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San Jose, CA, US

- Developing internal expertise in Databricks Delta Lake and delta-spark-4.0rc to bring secure big data governance to Financial clients using ML.- Examining RAG advantages to address small language model SML opportunities.- Innovation collaboration via Gen AI. Pilot product from eForte.io at http://validatr.io- Teaching recursive prompt engineering, or.

Los Angeles, US

- AI product implementation, with open, best-of-breed methods and CI/CD refined abilities,- Refine product backlog, co-roadmapping to optimal TAM growth to achieve "Free AI for All".- Collaborate to define Kwaai VMO(s), and yearly goals.- Advocating and promoting the need for a more robust volunteer base, volunteer outreach, and building success habits..

San Jose, CA, US

Lead end-to-end Business Automation & Discovery program for AI integration, driving key updates in collab efficiency, in XFN Ops teams. Highlights:- AI integration and org-wide implementation, covering workflows & document/code submission gates- DevSecOps Optimization: Streamlined Biz Ops workflows through automation and AI augmentation tools, resulting in.

Oakland, CA, US

Pro-bono Product Manager of Bay Area Community Exchange Non-Profit (grassroots community) #TimeBank web/mobile ecosystem. As the last-designated Board Member of BACE, I co-manage our flagship product which serves as a community exchange mechanism. I helped establish the Project Charter and manage the development details. Led the documentation of: Business.

Wilmington, Delaware, US

Establish business processes for pair-programming support utilizing ChatGpt and Google Bard. Trained users to utilize AI Prompt Engineering, resulting in integrated use of a growing plethora of AI-based tools.My teams are now developing on Dart/Flutter (FE/BE) for combined iOS / Android / web output, with code generated in chatGPT4, & live outputs observed.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Technical Program Manager owning 2 teams– Meta Horizon Worlds (Oculus Acquisition). (Remote.)Owning Community Management and Creator Monetization teams in the Horizon Worlds ‘Communities’ pillar
• Coordinate efforts to develop & improve features aligned to Quest 2 HW versions, to serve Meta VR / Horizon world creators
• Manage XFN initiatives to serve identity, economy, and reputation in the Metaverse, empowering VR creators to earn a living
• Deliver Horizon Worlds Learn Hub rollout, overseeing CMS content integration of topics from creation & tooling to publishing
• Manage weekly featuring of 10 custom featured locations throughout Horizon Worlds, with emphasis on DEI in both content & creators

Cupertino, California, US

Managing Ops of high priority Engineering Experience Program efforts in Apple Ad Platforms. Also serving as Engineering Program Manager of the (Mobile, confidential) Ad Platforms CRM suite, an in-house communications ecosystem of applications (owned by Product Marketing) which is used to engage with Ad Platforms' eCommerce endusers. This program involves.

San Jose, CA, US

• Cloud Technology Program Management of Security & Compliance #FedRAMP program, requiring numerous project timelines aligning to achieve desired organization Authorization
• Establish data-driven leadership, set up Jira dashboards & Confluence trackers for visible Program Performance across various workstreams
• Onboard both existing projects and greenfield efforts with heavy inter-dependencies
• Build and maintain credible relationships with all levels of org, to further leadership goals

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Supply Chain transformation of the VeloCloud (VMware's 1st hardware unit) manufacturing and fulfilment life-cycle, to close down a department with constant refinement of inventory management Ops being changed into RTB.
• Coordinate Order Management with Manufacturing Ops just-in-time delivery to fulfil demand & avoid shortages with CM/ODMs
• Maintain fulfilment dashboard, with daily reporting to show trends and shifts in customer orders vs expected inventory stocks
• Collaborate with Contract Manf. managers to position future capacity and achieve production yields in line with projected targets
• Execute and launch NPI's, managing supplies in line with POR schedule and order targets
• Identify supply chain risks, long lead items, and & execution risks to mitigate plans for guaranteed availability of very high-demand inventory

San Jose, CA, US

• Security and IT Risk Mitigation (& Transformation) in Cisco's global Supply Chain management. Transform PMO Ops to an Agile model, and modify Supply Chain information flow practices:
• Lead cross-functional Change Management with Cisco’s manufacturing partners to enhance IT Security posture across all sites
• Plan & execute x-functional SAAS implementation rollouts of Tanium and AMP4E, with in-house tools for ACL cleanup per-site
• Create process lifecycles to manage timeline across sites, address migration constraints, and present results for exec reporting
• Develop best practices for Manufacturing Partners, gain standards agreements, socialize via SharePoint, Tableau, & SmartSheet
• Aggregate & dashboard in-flight/transformed processes, serve as glue across teams, to ascertain end-to-end quality standards

Redwood City, CA, US

• Business Transformation Reporting /Analytics via SmartSheet, to market EA’s HR business practice transformation to Exec leaders.
• Develop Exec preso as a data story, sourced & developed in Smartsheet, dashboarding transformation adoption success metrics.
• Create PMO templates, standardize Smartsheet proj. plans, run logic in a metrics sheet, & train PMs to set up data/metric funnel.
• Implement & dashboard dimensional data-slices to tell a project story with work/phase status, by resources, and %load analytics.Business Process Engineering Program management, of EA's Talent Acquisition and People.

San Francisco, US

08/2019-09-2019: PM engagement at EA (via Forshay) is with the same team where the project below (early 2019) was done. Now doing Risk Mitigation on Org transformation, analyzing & dashboarding results of the projects in-flight for exec reporting.10/2018-04/2019: Strategic Management and Delivery role, enabling enterprise transformation at EA (via.

Cupertino, California, US

• Agile ScrumMaster, enabling good teams do effective work, & cross-functionally streamline ops.
• ScrumMaster for Mobile Device Mgmt JAMF App, own & execute all scrum rituals - review/retrospective/planning/daily scrums.
• Manage stakeholders, train engineers in sizing user stories, collaborate with teams on feature priorities, & run business process.
• Facilitate feedback between users and engineering, track incident types/severities, prune backlog, & expedite iterative updates.
• Prioritize roadmap Epics, work with Product/UX design team, triage feature inclusion, & coordinate Apple-wide release MarCOM.
• Use Jira Kanban workflow management- capture sprint metrics /lessons learned, to report burn-down rates and sprint velocity.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Business Process Re-engineering & Promapp workflow implementation for EA’s HR Talent Acquisition and People Experience teams.
• Engage Stakeholders, develop Proj. Charter/Scope Baseline, for high-ROI change management. MVP: define Future State design.
• Introduce ProMapp workflow for PLM implementation plan, train & support users, manage onboarding, & design key workflow.
• Develop LumApps CMS UI/UX maps, & utilize to bring uniformity to disparate page formats, to market ProMapp design-thinking.
• Execute identified change areas, produce & manage Change Impact Analysis, and report on results of customer-journey metrics.Engagement with prior colleagues via Forshay, in BPR consulting.

San Jose, CA, US

3rd role via BayOne Solutions SOW: Having demonstrated influencing strengths, I was tasked to integrate Business Operations and Change Management expertise into the FedRAMP/AV Engineering team of WebEx AV-Ops. Having first supported WebEx Meetings FedRAMP (through 1st successful ATO renewal,) I was moved for a quarter to WebEx Meetings Architecture &.

San Jose, CA, US

2nd role via BayOne Solutions SOW: As an Ops Program Manager with active projects, I managed:- Work with Operations teams in Strategic Planning & Delivery and Infrastructure Engineering, to align product/project roadmap & mutually dependent milestones for execution planning. - Communicate Strategic alignment and Tactical operational directives via articles.

San Jose, CA, US

1st role via BayOne Solutions SOW: As Product Manager reporting directly to the Director of "Strategic Planning & Delivery," I managed & delivered priority efforts within Cloud Engineering Operations. Among them:- Manage cloud security controls and NIST 800-53 compliance for Cisco WebEx FedRAMP, as Product Owner of the System Security Plan (SSP).

Wilmington, Delaware, US

• Product Design & SW Dev Program Management from '05 to '16 inclusive:Design spans all domains, from business process architecture to user-centric design. As a Product Developer, I get things done, and manage customer.
• Stealth product development
• Own and deliver User/Admin documentation with API integration instructions for (then Bitzer, now) Oracle Mobile BYOD solution.
• Consulting successes like data-mining ETL information to present in standardized Wiki/SharePoint repositories, for clients like Quantivo & VMware's Exec Leadership.
• Project Mgmt, Execution & Evangelist support for groups like Open Source Facebook Developers, Wadi2.0 (web 2.0 Consulting,) WadiWallah.com, iFaqeer Communications, & steering OPENSiliconValley.com.
• Volunteering with BACE, Twitter & Facebook Developer Meetups, OpenFace Framework, Ultra-Light Startups, and CloudCamp.org, as well as companies like SocialCash, Glam Media, Watr-Tyte.com, Inka Biospheric Systems.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Classic 3-month engagement to launch first international portal of RHT's internal Leads Management Application. Partner with IT and business support groups to ensure majority of Product Backlog is addressed by launch. Oversee and provide guidance to peers and system administrators in all day-to-day application and production issues. Provide post.

Oakland, CA, US

SalesForce (SFDC) custom development liaison with eForte Solutions, managing client product development. Identify Business Requirements, develop BRD, secure stakeholder buy-in, liaise with developers to ensure customers are getting what they require, and hand-hold customers through iterative reviews to ensure development is progressing along agreed upon.

• Trained & co-managed Product team to take Technical and Visual Product Concept from Storyboard > Flowchart Design > Spreadsheet Design > Prototype > Iterations Incorporating Feedback > Agile Product Development >.
• Product Manager, Producer & DRI for two (2) simultaneous product development tracks
• Knowledge Mgmt, establishing/transforming practices and procedures to ensure business process flow
• Direct user interface (UI) development, & Development/Software Change Management (SCM) methodology
• Trained VA (Virtual Assistant) & PM, engaged editors and developers, while managing product development with delegated validation.
• Create goals by developing Requirements Definitions, formulating Functional Specs, directing content strategy, authoring Project Plans, and securing client buy-in while managing logistics, product development pipeline.

Oakland, California, US

• Management consulting via M-Squared Consulting:Product Development role role started out as Knowledge Management in PG&E's Business Results Team [BRT], resulting in Program Management of eNOS. BRT, part of PG&E's.
• Manage Enterprise (upgrade) program for E-Net Online System (ENOS) product enhancements, managing priorities, timelines, liaising across back-end databases & cross-functional development-teams as well as schedules.
• Research process flows to ensure work/knowhow dissemination (Req's/Specs/PLM) to end-points.
• Requirements Analysis and integration with prior efforts, minimizing time-impact on SMEs & PMs.
• UAT of developed EDRS SFDC Application phases with incremental releases, and ECTS (Enterprise Compliance Tracking System) product for EGI Contract Management. UAT and Development Management of ENOS.
• Development and Project Management of EGI SFDC implementation, and ENOS Application "Training Plan & Delivery" Programs.

Co-organizing the annual CLS West Unconference in the San Francisco Bay Area. These events are opportunities for experienced community leaders and organizers to discuss, debate and explore the many avenues of building strong community, while building community, in an "unconference" setting.Unconference is an innovative community-building meeting-technique..

Leading change and bringing innovation to communities where it can have the greatest impact. This particular effort arose out of existing relationships, (Dave Nielsen is a colleague I've worked with in the past,) and my ongoing organizational leadership work with the Community Leadership Summit: http://CLSwest.us

Palo Alto, CA, US

Gained stakeholder buy-in for a 3-project commitment. VMware DSS execs required data clarity to understand why their dashboards gave different values for the same commodities listed in different Financial dashboards. They needed a communicator who could reverse-engineer their ETL transformations, to arrive at a coherent explanation of the underlying data.

⋅ Tasked with "Return to Profitability" role, given broad scope⋅ Strategized risk mitigation by developing multiple revenue streams, leading to refined focus and product eliminations⋅ Served as editor at Large, managed technical writers compiling training courses, & trained-the-trainer in effective stand-up training methodologies ⋅ Training Program.

My return to PeopleTalents saw me jump headlong into our Consultant Development pipeline, because I observed that the greatest obstacle to further growth was the lack of marketable talent. I established a training methodology with peer-reviews and mock-consulting assignments, designed to highlight value of team communication. Managed offshore training for.

Redmond, Washington, US

Provided engineering & Q/A expertise for Enterprise Product delayed with technical issues. I took on the technical, Hands-off (Automated) Install in addition to my scoped Config Guide. Liaison work across teams lead to early detection of unfeasibility of Automated Install. This so because MS SQL Server Install could not work without manual intervention..

Continued working as a corporate professional, (in projects for Quantivo, PeopleTalents.com, and Microsoft's MediaRoom division,) while living the life of a zen student. Initiated & assisted numerous efforts with matrixed time, the most significant of which.

Quantivo was a data-analytics company in the business of helping clients with large datasets to find deeper value in their data. They were lacking the ability to convey their strengths to new users in a concise, simple training methodology. I helped Quantivo achieve a uniform documentation look and feel via a documentation strategy, which lead to trainings.

This bold engagement required me to wear multiple hats, starting with Business Development for which I overhauled the company marketing literature and website, starting with the VMO (Vision/Mission/Objective). Established Marketing Lead Generation for Biz Dev pipeline, coordinating with sales and engineering teams, streamlining previously independent.

San Jose, CA, US

Successfully delivered 3 independent projects for different clients at Cisco: Developed and published technical manuals for (1) Cisco desktop switches at DSBU (5 products.) (2) Cisco wireless switches at WNBU, (for Aironet RNA acquisition that became Cisco CNA v 3.0,) and (3) won an opportunity to solve a problem that was previously unidentified: Innovated.

Technical Communications Consulting from 03/04 to 05/05:- Wrote a 40-page whitepaper extolling the Financial ROI for Medium-to-Large installations of the SunRay Ultra Thin Client. This was done in FrameMaker 7.2, on Windows XP, and is still on the Oracle documentation website- Revised & updated Technical API manual for a Philips product, TCS v4.5..

Palo Alto, CA, US

· Researched & developed 40 page Whitepaper on SunRay Ultra-Thin Client; Advocated large scale installations of thin-client computing in a technical whitepaper utilizing statistical output.· Incorporated detailed numerical analysis to demonstrate a 3-year ROI for 5000+ seat installations.· Highlighted performance advantages with economies of scale as well.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

· Content Migration with Data-mining and API Documentation methodology/analysis· Updated an API Guide and wrote instruction manuals for industrial controllers. · TCS v4.5 Tech API manual revision in FM 7.2, with data-mining of legacy data additionally empowering the project.

Cupertino, California, US

Group: Apple Product Development.Technical Writer / Producer of Tiger Server and QTSS Enterprise Release DocsDirectly Responsible Individual (DRI) for Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger Server primary guide, which finally brought BSD (& thus, Apple's flagship OS,) into the Corporate arena with SMB functionality. Liaison and Enterprise Documentation Release expertise.

Cupertino, California, US

Group: Apple Technical Training.Developed Apple Certified training courses, instructional materials, testing materials and test answers for Apple Technical Training Department.This required keeping up with Apple's internal bug-tracking mechanism, RADAR, and liaising with SME's and different groups to keep abreast of which of the enhancements were making it.

Prior URL: www.NHCCS.orgServed as Technology Facilitator in a CTO capacity for New Horizons Community Charter School in Newark, NJ. Managed a $100,000 budget to technologize the school and bring every classroom into the digital age. Set up AT&T PBX digital phone system, replacing analog version previously serving school, and addressed all technology.

• Founded Training and Consulting company, fulfilling all required roles when and as necessary. Trained consultants and placed in numerous levels and capacities.
• Fulfilled all required roles, from Operations Mgr & Service Delivery, & developing Marketing strategies to MarCOM content.
• SME /partner outreach, develop Cisco training programs as supplier-managed offerings, & manage supplier license compliance.
• Research & develop an eDoc Mgmt + Workflow Mgmt system with rules-based UX workflows to streamline equipment ordering.
• Solved multi-source BOM issue by innovating Workflow Mgmt System UX to highlight shortages, flag-triggers, & display options.
• Managed fulfilling consulting opportunities from USA, India, Pakistan, and Eastern Europe.Moved to the west coast and left this concern to my partner & friend, the current President, when Apple beckoned.

High School Math and Physics teacher at MAS (http://ahlusunnahschool.org/) in East Orange, NJ. Developed and implemented lesson plans, worked with disadvantaged and special needs students, and inculcated a love of Science & Math in 9th through 12th graders, in gender-segregated classes.Innovated a few methods to develop scientific interest in kids from.

High School Math and Physics teacher at MAS (http://ahlusunnahschool.org/) in East Orange, NJ. Developed and implemented lesson plans, worked with disadvantaged and special needs students, and inculcated a love of Science & Math in 9th through 12th graders, in gender-segregated classes.Innovated a few methods to develop scientific interest in kids from.

Colorado Springs, CO, US

eCiti & NYL institutional Extranets Vignette StoryServer Architect: Successfully accomplished as Tech-Lead Phases I and II of Citibank's eCiti Finance.com RAD Effort. Designed, Developed and Launched 8-man project in 5 weeks with 4 developers in collaboration with eCentric.com. First on-site Vignette consultant, caused our presence at NYL.com to increase.

New York, New York, US

Originally tasked as Lead Architect, chose to fulfill the role of Project Manager for successful Phase I/II, Vignette StoryServer enterprise development as we couldn't hire a PM in time for project launch. Designed, Developed and Delivered 6-week, 8-man project in 5 weeks with 4 developers in collaboration with eCentric.com.Architected application and.

Program Manager Y2K Certification Project - Fannie Mae (FNMA), Washington, DC: successfully developed and completed "End User Computing" project and received acclaim.Project Lead Y2K Certification - The MYTA Corporation. Developed Hardware, Software, BIOS and OS test methodology to update all MYTA systems.Y2K Subject Matter Expert (SME).

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Took over and successfully completed the delayed "Y2K End User Computing" program, resulting in Zero fail rate for 540+ non-mainframe based applications which were in use all across Fannie Mae. These were apps in every conceivable database and application environment which did not reside on the mainframe servers, meaning that they did not get included in.

Vienna, VA, US

Globe trotting work utilized a refined consulting methodology which I implemented on NovaManage, a predecessor to Documentum and Hummingbird, far ahead of its time. This folder-style EDMS presented a built-in, rules-based Workflow Management System which enabled me to reduce the paper consumption of my clients while streamlining their business processes..

Schenectady, NY, US

Spent 8 memorable months implementing, customizing and training users in the use of NovaManage EDMS (Electronic Document Management System) and WMS (Workflow Management System) for PPSD, Power Plant Systems Division. Jay Hayner and Rocky Bruno were primary clients for whom I produced RAD scenarios and implemented business needs like LessonsLearned. Saved.

New York, NY, US

Systems Analyst and Integration Specialist. Worked on customized products for specific clients, some of them classified Secret.

US

Group: General Officers Management Office (GOMO)Managed a customized Intranet that allowed for dynamic editing of otherwise static web pages. This product was called SpyderWeb, separate from the web-crawler of the same name. It was used as an Army General Officer's forum prototype, but eventually lost out to AOL's more conventional "chatroom" based product.

Washington, D.C., US

Worked with Dr. John Coyne to innovate his "Introduction to Technology" program, which lead incoming MBA students into technology deep-dives from many aspects. Our goal was engaging student interest, and to keep GWU a top-20 [Business] school in the category of Technology. From managing labs and teaching weekend workshops where I demonstrated results.

Systems Engineering and Management Associates, Inc.http://www.inc.com/profile/systems-engineering-management-associatesSystems Analyst and UI Architect on WMATA's ground-breaking implementation of ParaTransit, w/ BDM as prime. Used XDB Pro, the powerful XDB 4-GL, to construct a foolproof character-based user-interface which managed memory within 640K. This.

Mclean, VA, US

Starting early as an entrepreneur, I brought together the team and coined the name to co-found DISYS with my friends Mahfuz Ahmed & Raj Bandi. DISYS stands for Digital Intelligence Systems, a story that is told within the name. We had a vision of utilizing existing technologies to transform daily life for the better, & create products in service of this.

Antwerpen, BE

Primary User Interface Developer for WMATA Implementation of ADA, called ParaTransit. Used XDB's 4GL called XDB-Pro, with embedded XDB-Forms on the dos or OS/2 based XDB RDBMS. (XDB was a spinoff from IBM, based on DB2's system tables, and was later re-purchased and incorporated into UDB.) I received glowing recommendations from Kelly O'Neill, PM, and.

Germantown, MD, US

Provided Executive Support to HNS upper-level management and Executives, and served as Tier-II support for escalated calls. Lotus Notes, MS Access, and Excel were the primary support environments covered.

Fairfax, Virginia, US

My first job (as a student) where I worked throughout college. Student Support was essentially crisis management, while knowing all the tools of the trade, starting with Norton Disk Doctor and all the virus cleaning programs that were out there in the nascent days of the web.Promoted to Instructional Development Office: an exciting opportunity helping.

Safe Agilist, Implementing Safe

Certified Scrummaster® (Csm), Certified Scrum Productowner® (Cspo), Operations Research

Continuing Studies, Human Computer Interaction

Associate’S Degree, Neuro Linguistic Programming

Coldfusion Advanced Fasttrack I & Ii, Content Syndication

Ms - Not Completed, Information Systems Development

Ontology

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

12Th Grade - Higher Secondary School (Hsc), Aero-Engineering, Aviation Cadet

Matriculation, 9-10Th Grades, Pre-Engineering, Math, Physics, Technical Drawing

Kindergarten And Pre-K, Basic English