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Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Transformed LinkedIn's Jobs business model by introducing ad slots, multi-objective optimization, and a jobs auction.• Launched new product offerings globally, including genAI capabilities and customer self-service onboarding.• Innovated across the Online Jobs business funnel, driving over $X00M y/y revenue growth.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Help job seekers discover and apply to the right jobs. Help posters find the most qualified candidates. Ensure equitable outcomes for all.• Tripled job seeker growth rate by providing better tools and insights, a larger selection of quality jobs, and more personalized experiences based on real-time inputs.• Led Project Equity, launching features to mitigate biases in job algorithms and ensure equitable outcomes for job seekers.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I lead a team of product managers in helping people find jobs. We take a holistic approach in understanding the jobs marketplace and reimagine products to help job seekers be successful in finding their next job on LinkedIn.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I work with a team of brilliant engineers to deliver the right jobs to the right members at the right time.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Developed the LinkedIn Students App to help college students discover career paths and find jobs.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Product lead responsible for the understanding and inference of all entities and relationships in LinkedIn's economic graph.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Responsible for end-to-end strategy and execution of opening LinkedIn to high school students, enabling them to leverage the data of over 300 million professionals to help them reach their career goals• Managed launch of University Pages from 200 to over 23,000 universities globally, providing a platform that facilitates communication among students, alumni, and schools• Designed administrative tools for schools to manage their University Pages• Received patents for taking part in the development of Notable Alumni and School Rankings based on Career Outcomes

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Spearheaded innovation program that evaluates novel ideas and sets the company’s product portfolio strategy • Led a cross-functional team that effectively delivers rapid prototypes and next-generation products by leveraging lean startup principles• Translated customer needs into business use cases and communicated vision to Board of Directors, Executive Team, and company to get alignment

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Owner and champion of Baynote’s core application, an intent-driven personalization engine that powers recommendations and search results for 150+ customers to deliver a more engaging visitor experience across websites and mobile devices (customers include Dell, AT&T, Stubhub, Jcrew, Bluefly)• Managed entire product development lifecycle of internal tools and external applications, from defining product strategy and business use cases to gathering success metrics and customer feedback• Worked directly with engineers and designers to determine technical feasibility/risks, identify best implementation methods, resolve bugs, and prioritize features• Led U.S. and international development team of five people in delivering monthly product releases• Trained Professional Services and Sales teams, customers, and partners on new product capabilities• Conducted AB tests, analyzed conversion metrics, wrote ETLs, and generated custom reports

• Created http://wannaball.com, a geo-aware social network that utilizes a hub-and-spoke model to provide a new and engaging online user experience for basketball players to locate courts and communicate via real-time chat• Managed all technical aspects (software development, server and SQL database maintenance, search and web analytics optimization) of wannaball.com from concept to launch using Agile development principles• Negotiated partnership with Streetball.com to share technology and advertising resources • Designed and delivered low-cost ecommerce and inventory management solution to Creative Origins, a screen printing company

Bedford, Massachusetts, Us

• Developed Design for Manufacturability process and performed analysis to minimize production and maintenance costs of Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV) for the U.S. Army• Analyzed cost data to provide recommendations to management and engineers for prioritizing design changes

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Provided 24/7 support for 30+ remote servers for the Global Differential GPS group• Maintained 99.98% system uptime by automating and standardizing effective work processes• Researched new technologies and companies to make material procurement and sourcing decisions• Developed software tests and methods in C++ and Python for interplanetary navigation software MONTE (Mission Analysis and Operational Navigation Toolkit Environment)

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Collaborated with team of six engineers to design, implement, debug, and maintain databases and web-pages for the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center in Perl and CGI• Achieved CMMI level 3 certification by driving software engineering process improvements

• Implemented scan-matching algorithm for sensor based motion planning semi-autonomous robothttp://robotics.caltech.edu/~sam/JournalPapers/WLSM_pfister.pdf

Bachelor’S Degree, Engineering

Master Of Business Administration, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Master Of Science, Mechanical Engineering