amy gurri

senior consultant

About

Clarity and purpose are the most important ingredients to achieving results in development organizations. Often goals are not well articulated and a product idea evolves into a compromise which misses the mark. My strength is taking a vision, regardless of whether it is my own, and articulating it so that teams keep focus on implementing that vision. I am a strong results-oriented leader looking for consulting opportunities to help companies succeed with large programs or initiatives. I bring order to chaos, motivate teams to build products customers want to use, find better ways to work, articulate and run with projects and initiatives. Special expertise in the following areas: * Strategic initiatives with executives and cross-product/cross-functional teams * UX processes, design languages and design libraries * UX in Agile and Agile development in general * Localization * Program Management * Engineering Operations * Software Quality * Software and Hardware Development * Collaboration Products (Telepresence, VoIP, Web Conferencing, Messaging)

Country

united states

City

washington

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

unified communications, cisco technologies, voip, sip, telecommunications, ip, network architecture, cloud computing, telepresence, wireless, h.323, ethernet, data center, routing, qos, managed services, enterprise software, integration, mobile devices, system architecture, network design, snmp, video conferencing, system deployment, go to market strategy, virtualization, pre sales, saas, switches, telephony, cisco call manager, cisco ios, solution architecture, service providers, collaboration solutions, user experience, agile methodologies, internet protocol

Experience

senior manager, localization

cisco

2014-9 - 2015-10 · 1 yr 2 mos

Member of senior leadership team for the collaboration portfolio system releases. Managed a team of program managers and software engineers who were responsible for localization of 102 collaboration products into 39 languages. Products ranged from teleconferencing/phone hardware and software, to desktop and mobile applications. Localization accounted for 35% of total revenues. Streamlined translation processes to improve quality while delivering products on schedule. Added 24 languages to 6 products while cutting expenditures by 30%.

senior manager, user-centered design

cisco

2009-11 - 2014-10 · 5 yrs

senior solution program manager

cisco

2007-8 - 2009-11 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Started in UX team as Program Manager for the user experience design initiative for the Cisco Collaboration Products. Worked with designers to plan and implement product design projects. Worked with newly acquired product teams to evolve design consistency with Cisco products (e.g., WebEx, Tandberg). Kicked off and managed the initiative to develop a Collaboration portfolio design direction, design language, and design library.

senior manager, software engineering

cisco

1999-1 - 2007-8 · 8 yrs 8 mos

manager, engineering

pulsecom

1991-6 - 1998-12 · 7 yrs 7 mos

engineer

verizon business

1988-7 - 1991-6 · 3 yrs

Lead design engineer for portions of the Network Management System for the MCI Network. This system was used by MCI for 10 years. Responsible for development of functional requirements, process and data models, rule-base data analysis expert system, alarm management, and user interface. System was developed in C on VAX-VMS with a SYBASE database. Ran user conferences to develop requirements and review designs. Participated in a team to define the standard messaging interface between different Network Management applications using ASN.1.

systems analyst

titan systems averstar group

1986-1 - 1988-7 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Developed system architecture and requirements for a government command, control and communications system.

software and sales engineer

robert slye electronics inc

1981-8 - 1985-12 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Responsible for business development and key participant on many development projects for products such as video teleconferencing systems and military tracking and control systems. Designed and developed in-house management information system which was used by the company for 8 years.