Debbie Bluestone Email & Phone Number

United States

San Jose, California, United States

Consultant specializing in product management, product marketing and program management with extensive experience with online payments, marketplaces and eCommerce.

Led product marketing for PayPal Commerce Platform for business customers. Responsible for competitive analysis, product discovery, product naming and roadmap planning,

Led the discovery and product definition for a new product targeted towards Digital Natives focused on how they spend and save money. Created product mission, conducted customer and market research, utilized design thinking methodology, built & tested prototypes and began development with a small start-up team within PayPal. Initiative was put on-hold.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for defining the consumer checkout strategy and leading the joint team of product managers, engineers and designers to implement against it. Product owner for scrum team, responsible for defining and measuring new product features that drive consumer conversion and engagement improvements.Led multiple product ramps, A/B test experimentation and.

San Francisco Bay Area

Program managed large scale global projects across PayPal from product discovery to launch. Responsibilities included budgeting, planning, execution and executive communication.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led StubHub's Program Management Office reporting to the CTO. Team was responsible for resource management, project planning, project execution and continual process improvement of the software development lifecycle for all StubHub projects.Led the implementation of Siebel Call Center and Oracle CCA (Contact Center Anywhere) software at StubHub..

* Established program management office and team to support two new business verticals at PayPal* Managed program roadmap prioritization and staffing* Led process improvement PDLC team * Led team responsible for project management execution

* Program managed the launch of eBay Express, a 500 person team with a multi-million dollar budget.* Managed eBay Express, Stores and Billing project management teams. Teams responsible for project managing all product development and operations activities required to launch new functionality to the site. *Project managed various development projects.

* Established PMO for Pricing Revenue Optimization (PRO) Software Business Unit.* Created and managed development and release plans for PRO software application suite.* Managed budget for PRO product development organization (120 person team).* Led initiative to define hosted delivery offering and pricing approach for PRO products.

* Led software product development team in designing and implementing a collaborative planning solution. * Managed day-to-day project management activities including project status updates, issue resolution and project communication to executive management.

* Performed multiple roles including business analysis, quality assurance, release management and project management.* Worked across different business groups including supply chain, web development and business applications.

* Managed a team of nine people across two sites to implement a Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program for a manufacturer of health care products, which resulted in a 40% reduction in equipment downtime within 3 months of implementation. * Conducted a SKU rationalization analysis for a consumer products manufacturer, leading to a $7M savings in.

*Member of the start-up team for Intel Arizona and Israel Pentium fabrication plants. Responsible for managing the architectural layout for several sections of the clean room, which included equipment capacity analysis, workflow analysis, ergonomic workstation design, equipment installation scheduling and budgeting.*Designed and implemented automated.