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Pebble Beach, California, United States

Pacific Grove, California

• Opened Pacific Grove's first Gymnastics & Tumbling gym in May 2018• Offering Baby, Toddler & Preschool-Aged + Girls Artistic Gymnastics • Year-Over-Year Growth

Santa Clara, California

• Successfully sourced highly technical and diverse talent for the Product Management Organization• Exceeded monthly hiring targets• Requisitions included Senior Product Managers, Product Line Managers, Directors and Senior Directors• Interacted daily with hiring managers - Senior to VP level• Passion for finding passive talent with niche skill sets under tight timelines• Supported the following products: Prisma SASE, Prisma Access, Prisma SDWAN, ADEM, Wildfire, Threat Prevention, DLP, Cortex, API Security• SmartRecruiters Applicant Tracking System / CRM

Santa Clara, California

• Successfully sourced highly technical talent for the Product Management Organization • Specialized in sourcing Product Managers, Technical Writers and Technical Marketing Engineers•Experience sourcing certifications and security talent including: FedRAMP, SOC2, SOX, ISO 27001, PCI, CISA, CRISC and CISSP• Generated high volume, high-quality pipelines of candidates for multiple requisitions under tight timelines • Sourced active and passive candidates from on-line databases, contact lists, internal databases, job boards, and employee referrals • Worked closely with both recruiters and hiring managers to effectively profile specific criteria and skill sets for each role• Jobvite Applicant Tracking System

San Jose, California

• Product Owner for the development and launch of PayPal Boletos in Brazil• Responsibilities included putting the vision into a roadmap, author productrequirements and lead an agile team (Scrum) to build and refine paymentsolutions, meet milestone dates and drive decisions• Product Owner for the development and launch of a top-up solution pilot inEstonia - utilizing carrier payments as a funding source in the PayPal Wallet• Owned multiple projects including decommissioning old API's, integrating newpayment partners into the PayPal Payments Hub - including Carrier Payments and Braintree • Proven success in managing a product in all lifecycle stages – from conceptionthrough to launch

• Managed carrier partnerships (wireless service providers), global business development and strategy throughout the Americas• Proven success in building, managing and executing mobile operator partnershipswith telecom giants such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, Rogers Wireless, BellMobility, Telus, Vivo and Telefonica• Sole responsibility for the top 5 mobile operators in the US, top 3 mobileoperators in Canada and the largest mobile operator in Latin America for PayPalCarrier Payments• Worked closely with key decision makers at each mobile operator to enhance ourrelationship through strategic initiatives• Worked closely with handset OEM's on cross-domain strategic deals• Extensive experience launching new products and features• Improved our geographical footprint, increased TPV, conversion and PayPalcustomer acquisition• Responsible for all contract negotiations, extensions and amendments with mobile operators and executing complex deals with large mobile ecosystem players

• Managed carrier partnerships and aggregator relations in North America -merchant on-boarding and program management• Managed 15 carrier relationships across North America, two of which were directTier 1 partnerships• Managed day-to-day operations of Zong's carrier billing aggregator relationshipsin the United States and Canada• Helped execute direct carrier billing partnerships with AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile • Project managed both the AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile direct carrier billingintegrations - including merchant approvals and on-boarding• Responsible for Zong's carrier compliance set forth by the MMA, CTIA and CWTAgoverning bodies• Launched an industry first carrier billing merchant monitoring program inpartnership with a leading mobile fraud detection company• Managed day-to-day relationships for a handful of Zong's top merchants -includingSony Entertainment and Blizzard Entertainment

• Managed carrier and aggregator relations, acquired new business and managedexisting accounts and projects• Responsibilities included Carrier Relations with Tier 1 through Tier 3 operators aswell as Business Development with OEM's, Retailers and Wireless Carriers• Closed PlayPhone's first ever on-deck managed service offering with a U.S. Carrier• Managed the launch of PlayPhone Canada and was the acting Canadian CountryManager• Managed all carrier relations in Canada - including Rogers Wireless, TELUSMobility, Bell Mobility, Virgin Canada and SaskTel• Co-chaired a mobile content best practices committee within the CanadianWireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA)• Involved in a number of sub-committee focus groups within the CWTA in the areasof Free-To-End-User Content, Off-Deck Mobile Applications and PromotionalContent• Directly involved in managing PlayPhone to strict compliance guidelines set forthby the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA)• Responsible for the creation and submittal of all RFP's, Contracts and MRD's for each new storefront project to the Product Development team• Owned multiple carrier projects from inception to launch

• Managed the Quality Assurance team as well as North American Client/CustomerService• Managed a team of 9 engineers across three continents• Tested, Certified and Launched 25+ mobile storefronts including sites such as ABCMobile, Wal-Mart Mobile and Cartoon Network Mobile• Tested, Certified and Launched 4 new wireless carriers on PlayPhone as well as allof our B2B storefronts• Responsible for the approval and sign-off on all design, user-flow changes andenhancements before they went into production• Worked closely with Product Development and Product Marketing in the design,user interface and user flow of each of our online and WAP based storefronts

• Hired and trained QA Analysts to increase quality, expedite carrier certificationsand approvals, and reduce subscriber churn• Created daily test protocols and schedules for each of the portals powered byPlayPhone• Reduced production bugs by nearly 90%• Managed all 3rd party testing relationships and tools• Managed aggregator relations, carrier and common short code applications as wellas certifications and new programs

• One of eight employees that grew the Mobile Content Business from $0 in revenuein 2004 to $95M in 2005• Assured Quality on 4000+ TV Commercials and 200+ Print Advertisements in amaximum 4 Hour processing window• Detected vast quantities of carrier bugs that improved order to cash cycle from 30minutes to less than 30 seconds in some instances• Tested 25+ releases for key SMS and Website Deployments• Lead U.S. QA Engineer during the launch of 9 wireless carriers across multiplebrands and storefronts

• Lead sourcing role for established retained search firm• Duties included prospecting for new business within the enterprise software space,as well as identifying and screening potential candidates for existing clients• Interfaced with both internal account executives and external hiringmanagers/clients to ensure needs were being met in an efficient and reasonable manner