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San Francisco, California, Us

Currently oversee product for Spend (including travel, corporate cards, expenses, bill pay, procurement, and accounting integrations), Time (scheduling, time and attendance, time off, and leave management), Talent (applicant tracking, learning management, surveys, employee feed, 1:1s, goals, headcount planning, compensation bands, and performance reviews), and Growth engineering.Previously owned product for the core HRIS platform.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As the founder and General Manager with full P&L responsibility, I built Amazon Live from the ground up. Amazon Live is a program that brings livestream shopping content into Amazon so that customers can get product advice and recommendations from their favorite influencers, experts, and celebrities. I built a cross-functional team, including product, engineering, UX, data science, marketing, business development, ad sales, video content production and studio operations. I led this team through several restarts and pivots, including launching and shuttering our first live video shopping program, Style Code Live. After this, we decided to democratize the production of video shopping by building the Amazon Live Creator app, which would allow anyone to stream their own shopping show. We launched this app in early 2019 to sellers and vendors on Amazon and then in 2020 to influencers. This was one of the first livestream shopping programs in the US and helped create the category, which Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, and others have now entered. Top Amazon Livestreams have included product launches (Katy Perry shoes, J.Lo Beauty, Lady Gaga beauty, Mitsubishi auto), album launches (Imagine Dragons, Dua Lipa, Norah Jones), book launches (Dean Koontz, Neil Gaiman, David Baldacci + Michael Connelly), cooking shows (Carla Hall, Emeril Lagasse), fitness workouts (Melissa Wood health, Katie Austin), fashion (Tim Gunn, DVF, Vogue/CFDA), reality TV celebs (The Bachelor's Ashley Iaconetti, Real Housewives' Porsha Williams), and countless influencers. This strength in content drove 30%-50% month-over-month growth of key customer metrics throughout most of 2021.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Transformed the Video Shopping Experience program from a struggling, high attrition org to a high-performing, successful team. Video Shopping Experience is responsible for building the catalog of product videos on Amazon and surfacing them in relevant places across the site, including in the image list at the top of product detail pages. We grew video coverage 3X, video views 3.5X, hours viewed 3.8X, and video catalog 3X. I accomplished this by hiring strong leaders that set a clear vision for the team, focused on team development and high-performing culture, built key technical capabilities such as content acquisition, metadata extraction, content selection (including ranking and relevance), and expanded video distribution across the Amazon site.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Launched IMDb TV, a free, ad-supported video channel in January 2019, under the name IMDb Freedive. The free video on demand (VOD) service was available on both Amazon and IMDb's websites as well as on all Amazon Fire devices. Coordinated this launch across multiple large organizations including Prime Video, IMDb, Advertising Sales, and Advertising Tech.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As General Manager of Device Advertising Products with P&L responsibility, I built the organization from the ground up, including the product team, three engineering teams, and the ad operations team. Device Ad Products is the team responsible for monetizing the ad inventory on all Amazon-owned hardware devices, including Kindles, Fires, FireTVs, and more recently, Alexa devices and audio. My teams started by creating Kindle with Special Offers, which is a lower-priced version of Kindle that shows offers and advertisements on the screen where you unlock your device. I led the team to successfully launch Kindle with Special Offers on e-ink Kindles in May 2011, and on Kindle Fires in September 2012. Both products became the best-selling product on Amazon after their launch, outperforming the non-Special Offer versions of the devices. In 2013, we also launched an ad product on FireTV.My team worked closely with the sales team to build features, position and price device ad products for success in the market. We have seen strong sales traction, and delivered impressive year-over-year revenue growth, positioning this program as one of the key pillars of the advertising business at Amazon.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As Technical Program Manager Lead, I led the team responsible for designing and delivering the engineering platform for Product Ads, taking it from conception to launch in 7 months. Product Ads is a cost-per-click advertising program that allows online merchants to promote their products on Amazon.com. Once the business was launched, I took the role of Software Development Manager and built three teams of engineers to deliver features to aggressively grow the business. One team focused on delivering features that improve the advertiser’s experience in listing their ads, the second team focused on delivering and displaying those ads to the Amazon.com customer, and the third team focused on optimizing the selection of ads to maximize revenue. All three teams ran on a monthly sprint, and were highly successful at delivering the committed features each sprint cycle. This ability to execute smoothly helped us hit our revenue targets and build a successful and rapidly-growing revenue stream for Amazon.These teams and their technology pivoted to form the initial foundation of Sponsored Products, which is now the engine of advertising growth at Amazon.

Seattle, Wa, Us

TPM on the core team responsible for launching Fulfillment by Amazon, meeting with Jeff Bezos monthly to discuss launch priorities, progress, and go-to-market strategy. My primary responsibilities were the end-to-end system architecture changes required in the catalog, ordering, payment, cart, and checkout workflows, and partnering with each of these service teams on design, implementation and on-time delivery of required changes.

Livonia, Mi, Us

Managed full scope of product development for multi-million dollar leader in IT data intelligence, Blazent Analytics, for 3 major releases, resulting in 200% year-over-year revenue growth. Organized and led customer development through bi-annual customer summit sessions, quarterly Board of Advisor retreats, and quarterly sales training. Attended trade shows and conferences, and debuted Blazent 3.0 for an audience of 800.

Traveled through Central Asia (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan), Turkey and Cyprus, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Scotland, England, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, South Africa, Lesotho, Peru, Chile, and Japan.

Automated data entry and report generation for the Food and Nutrition Security System (FNSS), which monitors food shortages in the most vulnerable mountain areas of Tajikistan. The database system reduced the time to generate reports from three months to near real-time, and improved the accuracy of data entry from less than 70% to greater than 95%. It also enabled FNSS to be run by a local staff member without the continued support of an expatriate nutritionist. Taught several classes on Visual Basic and Microsoft Access, enabling four students to secure high-paying database design positions, and three students to acquire enough proficiency to teach Visual Basic to high school students.Provided consulting and assistance with several databases, including a Fee Collection System for the Aga Khan Lycee, an electricity metering system for Pamir Energy Co, and a baseline demographic survey.

San Francisco, Us

Hired by the legendary Steve Blank as a software engineer and then promoted to engineering manager, working on web-based data mining, OLAP, and marketing automation. Joined when the company was 20 people and hired a great team of engineers that launched 10+ products and landed key global accounts. Company went public in Sept 1999 (9th highest IPO of 1999, with value of $6 billion). [Acquired by SSA in Aug, 2005]

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• Added compatibility with all major web servers using the Java Servlet API.• Created a Calculation API to be released in the 1.1 version of AlphaBlox Enlighten.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science