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Orlando, Fl, Us

St. Johns County, Florida, United States

Remote

Leveraged Jira Plan to build the initial Platform Engineering Kubernetes program, which automatically visualizes priorities and team dependencies in real time. Unified AWS provisioning processes for 6 teams, collaborated with TLs, EMs, Engineers, and Architects to map dependencies and manage hand offs, created templates, organized information, and advocated for improvements. Collaborated with R&D Operations team to develop a Request and Collaboration Framework, improving communication, planning, and execution of cross-organizational requests.

San Francisco Bay Area

Built, automated, and centralized program management artifacts and processes using AirTable. Led Platform Engineering program management efforts for a cross-functional company infrastructure program. This included micro-service dependency maps which created visual representations of service communications, helping escalate dedicated service ownership, resulting in mitigation plans. Managed compute cost optimization initiatives that included researching efficient vendors, building usage projections, coordinating cross-functional stakeholder evaluation, making recommendations, and driving tool migrations.

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed and implemented an R&D Vendor Management and Contract Performance System that included 30 vendors and was leveraged by R&D leadership, IT, procurement, and finance. Planned and implemented educational content for technical deep dive vendor sessions, coordinated workshops and gamedays for R&D, helped optimize vendor usage, and created standardized vendor documentation, all of which improved vendor adoption and greatly reduced costs. Managed Quarterly Business Reviews for the Platform Engineering teams. This included communications, scheduling, metrics standardization and collection, templates, and more.

San Francisco Bay Area

Planned and executed the first Twilio Sales Club event in Hawaii including budget allocation, event communication, travel, transportation, working sessions, entertainment, awards, swag, and more. Managed corporate apartments for Sales leaders including market research, contact negotiations, furnishing, and bookings. Created and implemented Twilio’s first sitting map and desk allocation system for the Sales team.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed customer intake process, drove initial communications between customers, owner, and senior partners, and created plans and estimates on budget, time, and resources. Researched and suggested a new internal communication system and negotiated the best rates for the company. Introduced an entirely online and digital document storage system for maps and schematics.

San Francisco Bay Area

Planned and executed fundraising events, including logistical support, auction arrangements, dining, entertainment, and more. Responsible for push communication strategies such as marketing emails, board member reports, and team progress reports. Reorganized and simplified office management processes, including class schedules, team calendars, files and paperwork repository.

Kiev, Ukraine

Developed logistics plans for orders including shipping, transactions, customs, payments and more. Managed timely communication with delivery teams in transit and planned lodging, travel, schedules, and meetings. Improved management processes and coordination of all paperwork from vendors, suppliers, carriers, drivers, and other personnel.

Bachelor’S Degree, International Relations And European Studies

Activities and Societies: Young Researchers for Social Science (YRfSS)

Bachelor'S Degree, International Relations

High School

Certificate, Project Management

Certificate, Scrum Master