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California, United States

California, United States

• Most senior leader, ultimately responsible for $30M+ in software consulting delivery at the world's largest technology company.
• Drove consistent year-over-year revenue growth between 25%-143% for 6+ years and from 7 team members to 150 people.
• Negotiated to become a Strategic Supplier (11 of 989 vendors).
• Managed the consulting lifecycle, including proposals, contracting, resourcing, delivery, finances and growth.
• Created a culture of ownership, growth and excellence.

• Led a portfolio of accounts including two of the world's largest technology companies, medium sized organizations and startups to deliver $25M+ in annual revenue and a team of 100+ people.
• Responsible for the entire consulting lifecycle, including proposals, contract negotiation, resourcing, delivery, finances and growth.
• Managed, coached and mentored practice area directors of engineering, design, product and strategy.
• Built a department reputation for excellence, happiness, ownership, collaboration, feedback and sustainable growth that was a model for others.
• Managed the P&L for my department.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

• Worked directly with our clients to create custom software solutions that touch 1+ million people globally
• Drove growth and led delivery of multiple large-scale full stack innovation engagements.
• Recruited, hired, trained, coached and managed Engagement Managers and built the Engagement Discipline.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

• Responsible for building custom software products for our client across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Grew the program by 4x while increasing team happiness and delivery quality.
• Created, cultivated and coached high performing teams and fostered continuous improvement.
• Negotiated contracts, generated invoices, managed client expectations and built strong relationships.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

• Coached Product Managers to use Agile best practices for product discovery, backlog creation, estimation, planning and managing the delivery team.
• Coordinated projects and product integrations across teams.
• Hired and directly managed other Product Managers.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

• Created rich, interactive technology products and experiences for 1+ million customers worldwide in dozens of countries and languages.
• Collaborated with client stakeholders, designers and engineers to turn high level ideas into a well defined product vision.
• Decomposed product vision into an executable delivery plan. Wrote user stories and acceptance criteria, led team estimation, sprint planning, managed backlog and release milestones.
• Incrementally delivered high quality, functional software, regularly incorporating user feedback.
• Communicated our progress. Coordinated projects and timelines across teams. Adapted plans as needed.

• Led the development of consumer-facing, mobile and web-based applications that empower people to improve their health. All products underwent clinical research with results published in scientific journals..
• Collaborated with scientists to create product vision.
• Translated product vision into prioritized, incremental backlog of user stories.
• Conducted user testing to drive product improvements.
• Provided time and cost estimates to executive leadership and customers.
• Identified technology strategies and solutions.

Reno, Nevada, US

* Scrum Master and Product Owner for ClearQC, a SaaS rules-engine that evaluates the quality and risk of real estate appraisals. Freddie Mac uses ClearQC to evaluate 500,000+ appraisals per month in near real-time. * Managed, prioritized and coordinated the backlogs of 3 teams with over 20 engineers, data scientists, and industry experts to rebuild ClearQC.

Davis, California, US

* Led product development of a suite of products that enable patients to safely consent to and participate in clinical research studies from home.* In 9 months went from a vision to fully functional software capable of running and participating in a clinical research study, while meeting strict safety and regulatory requirements. * Collaborated with.

San Ramon, CA, US

* Collaborated as part of a remote engineering team to build a web-based platform to manage clinical research. * Introduced Agile Scrum, dramatically improving the team and product effectiveness. As Scrum Master, facilitated planning and managed sprint ceremonies and artifacts, aligning with the business on features and priorities.

Contributed to feature development of a web-based, collaboration platform for this dot-com startup in the advertising industry.

US

Contributed to feature development of a web-based medical data search engine. Administered webservers.

South San Francisco, California, US

Administered Genentech’s webservers. Built system administration tools. Coordinated corporate web infrastructure projects. Consulted with departmental IT staff. Created databases and tools to manage lab samples.