DEV DAS

Vice President, People Operations & Technology

San Francisco, CA, US

About

I am a seasoned operations & customer service leader who is comfortable with hands-on work and leading global teams to drive operations, strategy and transformation in high growth environments. I have deep experience in developing and driving extraordinary customer experience & operations, resulting in increased revenue through customer engagement, loyalty and retention. I take a roll-up-my-sleeves approach and have led high performing teams with strong motivation and morale coming from clear mission, vision and a unifying sense of purpose. My experience includes: customer operations & service; employee operations (human resource operations); vendor, outsourcing operations & strategy and footprint optimization; enterprise-wide systems strategy & deployment; and business strategy. Responsible for rapid growth in fast moving and highly competitive markets. Built teams from scratch and scaled to 3,000+ employees and multiple outsourced partner operations globally. Skills - Business Transformation Customer Experience Customer Service Customer Retention Customer Loyalty Customer Engagement Contact Center (Call Center) Operations Footprint (location) strategy & optimization Large scale operations management Operations Transformation Sales force optimization Sales Operations Strategy & Management Consulting Vendor management Workforce planning Training Hiring and Recruiting Strategy consulting Technology consulting

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Work experience

  1. January 2022 – present

    Coinbase

    Vice President, People Operations & Technology
    Built the People Operations, Technology, Risk & Compliance functions in HR. Scale the team for hyper-growth, while driving efficiency and exceptional user experience.
  2. July 2015 – January 2022

    Google

    Senior Director Operations
    Founded and led the global team responsible for Google’s strategy, governance and operations for vendor management. Responsible for developing international footprint strategy, and, managing 25+ sites, housing 50,000+ vendor workers worldwide. Led Google's global HR vendor network providing services and operations to Google's employees and candidates globally Led Google’s HR shared services operations, across all markets, worldwide. Provide extraordinary service to Googlers throughout the employee lifecycle. Manage a $1B+ budget, and oversee global IT systems
  3. January 2014 – January 2015

    American Express

    Vice President, Global Head of Network Enablement & Transformation
    Led an organization of 500+ across 25 countries, to develop the strategy to serve Amex's ultra-premium card members and partners, and, to provide enabling functions (including recruiting, training, workforce management, process improvement) to a network of 15,000+ frontline agents globally.
  4. January 2011 – January 2013

    American Express

    Regional Vice President & GM, Customer Service & Operations, Asia
    Senior Amex executive in Malaysia responsible for leading the Global Servicing Center in Kuala Lumpur, and for heading the Amex Malaysia legal entity. Responsible for 1,500+ employees servicing over 15 markets.
  5. January 2009 – January 2011

    American Express

    Vice President, Customer Service & Operations, Greater China & SE Asia
    Responsible for customer service & operations across Amex's customer base in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and India. Member of the regional executive leadership team.
  6. January 2009 – January 2009

    American Express

    Vice President, Strategic Planning Group
    Served as interim leader of the UK-based office of Amex's internal consulting group.
  7. January 2005 – January 2008

    American Express

    Vice President, Strategic Planning Group
    Leadership team member of Amex's internal consulting group (SPG). SPG reports directly into the Chairman and CEO, and works across all of Amex's business units (globally) to drive key strategic initiatives. Was responsible for leading numerous strategy & implementation projects across all of Amex's business units, in various countries in US, Europe and Asia Pacific.
  8. January 2004 – January 2005

    Quest Diagnostics

    Director, Strategic Planning
    Director, Strategic Planning
  9. January 2001 – January 2004

    Booz Allen Hamilton

    Senior Associate
  10. January 2000 – January 2001

    The Kalchas Group

    Associate
    Associate, Business Strategy
  11. January 1995 – January 1999

    Deloitte Consulting

    Manager

Education

  1. 1998 – 2000

    Columbia Business School

    MBA, Financial and Entrepreneurship
  2. 1990 – 1994

    New York University

    BA, Computer Science