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San Jose, Ca, Us

Enable our design system to support cross platform experience changes that serve millions of PayPal customers every day.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Develop and execute the PayPal Cloud Strategy to serve millions of daily users, meet the velocity needs for thousands of developers, and accelerate adoption of efficiencies for our site reliability & engineering teams.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Working with the leadership of Site Reliability Engineering to align the 2020 scope of work to outcomes, assure measurement of goals, stand in for the VP when needed, and continue to be awesome.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Develop Global Charity Go To Market Strategy, Analyze Global giving trends, identify opportunities for incorporating giving into every day purchases, and get to know the UK payments market (Contactless is king of the POS market there!)

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led a team to create an internal marketing/pitch video to influence our internal stakeholders on what the future app could be for our customers - created character personas and tied the use of the products we offer to those personas- developed an inspiring script that stakeholders could identify their roadmaps in- created a new look & feel for PayPal that was taken forward in 2020Performed user experience research and user needs analysis for an internal data visualization tool

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led integration of newly acquired companies into enterprise Information Security program.- wrote the playbook for M&A Information Security integration- as part of the M&A diligence, assessed security posture of targets for acquisition. - performed risk analysis of target's environment by data types stored, internal environment access and edge policies.- proposed tools and processes to close security gaps, managed integration budget, oversaw integration timelines.- presented updates to multiple executive functions on security posture as it matured during integration.

Chicago, Il, Us

Developed business requirements on a project basis for marketing programs- documented requirements for web promotions and interactive games- became an expert on the existing CMS platform and where we could be creative (and where we couldn't)- negotiated realistic timelines & expectations of projects based on existing architecture, and helped facilitate future state funding for more robust platform.

Chicago, Il, Us

Managed branded restaurant site builds from creative development to launch.- Reorganized project lifecycle workflow to reduce the number of 'regroups' required throughout the project.- Implemented Daptiv, a project & program management tool

Agile Project Manager responsible for project delivery and product management- defined MVP and executed Lean Start Up methodologies to test and evolve product- managed the Design and UI client approval process for web site and application design- deployed in-house built enterprise application through pilot and phase I- managed product lifecycle at all stages - concept, design, develop, test, rollout - via agile project management skills and tools with both story point and hours estimating

Phoenix, Az, Us

DR Program & Business Continuity Manager- responsible for a team of 3 PMs and a team of 20 delivering DR Technology and BCP- completed first successful DR testing with customer facing business-critical applications- worked with C-level and VP cross-functional groups to deliver program scopeData Center Migration & Closure- closed & Migrated legacy datacenter on hard timeline due to lease closure. - responsible for migration of SQL databases, applications, DR document management, NetApp storage. - responsible for Decommission of SQL databases, Data warehouse, Servers, Storage decommission and reclamation, Network & Security infrastructure (including VIPs), across development and Production environments. - reported weekly and daily status, risk & issue management, a team of 20, adhering to JIRA change management process and maintaining schedule.

Courbevoie, Île-De-France, Fr

Worked closely with solar project manager on solar project lifecycle and identified areas for process improvement in sales and deliveryFamiliarized with Solar Installation processes – working with vendors, solar energy reporting equipment, UL testing, city/county/state codeResearched Solar-Covered Parking market and made recommendations on sales strategy and target customers

Tempe, Az, Us

• Delivered projects small to mid size while managing budgets, resources, scheduling, tasks for customers and communicating internal revenue forecasting and utilization back to the business• Utilized techniques for work and risk planning that incorporated all project team members and ensure transparent communication to project sponsor• Identified cumbersome processes and implemented improvements such as automation and workflow that increased team efficiency and resulted in cost savings to the customer• Worked extensively with several Microsoft product offerings, including Exchange, SCCM, SCOM, Active Directory, SharePoint, InfoPath and BPOS