• Transformed a contracting efficiency goal into an execution-ready roadmap with VP buy-in, achieving a 60% reduction in average contracting time (10 to 4 days) by building a strategic framework and cross-functional implementation plan.

• Executed a managed sunset of Meta’s PhD fellowship program, saving $574K and preventing $419K in unbudgeted expenses by conducting financial audits, consulting legal on risk posture, and reducing outstanding balances by 25%.

• Unblocked ~11 annual internal research projects surveying 8,000+ internal contingent workers by leading a strategic pivot from a process exemption to a risk-acceptance framework, enabling faster start-up while maintaining legal compliance.

• Increased team AI tool adoption by 110% over three months by designing an experiential training curriculum covering prompt engineering, AI agents, and workflow automation.

• Sunset Meta’s centralized academic research partnership program by automating processes for project review, procurement, and relationship management with sourcing, legal, and technical stakeholders.

• Build collaborative research partnerships between Meta and academia.

• Manage ten global research programs across five disciplines to lead industry in emerging technology for data systems, hardware engineering, and sustainability.

• Developed university collaborations for data center sustainability program, resulting in 4x new partner growth for research into carbon emission reductions.

• Partner with legal, procurement, and engineering teams to increase the impact of academic research collaboration outputs in both internal systems and for the research community.

• Developed the roles and responsibilities to expand the Editorial Research team from eight to 17 to support two organization-critical initiatives.

• Manage a team of ten Research Associates, including allocation of staff resources, workload distribution, and translation of strategic objectives to operational processes.

• Designed new workflow systems and managed internal staff to insource and optimize vendor work that reduced article processing costs by 62% for 200 submissions per day.

• Led data-driven strategic projects to recruit over 4,000 editors in subject areas of operational inefficiency, reducing processing time by 8% for 30,000 published articles per year.

• Designed and developed user data analysis pipeline to analyze user experiences, reducing overall manuscript assignment failure rate by 5% by intervening with 13 problematic individual users.

• Directly managed a team of four and indirectly supervised a group of four, fostering collaboration within the team and across departments.

• Aligned research program initiatives such as editor matching and editor recruitment, leading to resolution of 60% of manuscripts that failed to find an editor normal processes.

• Increased overall editor assignment rates by 15% by designing and implementing flexible workflows that empower staff to determine the appropriate action for problematic submissions.

• Provided technical inter-departmental recommendations, reducing journal costs associated with high-risk submissions.

• Managed workflows and trained staff on literature searches and conflict of interest identification.