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San Francisco Bay Area

Making complex technology easier for everyone by disrupting the chaos of change.

San Ramon, California

Leadership• Promoted to product manager 3 months shy of GE’s Predix Insight product release to address challenges and implement solutions. Refocused the team, reprioritized the backlog, and shored up the feature set to release product on time.• Co-developed design-thinking sales process that was the deciding factor for Bridgestone Tire to sign a multi-million dollar contract. Provided guidance and insight to Bridgestone’s Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Digital Officer. • Served as mentor for a member of the technical executive leadership group to assess skill set and guide communication of ideas to others.• Recognized by the CEO of GE Software Center of Excellent for dedication and perseverance to create the template for negotiations, contracts, and training sessions for all Predix product deals.Collaboration• Engaged and negotiated with Japanese manufacturer Toshiba to leverage Predix as a software solution and become the first platform-only customer outside the GE family of businesses.• Collaborated with sales and engineering teams for release dates that aided in the sale of products. • Presented technological overviews to prospects to match customer needs with a defined set of features.Program Design and Business Intelligence• Organized and trained team of 5 to provide education, software tools, and guidance to engineering teams. • Implemented the development environment for Predix, a high-quality, cloud-based Industrial Internet platform, by creating a budget, hiring technical support and agile coaches, and developing a training program. • Consolidated requirements from various business units into a prioritized list that influenced the design of Predix analytics and user experience capabilities.

Palo Alto, Ca / Dublin, Ca

Business Intelligence and Collaboration• Expanded applications by working with the founder of Saffron to leverage insights and explore underlying data to combine technologies. It was used by the sales team to cultivate partnerships. • Investigated Big Data concepts and evaluated incorporating technologies for mobile analytic applications. • Collected and analyzed data to build a framework and identify potential telecommunications issues. • Attended the 2011 Augmented Reality conference to network with corporations and discuss using smart device software to inventory retail objects on the shelf.

Dublin, Ca

Software Development, Business Intelligence, and Problem Solving• Developed a simplified method to modify the customer webpage to incorporate customized software, such as charts/contextual links or extra security; was leveraged to build the main product line sold today.• Spearheaded solutions for PeopleSoft customers in the areas of business intelligence, security, and usability.• Investigated technologies enabling drop-in solutions to integrate disparate systems with business intelligence, using in-browser debugging techniques, new JavaScript libraries, and knowledge of web server technology.

San Mateo, Ca

Leadership and Product Development• Pioneered the first payroll module for NetSuite by collaborating with the Product Management and Strategy team to create a unique product with functionality unavailable in other desktop products.• Led a team of 3 to identify customer needs and provide a long-term platform for business intelligence. Resulted in the creation of a flexible set of services that replaced prototype code in under 1 month.• Advised product team on benefits of creating a unique and functional design rather than replicating competitor (QuickBooks). Created a database and wrote test cases for quality assurance. Collaboration• Collaborated across multiple offices to create the NetSuite Payroll product, including Product Strategy, Product Management, Chief Technology Officer, Quality Assurance, Sales, and Information Technology to successfully meet time constraints and marketing needs.• Worked with Product Management to ensure they could manage data changes independently. Software Development• Streamlined financial data into a real-time reporting system to reduce errors by eliminating the standard duplication process and prior month comparisons to allow for faster month-end closure. • Developed deployment tools for the 1st generation cloud application that removed need for the entire development team to be available during overnight deployment. Tools allowed for a single developer to independently resolve issues.• Designed and implemented the 2nd generation multi-tiered SaaS platform with the CTO and CIO. • Architected a contact management system that integrated with the existing accounting system.

Pleasanton, Ca

Leadership and Software Development• Awarded “Peggy’s Hero” at PeopleSoft for taking initiative and identifying a series of technical bugs during the final testing phase. Restored system in under 2 days to launch the product on time.• Developed a software tool called Cube Manager for departmental heads who wanted to perform analysis using OLAP tools and convert a transactional data system into a multi-dimensional reporting data system. In keeping with PeopleSoft guidelines, the tool could create data consumed by Hyperion Essbase, Cognos PowerPlay, and Information Advantage.

Cambridge, Ma

Hardware and Software Architecture• Developed the client side of the ODBC driver used in future products. • Helped define the object-oriented architecture of current Cache product line as a team member.• Built new hardware for research and development and performed tasks associated with backing up the associated software. • Performed evaluations of two multi-taking operating systems, Windows 3.1 and Desqview, by installing hardware, troubleshooting issues, and providing recommendations for strategic direction of the PC product line.

Key designer for the next generation of InterSystems tools. Work includes designing SQL-92 and object oriented language extensions for ANSI standard language M[UMPS].Designer and developer of generic dynamic communication interface used in all Microsoft OS products.Designer and developer of ODBC driver Level 2 functionality. Focus of the design is SQL interaction facilities for modification of M[UMPS] databases.

Implemented an Oracle-based computer tracking, inventory, and reporting system for IBM compatible PCs.Integrated software components in a Windows 3.0 environment.Performed hardware upgrade task