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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

US

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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