Experience

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  Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe

  • United States

  • Snowboard & Ski Instructor

    • Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
    • United States
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  Lovestrong Wellness @ The Nest Kids

  • United States

  • Senior Technical Project Manager

    • Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
    • United States

    Co-Founding "Pre-school in a box" concept, benefitting parents and business people at risk.

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  Lovestrong Enterprises, LLC

  • Los Osos, California

  • Chief Operating Officer

    • Jun 2019 - May 2021
    • Los Osos, California

    C-Suite Coaching

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  AuVitcus, Inc.

  • Grover Beach, CA

  • Chief Operating Officer

    • Apr 2014 - Sep 2020
    • Grover Beach, CA

    Directed operations for AuLaCart product realization, driving prototype demonstrations in the marketplace. Co-founded AuVitcus, Inc, creating a revolutionary intelligent grocery shopping assistant that serves the customer, store and vendors, introducing a brand new digital advertising platform to...

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  Ranch Wifi, LLC

  • Paso Robles, CA 93446

  • Chief Information Officer

    • Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
    • Paso Robles, CA 93446

    Managed Operations for small local fixed wireless company.

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  AT&T

  • Senior New Technology Product Development Engineer

    • Apr 2017 - Apr 2019

    Sr. New Technology Product Development EngineerDrive refinements to MetroCell product, improving operations, support and enhancement of 2,000 business devices, as part of the wireless technology architecture team. Set indoor small cell strategy and manage products end-to-end. Research, engineer, plan, develop and evaluate new, advanced network technologies by translating requirements or strategic business objectives into final product design. Manage operations and development of Small Cell products to provide coverage in targeted locations, moving radios closer to the subscriber. Provide additional call and data-handling capacity in areas with concentrated demands for wireless services. Architect solutions, managing cross-functional teams to provide seamless network functionality from the macro towers to small cells.

  • Senior Technology Solutions Manager - Big Data

    • Dec 2014 - Apr 2017

    Senior New Technology Solutions Engineer, Service Realization, AT&T TECHNOLOGY. IT Professional Coach Leader in Big Data - Demonstrated Collaborator/ Facilitator of agile development, quality management, data warehousing, billing, portfolio, configuration & release management, human resource/ vendor workforce management. Projects included Big Data Platform as a Service, Data Patterns - Consumer Insights Platform (CIP) program and project oversight. End to end Big Data Platform Management from the ground up, building out the commoditized Production Data Lake infrastructure. Managed transition of key components of the Big Data Ecosystem from labs to IT, including in-house data movement, metadata repository, and streaming analytics. Concurrently managed national large scale, virtual teams for e-commerce clickstream, and Integrated Broadcasting Management System (IBMS) data for the discovery lakes. Additionally managed collaborative Tigon Open Source project in partnership with AT&T Labs and Cask of Silicon Valley. Contributing member of the Big Data Design Team and Data Lake Strategy team for AT&T.

  • SENIOR-SOFTWARE DELIVERY PROJ MGMT

    • Dec 2012 - Nov 2014

    Big Data Program and Project Management

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  AT&T

  • Sr. Program/Project Manager

    • Sep 2009 - Feb 2012

    Manage various projects for the Business Intelligence Data Warehouse (BIDW) organization. Serve as integrated wireline - wireless Release Manager, understanding release capacity and assist managing project mix changes over release duration. Monitor cumulative release project financials and assist individual PMs with financial management of their respective projects. Provide first level escalation support for resolution of issues with individual release projects as well as release level risks and issues. Develop and publish BIDW release specific Milestones (mapping to Overall Release level milestones with lag scenarios), conduct status meetings and prepare release level status reporting to IRM, LPMs, Project stakeholders, and EDS (BIDW) internal mgmt. Determine PM staffing needs and project assignments within a specific release. Support PMs on process / procedure challenges, as well as negotiations with LPMs on project issues or revisions. Monitor and support assessment & response concerning all Scope Changes throughout a specific release cycle. Directly support release level Development & Test environment preparations.

  • Senior Business Manager

    • Jun 2007 - Sep 2009

    Responsible for working across multiple IT organizations/functions on business strategies and functional/business architectures. Position focus is to assess and formulate strategic plans for resource allocation and assignment based on company business initiatives. This includes detail plans, detail schedules, critical path analysis, methodology, coordination within all IT functions, on-going expense tracking and actual vs. budget analysis. Analyzed existing business processes, to design and implement streamlined processes and lead client organizations in the identification, planning and implementation of business process solutions. Works as a liaison to clients and other IT organizations as a subject matter expert on the business processes they represent. In addition, coordinated, evaluated and partnered with technology vendors and outside consultants, as needed.

  • Senior Technical Director

    • Feb 2005 - Jun 2007

    AT&T Information Technology, Billing Solutions, San Ramon, CAManaged Bill Format development applications across 3 regions: West, Southwest and Midwest. Oversaw 2 offshore contracts, with different vendors operating onsite and offshore in India. Helped develop requirements for Online Service Level Agreement Tracking Engine (SLATE) and engagement audits. Did career development and coaching for staff of 15-25 employees and 2 non-managers. Delivered on time with quality managing closely throughout the Software Development Life Cycle for key AT&T initiatives. Represented organization on Metrics team and as team quality assurance steward.

  • Project Manager

    • Jun 2000 - Feb 2005

    Managed Information Technology projects throughout software development lifecycle. Coordinated all project tasks, monitoring progress to ensure overall project success. Developed web site for IT organization. Customized and tested in-house Cold Fusion/MS Access "Admin Tool" (GUI web editor) and led Admin Tool training seminars for peers. Implemented process improvements for Information Technology documentation.

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  University of California, Berkeley

  • Programmer Analyst II

    • Jul 1998 - May 2000

    Led online data dictionary project, developing a web search system to manage data transfer from legacy mainframes to relational database systems. Created online data library, documenting all files and standards. Developed, tested and deployed MS Excel VBA program to automate facilities survey.

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  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Berkeley, CA

  • Consultant, Environmental Energy Technologies

    • 1995 - 1998
    • Berkeley, CA

    Provided IT support, managing full spectrum of computer systems at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including procurement, research, troubleshooting, installation and maintenance of UNIX, Mac and Windows systems. Developed and enhanced Environmental Energy Technologies computing resource we...