Shawn Levin
Engineering Program Manager
San Francisco | United States
Skills
No information
Interests
Traveling
Tabletop games
Ukulele
Good beer
The chicago cubs
In my own words
— ShawnI believe that the best work is done by those who are invested in their projects and who enjoy their time at work.
The principles of self-expression, creativity, inclusion, community and participation are invaluable to me in my personal and professional life. I am driven by these principles to create an environment where the individuals who surround me feel compelled to be passionate and creative, while remaining engaged and productive.
Trajectory
Jun 2015 — Now
Engineering Program Manager · PCH Lime Lab
- Product Execution: Manage development of products with a focus on integrated softgoods; taking these products from early definition, through handoff to manufacturing.
- Project Management: Manage program budgets, engineering workstreams, and schedule for integrated products from early definition through mass production. Help to facilitate engineering decisions. Source materials from vendors for both small run prototyping and for production.
-Process Development - Develop new internal processes for development of Softgoods. This includes setting up a dedicated Softgoods lab, identifying new fabric vendors, and developing tech pack handoff process. Help to implement new internal processes to track Earned Value against planned and actual costs, across all studio projects.
- Account Management: Scope, negotiate, and write client contracts. Develop proposals for new clients. Manage client groups of 1-20 individuals. Client groups can contain many roles, including engineering, design, mar
May 2013 — May 2015
Associate Program Manager · Google
Program Manager, Google Maps, Ground Truth Operations
- Project Management: Developed project plans, timelines, workflow, and data modeling policies. Triaged incoming bugs and work requests, and managed resources for these requests against other projects.
- Team Management: Managed operations teams of up to 30 people. Led operations for time and PR sensitive work. Trained operators on complex workflow and data modeling policies.
- Tool Development: Coordinated with engineering team on the development and enhancement of internal tools. Developed framework for internal usability testing.
- Cross-team Collaboration: Worked with product and engineering teams to ensure large-scale schema changes and tool support. Worked with partner teams to decide work prioritization and external signing agreements. Coordinated with teams around the world to ensure work coverage.
Projects Included:
- Mapping over 800 ski resorts worldwide. Managed operations work, built internal tool for the project, ad
Jun 2011 — May 2013
Team Lead · Google
Operations Special Projects and Quality Assurance Team Leads for Google Maps
Activity
Education history
DePaul Univeristy
Bachelor of Science | 2004 - 2009
