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Redmond, Washington, Us

Lead product operations for the M365 consumer freemium, ad-supported, and subscription services (which include Office, OneDrive, Outlook, and more). Responsible for driving alignment, reporting, and progress in support of M365's growth ambitions. I help our product teams be more effective and provide direct support to VP in charge of the growth for the suite.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for organizational health, business operations, communications, and special projects for Modern Life Experiences (MLX), a team of 250 in 4 locations (Redmond, San Francisco/Bay Area, Vancouver, and Hyderabad). MLX builds innovative consumer experiences including the Family Safety App (monitors screen time and physical safety) and personal finance plugin Money in Excel.• Established and drove monthly OKR and strategy review process clarifying strategy and surfacing key risks.• Developed and managed a budget with over 200 headcount and multi-million-dollar non-people OPEX and COGS expenses.• Supported hiring over 80 people in one year including a 40 person Vancouver engineering expansion.• Drove special projects including one realigning the organization into business units.• Created and facilitated organization operating rhythms including all hands, weekly leadership meetings, people reviews and monthly business review; including 3 leadership team virtual offsites.• Developed key content and analysis supporting key executive meetings and decisions.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led security/privacy, quality, and data science/engineering for Modern Life Experiences (MLX). Manage 10-15 engineers supporting over 100 engineers in 3 geos.• Grew quality support by 3x for minimal increased cost leveraging managed service in India and a crowd-sourced testing vendor to support 3 products and a growing engineering team.• Support quality of weekly releases for 30+ services and 5 clients (iOS, Android, Xbox, Windows, and web).• Built a 5-person security team that implemented security for 2 new products in 4 months; security work included threat modeling, static code analysis OWASP vulnerability scanning, code inspection, and pen testing.• Built end-to-end data science platform (Kubernetes/AKS, Jupyter, Spark) to measure & improve drive quality in 6 months.• Developed an A/B testing platform to analyze drives against over 50 different features.• Hired 12 engineers and project managers into various roles in less than 18 months.• Managed security initiatives including data security standards, PCI self-assessment, & security training program.

Cupertino, California, Us

Responsible for analytic services and DevOps for 20+ retail services used in Apple stores. Managed 17-40 software engineers (depending on project size).

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Responsible for services quality engineering for 12 major e-commerce services including item, inventory, order, and global store services.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Responsible for services development and DevOps of Walmart’s award-winning mobile e-commerce platform and for end-to-end mobile QA (Android, iOS, and mobile web). Manage 17 services software engineers, 3 DevOps engineers, 1 QA manager with 15 QA engineers, and an $8m budget (total team size 36).• Led improvements to Java/Tomcat orchestration layer providing mobile clients (Android, iOS, and mobile web) with all e-commerce services including browse, search, cart, checkout, item lookup, login, photo, and pharmacy services.• Delivered holiday features including pick-up-today (20% of orders within 2 weeks) & guest checkout (30% of revenue within 1 week).• Migrated key browse and search services to new node.js services platform; browse conversion improved 3.7%.• Launched Scan & Go and eReceipts service that lets customers scan items with their iPhone and then pay at self-checkout line.• Expanded capacity from 40 to 120 servers to meet record holiday traffic and stress tested to 12 million requests/hour.• Verified over 200 releases per year for Walmart, Sam’s Club, and ASDA mobile applications and services.

Fremont, Ca, Us

I served as a School Board Trustee on the Fremont Unified School District Board of Education from 2008 to 2012. As trustee I was responsible for policy and direction for a district of over 30,000 students and over 3,000 employees. My manager at Motorola supported me serving this part time role concurrently.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for assuring the quality of new cloud services and mobile applications used by millions of Motorola customers. Services included highly scalable software update service using Jetty and Cassandra and reporting/data analytics system using Hadoop, MySQL, and Tableau for visualization. • Scaled QA organization from 12 to 30 different services tested and released on a twice a week release cycle. Reliably verified over 300 issues per quarter.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for cloud services development used by Android smartphones. Managed 14 software engineers.• Built a highly available end-to-end service platform with an Android client, a web browser client, and a web services layer; technologies used include J2EE, Jetty, Tomcat, Cassandra, MySQL, Spring, HTML5, XMPP, and REST-based protocols.• Delivered 8 major products on services platform including identity management/single-sign on, social networking integration in contacts and gallery, messaging, contact synchronization, device setup, device management web portal, and MotoACTV.• Developed and shipped Motorola's user identity and management platform used by 10 million users on phones, tablets, desktop and web-applications.• Launched services on top selling devices including DROID X and DROID RAZR and on 200+ carriers.• Doubled the capacity of the social aggregation service saving over $20 million in capex without impacting user experience.• Coordinated service application development with Beijing offshore team of 30 engineers.• Founding member of Sunnyvale patent review committee; helped increase filings by 5x.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for MOTOBLUR cloud services development used by Android smartphones. Doubled the team in 6 months to 14 software engineers.• Aggregated status, contacts, and photos from 10 social services including Facebook, Twitter, & Linkedin; used by 6 million users.• Optimized Android client to reduce memory usage by 30% and battery usage by up to 40%.• Managed technical relationships with key internal and external partners including Facebook and Twitter.

Responsible for design and development of the DFSplash video content delivery network’s reporting system and customer portal. Built a data warehouse to analyze user video streaming viewing habits. Built Ruby on Rails-based applications to manage video content and Amazon’s EC2 virtualized computing resources.

San Ramon, Ca, Us

Responsible for internal tools and process improvement. Managed 16 software engineers (5 onsite, 11 in Beijing), 13 QA engineers, and multiple outsourcing initiatives. Within 1 month outsourced 60% of QA work saving $10,000 per month; increased output 5x to 200+ devices tested per month.

San Ramon, Ca, Us

Responsible for all new products and major updates. Built and managed a team of 21 software engineers (10 onsite, 11 in Beijing).• Doubled the size of the team in less than 6 months; built an 11 engineer offshore development center in Beijing.• Designed and deployed software for delivering and selling ringtones through website and phone-based products, which represented more than 20% of the company’s revenue within 3 months of the product launch.• Delivered over 10 mobile phone product releases (BREW, J2ME, and WAP) that generated over $14 million in revenue; technologies used include Spring, Hibernate, JSP, JSTL, AJAX, Apache, Tomcat 5.5, Windows Server, and SQL Server.

Lead developer in server group building backend services for all set top box products. Lead architect and project manager on data warehouse project to analyze transaction and usage data from over 50,000 subscribers.

Managed 5 member team that developed all broadcast server products. Led 3 server releases that were deployed to 25 sites and delivered television data services to over 10 million US households (cable & satellite); technologies used: multi-threaded and network programming, C/C++, Tcl/Tk, CORBA, SNMP, and Solaris/Unix.

Lead developer on all broadcast server products. Developed and integrated a broadcast server into DIRECTV’s 2 satellite uplink centers; delivered 99.99% system availability.