Product management leadership for Search Platforms, the technical foundation that enables our Search products to reliably understand and answer users' queries. Our platforms include:- Serving platform that understands and fulfills billions of queries a day instantly with delightful and growing features built on it- Knowledge Graph that grows, stores and updates facts about people, places, and things, powering understanding of queries, intents, and documents.- Internationalization platforms and infrastructure that not only powers massive localization of virtually all of Alphabet's products and documents, but also enables and enhances multilingual intelligence and capabilities of our products.

Overseeing a wide range of Google Search’s new and horizontal efforts that cut across vertical organizations- Search Growth: responsible for devising strategy and initiatives in close collaboration with data scientists and cross-product / cross-functional teams.- Content Ecosystem: driving efforts to proactively influence creators on the web to ensure vibrant content ecosystem. Some of the efforts I drove include: + Search-driven initiatives to improve the web for our general users (e.g., Mobile Friendly Update, Speed-based ranking, Helping users easily access content on mobile; project blog posts below) + Tools and platforms to drive content creators globally (e.g., Google Search Console, Blogger, Wikipedia partnership) + Content efforts to drive more online content in emerging markets- Google Search for Next Billing Users (NBU): overseeing a wide range of projects designed to improve Google’s utility in emerging markets (e.g., latency, app utility, core features, closing content gap) and represented Search in keynote events (E.g., Google for India 2018 video below)- Google’s i18n / l10n platforms: every Google product functioning in multiple languages were built using this pipeline

Relocated to Tokyo to lead Google’s product management team based in Tokyo; efforts on the ground included Search, Geo/Maps, and Chrome. Turned around Google’s position as a 2nd in the market as of 2009 to be the leading search engine in the country today.- Built products with engineering team on the ground as well as Google’s global teams to ensure Google’s marquee functionality provides the best possible experience for Japanese users, including unique features initiated from Japanese market to globally. (cf. NYT article below)-PM lead for forming search partnership with Yahoo! Japan in 2010 (cf. NYT article below)- Represented Google on various media events to announce new products, features, and partnerships.Nikkei published biography chronicling my career :-) (book below (Japanese))

Drove Google’s product footprint to international markets from generally US-focused approach. Products I directly drove include: AdWords, Blogger, Google Maps & Earth.Founding member of Google’s mobile products before the era of smartphones. Built the mobile search engine on WAP/XHTML content for feature phones as well as co-developed Mobile Search Ads (with patent), which became the platform for Google’s monetization and commercial partnerships with mobile carriers globally. Partnerships with KDDI and Docomo in Japan brought majority of Google’s mobile traffic (and mobile revenue) prior to the arrival of iOS and Android. (e.g., Bloomberg coverage)

Managed the company's flagship product BE-GO Talk, a web-based multi-lingual education application operated with a major Japanese publisher with 60,000+ paying subscribers. Learners (end-users) in Asia and instructors in North America exchange spoken messages through this web application, and it has been deployed on 24/7-basis to Japanese and Taiwanese end-users since 2001. Reported to VP of engineering.+ Negotiated with customers regarding the product requirements and features, and constructed the product requirement document, while gaining consensus from the management team.+ Dramatically improved working relationship with the major Japanese customer by proactively enhancing communications: clarifying feature details, coordinating launch schedule, and providing a thorough follow-up in case of technical glitches.+ Hands-on coding of the J2EE-based application running with SQL server (through EJB/JDBC) along with two other software engineers.

(Formerly called Televigation at the time)Designed and implemented speech recognition-based applications on Java- and servlet-based VoiceXML platforms targeted for consumers with mobile phones.Telenav's applications were marketed to mobile phone carriers to boost revenue (service fees, increased airtime usage) and product differentiation (subscriber acquisition and retention). The applications also served as building blocks for the voice-driven real-time navigation system, the core technology of Televigation.+ Led three developers and two linguists to develop voice UI of all Televigation’s applications.+ Implemented a 2-month project to modularize and facilitate code reuse within the entire R&D. Streamlined the build/release processes for code management.+ Deployed a CTI driving directions pilot program with a Big-3 directory call center.+ Acted as technical liaison with personnel from NTT DoCoMo, J-Phone, and MTI (major content provider for KDDI/au’s Internet-enabled phones).

Built and shipped 3D mechanical CAD and simulation software as a desktop PC workstation solution complement to the MSC Software's mainline mainframe/supercomputer products. (Company was acquired by MSC Software in 1999) Worked on Windows platform with C++ (incl. MFC), with focus on integrating rigid-body kinetics simulation engine and photorealistic rendering with OpenGL