Victoria (Vicki) Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Career / Leadership coaching and consulting: I created IntentionAlly to help women and the under-represented advance their careers in STEM through coaching and mentoring. My process is anchored in my own experience as a software engineer and executive for Google, Arm, and others. I help you navigate your career transitions through self awareness and understanding of others, supporting your decisions and reinforcing your ability to make them. IntentionAlly ... Achieve.info@intentionally-coaching.com

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Leadership & Innovation: Orchestrated a multi-functional engineering group that enhanced Google's data center capabilities across processing, networking, and AI/Machine Learning (ML) platforms through comprehensive development of embedded software (from conception to implementation), including secure boot and machine management. Scaled new platform introductions annually by a factor of five while limiting cost increases to a factor of two. Oversaw the qualification infrastructure team, focusing on software for manufacturing diagnostics and system bring-up.Applied Machine Learning: Utilized machine learning models derived from internal descriptors like design documents and bugs to predict repair paths and revolutionize embedded software development. This strategy significantly enhanced Google’s data center infrastructure introductions and repairability and achieved a 66% reduction in system integration errors.Strategic Execution: Championed a multi-year, cross-functional initiative to diversify Google's fleet with Arm-based systems, seamlessly integrating custom compute capabilities and doubling fleet capacity while maintaining or reducing development costs. This enhancement "just worked" for Google’s 100+ developers, requiring no adjustment to their use of multiple architectures.Operational Excellence: Led a strategic initiative that dramatically elevated platform software installation success rates to the 95th percentile for complex ML systems, thus greatly reducing initial installation times. Achieved this milestone while maintaining confidentiality and improving initial success rates from below 50%.Diversity & Mentorship: Advocated for DEI initiatives by engaging as a mentor and speaker at leadership events and sponsoring the Pathway to Leadership program for women in engineering. Although promotions typically take over three years, this initiative aims to advance women to the next level of their careers, with outcomes pending.

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

Transformational Leadership: Unified seven disparate product lines under a single mission-driven team of 700 engineers, focusing on soft IP for Arm Architecture SoCs and support for Arm Solutions Products. Instilled a systems-first mentality, reducing design errors by up to 25% and accelerating the time to market by 50%.Cloud Migration Leadership: Pioneered a cloud migration strategy that not only halved workflow costs and durations but also achieved a 50% transition to cloud processes within two years. Converted full-time employees from SysAdmin to SRE and DevOps roles, retaining and retraining talent, reducing reliance on external consultants, and effectively managing hybrid cloud costs through operations research and automated capacity planning.Innovation & Efficiency: Spearheaded a strategic transformation, leveraging cloud computing and machine learning, to double design efficiency and operating cost savings. Transitioned 50% of engineering workflows to the cloud within two years, realigning the organization towards "Infrastructure as Code" methodologies.Analytics & Infrastructure Development: Led the development of a third-generation Engineering Analytics Platform and Modern Infrastructure, which enhanced performance analysis and provided flexible platforms for embedded software development on Arm-based HPC. Unified 30 years of historical workflow data, improving access times for typical queries from several hours to less than two minutes and reducing annual data storage costs through intelligent data management.Advocacy & Thought Leadership: Co-founded the "Data and Inclusion" program, significantly enhancing diversity and inclusion by launching two Employee Resource Groups. Actively supported women's networks and the Black at Arm group and engaged as a prominent speaker on data-driven transformation and the integration of software practices in hardware design.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Startup Leadership & Innovation: Founded the data science and manufacturing test organizations, leading embedded software and back-end development teams through critical product launch phases. Developed a manufacturing verification architecture that synchronized with evolving back-end code for accurate production.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Intel acquired Altera in 2015.Key member of the Integration Strategy team, responsible for defining the product and organizational plans for software and developer productivity tools as Altera integrated with Intel after the acquisition closed.

San Jose, California, Us

Agile & Strategic Development: Established a high-performance embedded software team within nine months, reorganizing global operations for agile development across all SoC-related software segments. Delivered Altera's first SoC Embedded Design Suite on schedule, outpacing competitors by over a year.Process Maturity & Financial Management: Instituted a traceable requirements management system across global software and SoC design teams, resulting in a published requirement-driven test planning methodology. Successfully spearheaded a three-year initiative to achieve CMMI Level 3 certification for software process maturity. Maintained global operating budget, developing a predictive data model that improved plan gap reconciliation by 300%.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science: Analytics And Modeling

Executive Development

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Software Engineering