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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, US

Lead expanded centralized Data Engineering group supporting business functions across Dropbox including Data Science, Product, Finance, Marketing, Experimentation, Customer Experience, and People Analytics- Improved the reliability of critical financial data pipelines powering forecasting, reporting, and strategic decision making. Established and executed.

San Francisco, California, US

Lead multiple teams across Data Platform, including infrastructure, tooling, and data engineering, projects and responsibility have included:- Data Infrastructure, running a large-scale (10s of PBs) Hadoop data warehouse and services built on top powering analytics and distributed processing use cases. Led project to define and validate migrating entire.

Austin, Texas, US

• Lead all Analytics engineering across San Francisco and Austin locations. Responsible for big data analytics platforms, customer reporting, and data science. Manage 21 software engineers, DevOps engineers, data.
• Manage big data analytics platforms, analytics products, and data science. Technologies leveraged are Map/Reduce, HBase, Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch; all on AWS.
• Implemented continuous improvement Agile development practices. Transitioned development teams from Scrum to Kanban. Worked with teams to review Kanban metrics and process implementation.
• Led delivery of 8 major reporting product initiatives over two year period. Worked with 4 separate product lines to schedule and deliver 8 major analytics releases. Iterated on analytics system facilitating data.
• Grew one team, one location into one productive team across two locations. Doubled size of San Francisco Analytics team, from 5 to 10 in challenging hiring environment. Two promotions in four years, to leadership of.
• Built unified analytics tracking system from prototype to 700 million users. Included highly scalable event collection with peak processing of 75,000 events per second. Coordinated scaling and capacity planning.

Austin, Texas, US

• Manage the Big Data Analytics team, responsible for creating a platform which tracks, analyzes and providers internal and external reporting on the clickstream traffic of the 500 million consumers who use Bazaarvoice's.
• Manage the Data Science R&D team, whose focus is using predictive analytics and machine learning to produce and enhance software products. Projects include NLP and text classification of reviews to automate moderation.
• Passionate about improving recruiting and on-boarding for R&D. Contributions include continued coordination of R&D orientation, leading the engineering recruiting at Stanford, co-leading the University of Waterloo.
• Managed a cloud infrastructure team whose charter was to create services and tools to help speed development and maintenance of services in a SOA architecture. Projects included an internal monitoring and alerting.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Lead project to identify errors in all CPUs shipped by AMD, interacting weekly with 3 to 5 product teams to gather requirements, schedule, and assign tasks to successfully complete all production stages; improvements.
• Created a cross-platform framework for developing processor diagnostics and providing functionality to enable rapid development and implementation of these diagnostics for various customers, collaborating with 2 team.
• Leadership and design representation on core library development has enabled multiple teams totaling 30 developers to continue to deliver critical diagnostics for ensuring silicon quality despite a 30% reduction in.
• Represented AMD in an industry-wide standards group as part of the Distributed Management Task Force; drafted the first version of a vendor-independent specification for testing CPUs

• Analyzed Nespresso’s current North American distribution network. Designed and proposed changes and improvements to that network to handle expected rapid growth through 2015. Proposal identified a 40% cost savings to.

Londonderry, NH, US

• Created set of major system components used in all embedded and server products created in conjunction with EFI’s 8-10 Fiery partners to prepare for integration with future document format technologies for the printing.
• Collaborated with product, planning, and core technology teams to help determine deficiencies in internal web application and created a replacement in Ruby On Rails
• Led project design and implementation, improving time to market for product teams and improving project feature tracking system to reduce redundant development; 2 major features developed in parallel by product teams.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)