Drive pricing and packaging of new products for the ISV partner community. This includes engaging with Salesforce product teams to align roadmaps on critical capabilities for ISVs, creating pricing proposals, and providing input on legal terms. Also responsible for identifying and implementing system enhancements to enable the launch of new services and optimize the product request and ordering processes to support ISV partner success.

Established a New Product Introduction (NPI) program to bring consistency to the launch of new products for an indirect channel targeting the ISV partner community for Salesforce AppExchange.

IT Program Manager for an enterprise transformational program across 6 business organizations and 10 IT teams, drove key program decisions and kept teams on track for delivery.Actively managed up to 20 concurrent software development projects across a team of 10 solution analysts. Prioritized scope and negotiate trade-offs with business stakeholders based on engineering capacity.Managed vendor relations & contract negotiations for $500k+ quarterly run rate. Budgeted and forecasted project cost estimates for a functional IT group of 30 team members.Key Contributions: • Established work-in-progress limits and reduced assessment queue by 60% - keeping teams focused on only high-priority requests & faster throughput• Drove initial analysis of over 70 project requests, 38 of which have moved to execution

Led a six-person portfolio team, drove strategy and process improvements for program execution. Selected for agile strategy tiger team to drive the methodology adoption across Cisco IT. Was responsible for ensuring business engagement & visibility into the IT department transformation. Drove agile adoption discussions with my program's leadership. Developed strategy for phased agile adoption while maintaining existing program roadmap. After assessing agile methodology, created new portfolio & PMO processes recommendations for our program which were accepted and adopted by management.Key Contributions:• Developed an enterprise wide adoption strategy of a new technology to manage agile development and implemented it for my program, driving the adoption of over 1500 users• Created enterprise stakeholder engagement models and ISO compliant processes in line with agile methodologies• Recommended portfolio process changes to improve engagement and collaboration with 15 functional teams and increase portfolio's visibility to incoming projects from over 30 requesting organizations.

Led a three-person portfolio team on a commerce transformation program with highly cross functional deliveries. Managed a $180+M run rate portfolio. Planned out the scope and capabilities to be included in releases based on Cisco's corporate priorities, the program's priorities, stakeholder requests, partner feedback, and ROI. Owned stakeholder management, business case analysis, impact assessment and project planning.Key Contributions:• Established consistent decision-making framework for investment commitments• Owned analysis of business cases, ensuring IT teams only considered project requests that had a clear RIO or user benefit

Portfolio analyst & project manager for a large technology company helping develop an IT program roadmap. Prioritized requested scope and provided recommendation on scope to be considered for the release based on business value, scope clarity, and release capacity. Handed off scope understanding to program execution team. Recognized the need for more robust portfolio processes for an IT program. Created a new set of portfolio processes, which led to the formation of the programs first portfolio team.

Tracked IT release progress from investment commitments to development. Identified, managed and resolved issues during business and functional design phases. Coordinated seven functional teams on gathering business and functional requirements for a software development project. Optimized change request processes, freeing up resources for other activities and increasing management’s visibility into changes and new investments.

Analyzed and reviewed SEC filings. Contributed to research project teams in developing customized solutions for clients in the areas of executive compensation, benefits and corporate governance. Analyzed trends in HR Executives compensation over last two years.