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Seattle, WA, US

Leading defect elimination strategy in Retail Business Services.

Missoula, MT, US

- Created the Program Management Office by collaborating cross-functionally and defining program management roles and responsibilities leading to clarity across research and development. - Introduced enterprise processes for engineering planning using data-driven decision making and bottom’s up costing approaches to prioritization resulting in a 100%.

New York, NY, US

As a GLG Network Member and Technology Expert, I bring 25 years of experience in the tech industry to help clients solve some of their toughest business challenges around SaaS; Cloud; Platform; and Maps and Geospatial.GLG is the world’s insight network. It connects decision makers to the right experts so they can act with the confidence that comes from.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led Azure Space Analytics, Data and AI product team developing 4 semesters of requirements resulting in 4 spaceborne data and AI reference architectures, 3 GitHub open-source code repositories and 5 art-of-the-possible.
• Led team to create computer vision models used to analyze spaceborne data (imagery and SAR) for geospatial and temporal data analysis.
• Onboarded and collaborated with 3 strategic partners (Airbus, Blackshark.AI and ESRI) resulting in 3 large scale motions (content, capability and distribution, respectively).
• Operationalized Agile development process with Engineering team leveraging Azure Dev Ops to manage semester and sprint planning resulting in 100% productivity increase.
• Led collaboration with cross-functional teams (eg. Marketing, Sales) providing digital assets growing customer and developer engagement 200%.
• Developed vision, strategy and plan researching 2 market reports; interviewing 10 customers, sellers, and other internal stakeholders; and collecting cross-company requirements to gain executive approval resulting in.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led Azure Maps product team from vision document to launch collaborating with 25+ teams resulting in 12 new, public cloud services, 3 SDKs and 4 Microsoft product integrations.
• Authored Microsoft’s overarching location strategy to evolve geospatial services to cloud-scale, connected, edge and artificial intelligence capabilities - a critical foundation to Microsoft’s future; presented to and.
• Distributed Azure Maps platform and user interfaces through marketing and field collaboration onboarding hundreds of customers resulting in >1200% revenue growth.
• Collaborated in negotiation of multi-year agreements to onboard strategic partners (TomTom, Moovit, AccuWeather, Airbus) to Azure Maps resulting in a new low-cost, high-margin paradigm for cloud mapping services at.
• Managed Program Management and Design teams’ hiring high-caliber, high-quality subject matter expertise to Azure Maps.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Multiple roles, most notably leading Bing Maps Data Platform team reinventing vector map data ETL, conflation, publishing workflows and storage; reducing latency by 200%.
• Managed Program Management team hiring high quality people, resulting in a cultural shift of action-oriented doers and a highly collaborative, high impact engineering team.
• Managed Bing Maps Web Services and SDK development generating 10s of millions of dollars in Bing revenue.
• Collaborated on feature definitions/specifications, planning, tracking, reporting, implementation, deployment of platform services and map data resulting in the native Windows 8 Bing Maps app; Windows 8.1, and 1st and.
• PM for 2 product releases of MapPoint, Streets and Trips and AutoRoute resulting in 10s of millions of dollars in Microsoft revenue annually.
• Managed requirements for multi-million-dollar map data vendor licenses leading cross-functional teams resulting in 12 data partnerships.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed Program Management team building requirements for a Bing Developer Ecosystem resulting in new inline search actions (eg. shipping tracking numbers, movie tickets).
• Authored framework for Bing Developer Ecosystem to onboard 3rd party partner services resulting in 10 self-service partnerships.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Authored blogs, articles, and videos for Microsoft mapping services (Microsoft Virtual Earth, Bing Maps Enterprise Platform) resulting in hundreds of thousands of impressions driving awareness of Microsoft’s mapping.
• Helped customers integrate mapping services into a variety of applications generating 100s of millions of dollars in Microsoft revenue.
• Represented Microsoft’s mapping services at dozens of conferences driving competitive comparison with the leader, Google Maps.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Oversaw Vicinity customer applications migration to use Microsoft mapping services retaining 92% of the customer base and 85% of the revenue.
• Managed Professional Services team overseeing >600 customer accounts >1000 applications resulting in 10s of millions of dollars in revenue.
• Shipped MapPoint Web Service v3.5.
• Shipped MSN Maps and Directions BrandFinder
• Managed the integration of Vicinity Corporation’s 300+ Fortune 1000 customers into Microsoft’s MapPoint Web Service.
• Managed Vicinity acquisition customer integration overseeing the migration, creation and maintenance of over 150 customer applications during 3 year span increasing customer retention through acquisition.

US

• Built and hosted customer applications integrating Vicinity mapping services for >600 customer accounts >1000 applications resulting in 10s of millions of dollars in revenue.
• Provided consulting services integrating location-based technology into customer applications.
• Established operational objectives, developing business goals, and planning strategies for product advancement.
• Launched new location-based services’ web and wireless applications for top tier, enterprise customers.
• Managed 15-person web development and database administration teams in 3 North American locations.
• Vicinity was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in 2002.

• Led enterprise website builder product development resulting in >25 paying customers
• Created program management, technical specifications, project planning and tracking.
• Developed applications across UI, databases administration and server configuration.
• Managed 30-person web development, graphic design, application integration and quality assurance teams.
• Developed AICPA.org
• Developed TheScientist.com

Masters In Business Administration, Business Management, Information Decision Systems

Bachelor Of Arts, English, Creative Writing