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New York, New York, Us

Building and supporting enterprise customers with Direct Data Model and Machine learning insights in the Financial Services FinTech industry. I have lead a global design and development team to transition our product from heavy developer created workflow to a self-service User UI experience within 6 months. This has resulted in stronger client productivity and increased client satisfaction. Our product provides the flexibility of data driven insights utilizing Salesforce flows and unstructured/structured customer provided data.

Learning the art of wine making and running a small business through the management of my family’s private winery in the Santa Cruz appellation.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Managing and leading a team of three first line managers and over 35 direct reports across 2 continents to localize all LinkedIn content for 24 languages. Providing oversight within a unique ecosystem consisting of in-house language specialists while delivering high quality content and leveraging industry language service providers (LSPs) and transcreation specialists. LinkedIn: Software Technical Project Manager and Localization Staff Manager 2015- 2022● Lead an industry leading localization team that globalizes for 24 languages across all engineering and marketing teams company wide● Lead transformational change, including building and replacing existing translation management systems the re-organization of roles and team structure● Managing under budget for 6 years with an increasing CapEx and OpEx ranging from $2.3M yearly to over $5.5M● Created an organizational structure that was deeply involved in providing regional member experience for Germany, Japan and India ● Implemented developer and designer feedback loop for early and significant product UI changes and new feature creation such as LinkedIn Stories● Industry involvement and sharing with GILT working group for localization metrics and best practices

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Service Engineering and Operations organization a part of Horizontal PMO team. Instituted various processes and programs for efficiency and engagement programs to help structure and prepare the organization for dynamic growth and change.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Developed and managed the central PMO dashboard and prioritization process for Service Engineering and Operations including KPM (Key Performance Metrics).* Instituted a cross organization prioritization and organization commitment approach. * Implemented weekly program summary reports for executive stakeholders across diverse organization including Program management offices and senior leadership. * Owned program execution of Operating system lifecycle management.o Stakeholder and sponsors included CTO and Senior Vice presidents o Reduced exposure of unsupported Operating systems to less than 2% of the 270k hosts managed by Yahoo!* Lead organization in adoption of new configuration management tool set deploying to over 130,000 hosts in 9 months in 2011.Program Manager - Media Platform & Products Engineering Group 2007 - 2009* Managed development efforts and charter creation for Media Integration Team* Facilitated migration of US based news development team to international South East Asia development and support team.* Provided clarity and commitment for Media’s deliverables during Yahoo! first Facebook partnership social integration* Released a new Global Finance platform in Europe on-time without any major incidents* Facilitated and executed global business partner adoption program that included consolidation of partners requirements and schedules* Managed Bangalore development including release of feeds ingestion and editorial tools running on the Hadoop platform.

The Project Management Team overseeing the development of the MediaSuite Platform, which includes the platform and tools for managing all aspects of Yahoo! Media's category leading properties-such as Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Entertainment, Yahoo! Games, etc. Specifically responsible for managing the MediaSuite International implementation roadmap and in general overseeing International MediaSuite projects. In this role I drive and manage the process and project team, working directly with the Adoption Architect to identify and execute adoption solutions. In addition, I work with product managers, engineering managers & leads, QA team, GUI, and executive management, as well as other functional groups, and other Yahoo! business units.Yahoo MediaSuite International Program Mgmt * Worked with various international development and product teams to avengalizer the use of Yahoo internally developed CMS and media platform architecture. * Including communiation of product Roadmap and proecut feature and requiremnet reviews * Partnered with Development leads and Program and project managers with varous international customers to incorporate various components includes dedicated and shared object oriented replicated storage databases. * Demonstracted and worked on feature documentation and review of product framework tools along with content mgmt and editoral provisioning and updating tools * Worked with international internal customers on use of sandbox environments for demonstation and piloting of internal Yahoo sites on Mediasuite archituture stack

Established trust and reliability while working with high profile, high traffic customers deploying and supporting their multiple web and enterprise environments. Utilized leading edge automated tools and solutions to manage customers environments with 100% up time SLA’s. * Team Lead for seven person implementation and support team with high customer satisfaction ratings* Worked as a Manager on Duty (MOD) of the EDS/Loudcloud Network Operations Center (NOC). * Implemented initial client for Payment card industry (PCI) requirements and participated in third party audit of environment.* Managed the Profit and Loss statements for customers tracking procurement expenses, project hours and out of scope billable work. * Served as liaison between my customers and the Network Operations Center (NOC), consulting engineers, Oracle and SQL database administrators, network engineers, systems administrators, and data center engineers. The project teams that I managed range from 5 to 15 people.* Worked with sales teams and account managers to address new business needs for our customers and participate in the negotiation of change orders.* Key activities included: identifying, scheduling and driving project tasks, identifying resources, managing cross-functional relationships, deliverables and communicated project status.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

Bs, Economics