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California, United States

Purchase, NY, US

• Recruited and led an international team of 25+ technical program managers, release train engineers, and scrum masters. Used the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for global product development.
• Led comprehensive project planning to assess progress against Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), identify risks and contingencies, facilitate communication, address open issues, and resolve dependencies.
• Promoted agile methodologies and continuous improvement practices, resulting in enhanced program delivery efficiency and quality.
• Directed comprehensive software and hardware portfolio, successfully launching programs including virtual primary care (Primary360 w/ Aetna) and integrated chronic condition management capabilities, in alignment with.
• Oversaw team composition, hierarchy, staffing, task allocation, and optimized resource utilization to support corporate objectives.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Joined Livongo shortly after General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkins funded a $20m Series B. Played a crucial role in growing Livongo as the Agile S/W project/program manager, ultimately leading to a successful IPO and.
• Managed Livongo’s highest-priority projects, collaborating closely with Engineering, Data Science, and Product teams to deliver high-quality products and solutions.
• Led project planning, addressing progress against plans, problems, risks, and dependencies.
• Organized and planned deployments, ensuring predictable, high-quality software releases.
• Created and developed tools for planning, tracking, and adjusting work using: Google Sheets, Jira’s REST API, Jira, and Confluence.
• Subject matter expert on development methodology for Livongo’s HITRUST certification.

Denver, Colorado, US

• As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), or "Delta," embedded directly with clients to understand their problems, and design and implement solutions, customizing Palantir's software platforms for their specific needs..
• Designed information infrastructure and demonstrated Palantir code with law enforcement agencies.
• Designed, coded, and tested add-ons against the Palantir APIs.
• Performed data integration and software development. Responsibilities included: database queries, data modeling, and programming custom code to ingest data into the Palantir systems.
• Maintained a Top Secret security clearance.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• As the sole program manager, was responsible for all software projects from inception to launch for Ning, an online social media network platform, initially funded by Marc Andreessen. Ning helped people and.
• Organization and planning of deployments, delivering predictable, high-quality software releases.
• Led project planning to: assess progress against plans; identify problems and drive action plans; determine risks and contingencies; facilitate communications; review open issues and drive solutions; and reveal.
• Created and developed tools used to plan, track, and adjust work.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Recruited and led team program-managing largest and highest-priority billing, rating, payments processing, and security and privacy projects for Premium Services Infrastructure Group. Responsible for all projects.
• Organization and planning of deployments, delivering predictable, high-quality software releases.
• Led project planning to: assess progress against plans; identify problems and drive action plans; determine risks and contingencies; facilitate communications; review open issues and drive solutions; and reveal.
• Subject matter expert for Yahoo!’s Change Control policy supporting Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

• Program-managed the rollout of Content Match (similar to Google’s AdSense). The contextual-link or content-targeted marketing was an extension of the popular paid-search business that Overture pioneered, in which.
• Owned partner projects from inception to implementation.
• Active participant on Overture’s AltaVista and FAST Integration Management Team.

• Led the development team of a SaaS provider of automated user testing, and quantitative and qualitative analysis of customer experience for websites and web applications. The Vividence system utilized advanced data.
• Built and led a highly productive software development team of 15+ engineers.
• Achieved significant improvements in predictability of release schedules and contents.
• Ensured comprehensive coverage for all product subsystems by implementing technical cross-training programs.
• Established a repeatable product lifecycle, refining and documenting Vividence’s release process.

Program management, project management, development management, software development, and scientific field support.

Ms, Engineering Management

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