Greater Boston
- Engineering leader with strong technical background and track record of building talented teams and delivering innovative technologies, spanning small companies and technology leaders. - Part of leadership team of travel-tech company (ITA Software) acquired by Google for $700M. Engineering executive in charge of the development of Google Flights and Google Travel products, which drove $1B+ in annual revenue. - Set product vision/strategy and led execution to build both industry-leading B2B enterprise SaaS software and user-facing products with billions of users. - Strong business focus and experience working with customer teams to tailor product strategy to meet industry needs. - Sponsored and nurtured multiple innovative efforts, across cutting-edge airfare search, new travel products and use cases, big data and modeling, and bringing sustainability awareness to travel. - Led technical assessment and integration of engineering teams for multiple acquisitions, as both acquirer and acquired entity. - Proven track record of growing and managing large, geographically distributed, diverse teams and mentoring emerging leaders.
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- Led global engineering across Google’s portfolio of travel products: Google Flights, Hotels, Trips, Destinations, Activities, and Packages; serving billions of users, and driving $1B+ revenue. - Scaled software development team substantially, to 500 developers across Travel. - Partnered closely with product, design, sales, business development, and customer support teams to define product strategies and ensure partner and user success. - Sponsored industry-leading sustainability efforts in flights and travel from early part-time efforts to major Google-wide initiative.
- Joined Google as part of its $700M acquisition of ITA Software in 2011. - Led the product development teams that created Google Flights from inception to market leadership. - Carrying forward the mission from ITA, owned the B2B SaaS airfare search and shopping products that power many of the largest airline and online travel e-commerce websites. Led development of this unique project within Google’s primarily consumer-focused world, operating as a largely independent business while sharing the underlying technology with Google Flights. - Partnered closely with internal sales, business development, and customer success teams, and external airline and travel customers to drive the continued evolution of the business and products.
- Reported to the CEO/Founder, was responsible for the Airfare Search, Pricing & Shopping products and services that power many of the largest airline and online travel e-commerce websites. Managed the Development, QA, Operations, and Product Management teams. - Customers included Kayak, Orbitz, Hotwire, Bing Travel, American, United, Delta, Alaska, Hawaiian Airlines, and many other internet travel agents and search sites. - Grew engineering team from 50 to 150+, while helping to double annual revenue to $100M+. Established organizational structure, integrated engineering with product, design, test, and operations into collective operating model. Established systematic interface with business development and customer success teams to accelerate targeted feature development, and identify areas of new opportunity. - ITA was acquired by Google in 2011 for $700M, based on the strength of its airfare search technology and team. Served as a key participant in the due diligence and integration planning for the acquisition.
- Responsible for strategy, development and delivery of tools and programming models for major Lotus and WebSphere Portal platforms focused on collaboration at enterprise scale. - Built global team across US, Europe, and Asia. Delivered into multiple enterprise products, coordinating release cycles with platform releases.