Karen Snow

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ABOUT KAREN SNOW

Program Manager with 20+ years of accomplishments in leading and launching complex application development project and programs. • Experience in launching automotive machine learning, OTA, and connected services programs. • Experience with waterfall, iterative and agile software development, using a blend of local and off-shore resources to deliver solutions. • Recognized for creativity and innovation in development of methods and management standards for improved project, program and portfolio performance. • Focused all aspects of organizational leadership, including financials, hiring, training and managing staff, strategic business planning, and vendor management. • Expertise ranging from deploying embedded systems, E2E, to cloud-based machine learning and customer APIs and connected services applications. • Focused on big data including data collection and storage, data analytics, and location based tracking. • Ability to effectively communicate to lead global teams, formulate and present technical concepts, and represent the programs internally through support in pre-sales and client relationship management. • Strong process focus and use of metrics to make informed decisions from customer insights. • Flexible, curious and always learning. Specialties: Program management, agile, waterfall, iterative, project performance, strategic business planning, vendor management, machine learning, managing technology teams, problem-solving, customer relationships, people management, cloud services, IoT, mobile technology, automotive industry, telematics, agile, user experience, analytics, big data, iOS, android, research and competitive analysis, market research, mentoring, process management,