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San Mateo, Ca, Us

Leading Technical Program Management across Infrastructure and Engineering Excellence initiatives

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Leading a team of technical program managers to help build platform and infrastructure to accurately detect and eliminate harmful ads through the application of machine learning and advanced AI capabilities.

Redmond, Washington, Us

April 2019 - Present:Group Program Manager/ PM Manager:-Leading a team of 6 strong technical program managers to deliver solutions across the stack of engineering systems for our worldwide release systems. The main area of focus isin BUILD and supporting the service based modern cloud build infrastructure of worldwide releases of products in Office and WindowsJan 2018 - April 2019:Area LEAD for Translation experiences across M365 (Strong customer focus)- Drive the strategy and overall deliverables of in product real time translation capabilities for o365 and eventually m365- Co drove features including: PowerPoint Live Captions and Subtitles, Word Intelligent Translations, Outlook Web Access modern translation of messages, as well as updates to existing features in OneNote- Attended BETT education conference in London where I interfaced with hundreds of customers to highlight the release of PowerPoint Live Captions and Subtitles.Feb 2015 - Dec 2017Area LEAD: Office global infrastructure and toolsDelivered multiple large scale projects building and moving engineering systems into the cloud and modernizing processes to take full advantage of Azure and distributed cloud computing. I have been in a leadership role across multiple teams and stakeholders with complex and numerous cross deliveribles.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Ran team of developers and program managers to deliver company wide tools to run our international engineering systems including but not limited to: - Usage of AI to detect and alert to issues in products - Design and delivery of automated workflows to move large amounts of data securely- Experience in cross geo management, managing engineers and program managers across the ocean in different time zones- Excelled at delivering impactful projects while maximzing resources and ensuring efficiency of the development process.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Was responsible for ensuring globalization and localizability readiness across a wide range of Microsoft's top enterprise products. - Accomplished this through developer evangelization of best engineering practices including but not limited to:1. Delivering tools and engineering processes to ensure quality internationalization code was delivered by developers2. Enhancing and writing new localization tools to protect and fix UI problems when they detected.- I built a team of 8 localization engineers and a key accomplishment for me was helping most of them become much more technical and add more value to the developer ecosystem through writing and delivering tools/code along side the product teams.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Was responsible for ensuring world readiness of shared MS Office features. Interfaced with PMs, Engineers and designers in core product teams to co design international sufficiency.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked on location at Microsoft as a technical contractor focused on QA and testing of Microsoft Outlook. Did deep QA testing across Outlook features including writing automation tests. Large focus wad the unicodization of Outlook and the overall test strategy for that migration.