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• Building the future of GenAI services on Amazon Bedrock• Lead a cross-functional team to launch Amazon Q Business Custom Plugins, which seamlessly integrates third-party applications into the Amazon Q Business assistant to perform reoccurring actions like submitting time-off, sending meeting invites, and more.

Leading a team across product management, engineering, science, go to market, and data on product and business strategy for face analysis (e.g., liveness detection, face matching) with a focus on identity verification.• Planning and delivery for our short term and long-term roadmap, which focuses on improving accuracy, reducing friction for end users and developers, and expanding our offerings to fuel growth for the Amazon Rekognition service.• Defining go-to-market strategy for our face-based services, including driving scale initiatives through partners, creating templates for quick start deployments, publishing configuration and testing guidelines, driving AWS sales plays, and delivering webinars for identity verification.• Authored and published the first Responsible AI Service Card for AWS in 2022. Our current Face Matching and Liveness Detection Service cards focus on key considerations in the responsible design and use of the service. Further, they highlight public benchmarks, which demonstrate leading accuracy in the industry.

Worked with customers and partners in the video meeting room space to drive requirements, strategy, and go-to-market for Alexa for Business.• Launched Alexa for Business built-in to video room hardware from Lifesize and Logitech in order to expedite deployments, lower customer TCO, and scale GTM. Lead partner strategy, messaging, marketing assets, sales enablement training, and spoke in industry webinars to drive awareness around Alexa powered rooms. • Executed a 3 year collaboration agreement with Zoom to build Alexa for Business directly into their Zoom Room software, thus supporting all hardware flavors.

Lead global team of product managers in resolving problems in the Meetings space by leveraging user studies, market research, and customer data. • Launched the Desktop 2.0 experience, resulting in a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 62 and enabled BlueJeans to cross $100M in annual recurring revenue.• Launched Smart Meetings to give people back time by enabling them to skip unnecessary meetings and subscribe to the captured highlights. • Established strategic partnership with Microsoft and launched first true cloud Gateway which enables video rooms from Cisco, Polycom and Lifesize to join and participate in Microsoft Teams meetings.

Worked closely with top performing, data-driven design and development teams with a focus on optimizing experience of first-time users.• Increased NPS by 40 points and drove monthly active user increase of 78%.

Led product design and development teams throughout entire project lifecycle. Gathered user requirements and stories to support product development. Worked closely with Marketing, Sales, and Customers Success functions to define and deliver go to market strategies and material. Owned individual features of the Meetings product line, including interoperability, command center (data analytics dashboard), browser client, and quality.• Launched company's first native browser experience which continues to be a differentiator.

Drove sales by promoting company products to resolve issues with existing Cisco, Polycom, and Microsoft video environments. Led Named Account (Fortune 500) SE team on strategy and execution. Trained new sales reps on Unified Communications (UC) space and technical sales.• Spoke as an industry expert at Enterprise Connect 2014 on how to migrate video to the cloud.

Fulfilled role of UC specialist with responsibility for providing a consultative approach to understanding customer business requirements and needs in high value opportunities. Trained generalist account teams on UC offerings and vision.• Worked closely with Cisco Product team to ensure UC products were molded to fit healthcare sector requirements.

Led design SE on largest Cisco Telepresence sale and deployment. Partnered with Kaiser to ensure successful first VoIP deployment in a Medical Center, consisting of 300 beds, 2500 phones, and 600 wireless endpoints. Designed and deployed Nurse Call integrations with 7925 wireless phones. Worked with Kaiser to develop telemedicine strategy.• Grew unified communications in account by 162%.

Oversaw team of 11 Backbone Engineers and 12 Tier II Engineers. Coordinated with customers to resolve escalated technical issues in a timely and accurate manner.• Solve and SAT champion for first three quarters in San Jose TAC