Collibra is a data intelligence company that connects data, insights, and algorithms to help businesses achieve trusted outcomes. Our mission is to empower our customers with trusted data so they can change the world.

At Spotify, we're a a digital music, podcast, and video service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from creators all over the world. Spotify for Artists allows you to manage your profile, get deeper music and audience data, pitch your new music to playlists, and highlight key songs, concerts and playlists with Artist Pick.• Led the cross-functional delivery efforts of two-factor authentication (2FA) initiative for Spotify for Artists. Thanks to the success of 2FA’s rollout, there have been no reported incidents to date, and our artist partnerships are stronger than ever.• Oversaw dependencies, risks, and product roadmap from discovery to execution. By tailoring communication, ways-of-working, and coordination strategies for dependency teams across four different time zones, I established a more effective and streamlined approach that helped the teams stay on track and meet their goals.• Led the successful rollout of the localization efforts on Spotify for Artists, this resulted in an increase in monthly active users and eliminated the need for label and music teams to manually translate S4A UX into non-English languages using Google Docs/Slides for artists and creators who do not speak English.• Collaborated with the Product, Design, and Localization teams to establish clear RACI, ways-of-working, and other best practices. Led weekly working groups and go-to-market planning/retro sessions, coordinated efforts across 10 S4A feature teams, and two third-party localization/linguistic teams.• Led the delivery of a successful rollout of Spotify's Artist Fundraising Pick as part of the COVID-19 Music Relief initiative, allowing musicians to raise funds directly from fans through a payment platform or charity link. • Helped accelerate project timelines by implementing an innovative dependency management, risk mitigation, and delivery trackers using Coda.io, as well as automated Slack and daily stakeholder email communications.

At Venmo, we're working to build a payment experience that's simple, delightful, and connected. Venmo's mission is to change people's relationships with money and each other. And it's working - people love using Venmo but we're not done yet. We want the magic of sending money with Venmo to be in every place you use it. There's still much more to do!In this role, Kristopher led platform as a service and large scale PayPal+Venmo security integration related initiatives: • Partnered closely with product and engineering leads to help drive the product lifecycle milestone checkpoints from discovery to delivery phase across 6+ Platform as a Service core capabilities and shared services.• Collaborated with over 10+ stakeholder groups across Venmo and PayPal to ensure Product, Design, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Payments Services, Risk Strategy, Business Operations, Marketing, Mobile Experience were well informed of the overall release plans, risk/dependency mitigation plans, program health, and upcoming program level milestones.• Contributed to improving team culture by leading team charter events, this results in collaboratively defining the group’s mission, vision, and values – which is centered around building team trust, transparency, goal setting, and team autonomy.• Led InfoSec’s KPI metric improvements by converting InfoSec’s manual reporting processes into real-time security SLA and KPI dashboards, this eliminated ~3hr/weekly manual administrative overhead and it also provided faster observability of security risks across engineering teams; as a result, +58% bugs were resolved within SLA the following quarter.• Organizational agile coach to 2 cross-functional teams and 2 engineering leads to help practice Agile, XP, and Lean concepts and practices using a dynamic approach to best fit the team’s needs.

At Tumblr Inc, we're a microblogging and social networking company founded in 2007. Tumblr's product allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything: Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be.In this role, Kristopher led ad monetization initiatives and agile program level best practices:• Project lead of Tumblr’s PMD API Alpha and Beta, which is targeted to drive an annual revenue of greater than $5MM in programmatic ad placements, this is the first step for Tumblr becoming programmatic in advertisements.• Partnered closely with Product and Engineering to successfully lead Tumblr’s Quarterly Backfill Optimization and Direct Sold initiatives to market, which improved ad quality and CPMs from backfill by integrating MOAT, AdX, and Teads as Tumblr’s new premium backfill partners, thus driving an additional $10MM in ad revenue.• Built refined SDLC processes between Analytics Engineering, Data, Ad Monetization, and Sales teams by aligning Agile Scrum practices, which resulted in more transparency, faster project delivery, and accountability.• Implemented Agile best practices by leading weekly user story refinement sessions, bi-weekly sprint planning, daily stand ups, and end of sprint retrospectives to identify improvements, address inefficiencies, and to help build team autonomy.

At The New York Times, data increasingly lies at the heart of our digital enterprise -- guiding our understanding of audience behavior, revenue opportunities and our readers’ experience of The New York Times. We’ve been at the forefront of the industry in our use of data. In this role, Kristopher led initiatives that provided business, product, and newsroom insight, site-wide and mobile tracking and analytics for both Event Tracker (built in-house tracking system) and Google Analytics, organized the Google Analytics training sessions across newsroom, product, marketing, finance, project, and other stakeholder groups within the organization: • Managed the Site-Wide and Mobile Roll-out of Google Analytics, implementing a scalable and comprehensive self-service analytics tool, which supports the newsroom, product, marketing and advertising teams, allowing them to easily and quickly make data-informed decisions.• Involved in various cross-collaborative team initiatives (e.g Mobile and Web Customer Products, eCommerce, NYTBeta, Customer Care, and Marketing) to continuously release successful products with analytics tracking in place right out of the gate: Google AMP, NYTWell, Times Insider, and NYTGlobal. • Project led the TagX 2.0 on-boarding and training efforts of 10+ development teams, a built in-house advanced tag management system, which allows various technology and marketing groups to manage and control all analytics trackers on their NYTimes web and mobile properties.• Built refined processes between Marketing and Data Analytics by aligning Agile Kanban practices to their data needs and coaching Agile Scrum and Google Analytics to the Marketing group: As a result, the marketing group’s backlog became prioritized and their tracking requirements were delivered on time, this process improved their forecast efforts and it also improved the durability of the Marketing group’s $2+ Million investment in external media.

At NYTimes, our subscribers are our most engaged and valuable users, the key focus of the Company’s strategy for growth. This group focused on solving problems and building experiences that convert engaged readers into new subscribers and satisfy and retain our existing subscribers.In this role, Kristopher led user-centric digital experience and retention efforts using Agile practices:• Awarded a Publisher’s Award in Business and Technology for managing an effective grace retention initiative: Within a year, it retained over 60k+ subscribers and contributed to $M+ in annual savings. • Awarded a Publisher’s Award in Technology for co-leading the Mobile Optimized Purchase Flow project: The revamp of the mobile purchase flow experience for our digital subscribers increased conversion rates by 25%+ from anonymous/registered users to subscribers. • Awarded a Publisher’s Award in Technology for project leading the Social Sign On experience: SSO allowed a fast and simple way to log in to NYTimes.com both on desktop and the mobile web, it resulted in 2x new daily registrations via trusted networks: Facebook and Google. • Led the SDLC of Times Insider, a premium digital product offering behind-the-scenes access to The Times newsroom and journalists’ experiences and expertise: Insider procured over 40k+ new subscribers, creating a new subscription revenue stream. • Project led the New Registration Welcome On-boarding Series, Google Play Newsstand Integration, and other initiatives that helped drive customer retention and improved subscriber experience.• Enforced Data Governance best practices for e-Commerce to ensure our purchase and registration flows complied with PII and PCI rules on a weekly production release basis. • Prescribed Agile best practices by leading weekly user story grooming sessions, bi-weekly sprint planning, daily stand ups, and end of retrospectives to identify improvements, address inefficiencies, and to help build team assurance.

AT&T Inc. is a multinational telecommunications corporation, one of the largest providers in mobile telecommunications, and also provides broadband subscription television services. AT&T is the largest telecommunications company in the world by revenue. As of 2016, it is also one of the largest mobile telecom operators in the world, with 130.4 million mobile customersIn this role, Kristopher led subscriber experience and retention initiatives in an Agile Scrum team environment: • Awarded the Outstanding Project Management and Client Support Certificate at AT&T. • Led a diverse team of more than 30+ that included: technical architects, developers, and quality assurance resources by ensuring that the team’s objectives were on time delivered and within budget.• Led the Subscription Based Pricing initiatives that streamlined and simplified the pricing structure and also provided more payment flexibility for AT&T’s customers. • Volunteered to provide project management expertise and guidance to 5 prospective IT Project Managers within AT&T.

• Worked closely with the IT Finance team on reporting, tracking and forecasting capital, expense, and resource availability throughout a project’s lifecycle.• Volunteered to help AT&T’s United Way Charity Campaign by actively participating in its pledge.

• Worked with SAP users and clients to enforce corporate information’s best security policies and procedures.• Volunteered to create and present a presentation on the benefits and career opportunities in Technology to prospective students, promoting the benefits of pursuing a career in Technology.