Chris Perry Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I lead product initiatives in Google's AI Developer Product Group, overseeing key platforms such as the Open Models Success team (Gemma + more) and Google Colab. Colab is a hosted notebook that enables anyone to write and execute Python code in the browser with zero setup and is broadly used for machine learning workflows. My work focuses on scaling these tools to empower millions of developers worldwide.Key Achievements:* 3x user growth for Colab* Launched integrated AI coding assistance, growing to >1M active code assist users* Introduced Colab Enterprise, expanding its impact on enterprise-level ML workflows* Increased ARR by $xxM/year* Achieved a 40% reduction in operating costsPrior Highlights at Google:* Led a ~xxx HC effort to reimagine Google’s core Desktop (web) Search product, driving the strategy, vision, and planning while collaborating with VP/SVP leadership across PAs.* Spearheaded a major redesign of Google Assistant for mobile, leading a core cross-functional team of ~50 people, with contributions from 200+ engineers, 20+ PMs, and 20+ UX designers.* Demoed the next-gen Assistant at CES and presented it to Alphabet’s board of directors, influencing the vision for Assistant's future.* Played a foundational role in launching Google Photos, one of the most successful products in Google's history with hundreds of millions of users.* Led Photo search, suggest, assist, and growth initiatives, as well as features like Rediscover this Day and photo face grouping.Broader Contributions at Google:* Conducted 200+ PM interviews* Promoted 4 times* Member of the promotion committee, experienced in the calibration process across teams and product areas

Mountain View, Ca, Us

* Managed product development on Bump and Flock, working with 16+ engineers, and impacting tens of millions of users.* Increased MAU by 25%.* Defined product metrics, build dashboards, and conducted experiments, and drove increases in retention, engagement, and onboarding.* Used Python, R, shell utilities (grep, AWK, sed, etc.), jQuery, JavaScript, and HTML5 to extract, analyze, and visualize hundreds of gigabytes of data.

London, Gb

* Designed, developed, and shipped 3+ business-critical applications: a panel manager, a survey system, and various data reporting applications. Implemented those applications in three continents and across a dozen offices.* Managed product development across a team of 20+ remote developers spread across the globe.

London, Gb

• Analyzed internal data using R and SQL.• Coded and deployed a client-facing optimization tool using Python and Django in the Google App Engine framework.

London, Gb

• Assisted in a multi-country roll out of operational software.• Coordinated migration and support among teams across the globe.• Analyzed internal data using R and SQL.

• Led the Survey Services group.• Expanded Survey Services from two to nine employees through hiring and internal consolidation.• Managed survey project execution, panel care, panel development, and panel reporting.• Developed analytical support for BrandIndex, a new research product. Managed data collection and analysis, and participated in product design.• Developed algorithms for representative sampling.• Helped design a panel management system, a survey system, weighting algorithms, reporting metrics, report and deliverable generation, streamlining and automation of operations workflow, departmental organization, and countless other small systems and projects.• Interfaced with clients, partners, and organizations of all sizes.• Predicted elections (correctly).

• Programmed and fielded the largest Congressional Election Study ever performed in theU.S. (2006)• Analyzed data; programmed within several software packages (R, SPSS, Python)• Managed data collection; supervised analysts

Dublin 2, Ie

• Created an improved strategic sourcing process to cut costs of services and goodssupplied at PG&E• Streamlined request generation procedure for DBAs at Cisco• Analyzed requirements for new business subscriber services website at SBC (AT&T)

• Using SAS, modeled the yield spread at which certain bonds trade above US TreasuryBonds• Published "An Analysis of Default and Liquidity Risk inFarm Credit System Bonds", Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 32, no. 1 (April 2007)

Ms, Management Science And Engineering

Bachelor, Actuarial Science, Economics