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Mobility of People (ride-hailing), Mobility of Things (food, groceries and other things) and the Mobility Platform.

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Current charter includes Nvidia Shield Hub Customer Experience and Data Architecture & Platform supporting all major Nvidia Consumer facing products. Organization owns definition of strategy, direction and management of execution for all things engineering, including product development, engineering, processes and go-to-market. Geo-Distributed Multi-discipline organization (Program Management, Architects, Engineering, Operations, Data Scientist, Data Analyst and Visualization), my organization spans across all major technology hubs with engineering centers in Seattle, Austin, Bay Area, Moscow and Shanghai. On the innovation front, successfully helped deliver Nvidia’s Game Platform (spanning Cloud, Console and PC gaming), Nvidia Data Platform (a GDPR compliant Multi-petabyte Telemetry and AI platform), User Profile and Targeting system, and Voice-of-customer platform (including Machine learnings models and heuristics which root cause customer satisfaction and sentiment, pain-points, and attrition). Notable deliverables during my tenure at Nvidia include (1) Change management, optimizing existing talent and attracting best of breed engineers and architects (2) Fostering a culture of innovation (over dozen patents queued in the space of applied data science in the past year) and (3) Establishing a value system which guides the teams actions and embraces responsibility.

Manage Groupon Goods Customer Experience Product Management team with Engineering, QA and Design teams dotted line. Accountabilities include: Groupon Goods CX Strategy & Vision, Product Roadmap & lifecycle, and engineering execution across both 1) Regions i.e. North America, EMEA & LATAM, and 2) customer facing clients i.e. Desktop, Mobile and Touch site. Business & Engineering Achievements in 2014 include: 25% lift in YoY Gross Revenue in Q4, 20% lift in YoY Gross Revenue in Q3. A 50% increase in number of items per transaction at checkout while maintaining double digit margins. This was achieved through key engineering investments in a comprehensive Customer facing taxonomy, Catalog expansion, Improved Site navigation and Search, investments in heuristics & predictive modeling (upsell, related products customer also bought/viewed type of widgets), Product Rating & Reviews (in collaboration with Bazaarvoice), and significant investments in site up-time and stability, Organizational Achievements include: Attracting new talent, developed, coached and helped retain high-performers across my organization, helped empower individuals by elevating their level of responsibility and performance, while increasing overall team throughput through process improvements (highly agile organization). Worked closely with partners to establish shared priorities and deliverables and build cross-company alignment. Today, the Goods CX team is recognized within the organization as healthy, high performing and a reliable partner. Team has consistently delivered against commitments on time, in budget and with quality over past the year.

1) Managed Xbox 360 Marketplace covering Digital (games, video, music) and Virtual Goods. In 2013 extended Marketplace categories to include Physical Goods (1st & 3rd party hardware and accessories), resulting in a multi-million dollar lift in Revenue. Architecturally, the platform was designed not only to support native Xbox Marketplace but also In-Game and In-App purchases, as announced by GoPro, our first 3rd party partner, on Jan 2014. o Accountabilities included managing a 100 person v-team across 7 Geos and delivering UX enhancements, Search & Discovery, Analytics, and integration/joint development with both up & downstream systems i.e. Merchant Center, Catalog & Inventory, Payment Processing, Risk & Fraud, SAP, Fulfillment Centers and Customer Support Systems. o Physical Goods Marketplace successfully launched at E3 2013, scaling 10 Million UUs over a 72 hour period at 99% uptime and <1% Error rate across all 7 Geos. 2) Designed and Delivered Second Screen experiences (SmartGlass and PlayTo (DLNA)) on Xbox 360 Platform, enabling users to discover, connect, navigate and share content with the console using handheld devices. 3) Executive Producer for Xbox One Release Program, drove Alpha and Beta programs spanning 13 Geos and 6000+ Testers. Team managed Customer Reach, Engagement & Satisfaction (balanced scorecard, survey and analysis), A/B Testing, Analytics & Reporting. Xbox One successfully launched in Holiday 2013.

• Manage Site Search, Monetization, Business and Audience Intelligence Program Management team. • Accountabilities include FY’11 Monetization across the online and print business (sales, trafficking and delivery through adExpert), SEO & Site Search enhancements (bing and FAST), Customer Reach, Engagement & Satisfaction (balanced scorecard, survey and analysis), and Audience Intelligence Systems (User profiling and segmentation, content and Ads targeting)

• Managed Emerging Ads Application Program Management team. • Microsoft Yahoo! Search Alliance, delivered the migration plan and on-ramping solution for all Y!SM advertisers content to the Microsoft adCenter platform. • Delivered Microsoft’s new Mobile Advertising Platform initiative, launched in spring 2008 and backbone for the Verizon Wireless and Microsoft Search syndication deal• Lead Advertisement delivery for Microsoft Cashback program, launched in the summer 2008, focus to expand Bing Search query share. • Incubated and successfully delivered Advance User Behavioral Segmentation for Bing Search.• Accountabilities include Multi-year planning, incubation, positioning & delivery of new products to market. • Time-to-market remained pivotal for team, demanding an efficient and accurate schedule with low risk tolerance and delivery of new technologies to market

Hotmail and Messenger (Heydays of email & Web 1.0, Win NT migration & launched contact store),Microsoft Live Meeting (Early days of online meeting & streaming, Placeware.com acquisition),Microsoft SQL Sever (Launched mission critical Database clustering and replication, Oracle compete), CNBC and MSN Money (New financial products, Launched Real-time Stocks Quotes & ETFs with Nasdaq)