Technical Program Leader · Consumer Technologies

Bringing structure to ambiguity across large engineering organizations.

Senior Technical Program Manager with 10+ years spanning quality engineering, platform reliability, and program leadership. Strategic partner to engineering, product, and infrastructure — turning complex initiatives into structured, measurable execution.

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335%
Delivery Velocity Improvement

Key Impact Metrics

335%

Development Velocity

Improved delivery velocity for a 30+ engineer payments org by architecting the operating model, governance frameworks, and executive reporting cadences.

82%

Production Defect Reduction

Cut production bugs on Zillow's core offerings by developing and implementing an end-to-end automation strategy across engineering teams.

100M+

Users Impacted

Led testing strategy for Zillow's search data migration, upgrading infrastructure powering search and property detail pages for 100M+ monthly users.

50%

Faster Release Cycles

Optimized release management processes at Zillow, halving release cycle time while doubling front-end release velocity via cross-platform coordination.

Core Engagements

Vimeo

Senior Technical Program Manager (L6) — Payments Engineering

2025 — PresentRemote

Lead strategic program delivery for Vimeo's Payments Engineering organization, partnering with product, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to execute complex platform initiatives supporting global monetization and subscription services.

  • Architected the operating model for a 30+ engineer payments organization, establishing program governance, executive reporting cadences, and delivery metrics that improved development velocity 335%.
  • Lead multi-workstream platform initiatives including global payments via Stripe and tax refund implementations, coordinating engineering, product, and infrastructure teams end-to-end.
  • Translate ambiguous technical initiatives into structured execution roadmaps — defining milestones, success metrics, ownership models, and dependency tracking across engineering teams.
  • Built a cross-program reporting system integrating Airtable and Jira, centralizing delivery metrics, risk tracking, and dependency management for leadership.
  • Piloted AI-assisted documentation and reporting workflows leveraging LLM-driven tools to reduce manual reporting overhead across distributed teams.

Zillow

Sr. Software Quality Engineer / Software Development Engineer

2021 — 2024San Francisco, CA

Owned release coordination and quality strategy across concurrent engineering initiatives, driving automation, deployment reliability, and data-informed decision-making for Zillow's core consumer surfaces.

  • Developed and implemented an automation strategy that reduced production bugs by 82% on core offerings.
  • Managed releases and testing coverage across 3 engineering teams running concurrent initiatives — end-to-end from requirements through deployment.
  • Optimized release management processes, improving release cycle time by 50%.
  • Built dashboards tracking KPIs and deployment performance, sharing insights across the org to drive data-informed decisions.
  • Reduced TypeScript errors by 98%, facilitating a seamless Next.js 13 migration and SEO improvements.

Zillow

Sr. Software Quality Engineer — Test Lead

2017 — 2021San Francisco, CA

Led front-end web release coordination and testing strategy across iOS, Android, and web, aligning dependent deployments and scaling QA processes on high-traffic consumer surfaces.

  • Coordinated front-end web releases with iOS and Android for dependent deployments, doubling release velocity.
  • Spearheaded testing strategy for a complex search data migration impacting 100M+ monthly users, with zero customer-impacting defects.
  • Enhanced email testing workflows, increasing test coverage by 40% and reducing manual testing time by 61%.
  • Facilitated cross-team testing that delivered a 20% faster time-to-market for key product releases.

Trulia (acquired by Zillow)

Marketing Manager, Consumer Experience

2015 — 2017San Francisco, CA

Built Trulia's consumer care function from the ground up, defining CX strategy, standing up the first support team, and using consumer insights to shape product and content decisions.

  • Implemented a standardized CX strategy — engagement up 115%, negative brand sentiment down 52%, resolution time down 35%.
  • Established Trulia's first consumer support team: hiring, training, mentoring, best practices, and SLAs.
  • Led content moderation for 'What Locals Say' user-generated neighborhood reviews — now 16M+ responses.
  • Overhauled the Help Center using contact-center data, reducing support ticket volume by 18%.
  • Led CRM migration from Salesforce to Zendesk with seamless data retention and integrated web/mobile support.

Trulia

Customer Support Operations Lead, Rentals

2010 — 2015San Francisco, CA

Founding member of the rentals team — shaped foundational processes, KPIs, and BI reporting, and pioneered internal tooling to protect the marketplace at scale.

  • Pioneered an internal fraud detection tool that reduced on-site fraud by 60%+.
  • Built BI reporting for rentals inventory and defined KPIs to measure team performance.
  • Optimized marketing email engagement and managed cross-functional technical projects.

Technical Governance & Tooling

Depth across the operating stack that modern engineering organizations rely on — from delivery frameworks and CI/CD to observability, BI, and AI-assisted workflows.

Technical Program ManagementRelease CoordinationRisk & Dependency ManagementProgram GovernanceExecutive ReportingCross-Functional LeadershipQA & Test StrategySQLJIRA & ConfluenceAirtableSplit.ioTestRailCypressPostmanAWSGoogle AnalyticsDatadogSalesforce & ZendeskAI/LLM-Assisted WorkflowsClaudeGemini

Education & Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Verified

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

Verified

Google Generative AI Intensive

Google

Completed

BA, Spanish Literature & Linguistics

UC Riverside

Degree

Affiliations & Community

Project Management Institute (PMI) — Bay Area

Member

2024 — Present

Bay Area Rescue Mission

Volunteer

2019 — Present

Billow (Zillow ERG)

SF Office Site Lead

2017 — 2020
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