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San Jose, Ca, Us

South San Francisco, California, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Led the launch of several Google Home products on mobile and desktop from inception to launch by collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, including third-party providers.- Launched Smart Home Automations for Google. Drove the full SDLC, mitigated risks, communicated schedules, priorities, and status to leadership (including Directors and VPs).- Launched Google Home for Web: a new surface for Google Home App. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to set program goals and milestones, define success criteria, and prioritize deliverables. Worked with PM, Eng, QA, PMM, Support, etc to develop, test and launch with high quality and on time.- Created a new process for iterative engineering development to enable us to share new features with our users faster, still keeping a high quality bar.- Led a cross-functional program expanding many workstreams to support New Product Initiatives.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Managed all the program management efforts for Geo Food: Merchant Toolkit. Leading platform migrations, product and feature launches, including special projects to help merchants in the time of COVID-19.- Led the technical migration of The Ordering App acquisition from AWS to Google3.- Drove all PgM activities related to the COVID Self Serve initiative, which enabled merchants to get online ordering via self-onboarding. We re-factored a feature set scoped to take several quarters to implement to launch in about a quarter.- Lead the effort to migrate from Hubspot, Zendesk, and Slack to Salesforce, which greatly streamlined the Merchant onboarding workflow and maximized agent impact.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Led the Assistant end-to-end internationalization effort across 20+ Vertical, Infrastructure and Platform teams to ensure the successful launch of over 300 features in a new language and locale for Android, iOS, Tablets, and Headphones. This involved coordinating extensively with cross-functional teams in varied time zones, managing the overall program plan and product quality, communicating status and schedule updates, mitigating risks, and leading the product through launch review and rollout. Spearheaded, scaled and streamlined all of the processes needed for launching Assistant on mature surfaces worldwide.- Created a new process to scale the launch of Assistant in speakers from 11 to 26 locales while reducing the test-to-launch cycle from several months to 6-8 weeks without compromising quality by collaborating with Nest teams (PM, PgM, Procurement, etc), Platform, Infrastructure, and Assistant Vertical teams, Marketing and PR teams, Testing, DogFood and Trusted Tester teams to understand the previous process and make the necessary improvements to expedite the time to production.- Led the launch of Assistant in Vietnamese. Validated the MVP with the local teams, negotiated additional features depending on LOE and time to launch, prepared launch reports and presented readiness to VP and Director level leadership.- Presented Google Assistant as a SME at the Launch Media event in Vietnam, with over 150 Journalists and Key Influencers and represented Assistant in the post-event Q&A, which included one-on-one TV interviews.- Launched Assistant in Traditional Chinese in Taiwan, which was announced as an easter egg at the Pixel launch event in Taiwan. Led the launch of Assistant in Cantonese in Hong Kong, and led the cross-functional work needed to figure out the best approach to launch Simplified Chinese everywhere except Mainland China.

San Francisco, California, Us

Drove and managed all aspects of the partner implementation of the UpLift Pay Monthly product. Created internal and external integration processes.- Managed the technical implementation of the UpLift product in the partner’s site through the entire software development lifecycle. - Coordinated between internal and external teams, including Sales, Product, UI/UX, Engineering and Customer Support, from definition, through launch and then optimization of the product, as well as definition, development, and launch of new products.- Designed and created all the integration processes, focusing on optimization and scalability.

Cupertino, California, Us

Managed one of the applications in the Pro Video suite, coordinating all the efforts to design, develop, and launch the product, increasing customer value and focusing on the surprise and delight foundation for all of Apple products.- Coordinated with cross-functional teams, including Marketing, UI/UX, Engineering, QA, LOC, CS, Documentation, and other internal teams throughout the project lifecycle to guarantee the on-time release of the product.

Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Kr

Led a cross-functional and multi-location team in the development of a single destination experience application that focuses on increasing customer loyalty. Planned and delivered several client releases, coordinated efforts across multiple teams to preload the application with carriers.- Managed the Product, UI/UX, Engineering, QA and CS teams throughout the SDLC to ensure on-time deliverables. - Coordinated efforts with off-site and on-site cross-functional teams to implement several 3rd party vendor solutions.- Drove the project schedule, identifying dependencies and risks, and mitigating issues with viable and timely solutions.- Coordinated the CS efforts for the sunset of a multi-faceted application with millions of paying customers.

Managed the integration of Quixey’s app search/discovery technology into our partner’s products. Integrations span from small to large projects implementing APIs with web browsers, OEMs and carriers.• Led all partner projects to ensure the best possible integration of Quixey’s API technology into our partners’ products. Work closely with internal and external teams, including business development, Product, Engineering, UI/UX, and QA, from both sides, to facilitate the API integration, coordinate technical discussion, resolve issues, monitor schedule and milestone deliverables and mitigate risks• Worked with Partners and internal product teams to align roadmaps with partner’s needs, custom requirements and product improvements, as well as share recommendations to partners for user flow and user interfaces• Created overall partner integration process as well as more detailed processes for streamlining integrations based on a tier approach

San Jose, California, Us

Currently leading the 3rd Party Applications program. Previously, drove the number one engineering initiative to converge to a common code base within 12 months. Managed retail DVR software releases for legacy and new platforms by guiding a cross-functional team of design, UX, engineering, quality, and customer support members to capture requirements and release software within schedule and budget to over half a million subscribers. • Driving the efforts to add 3rd Party Applications to the TiVo Platform. Coordinating with 3rd Party Applications and developers, as well as managing all the internal efforts across Product Marketing, Engineering, QE, UI/UX, Field Trials and Customer Support• Managed the conversion to a Common Code Base with a cross functional team. Created new processes for branch strategies, bug management, quality standards, and merge scheduling of all products and features, including dependencies and concurrent milestones.• Working cross-functionally to achieve the business requirements with the allocated resources within schedule and budget, obtaining buy-in and commitment from all stakeholders.• Drove business and engineering teams to define, prioritize, and implement new features and fix bugs.• Lead several company-wide process changes geared to maximize productivity by making data-driven decisions and identifying deviations from the project POR.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Program Manager – Atlas Search (Advertiser and Publisher Solutions) Served as liaison between clients, User Interface and development teams in the Paid Search Organization. Gathered requirements from national and international customers and drove Scrum / Agile best practices, ensuring the successful design, development, testing and implementation of product requirements and on time release. Authored documentation and run the review process and gained buy-in.• Coordinated across functions and managed developer team in the design of a desktop tool to improve the advertisers’ ability to measure the effectiveness of their clients’ ads for more targeted revenue generation.• Managed team to develop new web pages in an existing display tracking application, creating single source access for national and international advertisers to easily retrieve Paid Search reports.• Worked with the User Experience Team to create wireframes, prototypes, and user stories. Gathered user feedback and coordinated cross-team efforts to generate a more user friendly UI, which streamlined workflow efficiency, minimizing complexity and error prone processes.• Prioritized task backlog, led daily stand-ups, weekly iterations, and monthly sprint planning and retrospectives and facilitated demo sessions with both internal and external groups.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Project Manager – Book Search (Operations)Managed the inception, development, and operations implementation for Google’s project to digitize millions of pages of news archives in microfilm form. Led the end-to-end logistics of partner content processing. Maintained oversight of cross-functional team efforts, both locally and remotely. Reviewed operational training, and documentation and ran meetings providing updates to managers, directors, and project stakeholders.• Drove operational requirements and implementation of new microfilm tracking system, streamlining operations to ensure Google met partners’ SLAs, resulting in more harmonious relationship with partners.• Doubled microfilm scanning production by deploying an international processing center, driving the process from contract negotiation and partner relationship building, to training and on-going operational management.• Managed implementation of the Quality Control process, to ensure partners only sent source content to Google once. This process guaranteed the speediest content release cycle. • Coordinated deployment of a new process for Google’s BookSearch initiative, increasing productivity by 60%. • Assisted in the final implementation and management of a new international site, including the training of new operators in Spanish, enabling the digitization of books hundreds of years old from two leading Spanish Universities.

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Senior Project Manager – T-Mobile USA (Engineering and Operations – Business Applications)Created monthly project status presentations for the stakeholders and the Steering Committee (VPs), held weekly calls with internal and external resources to monitor progress, troubleshoot issues, facilitate escalation when necessary, and assist in re-designing the migration approach and cleansing processes.• Implemented the data migration of approximately 20 million records from one Network Resource Manager Tool (Granite), to another (Cramer) for record keeping, NOC troubleshooting and network reporting.• Managed cross-functional teams in the implementation of Cramer HW/SW, cleansing Granite on the accuracy of existing data, training users, migrating Granite data to Cramer, and devising a support plan to complete cleansing of data in the new system to finalize the transition.Project Manager – Cingular / AT&T Wireless (Engineering – E911)Created all project timelines, and milestones based on client’s needs and coordinated daily and weekly meetings to drive parties to milestone completion. • Coordinated all necessary resources needed to validate FCC E911 Phase I Compliance for GSM/UMTS & TDMA network based solutions in Nortel, Lucent, Ericsson, and Nokia Markets in over 120 deployments, managing an eight state region including the Chicago, Dallas, and St. Louis markets.• Assisted in several facets of the network integration in the merger between AT&T Wireless and Cingular.• Hosted market deployment calls and interfaced with Switch translations, Transport Engineering, PSAP Directors, Regional RF, LECs, MPC providers, and Drive Test Teams to resolve issues in a timely manner.

Dubai, Ae

Masters, International Commerce

Ba, Philosophy