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Chicago, Illinois, US

Innovation in the digital building sector at Google. Working in BOS (Building Operating System), IOT (Internet of Things) and digital controls and data analysis including AI/ML processing of digital building data.

San José, CA, US

Building an innovative and professional Product Management and Project Management organization for the City of San Jose - The Capital of Silicon Valley. Portfolios include Business Process Automation, Digital Inclusion and Digital Equity, 311 City Services, Emergency Services Technology and Development Services Transformation. AI/ML implementations include.

San Jose, CA, US

Using Machine Learning and Data Science to Innovate in Artificially Intelligent Search Technologies in the creative worlds of Adobe. Part of the Adobe Search and Sensei (AI & ML) group. Through delivery of REST API’s, Search & Sensei power new capabilities in dozens of Adobe products. Delivered Search for the Adobe Document Cloud, as well as enterprise.

Pleasanton, CA, US

Lead Product Management for the lead market in Heavy Construction Equipment e-commerce sales and auctions. Designed and developed the online negotiated format, accelerating time to sale dramatically and improving average sale prices. Own all new products, selling formats and user experience. Lead a team of Product Managers specializing in areas such as.

San Jose, CA, US

At PayPal, the leader in mobile payments, I had two main roles. The first was as Innovation Lead for all new employees in our 7-star new hire process. In this process we indoctrinated new hires in a culture of innovation and getting traction for their ideas at PayPal. We filed an average of 2 patents per month as a result of my innovation and ideation.

Seattle, WA, US

Responsible for reinventing and managing subscription products responsible for over half of Intelius’ 150 million per year revenue. Lead the launch of Intelius Web Services, which enable the broader internet to have People Search capability embedded within their mobile applications and web sites, at http://developer.intelius.com. Intelius is the leading.

Redmond, Washington, US

My first position at Microsoft was in Data Center Automation, helping to manage a team of developers and testers to achieve ‘lights-out’ data centers to enable MSN Search (later renamed Bing) to achieve the availability and cost structure to compete with Google. After improving deployment times 10 fold, I moved on to working in a new group founded to.

Austin, TX, US

Led M&A activity for Austin Ventures to acquire the top companies in the vacation rentals space into a snowball effect dominant marketplace. Followed by taking the role of Director of Engineering prior to hiring a CTO to spin-up the start-up (www.homeaway.com). Hired the initial team, ramped up and launched v1.0 and specified the architectural direction of.

Built engineering, IT/systems, network administration, quality assurance, database administration and HTML/Graphic Design teams in Austin when company relocated from San Jose as a cost reduction measure. Managed development initiative to re-invent the site post-dot-com-bust as a photo products fulfillment back end for properties with photo assets via SaaS..

• Implemented the v1.0 of identity management and security services, via a distributed hosted service. Over 1 million subscribers, average daily user total was well over 200,000
• Built my department from scratch to 40+ full-times, manager of managers
• Raised over $5 million in VC (2nd round)
• Built the software development, network operations, MIS, webmaster/design, profiling (script-authors) and QA departments

Hotpaper was acquired by GoAmerica, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOAM) in August, 2000

• At NBCi.com:
• Integrated technology assets of Xoom.com, Snap, and NBC properties into NBCi. The resulting company was ranked 6th in the world in terms of traffic [1999]. Integrated all recently acquired companies (MightyMail.
• Owned all aspects of site growth, maintenance, and scalability for a very fast growing portal (avg. 20,000 new signups per day). Responsible for a department of 10+ system administrators who maintained all mission.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Delivered electronic commerce design and architecture proposals and prototypes for Yahoo! Marketplace, a joint venture of Yahoo! Inc. and Visa International. Yahoo incorporated many of the planned features of Yahoo! Marketplace into Yahoo proper after the joint venture ceased.

Design, architect and implement all database back-end systems for Travelocity, the first one-stop-shop for travel booking and information on the Internet. Management responsibilities included supervising the back-end development team, hiring and supervising consultants, and management of IS support staff.

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