Experience

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  AudioTag

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • CEO

    • Oct 2010 - Jan 2016
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Directed all aspects of management and provided strategic leadership on business operations while planning long and short-term goals and developing methods to achieve them. Created and developed the AudioTag concept by researching the requisite platforms, technology and service providers to stren...

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  Google

  • Senior Manager - Global Contracts, Business Process & Compliance

    • 2007 - 2010

    Executed the development of innovative business plans to establish and maintain networks with global partners while managing cross-functional project teams to effectively analyze and provide solutions. Responsibilities included recruiting and managing up to 15 staff members for Mountain View, New York and Dublin locations as well as teams responsible for processing advertising contracts valued at over $7B yearly; managed integration details during Google’s mergers and acquisitions activities, integrating sales efforts into our approval platforms and developing workflows; managed the sales certification process for SOX sec. 302 compliance to ensure that all 6000+ sales team members were covered and initiated investigations into all known side agreements; collaborated with Partnership and Sales organizations to expedite sales efforts and decrease transaction times while minimizing Google risk. Applied nationally effective internal practices and policies to the global organization. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:▪️Improved productivity and capacity by 25% while reducing head count by 53%.▪️Reduced overall costs by outsourcing teams and determining cost benefit and performing operational analysis.

  • U.S. Contracts Manager - Sales Finance

    • 2006 - 2007

    Took a static, bureaucratic group of six with little history of proactive results and molded them into a dynamic, efficient and collaborative team. Implemented a policy of decisions based on metrics rather than gut feelings and initiated quantitative evaluations of efforts. Increased team visibility and effectiveness through enhanced communication with cross-functional groups including Legal, AdOps, Credit, Finance, Sales and partner networks. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:▪️Increased deal processing capacity by 300% by streamlining and enhancing performance.▪️Decreased staff turnover through motivational management and increasing individual job satisfaction.

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  Barclays Global Investors

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Business & Risk Manager - Institutional Business

    • 2005 - 2006
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Description: Developed and implemented a strategic position to assess significant market risks across the business line and performed quantitative and qualitative analysis to determine risk circumstances. Established contracts with specific contract language that ensured compliance and partnered ...

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  Self Employed Special Projects

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Consultant

    • Feb 2004 - May 2005
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Business Consultant for:▪️SightSpeed▪️Marlin Construction▪️Fallick Insurance▪️Wine.com

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  Credit Suisse First Boston

  • San Francisco, CA

  • Associate, Private Client Services

    • 2002 - 2004
    • San Francisco, CA
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  eCoupons.com

  • Los Altos, CA

  • Manager of Business Development

    • Jun 1999 - Aug 2000
    • Los Altos, CA
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  Blue Chalk Cafe - Left at Albuquerque

  • Palo Alto, San Francisco

  • Director of Food and Beverage

    • Jan 1995 - Jun 1999
    • Palo Alto, San Francisco