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Cloud Pak for Data• Feature delivery – Drive delivery and adoption of features across Cloud Pak for Data.• Product onboarding – Ensure onboarding products meet stringent requirements and deadlines.

Data Privacy• People management - Interviewed, hired, and led a group of engineers to deliver Data Privacy on Cloud Pak for Data. Created a growth culture towards long-term career goals and business results.• Unified vision - Execute shared vision by aligning with product management, design, and dev teams. • Platform requirements - Drove stringent requirements for security, certifications, and legal standards.

Emerging Technologies• Project management - Managed project portfolio which infused AI into IBM Analytics. Ensured development, patent, and business requirements were met for releases and customer demos.• Delivery requirements - Streamlined process for rapidly prototyping and bringing projects into the hands of stakeholders by negotiating and reducing 60 platform requirements to 20 core steps.• Structure - Organize scrums, GitHub board management, and setup demos for product portfolio.

Watson Data Platform• UI developer - Front-end development using ReactJS and Scala to create a competitive analytics product. Worked closely with management and design to bring cutting edge concepts to life. • Karma unit testing - Unit testing using Karma to ensure components are composable and stable. • Release verification - Built a framework using bash and Bluemix Toolchain to verify all services and regions are working as expected. This simplified the validation of new deployments to a single click.

IBM Social Media Analytics• Quality assurance team lead - Created test plans, managed test cases, opened defects, maintained test environments, and worked closely with developers to validate fixed defects.• Scrum master - Daily standup meetings for product status and team representative to negotiate workload, establish deadlines, and determine product direction with upper management.• Script developer - Wrote PowerShell scripts to reduce hours of onboarding customers to minutes.• Test automation - Utilized SoapUI to create daily sanity and smoke tests with team notifications.

IBM Records Manager• System administration - Built and managed FileNet P8 systems for releases and customer issues. • Process streamlining - Revamped the management of shared environments amongst team. • UNIX expertise - Built and maintained AIX servers, and spearheaded any issues related to AIX. • Automation testing - Ran and debugged automation suites necessary for product release testing.