Lulu Byrd, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

Perry Hall, Md, Us

Cupertino, Ca, Us

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Seattle, Wa, Us

♣ Led a HR technology organization of 65 people and 7 tech teams.♣ Operated as a startup within Amazon providing tremendous ownership, drove organizational mission, vision, technology strategy and roadmaps.♣ Conducted organizational design, scaled the organization from 2 to 7 teams, aligning with business goals.♣ Attracting, hiring and managing highly effective engineering managers and engineers who can quickly design and deliver scalable and maintainable systems.♣ Developed strong cross-functional partnerships, drove alignment with stakeholders, closely collaborating with Product Management.♣ Delivered $500 million in enhancements across 23 AWS Cloud critical projects, streamlined Amazon global HR experiences for 3 million new joiners annually.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

♣ Led a 45 member globally-distributed technology organization. ♣ Accountable for organizational strategy, leadership and delivery of $10M Institutional & Intermediary full stack Digital Web domain portfolio.♣ Enabled 20% YOY revenue increase through digital transformation including 100% increase of marketing content publishing through low-code/no-code capabilities.♣ Established leadership brand for strong on-time execution of complex software initiatives.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

♣ Managing 3 software development teams and responsible for delivering high quality technical solutions for the T. Rowe Price US Financial Intermediary (USI) digital experience. ♣ Led successful agile transformation, increased delivery velocity and quality, achieved 90% reduction of production defects.♣ Trailblazer in portfolio modernization, migrated legacy systems to microservices in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.♣ Achieved highest rating in Total Cost of Ownership application review within T. Rowe Price.

San Jose, Ca, Us

♣ Drove a high-performance PayPal credit production environment through effective oversight of the Credit Production Engineering and Database Engineering teams.♣ Reduced team's on-call work 60%, improved employee work/life balance, and freed up bandwidth by designing and project managing a 12-moth improvement initiative. ♣ Facilitated compliance and remediation efforts via cross-functional, interdivisional collaboration with Legal, Compliance, Risk Management, and Remediation.

San Jose, Ca, Us

♣ Directed a top-performing team of 5 software engineers located across 4 geographical locations, including India.♣ Led a team in successfully developing applications and data monitoring in compliance with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s online payment system monitoring requirements despite an extremely tight deadline.

San Jose, Ca, Us

♣ Orchestrated effective PayPal Credit live site issue monotiring, on-call support, and bug fixes as the team lead. ♣ Owned cross-functional technical leadership, process definition, and technical operations supervision.

San Jose, Ca, Us

♣ Executed PayPal Credit software live site issue monitoring, research and bug fixes using Java, SpringBoot, Dynatrace and Splunk. ♣ Facilitated Bug Bounty security program as the POC for PayPal Credit. Conducted cross-functional program leadership for vunerability fixes.

San Jose, Ca, Us

♣ Designed, developed, and maintained the core PayPal Credit Java software applications, following Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile Methodology (Scrum).♣ Awarded multiple Spot Awards for major contributions to the successful PayCapture Lite and SPI projects.

Bethesda, Md, Us

♣ Conducted Java Enterprise software development for the Social Security Administration.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Master'S Degree, Computer Science