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๐ Previous technical operations manager based in California with 14 years of experience in the support operations industry. My focus area for the past 7 years has been technical support operations (IT) at scale.
As I enter the next half of my career-era, I am embarking on a new career journey to become a Registered Nurse in the State of California.
Graduating Samuel Merritt University starting in Dec 26โ
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Be a good person and do great work while doing it.
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๐Bay Area, CA
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Experience
Nursing Student
Samuel Merritt University, San Mateo, CA โ (November 2025 - December 2026)
Accelerated BSN 12 month program | Current Cumulative GPA: 3.9
- Student Representative
- Elected to serve as one of the primary liaison between nursing students and college leadership, representing the student voice in scheduled and ad hoc governance meetings
- Identified, synthesized, and communicated student concerns to faculty and administration through platforms including Canvas, ensuring timely and professional follow-through
- Co-led planning and coordination of the Pinning Ceremony, collaborating with faculty and peers to deliver a meaningful milestone event for the graduating cohort
- Handled time-sensitive student escalations
Sr. Technical Operations Manager
Google, San Francisco, CA โ (August 2020 - November 2023)
As a leader, drove and oversaw complex projects, systems, and services that spanned multiple quarters and technologies. Role required strong skills in project and people management as well as decision-making to deliver on project milestones and outcomes. Managed the process of building and implementing new processes, operations, methods, tools, and technologies with foresight to anticipate and address future user issues.
- Managed operations engineers, responsible for providing Global IT Support for Google employees. Consistently provided performance management and career development, leading with an empathy-first approach. Successfully promoted 5 engineers.
- Google SF Corporate Engineering Lead, managed return to office support in SF office working with business stakeholders to ensure business requirements were met. Continuously synced with partners locally to anticipate IT needs.
- Service owner of Googleโs critical Phone channel that provides global employees with IT support. Under my leadership the service achieved over 90% SLO Adherence, increasing our SLO from 49% to 90% in 8 months.
- Worked with cross-functional teams to launch features for our service during mission critical launches which included operationalizing a support phone line to provide technical support to former colleagues impacted by layoffs.
- Led team of Phone channel service SMEs to maintain our bug queues and deliver our service roadmap optimizing for the tech and user support experience at Google.
- Collaborated with partner teams to achieve shared objectives, provide strategic insights, and lead continuous improvement in our services (e.g. launching SMS support, estimated wait time and callback features, SLO revamp, language support for Mandarin etc)
- Delivered business reviews of our service to track key operational metrics and drive improvements to optimize for the user experience (e.g. Shifting support low level issues to vendor team, etc.).
- Mentored managers through our technical stack and/or coach them through new processes as they joined our org.
Technical Operations Engineer
Google, San Francisco, CA/Austin, TX โ (March 2019 - August 2020)
- Delivered IT support for Google globally through helpdesk, chat, ticket, and phones.