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California, United States

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead diverse team of business analysts and program managers in transforming Cisco's global legal operations to manage increasingly complex corporate, privacy, environmental, and export compliance regulatory environment:* Transformed Cisco Legal's operations by implementing single case management and workflow automation platform via Salesforce Service Cloud, resulting in development and scaling of 12 new applications supporting 500+ legal professionals, 80,000+ employees, and billions in revenue across ethics and compliance, intellectual property, litigation, and legal sales * Collaborated with Supply Chain to centralize restricted party and geolocation screening process across product and service portfolio* Improved flexibility by guiding cross-functional initiatives through Cisco’s enterprise-level Agile program* Enhanced collaboration by fostering team of full-time and contract contributors across multiple time zones and countries* Identified opportunities for improvement with internal and external business stakeholders in Legal, Supply Chain, IT, and HR, leveraging design thinking philosophy * Defined and delivered program insights and performance metrics to executives on business-critical initiatives

San Jose, Ca, Us

As a core member of the Legal Technology Solutions team, lead the transformation of Cisco Legal’s global operations with project management proficiency.* Initiate the transformation of case and workflow management from multiple manual, “shadow IT” and outdated solutions to Salesforce* Contribute to Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), Knowledge Management (KM), Intellectual Property and Data/BI transformation programs and operations* Understand the operations of teams within Cisco Legal and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and compare projects before and after state * Propose and lead cross-functional project teams in development and implementation of the defined technological solution* Provide oversight and direction to onsite and offshore contractors on assignmentSecondary, as an experienced software engineer, provide coding assistance as an additional technical resource as needed.

Mountain View, California, Us

Collaborated with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team to build and maintain critical software as a service (SaaS) business metrics and reporting infrastructure related to Intuit's QuickBooks' ecosystem of small business products and services:* Enhanced data flexibility with development and implementation of central data mart for online payroll and self-employed business segments in partnership with engineering and FP&A teams * Informed decision making by routinely generating lifetime value (LTV) metrics at individual, cross-ecosystem customer level by developing and producing analysis platform using Apache Spark and Amazon Cloud Computing Services (AWS) while serving as process and change engineer * Increased visibility by developing and supporting monthly, weekly, and daily key performance indicator (KPI) reports with QlikView and Tableau for small business group ecosystem of products and services, including QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Self-Employed, QuickBooks Payments, and QuickBooks Payroll * Improved data accuracy by automating queries to several database systems (Vertica, Hive & SQL Server) to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data into dedicated reporting tables using Python, Bash, and PowerShell* Provided technical perspective and knowledge to FP&A team members by incorporating developer tools (GitHub, Jira) and Agile techniques into business processes

Chicago, Il, Us

Worked directly with web developers and application architects to improve software development and server infrastructure efficiency by introducing and managing formal programming approaches to web development with Orbit's proprietary content management system (CMS) using PHP, MySQL, and Apache HTTP Server:* Improved code maintainability by reorganizing Orbit’s CMS codebase around Model-View-Controller (MVC) concepts and wrote company’s coding standards* Increased developer productivity through effective oversight of monthly “developer days,” web developer code reviews, and development “sandboxes” administration* Enhanced functionality by designing and developing custom integration points for client projects incorporating third-party services and applications into company’s proprietary CMS* Optimized performance by managing co-location/web hosting vendors and co-administering and troubleshooting server infrastructure and assisted in providing Tier 3 support to clientele

Led organization’s internal help desk team, delivering accurate and timely technological support and problem resolution to more than 400 staff members. Responsibilities included coordinating with outside vendors, internal system engineers, and operation personnel to ensure availability of business-critical equipment and services.* Provided quality assistance in timely manner by developing and implementing policies on proper use of organizational equipment and help desk procedures * Created more productive work environment by assisting in identifying and implementing hardware and software requirements for various committee departments* Managed team of three full-time staffers and five full-time volunteers

Worked with state campaign leaders, primarily operations, news media, and data directors, to identify and develop technological solutions to assist campaign staff in organizing support for Senator Obama’s presidential campaign in “key battleground state.”* Improved efficiency through effective management of IT operations for 37 state satellite offices and state headquarters* Enabled operational continuity by establishing network infrastructure for satellite offices in Minnesota to support web and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) traffic* Provided Tier 1desktop and network support by recruiting, organizing, and managing team of technologically knowledgeable volunteers * Prepared for contingencies with development of IT disaster recovery plans for election day* Organized and managed technology needs of voter hotline, legal “boiler room,” and state “war room” on election day

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Assisted in maintaining and enhancing the company’s main product Zoomshare, a web-based service that provides individuals with an easy to create personal web site. Development of Zoomshare services occurred on an Open Source stack of tools including, FreeBSD, Apache HTTP Server, Qmail, Perl and Postgres Key developer of new enhancements, such as Zoomshare Widgets, to improve customer experience and keep Zoomshare services inline with customer expectations with the growing socialization of the web, "Web 2.0"

As an independent consultant, incorporated Kepler Solutions to solidify consulting business to assist clients in deployment of network services on FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux and support desktop users on Mac OS, OS X and Windows XP desktop systems.Key past clients included: a private web hosting company, Laughing Squid; independent film studio, Studio B; public title insurance company, Chicago Title Insurance Company, a private computer consulting company PerlUSA and private law firm Janssen Doyle, LLP.Co-author of Professional Apache Security and Beginning Unix titles published by Wrox Press.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Accountable for overseeing activities associated with migration of C2Net Software's customer data and web content to Red Hat's existing systems. Handled content and service management for several Red Hat web properties. Served as contributor to the Stronghold Web Server product team. Also developed and successfully delivered presentations at industry conferences with focus on implementation and maintenance of a secured Apache HTTP Server.

Recruited to provide database engineering expertise for design, development and management of an in-house e-mail and web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system using Apache HTTP Server, Perl, MySQL and FreeBSD. Trained staff in the proper utilization of the CRM database system. Also coordinated and managed system administration and network security functions. These tasks included establishing an in-house helpdesk system (Apache, Perl, MySQL), manage C2Net web site content and back-end systems (Apache HTTP, Perl, PHP and FreeBSD) and maintain an internal private certificate authority (OpenSSL).

Master Of Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science