May 2015 – Jun 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Mountain View

• My goodbye email from LinkedIn summarizes it all

Apr 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Search & Home Timeline: Content and Discovery (C&D):
• :: Lead TPM for the Timelines team: Launched several key features related to the Home Feed
• :: Led the “Twitter Suggests” Program for all non-organic injections on the home timeline for Twitter
• :: Drove the Twitter experience for Soccer Worldcup in 2014 from the Home Timeline perspective
• :: Built a catalog of services to surface hot fixes and rollbacks across all Consumer teams at Twitter
• :: Identified areas of improvements around efficiency and execution across all C&D teams at Twitter
• :: Led a program to build a CrowdSourcing solution for Twitter

May 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Zynga API Platform
• :: Led a team to manage a Zynga wide initiative of launching a platform
• :: Managed schedules and timelines across 150+ people in 12+ different teams
• :: Managed partner relationships with 3rd parties for Ads Publishing team
• :: Awarded the “Rockstar” trophy for Program Management at Zynga
• Tech Programs
• :: Made Zynga.com an independent site from Facebook for future Zynga game launches
• :: Reduced shared tech integration effort for studios from 150 dev days by 25%
• :: Executed programs targeting improved game performance, OAuth adoption across all Zynga games
• New Game Launch
• :: Managed launches of some big titles across Facebook and Google+ (Farmville2, Hidden Chronicles, Cityville)

Jul 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos

• :: Shepherded the requirements, development, testing and release process for the deployment of AX as the primary ERP system for the company
• :: Managed timelines, communications, and cross team deliverables and coordinated with internal and external parties to assess and resolve issues
• :: Managed the release of SharePoint 2007 within Accuray
• :: Part of Business Intelligence team that owns and manages the data warehouse

Sep 2006 – May 2009 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Program Manager
• :: Cross-Group Collaboration: Worked with Engineering, Product and Test leadership to define Project scope, schedule, milestones and Exit Criteria.
• :: Ran a cross-functional ship-room and drove decision making around schedule adjustments, bug triage and internal and external partner/customer delivery.
• Product Manager, Setup and Deployment experience:
• :: 12% Increase in customer deployment
• :: 5% reduction in support costs
• :: Estimated increase in revenue by 150M

Nov 2004 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Software Engineer , Unified Communications Group:
• :: Owned key areas such as Enhanced federation, Connection management and Conferencing
• :: Successfully shipped three public releases within a span of 1.5 years
• :: Product Team Representative for Customer Outreach
• :: Resolved top customer issues during the Beta phases of this product to ensure seamless deployment, resolve blocking issues and collect and process first hand feedback.

Jun 2001 – Oct 2004 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• :: Developer on Network and Resource management systems on the company's next-generation Broadband satellite communication network
• :: Specced requirements, developed detailed design all the way through to development, testing and eventual launch on VxWorks running on Power PC and custom made boards.
• :: Recipient of Goldstar award which recognized top 5% of employees company-wide in March 2003