Joanne Sarro Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, United States

Sunnyvale, California, United States

- Designed workflow and guidelines to enable analysts to analyze data provided by Engineering and Project Managers in Ad Targeting, Ad Segments, Ad Policy, Research, and Commerce- Managed resources to meet deadlines while maintaining quality through analyst training and feedback- Provided category definitions and data samples for internal taxonomies to aid.

Sunnyvale, CA

- Designed workflow and guidelines to enable analysts to analyze data provided by Engineering and Project Managers in Ad Targeting, Ad Segments, Ad Policy, Research, and Commerce- Managed resources to meet deadlines while maintaining quality through analyst training and feedback- Provided category definitions and data samples for internal taxonomies to aid.

Sunnyvale, CA

Senior data quality expert for Polyvore, a community-powered social commerce site.- Customized feed loaders using Perl to improve categorization and readability of CPC clients' product data feeds when they appeared on Polyvore- Created or modified crawlers using Perl to scrape structured data from CPC clients' sites when they were unable to provide product.

Sunnyvale, CA

Editorial Project Manager for Trending Now- Converted Front Page module from monitored automated content to hand-selected sets of search queries, defining and documenting query selection and quality best practices, managing Editorial resources, and working with Engineering on content management tools- Transitioned module programming from four static sets.

Sunnyvale, CA

- Evangelized the Surfing role and the importance of maintaining user trust to Executives in offices worldwide- Provided a connection between Sunnyvale Editorial and Search and Product Editors in Europe, Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and Canada - Managed a team of six International Surfing Managers

Sunnyvale, CA

- Managed a team of six Liaisons in Sunnyvale and four Yahoo! Canada surfers in Sunnyvale and Toronto- Liaison for Full Coverage News and Business Express site submission program- Guided six International Surfing teams through the localization and launch of Business Express

Sunnyvale, CA

- Editorial Project Manager for Yahoo! Clubs (later Yahoo! Groups), guiding the work of 20 Editors to provide a cohesive approach to the development of the Y! Clubs hierarchy and featured clubs- Editorial Project Manager for merging 64,000 eGroups categories and 25,000 Yahoo! Clubs categories into Yahoo! Groups- Editorial Project Manager for merging.

Sunnyvale, CA

- Reviewed websites from user submissions, authoritative sites, and web surfing to expand the Yahoo! Directory- Trained new Surfers on internal content management tools and Editorial best practices for category development and website abstracts

Millbrae, CA And Santa Clara, CA

1983-1987 and 1992-1997 (Millbrae)1987-1990 (Santa Clara)- Prepared weekly sale setup for entire store, proofing sale signs against ad copy and reporting errors to corporate for company-wide replacements and creating signage where local store layout differed from schematic- Updated salesfloor merchandising using corporate schematics

Hayward, CA

- Worked with buyers to prepare overall product purchase and sales estimates for upcoming seasons for basic and fashion items in Girls 4-14 product lines - Determined appropriate store stock levels of basic and fashion items for 269 stores - Balanced distribution of regional sales trends, predicted sales trends, and actual sales trends

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Linguistics

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis, Library Science