Knut Schroeder Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Technical Program Manager, Search-Indexing-Managed Demand Planning, Budget Planning, Machine Supply Planning, Efficiency Effort Planning and Data Center refactor efforts as Product Area Resource Manager for Google Search Indexing.-Worked cross-functional with multiple different teams on the annual cycle off Demand gathering, Demand validation and Budget negotiations -Adopted continuously the Machine Supply plan to changes in Business needs and Supply disruption -Presented successfully Budget plans to upper leadership that resulted into full support of all efforts because of solid background information-Build and Automated complex Dashboards that allowed to display data from different data sources and combined Demand Planning Data, Budget limits and actual Usage tracking - increasing transparency, increased trust, standardized data views and reduced work effort for our business teams in Indexing -Build Python scripts to automate majority of capacity provisioning process, submitting new code and configuration pieces on a daily basis-Data Center Refactor Planning -30MW clusters are very expensive to replace at their end of life. Developed, Budget Presented and Executed a three phase refactor, that reduced the need for double capacity dramatically

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Treasury Senior Analyst, Treasury Operations-What does Treasury Ops team do: We support the business architecture solutions and daily operations for Treasury automated systems and processes, supporting management and growth of the current $95 billion in cash and investments, bank collections of $100 billion per year globally with related disbursements and transaction settlements, and GSU administration for 75,000 Googlers-Identified Quantum Upgrade as best ROI short term solution to improve the Cash Ops team productivity and acceleration in Systems Improvements. Got senior management buy in and lead Upgrade effort on the Business side. This lead to a dramatic risk reduction. Also implemented SSO to get away from Citrix tokens. Worked with Vendor on developing close to one hundred test scripts. Managed the UAT process. Went Go-Live on initial planned date Nov 6th without any delays and no cut over issues.-Developed a script to automate the FX trade cash recon process for balance sheet and cash flow hedging. The VBA macro allows the Trading Ops team to parse FX transaction data in Reval to quickly categorize FX payments and settlement location. The script pulls intraday bank statements for 35 bank accounts from GUBS and reconciles to the expected FX payment/receipt activity on value date. This saves the Ops team 3-4 valuable hours on high activity days. It allows the team to identify and manage exceptions much faster than before.

Mountain View, Ca

* Payroll Report Creations Automation and Distribution to all PSPs globally* Payroll Audits globally* System migrations and integration's (WorkDay, Sapphire, Google Internal systems: BrokerChoice, AutoSale, TaxStatements)* Employee communications* Mobility employee equity statements creation* Vendor management - gMobility - PwC - evolve and improve processes for the 4000+ mobile employees* RFP support* automated Monthend reporting with VBA scripts

* Co-founded company and managed numerous business operations, including sales, training, pricing and marketing, web design, bookkeeping, and inventory.* Filed for utility patent on a new, innovative product, a pre-packaged window trimming kit.* Increased gross profit margin across product line by 32%; achieved $500,000 revenue within two years of founding company.* Prospected new business and acquired three new accounts generating 30% of total sales.

* Successfully launched a business with over 100+ clients delivering services to business owners in measurable net performance improvements of up to 234% on a wide range of businesses, including trade, manufacturing, and professional services.

* Led Loadport reliability test program and evaluation requirements to support the company’s largest client.* Supported the first customer during beta phase resulting in a design success and a long-term multimillion-dollar contract at a critical time.* Managed initial phase of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of new customer frontend for major OEM customer.* Played key role in taking new atmospheric dual arm robot series from prototype stage to production, coordinating a cross-functional team and extracting valuable performance data, resulting in reduced market time and development costs. * Programmed software for new dual arm robot series leading to increased speed, functionality and ease of use; developed auto-teaching scripts that lowered calibration time by 36% and increased consistency from operator to operator.

* Established U.S. office and operations as a pilot phase to set up North American sales channels for touch-screen systems manufactured in Germany. * Successfully negotiated $6 million contracts with 950+ Touch-screen systems and generated profitable operations in nine months, enabling an Initial Public Offering (IPO) to be established.* Managed the entire rollout of project and directed all areas of production, quality, shipping, administration and finance.

* Led a team of three engineers to create fast custom prototype solutions.* Developed a design-oriented information kiosk generating $250,000 within one year.

Ms, Engineering Physics

Bs, Combined Sience Of Mathematics And Physics

sponsored by the European Union on a scholarship