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• Developed strategic roadmaps for organizations to reduce environmental impact through technology solutions.• Led initiatives to measure and analyze environmental impact, guiding companies towards sustainability goals.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement actionable solutions for reducing environmental footprint.• Advised ClimateTech startups on impact measurement and triple bottom line accounting.

Truckee, Ca, Us

Joined Conservation Science Partners Board. Their mission is to apply human ingenuity to the preservation of nature using science, technology, and lasting partnerships with conservation practitioners.

Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, Us

Joined Symbrosia's Board of Directors. Symbrosia is a CleanTech startup reducing livestock methane emissions with seaweed.

Green Dominoes specializes in providing targeted sustainability consulting services to enable Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the High-Tech industry, understand and report their GHG emissions and remain viable businesses for their large corporation customers. These services provide turnkey solutions that cut the noise, streamline and simplify GHG emissions accounting and reduction strategies to ensure the largest business sector of the economy (SME's) is not left behind. These services also provide opportunities to adopt Green IT services to gain differentiation in the market.

Tucson, Az, Us

Helping organizations advance their climate and nature risks and opportunities assessments and management practice by leveraging the best science, enabling data-informed decision making that achieves sustainability and resilience.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I help our customers shape their sustainability ambitions, address sustainability needs, and identify pathways towards greater impact across environmental, societal and economic/governance dimensions. Customers accelerate and achieve their Sustainability goals through innovative digital technologies and sustainable digital transformation.Work areas include: - Emissions forecasting, Sustainability digital data estate, frameworks and methodologies- Creating trust and credibility for Carbon Markets and environmental asset management- Understanding operations environmental impact to biodiversity and ecosystems- Resolving value chain traceability and responsible sourcing- Climate Risk

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led a team of 5 to define and execute the strategy for internal and external sustainability grants programs, a portfolio of 100+ projects with investments of over $20M. Internal projects catalyzed organizational transformation to achieve sustainable operations and advanced our business and data maturity capabilities, helped our understanding of embodied carbon, deployed enterprise-wide methods, improved supplier engagement and implemented waste and circularity. External grants accelerated societal and environmental impact with the development of AI for Earth Planetary Computer solutions on Azure, partnering with strategic customers, key Environmental Geospatial communities of practice and our subsidiaries.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led and organize the AI for Earth program, a $50M, 5-year initiative that brings Azure and ML technologies to those working to resolve environmental challenges in the areas of Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Water. Defined and implemented strategies to manage a dynamic and agile startup-like program in a fast-paced environment with complex stakeholders and ambiguous settings. A yearly rhythm drove clarity and alignment to strategic objectives, and managing an investment portfolio of $10M/year and a team of 4 contractors.Scaled the program worldwide partnering with our subsidiaries and customers, building awareness and credibility with environmental communities new to MS, building the environmental conservation ecosystem of partners on Azure.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Build and scale innovative solutions that leverage advanced technologies to help financial services firms resolve their toughest business challenges.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed incubation initiatives to bring innovative cloud solutions to customers and partners. Initiatives build new capabilities for internal and external teams. Managed the Azure GTM strategy incubation from strategy definition to repeatable scalable framework to fast track Partner cloud transformation. Landed complex stakeholder alignment to business plan and established trust-worth key relationships with sponsors and stakeholders. Business Impact: • 200+ partners built profitable Azure businesses driving $300M+ Azure revenues in FY16 • A repeatable capability framework was successfully scaled to partners and multiple MSFT teams• 34 GTM plans drove $2.5M of investments to land new Azure customers for our partners.• Timely definition of FY16 strategic objectives and KPIs aligned with sponsors priorities secured $2M funding for our team.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Helped customers maximize their ROI in Microsoft Technologies through the development and deployment of best in class mission-critical solutions that solve customers' business challenges.• Led successful Enterprise Voice (Lync) Program for Fortune 50 company with a team 40+ strong to design and deploy Lync across 14 locations and 20,000 end points - largest of its kind. Program drove employee productivity improvements and reduced operating costs exceeding customer expectations. Delivered on time, with high quality, high end-user adoption and customer satisfaction. Project selected as finalist in Exhibition of Excellence for TechReady 18 in FY14.• Led a team of 20+ to restore trust in Microsoft after failed engagement delivered by partner. Mission was to implement a collaborative, standardized and integrated tool to support customer's Technology Creation Process for capturing ideas and managing a portfolio of innovation projects based on SharePoint and Project Server 2010. Accountable for CIO Communications and driving Steering Committee with C-level stakeholders. Project selected as a finalist at Exhibition of Excellence for TechReady 14 in “Most Impactful” and “Best Collaboration” categories. • Managed several complex O365 migration engagements for Fortune 100 firms facilitating change management and business transformation planning activities to ensure successful cloud adoption

Ca

Unified Messaging Portfolio Manager leading a team of Product Managers to generate the highest Return of Investment and market share on our products: CallPilot, UM2000, HMS-400.• Defined multi-year product roadmap and conducted executive reviews to secure funding.• Ten development programs resulted in market introduction of eight new products. Portfolio surpassed objectives contributing $50M revenues w/ $8M budget in 2009.• Introduced innovative state-of-the-art speech recognition solution to allow users to read voicemails on their desktop and smartphones at no R&D cost to Nortel. Solution introduced to market in 5 Mo.

Ca

Established a new operational disciplines from the ground up for Multimedia Applications, a $300M business, to maximize the effectiveness of the organization. Provided a central point for business performance management, ROB, reporting and oversight to meet and improve on financial, operational and organizational goals. • Led Lean Six Sigma initiative and executive Steering Committee of 30+ product development programs to improve time to market. Initiative achieved 66% improvement in its first year.• Planned and directed a process improvement initiative to deploy the Universal Life Cycle Management Process methodology to standardize different product development management practices across globally dispersed teams adopting agile improvements.

Ca

Led the consulting services practice for US NE and Latin America regions mentoring a team of software developers, PMs and technical writers to develop custom solutions for Self-Service (IVR) and Contact Center technologies. • Met revenues targets, resource allocation, staff utilization and profitability for the region.• Established Project Management best practices, designed and deployed standard management tools.• Managed all aspects of solution delivery, i.e. requirements definition, SOW creation, effort estimates, pricing, design specification, quality, Implementation Plans, WBS, Budget adherence, Scope, Schedule and Risk management.• Quality prime defining and improving software engineering processes and standards and securign certifications

Ca

Led a team of over 30+ including managers, software developers and technical writers to develop solid packaged applications and custom development software for our market-leading IVR systems. Many of our solutions are deployed by Fortune 500 companies today and hav won industry recognized awards. Deployments requires thorough system intetration and testing into customer's IT framework.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Engineering

Certificate, Business Sustainability Management

Certificate, Unix, C, C++

Certificate, Project Management