Bio

I am a highly analytical, collaborative, and committed executive with 10+ years of progressive leadership experience directing engineering operations and delivering software solutions serving billions of people globally. As a resourceful problem solver, I possess an innate ability to redefine products / IT vision and develop reliable infrastructures utilizing my passion for equity and maximizing team member talent spanning diverse backgrounds including computer science and big tech globally. I thrive as an articulate communicator pushing the envelope on public and private partnerships and increasing tech accountability within populations served. Career Highlights: • Created technical vision and drove the development of 5 new maps customization features for Google in 6/2020 creating deeply customized maps and transitioning to cloud-based Maps styling increasing number of customization per map to 250+ for most browsers. • Launched vector map rendering across all platforms delivering on one of top 8-year customer requests, paving the way for deeper integrations with Google Maps. • Engaged our millions of developers on a deep dive on building for performance and scale at Google I/O in 2019. • Served as critical team member in increasing stability, reliability, and performance for Google Maps Platform meeting 99.9% guaranteed uptime SLA providing data for 150M+ places, routes covering 40M miles of road, and maps that cover 99% of the world. • Key player in consolidating Maps rendering teams for Android, iOS, Web delivering maps across phone, computers, watches, and cars. • Secured 3 patents developing innovative systems and methods focusing on digital mapping and variable levels of detail map rendering. Specialties: Leadership & Team Building • Technology Innovation & Data Visualization • Infrastructure Design & Development • Engineering Operations Management • Cloud-based Maps & Tracking • Full Lifecycle Project Management • Policy & Program Development • Needs Assessment & Solution Design • Continuous Process Improvement • Relationship Building & Communications • Budgeting & Cost Controls • Vendor Management & Contract Negotiations