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Emeryville, California, United States

At Gracenote, I steered machine learning (ML), backend ingestion, content editing, and other engineering efforts for a greenfield project identifying royalty payment rights for musical composition creations. Moreover, I devised impactful project plans through an engineering-based planning methodology and orchestrated discussions between the product, content, and engineering lead.Below listed are a few of my key achievements:• Entered go-live stage with data from 13 publishers comprising over 6M separate compositions and linked 42M recordings to such compositions with a false positive rate of less than 1% for matching/linking models by managing ML engineers, SMEs, and data analysts, optimizing model types and training data levels, and engineering project plans.• Enabled product managers to anticipate the product's part in the overall music vertical strategy and present a clear picture to development teams regarding short/long-term targeted objectives.

Emeryville, California, United States

At Release Train Engineer, I spearhead the planning, coordination, and execution of program increments, evaluate program backlogs, and introduce stringent quality control parameters.Among my notable accomplishments, I:• Trained staff and implemented the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process to coordinate the efforts of all product managers and development teams within Gracenote's music vertical.• Designed a process for product and engineering leads to continually curate a backlog of significant features while ensuring involved members understood enterprise customers' business problems and opportunities and identified/prioritized appropriate solutions.• Orchestrated a program increment (PI) planning session every four months focused on identifying objectives, inter-team dependencies, risks, and release milestone commitments for the period.• Organized regular sync meetings to follow up and revise the PI plan.

Emeryville, California, United States

Within this job role, I led the team to design and implement new ETL processes for importing, normalizing, and enhancing radio station metadata with Gracenote descriptors.A small section of my noteworthy accomplishments include:• Earned promotion to Senior Manager for demonstrating strong leadership skills and delivering exceptional performances.• Enabled a single person to generate auto customer databases with the company’s embedded databases installed in over 200M cars currently by leading the team in developing and executing a new system ingesting and transforming data from multiple upstream sources into RDBMS and document-based data stores easily configurable via a UI tool.• Developed a strong sense of ownership among involved members and boosted morale company-wide after obtaining Agile Scrum Master Certification. Pioneered Agile utilization, adapted the by-the-book methodology to address challenges, acted as the Product Owner for one team, and kick-started three other teams as Scrum Master.• Fostered collaboration to develop the SDK and API software for auto manufacturers to use enterprise metadata focused on curating remarkable radio listening experiences for millions of drivers and passengers.