Sr. Technical Program Manager - Sensory Foundation Models
CurrentIn my current role, I manage multiple large-scale programs focused on data preparation, tooling, evaluation, benchmarking, and preference training of multi-modal generative LLMs. In this capacity, I lead a multi-disciplinary team of software engineers and data scientists, collaborate with international teams to drive program objectives, assess and mitigate technical risk, and communicate with director to SVP-level stakeholders on program status and outcomes. In this role I have also owned and lead teams focused on custom speech recognition, data collection and annotation, and consumer privacy. Contributions: ★ Lead TPM for Alexa Custom Wakeword program from March 2023 to August 2024, owning the development of custom speech detection solutions for four global automakers across 17 global locales & 11 distinct languages. In this capacity I also supported multiple non-automotive custom speech solution programs ranging from hospitality to dashcam applications. ★ Partnered with internal and external teams to develop and leverage novel data collection methods for collecting large volumes of speech, noise, and acoustic front end data in a dynamic automotive environment. Used these data to enhance performance of global models.