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Millbrae, Ca, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

- Develop structure and processes to drive end-to-end development from requirements to release.- Drove cross-functional engineering activities (compiler, runtime, firmware, infra, and tech pub) supporting successful Series C ($300M) and Series D ($640M) funding rounds.- Led key engineering activities to deliver Llama 70B with ground breaking 100 Tokens/second by scaling large distributed systems and increased performance by 3x in the following months.- Engaged with sales, and customers to achieve successful customer trials, leading to signed contracts.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Develop the next generation of retail intelligence robot for large retail stores. Lead teams toward full deployment in peer to peer fashion across: robotics hardware, robotic autonomy software, robotic data capture software, cloud AI analytics, supply chain operation and field operation. Taking the the robot from R&D to mass-production and mass-deployment.

- Advise and develop process templates for a strategic program management tool and template Startup.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Engage with front end apps teams to understand, negotiate and aggregate requests for end user-generated content infrastructure team. Manage requirements funnel from intake to commitment to development goals and plans. Track and update client teams on request status.Manage weekly releases and triage open issuesUpdate requirement process to improve service level while reducing team overhead.

San Jose, California, Us

Lead strategic programs with major impacts on the business from concept to operations by creating and maintaining detail and actionable program requirements, and driving cross-functional and cross-geographical teams (Research, HW, SW, UX, Sourcing, CM, and Sales). These programs include first of its kind technology to market, new infrastructure to support a new market, process development to absorb and revitalize a business. Manage the customer project funnel with business partners to ensure the team meets revenue commitment without overloading the project teams. Some examples of my program's accomplishments are:- Brought a first of its kind force + 2D user interface device from years of R&D concepts to mass market. Force has since become a form of input in many product categories.- Brought first of its kind match-in-sensor AI based fingerprint matching algorithm with anti-spoof capability to the PC market.- Built the team and infrastructure to enable the company to enter a new market and update existing technology portfolio to meet new market requirements- Took over a market segment from a sister division and transformed management process and teams to streamline resolution of customer escalations and free up engineering resource to invest in future technology and products- Cultivated a strategic partner from no revenue projects to the 5th largest customer for the division

San Jose, California, Us

Lead and motivate cross-functional teams to deliver customized touch interface solutions within 6-9 months for consumer electronic devices and laptop computers from concept to mass production on commitment. Released more than 20 projects, many with unique end-user innovations, with total lifetime volumes in the millions, positively contributed to company’s rapid growth and more than 50% market share.- Pioneered ClickPad, now common among all laptops

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- Oversaw development server management and offline diagnostic software for enterprise and telecom servers. - Negotiated supplier contract for a new line of telecommunication servers. - Develop new support and business model to service a continually evolving computing market

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Enabled custom configurable product across three global business units and factories through process changes in product development lifecycle, previously not possible with existing process and infrastructure. Unified business requirements across three business units and developed product development process to meet unified business requirements.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- Delivered superior customer experiences while reducing warranty cost by 50% while creating a Small and Medium Business server segment at 1/3 previous price point. - Created and executed product support strategy for new market segment - Created and delivered product training to support centers and channel partners globally - Drove continues product improvement with user support data- Created custom configured, direct ship model for enterprise level servers previously done by resellers.

Mba, Marketing

Bachelor Of Science, Systems & Control Engineering