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When I started at Zynga, my first role was a tech lead on the revenue team. Going back to Zynga for a second, could you say a few words about how you transitioned from being an IC to a manager?
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I want to ask you about that in a little bit. How did you transition from being an IC to a manager? The other thing I do at Tile is I actually lead diversity and inclusion, which is something I’m also super passionate about. And then, finally, sports as well.Īnd now I’m with Tile and I love being a manager here. I focused on music during the development of the HomePod, some Siri on Apple TV where we actually got a Technical Emmy, which was pretty cool. Then I went and managed some of the Siri domains at Apple. Most recently, I’ve been doing management at Zynga where I led the ChefVille team, which was one of our largest Facebook games as well as ads, which were a large part of Zynga’s revenue. That’s kind of where I started my tech career. I was like, “I need to come out here and this is amazing.”Ī couple months later I applied to some jobs out here and I got a job as a web developer at a tiny dot com startup that failed, like many of the early 2000s/late 90s startups. I just was in love with the culture, the weather, the technology. This was 1999, the middle of the dot com boom. My parents wanted me to be a doctor and so I was getting a chemistry degree but around my junior year I realized I had no interest in going to grad school and so I was like, “Well, I better get a job when I graduate,” and so found a job as a technical management consultant for Price Waterhouse Coopers.īack then there weren’t any online classes for coding and things like that, so they sent everybody to a three month boot camp in Florida to learn to code and I really picked it up quickly and so they actually sent me to the Bay area to take a training class on a technology called Broad Vision, which doesn’t exist anymore, and I pretty much fell in love. My career actually started in management consulting and my undergrad degree is actually in chemistry. I’ve been in the tech industry for 20 years. I originally got into management … I guess it was around eight years ago, at this point, when I was with Zynga. That’s a little bit about what I do today. The two big integrations I worked on in the last year were empowering the first Tile-enabled laptop with HP as well as we just announced our partnership with Intel to enable software-based Tiles on Intel-based laptops. I help integrate the Tile technology into our partner integration. Recently we’ve been moving more towards integrating the Tile technology into other devices. We’re a Bluetooth tracker that you can put on your keys or anything else that you don’t want to lose. For those of you who don’t know Tile, we’re connecting the world to find everything that matters. I’m currently the Senior Director of Platform Engineering at Tile.
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I was reading your profile and you’ve had a really awesome career in engineering leadership. Maybe we could just start out … Tell us a little bit about your current role and what do you do and then maybe your background and how you got into management. What’s your background and how did you get into management? Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today on ManagersClub.