2019 - 2023: Google Cloud, NYC

My origin story of being hired at Google started with the Recruitment/Networking event hosted by Google PAIR. I was scheduled to take an interview as an ML Engineer at the time, until I met a recruiter after the panel. She looked at my resume and said, “Wait, if you have comedy experience why aren’t you in a more client-facing role?” And that’s how I was hired into Google Cloud Consulting as a Cloud Engineer.

This was a sudden shift from working on a 1:1 basis with users to working with entire enterprise-scale customers on-boarding Google Cloud, spanning the Media and Entertainment, Financial Services and Healthcare/Life Sciences industries. One of my most memorable experiences has been being one of five delivery leads and project managers for one of the largest broadcasters in the Latin-American region (Televisa-Univision). While working with Televisa-Univision, I was lucky to get to visit Mexico City, and understand how cloud engineering would enable the Qatar World Cup 2022 games to be broadcast globally.

My last few months have Google have been with the Ads Automotive Strategy team. This team has a global focus in shaping advertising strategy to harness the growing interest in Electric Vehicles. At this time, automotive manufacturers are pivoting from cars-as-hardware to a vehicle-features-as-software (and ultimately, fully automated driving) vision of their products. Our team partners closely with them to understand how we can help shape their advertising and marketing strategy.

My team also works closely with automotive clients to understand how Google’s generative AI practices can help shape their content strategy going forward.

What did I learn: How merging organizations streamline operations at scale, how broadcast engineering works from camera to screen and how to enable customers to understand their own problems without jumping to a solution.

I’ve learned a lot about managing executive stakeholders and enterprise-scale transformations. As the first barrier between clients and product teams, I’m learning to identify what a customer’s needs are and how problems can’t be solved with engineering alone.

Finally, with the Ads team, I’ve learned the many ways in which we measure ad success, how generative AI can be a part of advertising efforts, and the ways in which a teams can coordinate effortlessly across Japan, Germany, London, Singapore and USA.