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Spearheaded all Business development for localization and expansion efforts for the launch of 26 net new countries for Alexa across a multitude of categories and skill/app stores.

Managed commercial relationships with several major retail vendors in the PC/IT category and developed strategic partnerships within the B2B supply chain in the IT industry to gain market share with large enterprise customers• Managed commercial vendor relationships driving $500M in annual B2B revenue for the PC/ Consumer Electronics categories• Created, developed and negotiated all terms for an original B2B partnership across the PC and Consumer Electronics verticals with a $225B market cap partner, in order to onboard and unlock key Enterprise selection.• Worked with multiple internal and external stakeholders to drive creation of key operational capabilities to enable and increase adoption of Amazon Business by enterprise customers• Created a scalable service provider partnership model to enable Amazon Business to access $150B+ in potential revenue across multiple product categories• Developed 2017 B2B growth strategy for Amazon’s $30B/yr Consumer Electronics organization

• Manage all purchasing decisions, acquisition strategy and analytics for 100k catalog titles, across all studio partnerships.• Negotiate contracts with Tier 1 studios to ensure company financial and performance objectives are met. Lead strategic category expansion projects expanding into new media types.• Manage annual spend of approximately $175 million US dollars across all film genre's and partners.• Work cross-functionally with my Financial Planning, Accounting and Web engineering and legal teams to continuously improve CX.• Executed and negotiated inventory buy out of large industry competitor.

• Troubleshoot for supervisors for all account, streaming, network, Netflix ready devices and related system issues.• Handled all communication for outages as well as researching possible causes to prevent future occurrences.• Lead trainer for CSR 1, CSR 2 and supervisors on all device, troubleshooting and streaming related education.