Kirkland, Washington, United States
Staff Technical Program Manager and Computational Linguist with 20+ years of experience delivering high-impact, cross-functional technical programs from research and incubation through successful product launch. Combines deep expertise in strategic planning, Agile and Scrum execution, and scalable process design with a strong track record of aligning business priorities and delivering measurable customer outcomes. Brings experience developing and shipping multilingual language technologies and delivering complex computer vision projects across the entire VR Quest device line. Known for strong analytical skills, customer-focused design, the ability to influence executive stakeholders, and aligning diverse teams to achieve efficient, high-quality execution.
Manage complex computer vision projects from early research to production Responsible for shipping hand tracking features on Quest 2, Quest Pro and future devices
As a Senior Program Manager at Appen, I researched, consulted, and managed complex linguistic projects for a variety of customers. This includes the successful execution of client specific projects ranging from wordbreakers, POS taggers, named entities, syntactic parsers, semantic annotations, machine learning, and classification projects. • Managed client relationships with Google, Microsoft, SAP, Amazon, Pinkerton, and others • Developed strategy plans to scale linguistic prototype projects to 20+ languages • Negotiated bids and finalized statement-of-work agreements for multi-million dollar projects • Hired, trained, and managed consultants around the world • Wrote technical specifications for internal and external clients • Collaborated with universities to advance linguistic development of open source tools
During Windows 7 and Windows 8, I managed the development of several Linguistic Features for the International Market, including Handwriting Recognizers and Text Prediction for 20+ languages. • Scoped and designed Text Prediction and Auto-Correction features for the onscreen keyboard for Windows 8. • Managed the development and design of Handwriting Recognizers for 26 languages in Windows 7. • Owned multiple feature crews, driving design, meetings, schedule, and triage • Managed multi-million dollar budget for data collection and annotations, including bid negotiations and SOW execution with vendors. • Partnered with Microsoft Subsidiary PMs all over Europe, Asia, and South America to test new international Windows features and organize PR events.
• Designed and shipped German Spell Checker and Contextual Speller for Office 12. • Implemented Named Entities in 30+ languages for Search. • Shipped German Wordbreaker in Share Point Portal Server and SQL. • Redesigned German Parsing Engine for linguistic analysis. • Defined and prototyped Version 2 Grammar Checkers for future versions of Office.
• Shipped German Grammar Checker for Office 10. • Shipped English Command-and-Control feature in MSN 8.
• Authored, edited and tested the first interactive linguistics CD-ROM "The Interactive Introduction to Linguistics" (English and German versions). • Taught beginning and intermediate linguistics courses.