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Altadena, Ca, Us

Remote / Boston

 Organized all Program Management across nference and two spinoff companies Anumana, and Pramana into a single Program Management office (PMO) for nference serving all 3 companies. Drove the creation of automated program status reporting via Smartsheet integrated SharePoint site resulting in increased visibility into all programs across Scientific studies, Technical Implementation, and the two spin off companies Anumana and Pramana delivering an immediate decrease in add-hoc status requests, duplicate work, and tensions across all teams.  Ensured alignment between staffing and organizational needs to drive revenue generating programs and internal process optimization and stewardship. Continuous champion for process definition, documentation, and optimization. Ensuring cross functional alignment, and company wide roll out and training as needed.  Expanded tools and infrastructure to allow for the automation of LOE reporting for finance team with a goal of increased accuracy of projections to actuals, and to provide a simpler system for end users.

Santa Clara, Ca

Drive cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, Sales, Technical Account managers, Support teams, and professional services for multimillion-dollar contracts with leading Service providers in Latin America, North America, and Canada. Participated in and played key role in multiple high-profile engagements with major customers. Lead customer facing engagements throughout the course of the programs from requirement definition, kick offs, schedule definition and execution, demos, field trials, and deployment of TiVo solutions. Successfully negotiated and fulfilled contracts with critical Latin American Customers to be the team lead for multiple hardware and software vendors ensuring the successful solution deployment within the customers timelines and expectations for quality. Responsible for the grounds up creation, validation, and execution of complex program schedules integrating third party dependencies with TiVo engineering timelines, while maintaining sales objectives for delivery timelines assisting in the closing of multimillion-dollar deals. Successfully streamlined program management for professional service engagements with key accounts for Rovi (pre-TiVo acquisition) assuming the workload of multiple program managers and resulting in successful deployments to major cable service providers in LATAM and North America. Simultaneously improved the communication and reporting of all program status to executives ensuring clear visibility for strategic planning and resource allocation. Lead and coach a team of 6 Program Managers delivering SW solutions across North America and Latin America. Internal Process improvement and change champion, delivering standardized cross-functional processes for internal engagement including cloud-based solutions via MS Forms, MS Flow, and SharePoint ensuring accurate intake, tracking, approval and storage of quotes and statements of work from Tech Sales into the PS team.

Sunnyvale

Core Program Manager for Mobility business unit, driving end to end delivery of programs. Successfully delivered four Android tablets in two year time frame.Coordinated and drove early stages of product definition with Product Marketing, Engineering, and Management to ensure the product was competitive in the market, but was also technically feasible, and was in line with organizational profit goals. Organized and drove onsite kickoff meetings with Chinese ODM for all programs. This included teams of over twenty engineers and product marketing personnel meeting with each respective team to validate program goals, schedule, and cost. Built complete schedule from initial design, through all checkpoints, Engineering builds, Design verification builds, manufacturing validation builds, to launch. Drove and coordinated all cross functional teams within HP to ensure on-time delivery of materials, ensure proper yield rates from vendors and manufacturing lines. Coordinated cross functional teams to ensure all functionality and quality testing was complete, and drove all reviews with top management for waivers and exceptions as needed to maintain schedule and time to market. Managed the regulatory team to ensure delivery of all industry certifications, and proper logo inclusion for product. Conducted reoccurring meeting with engineering, quality, marketing, and ID teams in both HP and the ODM for weekly tracking of progress and issue resolution. Traveled to China and Taiwan ten times within two year period for kickoff, manufacturing builds, vendor management, and supply chain coordination. Was the “go-to” Program Manager for onsite management during all builds working directly with top management of ODM for real time issue resolution, Manufacturing quality, resource allocation, and schedule.

Sunnyvale Ca

Managed the delivery of 3rd party applications for preload on multiple Motorola smart phones. Managed all of the standalone preloads for assigned Android devices in multiple regions. Served as the primary contact for the 3rd Parties and for the Product Team for any development issues Coordinated with the product/region/integration teams to set preload submission dates and with the 3rd parties to gain commitment to the dates (or to facilitate negotiation between the 3rd party and product/region team when the3rd party cannot meet desired target dates). Managed the Licensing Review Board chartered with evaluating all requests to license content, brand or software from 3rd parties before becoming officially associated with a platform or product release to maximize Motorola ROI and minimize financial and legal risk to Motorola. Managed the Pre-SW BOM activities in Saleseforce.com application for all products and accessories. Support including administration, driving approvals for applications to be included in B.O.M.’s, and ensuring complete and accurate reflection in database compared to actual SW included on phones.

Managed the development of the hardware compatibility matrix for new handheld gaming device, worked with marketing to ensure 100% coverage of use/test cases.Drove and managed the design, construction, and configuration of group Lab, wireless network, and RF isolated test space in new building. Projects were completed ahead of schedule, and were kept on budget. Designed and drove key network testing for wireless connectivity resulting in critical firmware and driver fixes from the developers in China.

Drove Server reductions in multiple labs of 50% and the creation of a half a million dollar shared resource environment. The decommissioning of over one thousand servers enabled HP to save in electrical costs and freed up critical space for the closure of buildings on the Cupertino campus. Ground up installation, configuration, and Administration of Virtualized Blade server environments. Key technology adviser for datacenter moves coordinating power requirements, cooling, and networking. Enabling the successful move of 300+ racks of servers and storage without incident.

Managed demo review program for BlackBird002 Gaming systems and Envy 133 laptops resulting in over a dozen positive magazine and online product reviews. \Represented marketing team in all Engineering meetings ensuring that marketing understood development schedule, and engineering accounted for marketing needs.Managed the Gaming Business Units relationship with customer accounts such as, Harrods London, and Walt Disney's custom displays for Blackbird and Envy products.Community management: Customer support and technical expertise led to being handpicked to be the image and voice behind online persona for online community tech support, and viral videos. Successfully managed group presence at trade shows and events like CES, MLG, Blizzcon, PAX to include logistics, booth duty, evangelism, and media interviews.

Drove the efficient utilization of 100+ high end and mid-range integrity class servers across multiple test and development teams during times of decreasing resource availability, and increasing program commitments. Collaborated on, and drove process improvement initiative to enable the sharing of prototypes across multiple teams through online tools, and weekly meetings to prioritize usage and program goals.Gained a reputation for constant process evaluation and improvement, and delivered multiple initiatives, successfully moving processes online by managing the development of web tools. I was sought out and asked to sit as a technical and experience adviser to the HP Gaming Division where I was able to provide key contributions to the early design of their flagship product, the HP Blackbird002.

Simultaneously managed 5 support engineers, and provided engineering support for High end Integrity class servers.Managed workflow and performance for ticket based technical support group collecting performance metrics and driving Process improvements as needed to maintain 1000+ prototypes across 10 labs.Worked closely with geographically disperse platform team ensuring prototype readiness for ongoing HP-UX testing. Successfully coordinated and managed field installs of superdome systems at Intel, and provided technical support and training as needed. Highly proficient with Windows, HP-UX, and Linux Os installation and administration. Working level knowledge of perl script execution for data collection and firmware upgrades. Successfully launched complete support website for group.

Managed 11 employees across 4 outsourced businesses within NSD organization. HP R&D Prototype lab, Data center relocation project, Rework technician, and System Engineering.Performed semi-annual performance evaluation and coaching on eleven employees.Provided highly complex and detailed metrics for hours billed, and worked performed for numerous projects supported by prototype business

Responsible for managing infrastructure and process direction for 6 assembly/turn on techniciansCoordination with materials and diagnostic testing areas to ensure timely and quality prototype assembly and test. Developed complete work flow system to streamline delivery and tracking of prototypes and materials to engineering.Facilitated daily meetings with key engineering groups to ensure project work priorities. Received training in Rumler-Brache Process Re-engineering theory and Project Management Fundamentals

U.S.A.