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Seattle, Washington, US

Driving strategy and vision for native advertising technology and custom brand marketplace products across Zillow Group.

Seattle, US

• Owner of the core Attribution Analytics product, which helps customers find the highest quality mobile app users at the lowest acquisition costs with actionable ad partner insights.
• Defined and specified this year's product roadmap in fraud services & mobile partnerships
• Launched redesigned suite of fraud reports which provided more actionable information based on customer specified fraud identification rules.
• Regularly perform customer usage & feedback analysis using a combination of tools like NomNom, Heap, Inspeclet, Grafana dashboards, Tableau reports & SQL queries, as well as competitive analysis, customer interviews.

Seattle, US

• Owned TUNE's advanced In-App Marketing platform used by multiple international Fortune 500 retail, food/beverage, gaming, entertainment, & telecom/content companies.
• Launched: - A powerful, completely redesigned, more-flexible in-app messaging campaign system for iOS & Android - A dramatically more scalable personalized push message engine, reducing processing time by 430% &.
• Defined & presented 2 year product roadmap, resource plan & competitive analysis to management, with a recommendation to shutter the product if appropriate resources could not be allocated for building out key features.
• Balanced new feature work with the reduction of significant tech debt, while remaining focused on easing integration efforts for customers, increasing system & SDK stability; resulting in a 35% reduction in support.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Crafted the holistic product vision, strategy, & roadmap for EA’s Mobile engagement & behavioral platform in collaboration with game teams, marketing, analysts & senior leadership. This included a portfolio of CRM.
• Performed rigorous quantitative analysis to maximize feature impact while balancing short-term demands with long term customer vision.
• Applied design thinking & Lean UX principles for product design to increase user satisfaction scores & product adoption: - Developed technical specifications, use cases, wireframes, & low-fi prototypes for owned.
• Published the specification for an internal A/B Testing platform to support marketing & gameplay experimentation across all of EA titles identifying which variation performed better for a given goal (conversion.
• Designed & launched dashboards & data visualizations resulting in fast insights on campaign key performance indicators.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Managed end to end product planning & drove feature development using Agile Scrum for three primary products used by internal game & marketing teams across 9 game titles from 3 global studios. These products included.
• Performed build/buy analysis & provided strategic guidance to management on product direction for a mobile marketing platform to deliver in-game messaging for games deemed “targeted towards children.”
• Chosen by leadership mid-project to lead a 12-person team to deliver a critical overdue backend e-commerce system which supported the main PopCap web ecommerce site & 5 Facebook & mobile game titles.
• Employed Agile Scrum to manage development & monthly release processes to increase deployment reliability.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Published a multi-year planning document for Asset Management which reduced the opportunities for human error by 90%; increased internal & external customer satisfaction by reducing request-to-delivery times by as much.
• Planned, spec’d & managed development for a variety of high priority initiatives critical to ongoing Xbox security: - PlayReady feature for Xbox Lakeview App development platform - Relying Party for Xbox Live.
• Managed cross-team relationships with Xbox, Silverlight, Windows & Windows Phone internal global partners.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Successfully drove the build out of a $1.3 million secured certificate generation physical vault, driving & aligning cross-team collaboration & delivery between 9 Microsoft teams to ensure on-time project completion.
• Developed technical feature & functional specs; managed team of four vendors to: - Consolidate/reengineer operational tools related to certificate generation & revocation operations leading to an average processing.
• Developed supplemental team/partner security guidelines that dictate additional actions required beyond Microsoft's info security policy & standards for securing sensitive PlayReady assets.

Seattle, WA, US

• Managed the co-located server facility for an off-campus building; developed project schedules & coordinated the initiatives of main campus IT team (CAC), cross-departmental sys admins, service providers & building.
• Responsible for the design, administration & maintenance of server, network, & security systems.
• Provided needs assessment & feasibility study for dept collaboration software to supplement UW basic email system.

• Designed, administered, & secured server, networking, security & communications infrastructure while providing end-user technical support for this 120 person company.
• Managed equipment installation with vendors, construction teams during office build out.

• Cross-functional leadership position for construction & occupation of STEP’s new Seattle office & offsite server co-location facility.
• Designed, administered, & secured server, network & communications infrastructure.
• Drove business continuity planning & network security initiatives.

• Owned management, budgeting & prioritization of network, email, security & telecomm infrastructure projects.
• Manager & Technical Lead for network/telecomm design, planning & implementation for construction of new corporate HQ.
• Hired & supervised a team of PC support technicians that configured & remotely maintained a network of client side data collection machines at 130 hospitals across the country.

• Served as a main point of contact between the systems development department of this $1 billion multinational enterprise & I.S. personnel from various governmental, military & corporate clients.
• Interviewed end-users, management & IT staff to define goals, priorities, business objectives & information system needs in corporate-wide business process reengineering, workflow & automation efforts.
• Created functional specifications for custom in-house software applications.

Graduate Certificate, User Centered Design

Certificate, Project Management

Ba, Architectural Design