EDUCATION

		The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, MBA, Finance, 2008 Palmer Scholar (top 5% of class), voted MVP by classmates, GMAT: 800 Research: Characteristics and Determinants of Private Equity Returns
		Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1998 Minor: Mathematics; Research Focus: Computational Analysis of Pyrolysis
		Bachelor of Science, Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, 1996 University Chapter President, Society of Women Engineers, 1994-1995 (increased membership tenfold)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

	Technology Program Manager, Commerce and Analytics
	Oversee strategic partnerships on Google Checkout, Product Search, and Analytics offerings internationally.      Define strategy and allocate resources for providing partner support.      Analyze and define technical and product feature requirements from a partner perspective.      Train and mentor Technical and Sales personnel on pre-sales processes and on launching partner integrations.      Act as a spokesperson for Google's Commerce products and partnerships, both within and outside of Google.

Neumont University, Salt Lake City, UT	04/2003 to 12/2006
Neumont is a start-up, for-profit company, offering an award-winning, industry-focused, software engineering education which includes an accelerated Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and an MBA program; students have enrolled from 44 states and 10 countries. Neumont partners with industry and addresses the industry-wide shortage of skilled software developers.

	Senior Vice President
	Invited by the university's founder to serve on the management team for the creation and formalization of landmark programs and solid corporate structures, from the ground up. Oversaw a team of 18 instructors and staff, and executed a $1.6 M personnel budget. Interfaced with the Chairman regularly.
	Promoted to Vice President from Director of Development, after five months, and to Senior Vice President seven months later.
	Orchestrated business and educational infrastructures for the university. Defined the program and policies, participated in the accreditation effort, interviewed the target audience to formulate industry-focused curriculum, established HR requirements and recruited, interviewed and hired instructors and professors; and created an entire undergraduate program followed by an MBA program. Provided overall strategic and operational direction for all programs and directly oversaw the academics department. Traveled internationally to recruit students and partners. Recognized in Forbes Magazine, by name, in July 2006, as one of the pioneers behind the innovative learning model created at Neumont.
	Leveraged collaborative relationships with industry leaders seeking software development solutions. Developed undergraduate program with team-based approach and project-based teaching methodology, while partnering with industry.      Analyzed new markets and offerings. Traveled to Japan and China to open negotiations with potential partners, for delivering similar, culturally tailored, industry-focused software engineering education, using Neumont's template.      Led a data and processes review of every department in the university resulting in streamlined company-wide changes in information systems, processes, procedures, and information sharing.      Retained high educational and corporate standards. Conducted an in-depth analysis/study and identified 38 characteristics that correlated with student success to form new admissions criteria.

Universidad Galileo, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2002

	Visiting Professor & Project Manager
	Worked in Guatemala for one year. Delivered lectures in Spanish and English.
	Managed the university's web development team and oversaw the implementation of a learning management system incorporating software written at ArsDigita.      Delivered courses in Software Engineering and Web Application Development.

ArsDigita Corporation (Acquired by Red Hat), Boston, MA & London

1998 to 2001

	Co-Founder and Vice President Operations
	Founded, built, and grew a multinational professional services/solutions corporation with ground-breaking open-source collaborative web-application software. Architected the E-commerce and the Customer Service Modules of the software, as well as the company's business infrastructures. Managed explosive growth of employees from five to over 200, with seven offices in three countries, and $22 M in annual revenue.
	Charted company direction, objectives, and milestones; and implemented strategic business plans for budgeting, marketing, HR, payroll, customer relations, consulting, and corporate management structure.      Managed cross-functional project teams in the USA and London managing IT projects from concept through delivery. Led a development team of 30 in Boston.      Transformed the London office, within four months, from a financially underperforming operation to the most profitable office per capita. Personally coached team members to retain solid clients in financial services, retail, and content management, significantly boosting productivity. Monitored Profit and Loss.      Traveled the globe to market new technology and establish relationships with large companies. Managed international client engagements and project teams. Presented at conferences to educate companies on open source web application usage and development to benefit their operations. Client engagements included Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Levi Strauss, MIT, and others.

BOOKS AUTHORED

		Software Engineering for Internet Applications with Philip Greenspun and Andrew Grumet, published by MIT Press, March 2006
		Early Adopter VoiceXML (Chapter 2), published by Wrox Press, August 2001

OTHER SKILLS & INTERESTS

		Advisory Board member, Lingotek
		Technical: Programming Languages/Platforms: C#, .NET, C, Java, Tcl, Perl, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Windows, UNIX, Apache, HTML, XML, VoiceXML, WAP, WML. Applications Built: E-commerce, CRM, Content Management, Intranet, Personalization, Workflow, Collaboration. Industries: Financial Services, Commerce, Health Care, Media, Education, Non-profit, and Telecommunications.
		Foreign Languages: Spanish (conversational), Swedish (limited)
		Interests: Investment management (working toward CFA charter), travel, photography, piano