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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Guided the creation of a cost control and reduction program for Google Datacenter construction from inception to early implementation by coaching a Google program manager throughout the process. The program to date has identified hundreds of millions of dollars in cost reduction opportunities and is implementing the reviews and system controls necessary to enact them, while adding only five additional headcount. Developed a custom MSSQL based cost reduction dashboard to support the program.◼️ Developed a custom cost management dashboard solution using Microsoft SQL Server.◼️ Guided the development of Google’s Cost Reduction Program by co-developing the program’s objectives, approach, and execution strategy with the program manager responsible for implementing it.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Facilitated and improved requirements definition and handoff between Bayer’s Data Analysis and Data Engineering teams. Coordinated delivery of Kafka topics to onboard new data sources into the global data warehouse. Analyzed tools and working practices of the Analysis and Engineering teams to enhance agility and efficiency, improving the velocity of both teams. Refined and enhanced data analysis tools written in Python.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Collaborated with and aligned technical and functional teams to design and implement a company-wide Agile Transformation. Worked with leadership and software development teams to understand pain points and identify solutions. Introduced product management processes and systems. Configured new software for custom workflows that are integrated with existing SDLC processes and tools.◼️ Enabled our first 100% delivery excellence quarter by delivering all assigned projects as planned.◼️ Supported transformation to a product-led business by creating an Agile operating model, combining Engineering and Data Teams into Feature Teams, and taking on the vital Scrum Master role.◼️ Established Scrum Masters’ Guild to drive cohesion, transparency, and knowledge/best practice sharing among team leads.◼️ Delivered the Aha product management tool, improving technical and functional team transparency.

Seattle, Washington, United States

I was engaged via the BroadPoint Group to join Brightloom as a Technical Project Manager to lead the Data Onboarding (DO) team, which develops and maintains the ingestion pipelines that connect with Brightloom's client data and prepares it for analysis and segmentation by the SmartSegments Modeling engine.◼️ Work with Core Engineering and Brand Success organizations within Brightloom to clarify and align Data Onboarding (DO) Team's roles and responsibilities, as well as those of its peripheral teams.◼️ Created reporting and metrics tracking to enable visibility into the health of Brightloom's pipelines and the status of the onboarding of new brands.◼️ Align DO operations with the priorities of the business, and advocate for new features from Core Engineering to improve the efficiencies of DO operations.◼️ Negotiated with Engineering and Brand Success to create capacity for implementing the Next Generation Data Onboarding (NGDO) ingestion pipelines, which reduced processing times by 75%, eliminated thousands of lines of code, enabled standardization of the pipelines, and reduced processing errors by 50%.

Seattle, Wa

Re-appointed by Logic 20/20 – a technical and data consulting firm – as Technical Project Manager,Scrum Master and business partner to various stakeholders, to coordinate the full SDLC and executeend-to-end deliveries for several key clients. I trained and led c. 15 global technical specialists, responsible for creating product backlogs, leading ceremonies across time zones, and spearheadingenterprise-level technical transformations, product development, and data dashboard implementations. Ipromoted a continuous improvement strategy across project architecture, best practice and tools to meet evolving business needs.◼️ Led multiple internal initiatives to improve Logic 20/20’s performance and profitability, including drafting proposals, negotiating statements of work, selling to clients, and standardizing recruitment.◼️ Selected for multiple best-in-company awards for applicant experience and interview feedback.◼️ Enhanced T-Mobile’s cloud platform (AWS) and DevOps environment, acting as interface betweenstakeholders to deliver Conducktor features to enable GUI-driven Kubernetes administration; improvingthe website, 100+ global software development teams’ performance, and transforming the clientrelationship.◼️ Mobilized and coordinated 14 staff, developing and rolling out a suite of APIs to integrate T-Mobile’sretail partners with internal T-Mobile domain capabilities, including automating new line activation.◼️ Managed the $3.5m per year Bill of Materials Aggregation (BAT) project, building a hub for T-Mobile’scellular network supply chain that is integrated with 6 systems to reliably compute order eligibility.◼️ Received commendation for achieving overtly positive staff feedback and 100% retention over 2-years.◼️ Implemented a data analytics dashboard for a healthcare client, enabling HEDIS grant compliance andefficient staff management through the aggregation of patient outcomes and provider performance data.

Greater Seattle Area

I was engaged via Aerotek as a key technical Subject Matter Expert, to migrate and scale Amazon’sglobal HR services platform for better management of tenure-based employee compensation plans. Iforged strong communication channels with, and acted as direct liaison between, HRIT and the HR linesof business, as well as assessing existing project and program structures to proactively exploitoptimizations.◼️ Enhanced background check platform security by integrating single sign on functionality.◼️ Planned a project to allow the early detection and removal of payroll defects, utilizing SMScommunications to proactively resolve discrepancies with minimal intervention or impact.

Redmond, Wa

Following my previous role, I was recruited to support delivery of 2 major projects by cultivating trustingand productive relationships with, key stakeholders from across the organization. I elicited diverserequirements, developed a clear roadmap and relevant solutions, bridged the gap between various linesof business and engineering teams to ensure a viable technical delivery and maintained an up-to-datebacklog. I also removed knowledge silos and implemented system documentation and defect triageprocesses.◼️ Eliminated $35k per month in third-party vendor costs by facilitating the transition of developmentresponsibilities for targeting platform providing a seamless learning experience throughout Microsoft.◼️ Drafted and presented 50+ requirements specs in 6-weeks, introduced a repeatable and quality-assured process for annual reports for sales staff quotas/incentives, and facilitated accurateengineering scope and staff planning relating to the Azure enterprise billing platform.◼️ Managed and coached 5 Microsoft divisions across 6 systems to rapidly consolidate thousands ofSKUs used by Azure customers, subsequently reducing project schedules by 3-6 months with asimplified approach.

Seattle, Wa

I was engaged by Logic 20/20 as a key member of the onsite team at Microsoft’s worldwide readinessorganization. During this project I led and interpreted functional requirements for a team of 3 Developers to implement a training targeting platform, including the re-engineering of processes to suggest relevant training content to Microsoft learners, with a focus on increasing automation and flexibility while reducing time wasted on irrelevant training.◼️ Partnered with client-side Product Owner to manage the webservices that were recognized as abackbone to Microsoft’s readiness and compliance training.◼️ Leveraged a continuous improvement strategy to enhance system designs, reducing time taken toimplement new features by up to several weeks.

Seattle, Wa

Project and workstream lead for financial data visualization projects related to purchase card fraud and accounting system reconciliations for numerous clients within the federal government.◼️ Led a development team to implementing a budget reconciliation dashboard ingesting tens of thousands of financial transactions per day. The dashboard was delivered on-scope, on-schedule, and within budget.◼️ Implemented a web-based dashboard tracking foreign AID related to the PEPFAR HIV/AIDS relief program.

Database Administrator & Architect: American Systems: August 2008 – August 2009Data Architect: Indigo Technology: September 2006 – August 2008Senior Data Analyst: InPhonic: November 2005 – August 2006Management Analyst: RGII Technologies: February 2004 – November 2005

Master Of Science (M.S.), Management Of Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Applied Economics And Management