Recommendations

Amy is an exceptional product leader and executive partner. In our work together, she has shown her ability to learn extremely fast, identify key challenges without boiling the ocean, and align priorities to accomplish the corporate mission. I've watched her take very challenging situations, personalities, global engineering and product teams, and competing initiatives and set things on course, reducing thrash, improving efficiency, and gaining employee trust and focus along the way. She is both a strategic thinker and very hands on where necessary, and brings her high energy, positive attitude with her at all times. I'm looking forward to working with Amy again!

Amy possesses an incredible "presence" when interacting with people. Whether it's in a meeting, a 1x1 discussion, or in a presentation environment, she commands attention due to her effervescent personality, energy level and excellent communication skills. She is immediately considered a "subject matter expert" because she is always well prepared, delivering facts and responding to questions with authority. She uses context and logic to communicate with others. If it doesn't make sense to Amy, then it doesn't make sense overall. She can distill complex situations into workable, understandable actions and goals. She is inclusive and interacts with everyone with an engaging demeanor. Whether it's subordinates in her organization, her immediate management, or officers at AT&T, Amy clearly communicates in an effective manner which is a delight to witness.

Amy is a very good negotiator. As described in #1 above, she is very effective in her communications, which includes her ability to persuade and influence. In one of her key roles while working for me, we had to communicate the rationale for an "Over The Top" video streaming service which would significantly change the way AT&T delivers video and value to consumers. Stakeholder "coverage" is essential at AT&T, as it's a very large organization, with a lot of people self-identifying as a "key stakeholder". These people are part of various organizations, including corporate strategy, operations, engineering, broadband and video product management, etc. I had tasked Amy to provide the business case and functional overview of the service (which is now in market as "DIRECTV STREAM", to all respective "stakeholders". This is a difficult job because everyone has different motivations and areas of focus. Amy was able to immediately connect with these various groups with sincere regard to their concerns. She demonstrated empathy and actively listened to their concerns. At the end of what was a 2+ month process of communication, Amy was able to get the green light from all concerned groups, which significantly decreased time to market, by avoiding political and operational issues.

Because of her abilities identified in #1 and #2 above, Amy is a very strong leader. People listen to her. People want to be a part of her projects because the projects that she leads have a high rate of success historically. I have seen in the past 2 years, that all the "difficult" projects default to Amy, as her management considers her to be their secret weapon to cut through bureaucracy and produce value for the corporation.

I can wholeheartedly recommend Amy for opportunities that are similar to the ones I describe above.

Amy is an excellent product leader who fosters a high-achieving, positive and fun team environment. In the time that I reported to her, I found her to be an ideal people manager -- willing to let you work autonomously, ready with advice or direction when needed, stepping in only when necessary, and always very dialed in to all of the work going on across her entire team and portfolio. She is also an exceptionally warm human being with an infectious positivity, who clearly cares about the people she works with and wants to help them succeed. Amy would be an outstanding addition for any company looking for exceptional product leadership.

I feel lucky to have worked with Amy at EA and continue to value her mentorship. Amy is an exceptional leader and manager who excels at helping teams and individuals reach their maximum potential. I reported to Amy briefly and got to continue working alongside her and the team she built during her tenure at EA.

She was a champion for human-centered design and partnered with me as I navigated the ambiguity and change management of standing up an effective service design team within our organization.

Amy is a stellar product management leader and someone I truly enjoyed working with. Whether creating the annual product strategy or coaching her team through specific product plans, she is thoughtful and effective in every aspect, always championing the voice of the customer and driving decisions/results through data and iterative design.

Amy is an outstanding product leader, who has excellent knowledge of her domain, and leads with integrity and strength of character, with clear vision, and with strategic intent. In my time working with Amy, her enthusiasm and energy, combined with professional competence and generosity of spirit made it a pleasure to work with her. She has a great ability to identify the key challenges, and broker the important conversations that are necessary to convert product vision and business context into unified and effective engineering action. She tackles this skillfully, with understanding for the people, the competing business priorities, and the business interests and motivations that need to be aligned for effective action. She brings this with a roll-up-your-sleeves pragmatism that gets at the tough decisions and makes them when required. Above and under that, Amy brings herself, with a warm respect and concern for people that fosters mutual commitment and accountability, and brings out the best in them.

Amy is a dynamic and detail-oriented Product leader. She's got a great ability to gather the tech that's required, process that, and apply it to groups ranging from engineering to e-staff with fluidity. She's a non-ego-driven leader who takes inputs from multiple places which is too often missing with many. And above and beyond the work items, Amy is a fabulous human being with great values who is an asset to a team as well as a company.

Amy is an excellent leader and will be a terrific asset in any CxO or leadership team lucky enough to have her. I worked under her supervision in the Product Team while dealing with multiple conflicting and difficult priorities. She was instrumental in driving and aligning company strategy at all levels starting from top management, through the product pipelines, down to the engineering teams making sure of the right implementation and product direction. When facing difficult decisions she brought clarity and buy in with ease for all stakeholders. While down managing, she instilled positive energy in every team member, keeping everyone focused on what needed to be achieved. I am highly recommending Amy as a senior leader to any senior leadership team.

Amy was a pleasure to work with. She is one of the very few product leaders I have met that is able to strike the right balance between product and engineering, enough guidance and steering to ensure the product moves forward while while respecting input from and ownership by engineers. In my experience this is rare ability.

Her ability to foster collaboration and teamwork really pulled our small company together, despite the team being spread around the globe. I was consistently impressed by Amy's ability to navigate complex challenges and difficult situations with poise and determination. She is a strategic thinker who possesses a rare combination of analytical prowess and creativity.

I hope our paths cross in the future, I would very much like the opportunity to collaborate with Amy again.

I really enjoyed working with Amy heading the ActiveVideo product department. I found her to be smart and politically astute. She is always clear in her communication and position, and has a keen eye towards the company goals and how to achieve them. She is a real asset to any ambitious company!