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Director of Operations & Localization at Yahoo!

Director responsible for operations & localization for market-leading products including Yahoo! Finance, Sports, News, Entertainment, Shopping, Travel, Autos, Real Estate, Local, and Small Business for Yahoo!’s global advertisers and partners. Led a team of seven responsible for Operations & Localization for a global team of over 1300 employees located in 12 different countries, managing products reaching hundreds of millions of consumers, and a P&L with roughly $2 billion in annual revenue.


-Manages best practices scaling and process standardization. Works collaboratively with key stakeholders and maps organizational pain points, identifies best practices to scale globally, outlines and implements roadmaps for key improvement initiatives and delivered two months ahead of schedule with twenty-five percent less resources than originally allocated
-Standardized metrics, reporting, and tool adoption for five product groups and 40% of Yahoo’s global products within a four month timeframe
-Subject matter expert on a team for roles & responsibilities definition and standardization across a six thousand person organization
-Provided definition and operational oversight of forty-five key workflows for the organization reducing friction between global sales/marketing and product organizations. Established and monitored governance and processes between functional departments.
-Member of multiple steering committees at Yahoo!: Program Management Roundtable, Agile Training & Implementation, Product Management & Product Marketing Management training, Business Management
-Works as an integral part of the Senior Management team, providing management, and participation in development and implementation of enhancements/changes to key business governance and processes.

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2009-2011



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