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San Francisco, California, US

Sunnyvale, California, US

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company that protects organizations’ biggest risks and greatest assets: their people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based threat, information and user protection solutions, we help organizations around the world mitigate their most critical security and compliance risks.

Seattle, WA, US

Building a worldwide ecosystem of third party skills and experiences for Alexa, the voice-based cloud service behind the Amazon Echo devices. The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) is a collection of self-service APIs, tools, documentation, and code samples that make it fast and easy for developers to add skills to Alexa.

Cupertino, California, US

• Brought in to head up delivery of the new Apple News app for all iOS devices - Showcased in less than a year at WWDC 2015 with phenomenal press feedback and launched with high adoption - Delivery platforms: iOS, CMS.
• Recruited and mentored a team of 6 EPMs that provided business support, scrummaster/agile coaching, and release management working with design, engineering, product marketing, business, QA and Ops teams
• Installed an agile process, including aggressive optimization of the requirements gathering process,that formed the basis of repeatable roadmap planning - Scrum at scale with 10 teams of ~150 individuals (included 2.
• Partnered with the internal Apple technology teams (iCloud, SolR, Cassandra, Hadoop, BlobStore, etc.) to deliver the supporting infrastructure, define the SLAs and drive capacity planning
• Drove the rollout of the product support spanning content partners, customers, 3rd Party developers, public documentation and AppleCare services

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Led a team of 20 Program Managers responsible for all planning and delivery for the Media software Products & Services: - Covering Frontpage, News, Finance, Sports, Games, Weather, Entertainment, video, content &.
• Drove the on time delivery and development of the new Media foundation infrastructure platform across +270 global sites (Yahoo Publishing Platform YPP)
• Evolved the release cadence from long multiple months staggered releases across internationals sites to a global single daily release (CI/CD for ~1000 engineers)
• Proposed and rolled out an agile adaptive planning process for all of Media within 6 months to >70 development teams
• Incorporated Scrum and Kanban within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Aligned with the quarterly CEO goals process (OKRs) and company launch calendar

New York, New York, US

• Global inline contextual advertising company
• Managed the development of a next generation back-office systems for the contextual advertising, resulting in over $100 million in revenue
• Introduced a fast paced repeatable prioritization process allowing transparency into the new company portfolio: project delivery, budgets, resource scheduling communications - typically 120 projects in cycle at any.
• Improved FE & BE Engineering teams releases of web-based algorithms for context driven adverts to biweekly
• Optimized the R&D team process to create a regular update cycle to align with the rest of the development teams
• Enhanced creative teams delivery of interactive web interface client changes to a weekly cadence from monthly

Barcelona, ES

• European online travel company (Expedia competitor)
• Improved budgeting and planning as the lead PMO for the online B2C travel arm of the 3rd biggest global travel distribution system
• Delivered on-time and within budget the Hotels Product using an agile enterprise Java Solution (ATG), e-commerce, multilingual CMS, merchant markup engine and integrated a new financial back-office solution
• Ensured the product delivery of new sites from external white label partner operated to fully integrated products: generating the highest margins for the company

London, UK, GB

• Non-profit innovating technology for social good
• Reorganized the delivery program schedule for Design and Engineering departments to be significantly more efficient by improved project tracking, reporting and the financial reconciliation processes for NGO customers
• Program Management of out sourcing development in India
• Supervised Business Product Managers to deliver online Mobile, TV, Radio, solutions

• Consultancy focused on software solutions implementing customer awareness based brand values for Blue Chip Clients.
• Led a team of over 100 engineers in the UK branch of a global media software consultancy totaling over 2000 people
• Recruited and mentored line managers and individual contributors for Engineering, Infra Server Support & QA
• Instrumental in selecting the DSDM agile framework and leading teams incorporating in project delivery practice for 5 award winning sites

• Multi-media online development - D&AD award winning Guinness website
• CD-rom development