Curriculum Vitae

Senior Manager, Strategic Program Management, Precision Neuroscience, Santa Clara, CA - September 2024 - present
Senior R&D Program Manager, Precision Neuroscience, Mountain View, CA - April 2023 - September 2024

Primary Program Manager responsible for overview and execution across R&D programs, two of three major product lines and operational support programs

• Established scalable Program Governance for all major company programs
  • Set up cross functional meetings, clear asynchronous communication channels, program charters, program timelines, decision logs and risk registers, etc
  • Established Product & Program Development Life Cycle framework for scalable product development and deployment
• Built company-wide strategic communication and execution frameworks
  • Instituted strategic planning framework based on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), trained company on goal-setting philosophy and process, centralized goals into company communication frameworks
  • Stood up communication infrastructure with executive team and senior leadership
    • Established regular sync for Senior and Executive Leadership enabling clear communication and transparent decision making
    • Established standard process for Executive team to solicit input from Senior Leadership on strategic opportunities while maintaining execution velocity on existing plan of record (Tiger Teams)
• Primary operational support for data collection from pre-clinical and clinical trials
  • Created scalable process for hardware builds; developed and maintained Quality-compliant Device and Materials Inventory, established device forecast in collaboration with Clinical, drove iterative improvement to device build process and documentation
  • Developed framework for expanded clinical research program support, in concert with Clinical, Neuroscience, ML and Software teams
  • Coordinated in vivo preclinical experimentation program; experimental protocol design and execution across Hardware, Software, Neuroscience, ML teams as well as our external CRO
• Provided Technical Program Management support for Software, Neuroscience, ML and Quality teams
  • Encouraged cross-collaboration and comms through joint sprint planning, supported integration of Quality documentation practices into standard sprint planning processes
• Mentored two junior team members in project management philosophies and skills to help them grow in their roles

Program Manager, Consumer Health Research, Fitbit, Google, Mountain View, CA - March 2022 - April 2023

• Led a team to execute human subjects research studies that fuel algorithm development for health & wellness features
  • Managed two program managers to drive study execution
  • Drove tight cross-coordination with Research, Eng, Clinical, Clinical Operations, Legal, Privacy, Regulatory, Compliance, CROs to complete studies on time and in budget
  • Landed process improvements to streamline dependencies: ex: consolidate multiple Privacy and Legal reviews into one
  • Built infrastructure to ingest data in compliance with Security, Privacy and Legal guidelines
• Managed a four person team executing Data Labeling that enabled algorithm development and iteration
  • Managed budget, prioritize and parallelize labeling requests, established standard process for guideline development and rater training, drove feature development for labeling infrastructure

Lead Program Manager, Pathology, HealthAI, Google, Palo Alto, CA - May 2018 - March 2022

• Lead Program Manager for a research team that has published 25 papers aiming to improve patient outcomes by applying artificial intelligence to digital pathology workflows
• Built Data Labeling operations from the ground up; coordinated up to 50 pathologists providing ~400k reviews over 4 years
  • Stood up Quality Assurance program and Model Evaluation framework to ensure high quality labels and rapid model iteration
• Supported infrastructure team to build custom digital pathology platform
  • Drove engineering work prioritization and feature improvements; ex: custom viewer features and tools, annotation storage schema
  • Ensured compliance with data security and privacy requirements
  • Managed all data ingestion, catalogue and use
  • Automated manual task management and assignment using Google Apps Script/Javascript and Python to reduce active work time from hours/week to min/week
• Ran quarterly OKR planning across 9 projects and 3 partnerships, drove project timelines and proactively mitigated risks, created and maintained comprehensive documentation around processes and datasets
• Supported multiple partnerships spanning 3 different organizations (Google Health, Google Cloud, Verily)
  • Managed deep integration with Verily Pathology team (collectively Alphabet Pathology), ensuring clear cross-org communications across Research teams, Finances and Partnerships teams and supporting partnerships to deploy our algorithms (ex: Lumea)
  • Provided program support and served as Subject Matter Expert in Annotations and Digital Pathology infrastructure use cases for standing up Cloud-based Digital Pathology Infrastructure (with Google Cloud)
  • Provided program support for Cloud partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit focused on deployment of an Augmented Reality Microscope to bring AI to the bench

Project Manager, Adecco at Google, Mountain View, CA - July 2017 - May 2018

• Assigned to the Medical Brain team, focused on Pathology

Science Solutions Manager, Science Exchange, Palo Alto, CA - June 2013 - March 2016

• Originated the SSM position at Science Exchange, and spearheaded the development of multiple validation-related projects, including the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, the Movember Foundation-PCF Scientific Reproducibility Initiative and independent reagent and results validation. Led a team of three colleagues; together we worked closely with original study authors and replicating labs to design and carry out replication protocols, coordinate reagent transfer and facilitate communication.
• Internal scientific expert, supporting Customer Support and Sales teams. Worked closely with product designers and developers to improve the layout and content of the site, organizing 2200 service offerings into a structured hierarchy.

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA - June 2011 - May 2013

• Expanded analysis of Myb in multiciliogenesis and submitted manuscript for publication while continuing experiments.

Graduate Student, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA - September 2004 - June 2011

• Exploring the development of the mouse lung by examining transcription factors involved in cell fate specification in the lab of Dr. Mark Krasnow. Identified c-myb as a transcription factor expressed in developing multiciliated cells of the mouse airway epithelium.