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United States

Qualified and raced as part of the USA Cycling Team at the UCI Gravel World Championships. Multiple top-10 placings across a variety of local and national level events, including the NorCal Grasshopper series and SBT GRVL.

Mountain View, California, United States

Designed and led a globally-distributed organization of 12 FTEs and 50 TVCs across 8 different Google offices, responsible for growing GTV watch time and improving app quality. Redesigned business strategy and doubled 2023 watch time and partner throughput from 2022. Created a quality program using big data analytics to monitor the top 28 apps and uncover issues before our users do. Improved app health score from 50% to 80%, with top apps (accounting for 80% of global watch time) consistently… Show more Designed and led a globally-distributed organization of 12 FTEs and 50 TVCs across 8 different Google offices, responsible for growing GTV watch time and improving app quality. Redesigned business strategy and doubled 2023 watch time and partner throughput from 2022. Created a quality program using big data analytics to monitor the top 28 apps and uncover issues before our users do. Improved app health score from 50% to 80%, with top apps (accounting for 80% of global watch time) consistently above 90%. Optimized operations and reduced TVC opex spend by $3M in 2023 despite losing 4 FTEs. Show less

Mountain View, California, United States

Organizational and change management leadership through 2 reorgs, 3 team restructures, and the Director’s departure in the span of 24 months. Led organizational design strategy by creating the Content Lifecycle Model to abstract and visualize the 200-step content supply chain into 4 distinct workflows with measurable start and end periods. Optimized supply chain operations and saved $12M in opex and reduced TVCs by 65%.

Mountain View, Ca

Led organizational design and operations leadership of a global team focused on predictive analytics and process optimization. Developed business strategy to deploy predictive analytics and machine learning to reduce contracting approval wait times by over 30K days per year. Leveraged executive operations management and launched an automated A/P accrual process using predictive analytics that saved over $14M per year.

Handpicked by CFO to lead initiative to leverage big data analytics to redesign A&C metricsCrafted a compelling business strategy narrative demonstrating over $10M in opex savings

Mountain View, California, United States

Saved $4M in opex by landing CFO operations management and organization design initiative to outsource accounting work to Accenture. Led the Google and Accenture team in Buenos Aires. Received two CFO awards.

Mountain View, California, United States

Created the Google-wide, $500M house ads budget allocation process. Influenced CMO and multiple Product VPs to approve budget.

Mountain View, California, United States

Participated in 2007 Google Annual Risk Assessment interviews with the CEO and VPs.

United States

Professional athlete focused on helping my Team win at the top level US races, while also working 50% at Google. Multiple podiums, including 4th at Stage 1 of the Elk Grove Cycling Classic, along with the Sprinter's Jersey. Part of the GC-winning squad at Elk Grove.

Managed a team of over 20+ Associates and Senior Associates on Internal Audit projects at Silicon Valley companies. Projects included SOX, royalty audits and remote location reviews. Managed the annual internal audit plan for these companies.

SOX, royalty audit and remote location reviews.