Oct 2019 — May 2026
Technical Program Manager, AI Modeling Quality
Google, Mobile App Ads · Mountain View, CA
- Lead TPgM for AI Modeling Quality, a 300+ engineer organization spanning AdMob, Play, Search, and YouTube, responsible for training-data quality and the models powering App Promo campaigns.
- Designed the team's end-to-end operating framework (OKRs, performance metrics, product roadmap), resolving a multi-year leadership impasse and replacing ad-hoc workflows with a unified, data-driven operating model.
- Identified and systematically addressed data-quality issues, capturing $1B+ in missing revenue and giving leadership clarity to prioritize high-ROI initiatives.
- Improved customer-facing bug-response SLO by ~50% by rearchitecting a flawed triage process; earned an internal award from VP leadership.
- Accelerated AI model launch velocity ~40% YoY by standardizing release documentation and decision protocols while sustaining model quality and safety.
- Replaced manual reporting with an automated, centralized source of truth (Python, SQL, Looker), cutting operational overhead ~95% while improving executive decision quality.
2017 — 2019
Senior Venture Analyst, AI Infrastructure
Runway Startup Accelerator · Mountain View, CA
- Evaluated early-stage AI infrastructure startups for corporate VC clients (Toyota, LG, SoftBank), conducting due diligence with founders at Groq, Run:AI, and Xnor.AI.
- Delivered research on product-market fit and competitive positioning, contributing to $100M+ combined investments, acquisitions, and exits.
Earlier: analyst at a Wells Fargo–affiliated hedge fund, 2016–2017.