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Patrick Copeland

Motivated technical leader, passionate about creating products customers love, developing global teams and systems. Enthusiastic about astronomy and digital photography.

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2013-today

Incubation & experiments on high impact social/technical projects.
Senior Engineering Director at Google, leads an engineering and product team. Leading a set of cross functional start up projects focused on the interests of Larry Page (CEO). Direct report of Alfred Spector (VP Research Google).

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recent
2011-2013

Advertising systems for big data and sales targeting.
Senior Engineering Director at Google, lead product and engineering teams that builds platforms and infrastructure for Google's advertising business. Cross functional leader of 300. Direct report of Susan Wojcicki (SVP Ads Google).

Selling and Insight Platforms
We built a platform for Google’s primary business: selling advertising. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is critical in keeping track of millions of advertisers that account for most of Google’s revenue. There are opportunities to make sales and marketing teams far more effective and efficient. The platform was broadly adopted and the system of record for the entire company.

360 Customer
Knowing our customers and how they are using our products is critical. Mapping customers to products opens the door to cross selling and better sales effectiveness. We helped improve selling with a highly scalable platform for marketing, user acquisition and opportunity management.

Fast Big Data
We built systems to handle the avalanche of big data and turned it into actionable information. We were challenged with heterogeneous storage systems and formats, verticalized and enmeshed data and code, and many querying and visualization frameworks. We unified analytical processing by integrating ad hoc querying, pipeline-building, and self-service dashboarding, backed by a data warehouse.
Analytical Query Processing, Theo Vassilakis

Introducing Tenzing: SQL on Mapreduce
Wired Magazine on Dremel

Customer Support Platforms
Delivering one beautiful customer experience includes delighting our users even when they need help or have problems with our products. We’re creating a world class help experience for all Google products. The primary goal of Google Help team is to provide a simple, elegant and ubiquitous way for users to get help and provide feedback to our products.
Google Feedback
Angular JS

Advertiser Experience
We enable Google to optimize the experience of advertisers and prospects when they interact with our Sales, Marketing and automated channels. We build automated systems for generating predictive models used to get insights, measure, iterate, and improve treatments; with the goal of having a continuous dialog with customers in their vocabulary.


previous
2006-2011

Dramatically improved company product and developer velocity.
During first six years at Google, responsible for a group of a thousand engineers in thirty-four countries. Team developed innovative engineering tools, systems, and process that provide a competitive advantage for Google. Cross functional leader of 1200. Report of Bill Coughran (SVP Infrastructure Google).

Engineering Productivity
Largest and fastest build/test system in the world: 150M tests/day, 20 check-ins/min, 170M LOC, 1 tree. In 2012 eng wide survey these tools were voted "most valuable to engineering." Moved company from 30 days release cycles to daily.
Continuous Integration, Nathan York
Dev Speed and Scale of Google, Ashish Kumar
Google Developer Blog

Google Testing
Drove Google culture to focus on quality. Built Google's engineering team focus on testing from a few to over 1000 in 34 countries. Instrumental in making testing an accepted part of every engineer's responsibility.
Culture change Testing on Toilet press
Google Testing Blog
Automation Conference: 2007 2008 2009 2010
Open Source: Selenium code

Internationalization
Build automated systems that globalized and internationalized all of Google's products to primary 40 markets. Nearly instant localization of 1M strings per month. Built a number of key features for the world wide market.
Google Translator Toolkit
Example: W3C Handling of Names
Example: Google Search Now Supports Cherokee
Virtual keyboards (Cloud IMEs)

Pretotyping and Innovation
Influenced many fortune 100 companies to improve their approach to products. A philosophy, movement, and manifesto for improving project success and reducing slow painful failures.
Pretotyping.org
Pretotyping Book, Alberto Savioa
Androgen >> WeTap example
Open Source: Paco

Accessibility
Provides innovative features for disabled users, that also provided exciting new functionality to products.
ChromeVox : "product of choice for the blind user"
Open Source: Axsjax
Android Text to Speech
Automated Captions in YouTube >> NAD award
Press attention: PCMag, WebAxe, ZDNet


ancient
1995-2006

Built global software and learned from the best of that era.
During eleven years at Microsoft, led engineering and cross-functional teams that created operating systems, databases, business applications, and cloud-based systems. Contributed through high growth and success of the company. Moved quickly from engineer to Partner Engineering Director.

Bing 2004-2006
Member of the v1 team that restarted Microsoft's search business. Worked on all areas: ranking, crawl, UI, datacenter. Report of Ken Moss (VP eBay).

Dynamics
2002-2004
enior Technical Leader across Microsoft Business Solutions: CRM, ERP, and Accounting Solutions. Report of Hal Howard (VP MS)/Satya Nadella (SVP MS).

SQL Server 1999-2002
B
uilt initial versions of XML, XSLT, and data access components into SQL Server. Report of Adam Bosworth (VP Google).


WindowsCE 1995-1999
Member of the v1 team that build a real time micro-operating system. Descendants of this OS are now in the Win7 phone and many devices. Report of Bryan Trussel (CEO Glympse) and Frank Fite (CTO Sesame)