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Sausalito, CA

• STEMCompass is a knowledge sharing platform that connects students and recent graduates with employers, in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
• High school and college students are able to zero in on the right STEM jobs and internships nationwide.
• Employers benefit from a broader, more diverse reach to students nationwide.
• Career counselors and parents find a rich and engaging tool to help inform and encourage their students to pursue STEM careers. We believe informed and authentic interest drives greater hiring confidence for students.
• Define vision and timeline for what, how, and when to reach objectives
• Define, communicate, and execute technology roadmap

Fairfax, CA

• Worked with others in efforts to bring their product ideas to market
• Technologies: Android and iOS development, web development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript)
• Tools: appMobi, Microsoft Visual Studio, Apple Xcode, Netbeans

San Rafael, CA

Successfully managed and delivered ten full lifecycle projects. Contributed to PMO and Process Engineering improvement initiatives. Helped coach and develop new hires, and manage contract resources.

Redmond, WA

• Helped kick-start an innovative new product concept within the Windows Live Search organization (now "Bing"), called Live Guides.
• Conceived, designed, and pitched new product features and concepts; then led dev and test teams through the implementation.
• Worked closely with dedicated development and testing teams.
• Managed regular internal rollouts to a large datacenter.
• Feature management of the Live Search feature, "Related Searches".
• Managed A/B flight tests of several Windows Live features.

San Rafael, CA

Photography-related software incubation and development

San Rafael, CA

Lead Siebel analyst for Partner Relationship Management team within Autodesk IT.

Dallas, TX

• Small online DVD rental company acquired by Blockbuster Inc. Four distinct areas of responsibilities and accomplishments:
• Software lifecycle management: Introduced agile design and development processes; TDD and testing automation; release scheduling; production staging and automated deployment; user feedback management; instrumentation.
• Project management of scope, schedule, and resources with regular overlapping releases.
• Product management: Prioritized and managed features. Developed and executed customer surveys to gauge feature effectiveness.
• Infrastructure and IT management: Led implementation of security measures including firewalls, DMZs, and hardening. Dramatically improved uptime.

Irving, TX

• Responsibilities included project and engagement management; trusted as a key resource for developing and mentoring new hires on challenging projects:
• Led engagement at Nextira One (five projects).
• Led implementation of Siebel Sales at Compaq.
• Led implementation of Siebel Communications at UrbanMedia Communications.
• Led implementation of Siebel Call Center at Claimsnet.com.
• Architected custom profiling and database load-balancing solution at PageNet, Inc.

Plano, TX

• Founded small and successful consulting practice in 1994. Clients included Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems (SBMS; now AT&T Wireless), and PageMart, Inc.
• Built from ground-up: national paging customer call center, and inter-company communication system for outsourced pager activation.
• Built front-end to a "multi-phone / single-number" service from SBMS R&D.
• Built a partner management system for inter-company cellular roaming agreements.