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Renton, Wa, Us

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Responsibilities include designing and driving the implementation of the Ford Motor Company Connected Vehicle Cloud Platform, Data Analytics and Insights strategy and execution, Ford Pro Data Applications Serivces, and Model E approach to telematics and data privacy. Manage teams of developers, SRE, TPM, and data scientists in five different countries developing platform cloud services, Prognostics and Advanced Diagnostics, and driving new data driven insights. Implemented Lean Insights Factory model with Data Science or and transformed development team to fully embrace DevOps and CICD. CEO of Ford subsidiary Autonomic.com developing The Mobility Cloud product solution used by Ford and other OEMs for connected vehicle data and command connectivity.Ensure Data Privacy in compliance to all market regulations

Palo Alto, Us

Autonomic, LLC. | Palo Alto, CA - wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company that provides a connected vehicle communications platform enabling remote telemetry, vehicle command & control and a developer abstraction layer● Delivered always-on, connected vehicle services to over 20 million Ford Motor Company customer vehicles; provided over 10 million over-the-air updates; generated $60M of revenue annually for Autonomic platform usage.● Routine responsibilities include oversight of HR, Finance, Marketing, and Product Engineering. As CEO and Board member review and approve all policy changes, budgets, and financial statements.● Autonomic has been part of Ford for over five years. As CEO re-assessed the business environment of Autonomic with an expectation of profitability over a near term horizon; adjusted product roadmap; explored expanded business partnerships; determined profitability with existing platform was un-achievable in the short or medium term.● Managed the transition of Autonomic, LLC from an independent subsidiary to fully integrated into ford while retaining all key personnel and minimal attrition. the original founders to a new executive team, retaining key personnel and minimizing regrettable attrition across the organization

Redmond, Washington, Us

Expertise developing and driving adoption of Responsible and Ethical AI standards with emphasis on Fairness, Inclusion, Transparency, Reliability, Security, and Privacy. Implemented ethical AI program across a 5,000 person organization with standardized measures, release criteria, and incident management tools and processes. Data Science and Data Engineering Manager in Cloud and AI Division primarily focused on graph and AI models for AI Driven Selling, Marketing, and Business Intelligence. Built algorithms for Commercial account Life Time Value (CLTV), Next Logical Product (NLP), influence detection and targeting, and seller relationship strength for B2B selling. Researched, designed, and implemented the Post Sales Monetization streams and the Business Intelligence Graph to provide the data layer for future user, device, and business entity insights driven through our ML and AI layer. Key metrics include ARPD (Average Revenue Per Device), ARPU (User), and Risk/Opportunity scores for sales and quality. Recruited team of PHD level data scientists and data engineers delivering large scale multi-terabyte daily streams using Azure Data Lake, Azure ML, CNTK, Power BI, Elastic Search, and Spark. Analysis and visualizations completed using SQL, USQL, Java, Python, RStudio, Power BI, Tableau, and Excel. Drove adoptions of Differential Privacy across all sensitive data sources. Developed inferred/machine learning models for enrichment's pipelines and entity graph model for devices, users, and business entities. Production data pipelines processing billions of rows of data for near real time revenue metrics. Delivered Windows 8.1 App store with high quality, implementing new A/B testing capabilities, fraud detection machine learning pipelines, and malware risk detection pipelines.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Multi discipline manager of Development, Program Management, Test, Operations Engineering, Business Operations, and Release Management. Primarily focused on QA for the Bing Shopping, Travel, and Entertainment domains and overall business operations. Additionally, manage the European shopping subsidiary http://ciao.com test, service engineering and business operations teams based out of multiple locations in Europe. More than 300 employees and contractors across the organization. More than half of the organization functions outside of the United states with additional offshore projects being delivered out of India and Serbia in addition to co-location at each development and business operations center. Drove operations, features, and quality for Cosmos (Microsoft Big Data Platform), Autopilot (cloud IaaS), and Data Measurements and Visualization teams. Roles have provided great exposure to European employment laws, international budget management, continued merging of cultures between Microsoft and relatively recent acquisitions and working across Dev, Test, PM and operations to maximize revenue and better control costs between all the various properties. Additional work to collaborate closely with MSN, SEO team, and product planning to close new business deals and maximize traffic across all sites.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Multi-Discipline engineering manager role managing 70+ engineers including Dev, Test, Program Management, and Service Engineering. Team developed platform technology to ship in Office Service products and Office Services. Operations team managed operations for Office Live, CRM Online, Office.com, Live@EDU, eQuipt, and several other properties.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Director of Test for Microsoft. Worked closely with executives to improve Microsoft test discipline to include new curriculum design and release as well as the successful launch of a new set of career stage profiles that defined the career path for more than 6,000 test engineers.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Tested various server and service products to include Site Server 3.0, Commerce Server, Microsoft Commercial Internet System, Hosted Exchange, and MSN Partner Adoption Kit.

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