through XML API’s and white label functionality. The WCT technology team is distributed in multiple locations across several time zones. Looking to grow the platform and better deliver on customer needs. • Partnered closely with the team to help identify areas that hindered growth. • Migrated completely from a SAMP stack to a LAMP stack making use of significantly more powerful hardware that allowed for reduced processing time and faster responses. • Reworked the roadmap allowing for new features such as OTA compatibility on the XML front end, migration to better supported content provider API’s, and new services not present prior. • Drove an error eradication program that significantly dropped error rates increasing conversion substantially and evolved our SDLC to allow for SCRUM-BAN capabilities on the maintenance queue.

In less than a year, led the team in the delivery of a new hotel only platform for the Travelocity portfolio. Sourced and hired an entire team of 40 technologists that were globally distributed. • A private agent commission sales model that allowed for consumers to pay at the hotel vs. pre-pay• Market leading hotel search response times and page load times • Global platform serving up any number of languages and any number of currencies• Indexed and search based platform• First product in Travelocity Global to be cloud enabled• Merchandising and Shopping pages shared the same platform leading to improved and consistent user experiences.

Drove innovative technological ideas and concepts that would improve Travelocity Globals tools and platforms to better handle scale, speed, and changing business and functional needs.• Major proponent of pushing a NOSQL (Not Only SQL) mindset to storing data. • Used of indexing technologies such as SOLR/Lucene to drive storing and serving hotel data, location content, reviews, and other data sets that were non-transactional in nature and required heavy filtering and faceting features.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led the Technical Program Managers on the Amazon.com Product Ads team. Product Ads is a new team that is building out a product-based advertising network allowing merchants to compete for product ad placements, eyeballs & traffic on Amazon.com through a cost per click-based bidding model. • Defined and drove the architecture and implementation of features and deliverables. This includes both driving the TPM team and individually contributing to: writing specifications, working with other teams on signing up for and completing shared deliverables, building out roadmaps, driving execution on our own team, and overcoming roadblocks and hindrances.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Driving Customer & Business Intelligence at Microsoft. Responsible for a team of program managers that define the roadmap and build the future for Customer data storage and reporting at Microsoft.com. This included innovating on new behavioral targeting platforms, maintaining PII systems that were secure, and building and managing reporting on Microsoft.com activity. • Created a new concept in reporting that was Audience centric as opposed to pageview centric, and drove the development of Microsoft Decisions, the first reporting system at Microsoft.com to deliver on that vision.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Founding member responsible for building out adCenter, Microsofts next generation monetization platform. Led a team of Program Managers that owned several key areas within adCenter including the Paid Search product, the OLTP system including campaign management, API’s, customer management system, Editorial system, internal tools for ad management and reporting, as well as all Billing systems for Monetization at MSN (for adCenter, and the varied display platforms). • Owned the roadmap and the technical specifications for these systems in adCenter.