United States

Technical Product Management

Lu Wang

Director, software engineering

Communication

Collaboration

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Java

Customer service

Problem-solving

Public Speaking

3D Animation

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Moved to Alexa Secure AI Foundation org. I build and lead Alexa Cloud Security Solutions org with 6 software development teams and 2 security engineering teams. We build security products to protect customer data and fulfill privacy promise to customers by close collaboration between SDEs and security engineers . Our products mitigate security risks in data loss prevention area and access control management area. We make AI platform safer.

I am leading an engineer org with 5 development teams in three locations (Seattle, Austin and Madrid) to work on tech innovations on behalf of business customers in Amazon Business. My org owns bulk delivery experience and tax for business. We also own business approval framework for guided buying and customer credential based purchased program. Amazon Business has now reached a $10 billion annual sales run rate and is serving millions of private and public-sector organizations in eight countries.

Before any product is available on Amazon, manufacturers provide information about their offering, manage inventory positions and even set up marketing initiatives through one powerful platform. Amazon has built one of the most scalable and innovative for vendors, but it is still Day 1 and there is so much to do.

I manage 4 development teams of software developers that build the core technologies to enable the simplified and streamlined scenarios in Vendor Express.

Built the next SaaS generation of the core software platform and provided a number of Shared Services to the entire Product Development organization. The new platform is built using SOA architectural approach leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware (e.g. Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA), and will eventually consolidate and replace about 50+ legacy applications. Implemented the largest multi-tenant CMS using SharePoint 2013 with over 120TB of data to support 7000 client tenants and 250,000 real-time users.

Managed 3 onshore teams and 1 offshore team offshore (around 30 developers) through multiple dev managers and technical program manager. I own technical road map, budget, resource plan, data metrics set up and inspection for Platform and Shared Services department.

Led two dev teams ( around 8 developers) to build Tenancy Configuration System (TCS) which enables self service configuration and customization (or extend) of tenant apps for business users as part of eCP productization initiative. Streamlined development process to make developers more focused and successfully delivered features according development plan. Inspired, mentored and empowered developers and built a positive, productive and fun working environment for team members to perform at their best.

Built and managed 3 teams of 13 developers and 6 testers working on company’s flagship product. Guided teams to work with 3 offshore teams. Participated to develop two years product technical road map, which is transforming the product to web based application and SOA architecture.  Worked out capacity planning to stuff the implementation of product technical road map. Pushed for process change to gain efficiency based on process data gathered to identify waste areas with result of 188% productivity gain. Hired, terminated, mentored direct reports.

Managed two teams of 11 direct reports including 7 developers and 4 SDETs. One team is offshore team. Made 3 good hires within 2 months. The teams worked on the rewriting expedia.com check out path project by moving to Java platform and utilizing SOA architecture, which is the highest priority project for the whole web site for 2011. Introduced lean/agile concept and scrum process to the teams.  Worked closely with 7 service teams from interface design to integration test. Played critical leadership role to create a collaborative environment so business owners, enterprise architecture team, security team, performance test team, UI design team and release team work together to deliver the project on time, on budget and on scope.

•	Managed two teams of 14 direct reports including 8 developers and 6 SDETs. Adapted lean/agile process successfully, delivered business value to market on time with equal or better quality to the site www.GettyImages.com, which is the biggest photograph stock site worldwide with more than 100 million page views per month. Provided ongoing leadership towards improvements in software development, product quality, operational metrics and support processes to ensure product availability, stability and reliability. Demonstrated technological competence in understanding and mastering the best-of-breed technologies that constitute the building blocks of today’s high performing web-based enterprise applications. Aptly interpreted, prioritized and renegotiated engineering requirements with stakeholders in a productive and responsible manner based on clear understanding of business strategy and process behind each development project. Built strong teams by recruiting, mentoring and retaining high performers, as well as by terminating low performers.

•	Team lead of a team of 6 to 10 developers to accomplish footage online sale project. It is the biggest initiative for the company in year 2007. The projects include designing and implementing data model, middle tier components, developing new web pages in 4 web sites and integrating into existing infrastructure. The responsibilities included defining system architecture, conducting interviews and hiring, providing technical assessment and high level estimate to the business, breaking down features to executable tasks, making task assignments and managing the project monthly release. Agile practice was introduced in the team to ensure the success of the project. The project was delivered on time, within budget and scope and brought huge revenue impact to the company.

Developed the most critical web service Product Catalog Web Service and Product Catalog Database utilizing .NET 2.0, SQL2005, XML/XSLT. It is the first web service in the company. Solved the technical challenges related with performance and asset schema update without site down time. It is the first deliverable in the company's web site renovation project. As a team lead and acting developer manager, handled projects estimates and scheduling, led cross teams communications to ensure qualities and integrity of the whole system and conducted weekly team code reviews to mentor other less experienced developers and improve the overall code qualities. Key contributor to several major releases of the Getty Images customer facing web sites (www.gettyimages.com) and numerous minor releases, including upgrading the site from ASP to ASP.NET and to ASP.NET 2.0.

Worked in Natural User Interface Division Measurement and Analysis team as software design engineer. Finished 3 projects including Data Pipeline Subsystem, Query Text Compression Subsystem and IE Browser Plug-in to Collect User Feedback to meet 3 milestones delivery goal during the one-year contract duration. All the projects were developed by utilizing C# in .NET 1.1 Framework with SQL database design and stored procedures development skills required.

As 1 of 3 senior developers in R&D team, researched and developed various solutions to transform Quintessent existing Java-based stand-alone applications into web UI based applications including XML/XSL Solution and JSP Custom Tag Solution. Analyze, maintain and upgrade the LSR application, a pure Java stand-alone application with 15 packages and more than 150 classes. All works performed in Unix environment.

Finished or participated 4 web development projects, acting as the key player or project leader in the team. Utilized technology such as Rational Rose for object oriented design, ASP, JSP, JavaBean, servlets, Javascript, DHTL and SQL. Performed the role of group leader.

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