Kari Hale

About Kari Hale

I love building innovative products with smart, driven people and have done so across Science, Technology & Software Development for over 20 years. I am most comfortable and enjoy working on programs that start with hard and big problems to solve, lots of complexity and ambiguity, as this is where the fun starts. By leverage smart people, data driven decision making, focusing on impactful outcomes and working through ambiguity, results in working programs or products that solve real problems across people, processes, and technologies. Consulting leader delivering client programs in custom cloud software development including CI/CD & lifecycle management, data projects including data architecture, pipelines, warehousing, visualizations & engineering, and product strategies including innovation/ideation, user journey mapping, roadmap & leveraging new technologies such as ML Ops & LLMs/GenAI. Industry Subject Matter Expert across Life Sciences, HealthTech, Digital Health & Health IT including regulated (SaMD/GxP) software development programs. I create high trust, high performing modern software development teams focused on a common mission and vision of delivery and having fun. My career background provides me a unique perspective as a leader, problem solver and communicator. I deliver complex products FAST and with HIGH QUALITY, because I excel in cross-team and functional area communication. I especially excel at bridging the communication gaps between life science regulatory experts, quality assurance, data/research scientists & those in software development such as solution architects, software & data engineers, quality engineers & DevSecOps. This is not simple, as each expertise has their own terminology & risks to mitigate, making a “requirement”, not always a “requirement” and a “validation test” sometime much more than a “validation test”. The words, plans and outcomes can all depend on your background, perspective and the ability of leadership to gain alignment and clarity that all are speaking the same language and focused on the same user needs. I am a lifelong learner with a driven passion to dive deep into topics and subjects that advance my growth as a leader & technologist. For over 20 years I have and will continue to work at the edge of modern technology, bringing the possibilities of the future into today.

Experience

1. Director, Solution Ownership

   Slalom

   Jan 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Responsibilities- Capability Leader for PNW Solution Owners (~30), a team of modern Agile cloud delivery consultants- Responsible for Client Delivery, Engagement & Sales of $5 - 15MM/year for companies from start-up up to fortune 5 and across the SDLC- Expert Client & product delivery leader for Software strategy & delivery programs from 5 to >60 consultants across industries and cloud providers- Implemented enterprise wide custom LLM interface for employees to safely and securely access Azure Open AI GPT-3.5 turbo, 4o and AWS bedrock models starting with Llama, Claude. Data driven decision making on enhancements and use engagement through LLM interaction monitoring, metering and supporting user training with office hours, prompt libraries, user teams channel and more- Lead capability and client data driven decision making to achieve successful program and product outcomes- Leader of leaders, 3 direct leader reports & 12 SOs in tree- Mentor, sponsor & coach consultants across levels, capabilities & technical skills- Responsible for SO team recruiting, hiring, career development and year over year (YoY) performance managementIndustry Focus- Life Sciences & Healthcare IT, Regulated (GxP) software development for Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), Health IT/EHR integrations, Life Science Clinical Development, R&D and genomics workflows- Cross-Industry Experience: Life Sciences, MedTech, MedDevice, Health IT, Mortgage Loan Origination, Servicing & Trades, Audio Visual (AV) IoT for Software + Firmware, Logistics Management, Online Retail, TelComm, Energy & GenAI Enterprise implementation- AWS/Amazon & Azure/ADO clouds- Builder of intelligent products leveraging AI/ML, data science & /or LLMs (Azure Open AI, Google Gemini & AWS Bedrock models Amazon native, Claude, Llama, Stable Diffusion & more) to meet user needs and enterprise safe & secure requirements. Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)See next job description for Agile Delivery Expertise

Education

• University of Washington Bothell School of Business

  Leadership MBA

  2012 — 2014

• University of Washington

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

Skills

• Team Management
• Marketing Strategy
• Qpcr
• Dependable Team Player
• Digital Pcr (Dpcr)
• Assay Development
• Technology Needs Analysis
• Financial Accounting
• Pcr
• Market Research
• Gene Therapy
• Digital Health
• Corporate Finance
• Business Economics
• Team Leadership
• Rna
• Business Strategy
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (Pcr)
• Product Ownership
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Inflammation
• Voice of the Customer Analysis
• Bayesian Statistics
• Leadership
• Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (Qpcr)
• Molecular Biology
• Fluorescence Microscopy
• Product Management
• Voice of the Customer
• Drug Discovery
• Antibodies
• Analytical Method Validation
• Clinical Development
• New Technology Evaluation
• Quantitative Analytics
• Oncology
• Economics
• Validation
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• Communication