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Austin, Texas, US

Engineering leader for two teams (as organization evolved): Search and Recommendations, and Outcomes. While the Search and Recommendations team powers the two most important Job Seeker surfaces (search and the home page), the Outcomes team powers the job seeker profile, job application flow, job posting ingestion, and Trust & Safety). Teams included both.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Engineering Leader for the Online Data Infrastructure organization. We store and serve data in real-time to power the LinkedIn site, mobile app, and enterprise products. This includes data storage, search, and analytics. If it’s shown in response to a user action, it likely came from (or derived using) these systems. Previous roles have included Feed.

• Engineering leader in Realtime Data organization, building Stream Processing infrastructure to surface insights from Facebook's data as quickly as possible.
• Improved system availability SLA by 10x, from 90% to 99%.
• Developed strategy to unify multiple stream processing architectures.
• Began unification of Batch and Streaming languages and tools to ease adoption ofstream processing and accelerate batch processing.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Engineering leader for Bing Ads serving, the Paid Search serving system core to a $6B business. These systems serve tens of thousands of search queries per second, matching relevant ads to the user’s search intent.
• Moved from “acquired manager” on side project, to senior leader in 1.5 years.
• Defined and delivered next generation architecture via evolution. Strong platform/application division to simplify complexity and improve agility. Cut investments that weren’t paying off.
• Helped evolve Microsoft processes to be more agile. Adoption of independent releases, shorter planning cycles, and resource allocations for outside-of-plan requests.
• Moved from a Dev/Test/Ops organization model to a Combined Engineering model.
• Added support for major 3rd party publishers, expanding business.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Engineering leader for the Paid Search serving system, core to a $4B business (over 50% of Yahoo!’s revenue) running in 23 markets worldwide. These systems were shut down and the service was outsourced to Microsoft in.
• Greatly improved cross-functional relationships, creating a productive team (Systems, Science, Product Management and QA).
• Consistently delivered increased revenue, advertiser return on investment, and improved user experience, while maintaining very high quality.
• Delivered two major next generation serving systems for ad serving and ad selection.
• Build servers to seamlessly proxy publisher requests to Microsoft upon signing of Yahoo! / Microsoft Search Alliance.
• Transitioned majority of team (and self) to Microsoft

US

• Engineering management (development, test, OEM integration), software architecture, and customer relationship management for mobile phone applications, working with large telecommunications companies and cell phone.
• Grew team from 10 to 40, with responsibility for development, QA, and OEM Integration.
• Grew product line from one handset product, to multiple handset and server offerings.
• One product line spun off as separate VC funded company (Carrier IQ).
• Developed handset software embedded in dozens of handset models from multiple OEMs, on multiple carriers. Over 20 million units shipped by the time I left.
• Servers deployed both at Carrier, as well as in Core Mobility ASP hosting center.Product lines / technologies:

Toronto, ON, CA

• Engineering management, software architecture, and outward-facing relationship building with the field and with key customers. Responsible for a suite of products to deliver financial data (quotes, news, and historical.
• Roll-out of major new functionality on aggressive timelines to meet customer needs.
• Oversight of architecture, including merging two architectures after Bridge merger.
• Built productive relationships with the field and key customers, helping turn around hostile customers, closing several large sales, and exposing team to future directions/needs.
• Worked closely with major customers, including Fidelity, JP Morgan and UBS.
• Dramatically improved external perception of both products and team.

• Engineering management and software architecture for this advertising based dot-com startup. The company developed website for the creation and distribution of Interactive Streaming Broadcasts of music and voice. The.
• Design of overall system architecture, with focus on flexibility and stability
• Implementation of several key subsystems and features of the system

• One of three founders of a Windows CE platform provider for hand-held and embedded devices. Company developed custom hardware and software, and offered Windows NT consulting services. Responsible for software.
• Development of four MIPS-based and one Pentium-based Windows CE platforms
• Delivery of OS kernel, drivers, desktop shell, and demo applications
• Numerous Windows NT projects including wafer handling robotics, atomic force microscope control, data analysis infrastructure, and user interface.

Sunnyvale, California, US

• Managed engineering teams developing simulation user interface tools, a cycle-based digital simulator, and a rapid design synthesis tool targeting emulation.
• Evaluated with marketing build vs. buy for next generation UI (decision was to buy/license)
• Porting of user interface and simulator from Unix to Windows NT
• Corporate representative for division to user interface team and Windows NT porting team

San Jose, California, US

• (Analog Design Tools was acquired by Valid Logic in 1988. Valid Logic was then acquired by Cadence in 1991. I worked at all three companies, as per the dates below.)Held numerous roles over 12 year span, starting from.
• Product line evolution and integration, to meet needs of two corporate mergers
• Cross-functional product team leader
• On-schedule release of major new enhancements and technologies
• Team leader for a corporate quality audit conducted in partnership with Motorola

Houston, Texas, US

Worked in a variety of HP divisions. Projects included database user interface, Printed Circuit Board CAE product, and Workload scheduling and management tools.