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Pasadena, Ca, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Santa Monica, California, Us

- After forming the Call of Duty game service team, led Product and Development ownership of multiple verticals in the game-service team for store services, personalized communications, and player data service to enable rich game content and personalized game experience, resulting in contribution to growth of Call of Duty revenue by $XXXMM+.- When Covid-19 hit the industry hard, the gaming industry faced unique challenges when traffic multiplied to 500% in the first few weeks. I took ownership to strategize the infrastructure usage necessary to keep infrastructure budget under wraps and keep service availability and reliability to industry standards by introducing strategic caching and distributions of load across low-cost regions.- Led the development of a LiveOps roadmap, experimentation, and A/B testing initiatives boosting critical engagement metrics via significant improvements to first time user experience (FTUE), Social, and Anti-Toxicity systems. - Provided Technical Leadership in developing in-game features to increase hours played by user (HPU) and average revenue per user (ARPU) metrics by over X%.- As a cross-functional Lead, I oversaw a diverse Engineering team to develop personalized in-game player communication and store experience to deliver personalized content to players using various enhancements, resulting in decreasing player attrition rate by XX% and delivering consistent player engagement and revenue throughout the season.- To keep player community engaged outside gameplay, led the cross functional team to develop and deploy my.callofduty.com Web and Mobile applications contributing additional $XXMM+ in revenue for the Call of Duty franchise.- Planned and managed infrastructure budgets in the cloud by introducing better strategies in the CICD pipeline.- Led compliance control initiative for the teams to support CCPA and GDPR compliances.- Embraced and implemented best Engineering practices across all cross-functional teams.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- As senior leader of the Engineering team, managed program divisions such as Product and Project Management, Development, Onboarding, and CICD for Acquisition, Engagement, and Fraud Monitoring Products.- Led Web and Mobile team in transitioning from legacy monolithic to micro-service architecture resulting in speedy turnover of feature developments yielding a XX% reduction in QA cycle and a XX% reduction in infrastructure cost.- To counter cyber frauds, improved a critical Trust & Safety parameter by 7% by interacting with multiple vendors and introducing Captcha and Two-Phase Commit to trim down frauds and comply with intricate EU regulation.- Built a new offshore team in Colombia to help expedite development and set up the communication process for a smooth transition and improved productivity resulted in XX% faster launch time of new features.- As Engineering leader, created a strategy to align the team with our organization OKR to support consumer first approach, which involved reprioritizing 10 active work streams and restructuring the team to projects yielding better ROI and aligning with OKR mapping. Team delivered all commitments and more to gain Above Performance rating in OKR delivery.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Developed and maintained Ad serving product in YP. Worked with leaders across multiple teams.Provided technical leadership in development of next generation Ad Serving engine (keyword/locale auction modal) from conception to delivery.• Partnered with Data-Science and Analytics team to build a tool to integrate/AB-test various ML model at runtime and track KPI changes from single dashboard.• Worked with leaders across multiple teams to release new enhancement to Ad Delivery system for better monetization. Improved accuracy of location targeting by accessibility.• Built publisher valuation tool to assess value provided by individual publisher partners of YP. Was able re-prioritize publisher list and delivered better value to customers.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Stamford, Ct, Us

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