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Cisco Systems.
Office of the CEO (2022-current)
Emerging Tech + Incubation (2020-2022)

 
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CASE STUDIES

Head of Cisco Pinnacle Awards Program (2023-2024)
  • Sitting in the Office of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, I lead the E2E program development and execution of the premier innovation award program. This included strategy, design, budget, vendor management, XFN influence, and operational excellence with a team of 5.
  • Driving large AI-based feature efficiency adoptions for managing company-wide Innovation Awards, including 100s of submissions, a 50-person judging process and a multi-million dollar budget.
  • Designed and produced all major analytical reporting for executive-level read outs.
  • Conceived and executed the first new award category since 1999: the “Sustainability Impact”, a major cross-functional collaboration across 3 business units.





Product Manager, Sr. UX Designer for the ARTS Project (2021-2022)
  • Drove vision for remote ML/AR-based assistant mobile iOS app for connected electric vehicles.  
  • Led product vision for an AI / Machine Learning based Augmented Reality hybrid-work solution in automotive. I drove an agile team of 10+ engineers through the product development lifecycle with major US automakers.
  • GTM analysis and market insights, deep collaboration with senior engineering, rapid prototyping, user journey, on-prem qualitative and quantitative user research.





Certifications + Skills
Scrum Alliance Certified Agile ScrumMaster® (CSM®), Tableau, Salesforce, Jira, Figma, Power BI, Miro, Excel, Trello, Adobe Creative Suite, Basic Java and CSS, UX Practices, Rapid User Testing, Rapid Prototyping
Design Management

Leading XFN and Agile change management

AI-based Product Development Lifecycle
Agile Methodologies
Business Metrics and Reporting
Highly-visible Program Management
Executive and C-Suite Operations
Data-driven analytics reporting


Project Experience Technologies
Gen AI, Cloud tech / AWS Cloud, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, Augment Reality, Edge Computing and Connected Vehicles, Data Visualization, IoT, UAVs, Kubernetes