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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Westlake Village, California, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led product, design, engineering, mobile, payments, and advertising experiences for the end-to-end buy, sell, shop and browse experience at eBay Marketplaces. Head of Global Brand. Rebuilt the global brand team, reset the strategy and creative functions and led the reappraisal of this iconic brand worldwide. Created an advanced product, technology and design group chartered to disrupt commerce and the global marketplace through hard science, innovation, and real sweat equity. Moved artificial intelligence to the center of our product and technology initiatives. Created a new suite of AI-powered products for eBay including conversational commerce and intelligent bots, computer vision and image search, and deep learning models for personalized buying and selling, and machine translation. Developed an innovative full-stack hybrid cloud version of the eBay marketplace, using public cloud infrastructure, and eBay’s 1B+ item catalog. Successfully launched an all new cloud commerce platform to unlock new strategic partnerships with Google and Facebook while enabling eBay to boldly re-enter China.

Cupertino, California, Us

Led the e-commerce revolution for Apple. I was responsible for worldwide design, product management, operations, growth of the e-commerce platform that markets and sells Apple's flagship products including the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and iPod. In addition, I lead WW contact center technology, and international expansion teams to help bring Apple to important new countries including China, Russia, UAE, and many others. Apple’s e-commerce business extends across 38 countries in 14 languages, the largest e-commerce footprint of any company online today.I was also responsible for engineering revenue growth initiatives for iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Mac businesses via the web, mobile commerce, and contact center. Serving all markets and segments including Consumer, Business, Resellers, Enterprise, Government, and Education. Apple is one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world, with an unmatched global reach. Role: Led worldwide design, product management, and e-commerce innovation for the Apple online businessResponsible for growing the multi-billion dollar iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Mac e-commerce revenue via the Web, mobile commerce, and contact center sales and service organizationManaged business operations and technology for 38 international Apple online stores Driving innovation through the integration of Apple retail and online shopping experience and serviceLeading WW mobile commerce development and operations for Apple and the Apple StoresLargest mobile commerce footprint in the industry- shopping via iPhone now available in 13 countriesLed integration with Apple Retail to deliver break-through mobile shopping experience for iPhone, and the world's most advanced Personal Pickup (Buy Online Pickup in Store) serviceResponsible for Apple’s multi-billion dollar WW B2B e-commerce platform, operations, technology, and product strategy serving thousands of academic institutions, enterprise, global resellers, and mobile carriers

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Head of Google's WW Search PropertiesPortfolio of products under management include: Image Search, Finance, News, Google Labs, Advanced Search, Video, Blog Search, Google Trends, Music Search, and othersLed product strategy, design, and development for over 70 product launches at Google on 4 continents, 40+ languages and countriesLed 100-300% annual growth across the various search properties, including the first monetization rollouts for Image Search, News, and FinanceLed the overhaul of Google's "20% time" process to accelerate and invigorate innovation at scale with an all new Google Labs deployed worldwide in 2009Co-lead for consumer search properties UI/UX design decisions for all user-facing search properties worldwide Passionate about the consumer experience, user-centric design, and polishing every pixel on the page Featured spokesperson and technology evangelist for Google. Regular speaker at conferences, panels, press events, and product launches Google mentor, formally donating my time to 15 rising stars every month

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Created the first e-commerce platform, brand, user experience, and go-to-market playbook for this pioneering new consumer product company. User friendly, design-led modular carpet tile for the home.

Co-founded the web search company to vastly improve the search experience for researchers and consumers Raised $11.5M in venture capital from angels and top-tier venture capitalists Responsible for all pathfinder customer wins and key partnerships including: Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Sun, Stanford University, University of Michigan, Amgen, and many others Recruited a world class senior management team, board of directors, and advisors Set overall product direction and led the company to over 1 million users and moved Grokker.com into the top 5000 most visited web sites on the Internet Won several industry awards including DEMO 2003, Always On Top 100, Wired 100 Editor and co-author of several granted utility and design patents for information visualization and search Featured keynote speaker at several technology and information science conferences around the world

Founded the technology venture capital firm and accelerator. Assembled an executive team and advisory panel for the firm that consists of executives and founders from eToys, CitySearch, Intel, Sapient, Providian Financial, Wyatt Corporation, Bechtel Venture Capital, ideaLab!, and others Grew portfolio companies to reach an aggregate valuation of approximately $2B including fast growing companies such as DCTI, Broadway.com, Aravo, Startups.com, and Cosine Communications (IPO 9/23/00)

Founded the e-commerce company in 1996 to create a universal platform of commerce-enabling technologies and secure online payment processing for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions Introduced the first fraud and risk management software suite for online transaction profiling and screening – reducing fraudulent credit card transactions by over 90% Successfully sold the business to a publicly-traded company in 1998 for $24M Became CEO of the public company and grew Digital Courier's market capitalization from $40M to over $400M, 200+ employees, with annualized revenues approaching $50M and profitable by 1999 Led strategic partnerships and equity investments from AOL, Netscape, and Excite@Home Led acquisitions of 4 companies valued at over $150M

Sold a management consulting practice to this global IT systems and strategy consulting firm serving the blue chip financial services marketplace on Wall Street Expanded the strategic consulting practice in designing and deploying web-enabled technology solutions for global client list including: Sybase, McKesson, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Sun Microsystems, Interface GlobalEngaged with C-level executives on globalization through e-commerce and content strategies and solutions Led the development of the first web-based portfolio management system for institutional traders Deployed the first web-based stock trading system for a small brokerage firm in San Francisco that was later acquired by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter for over $90M Paradigm was acquired by Platinum Technologies / Computer Associates in 1995

Joined this London-based software start-up while finishing graduate school to create a commercial marketplace for software components amidst the rise of the object-oriented software development model Acknowledged early by Esther Dyson and Release 1.0 as a game changer for the traditional software industry Successfully developed and marketed a software component library and marketplace for information technology tools in financial services The company was acquired by HM Holdings, PLC, a publicly held London-based technology holding company in 1994

Ms, Engineering-Economic Systems

Bsce, Computer Engineering