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Her approach maps organizational authority, end\-to\-end processes, systems redundancy, and data definitions to create scalable future states while maintaining business continuity\. Sonya’s strength is cross\-functional alignment: connecting technology, operations, customer experience, and business outcomes while influencing stakeholders and guiding adoption\. Her work has reduced cloud\-computing expense by 30%, prevented or reduced revenue loss through licensing\-platform security and persistent cross\-system identity controls, accelerated contingent\-worker account provisioning by 90%, and supported infrastructure programs across product portfolios with more than $70 million in annual revenue\. Sonya has led initiatives at Apple, PayPal, Nomi Health, Cadence Design Systems, ARRIS, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility, and Terayon\. She also contributes to AI\-model training and evaluation, including prompt design, reasoning assessment, RAG, supervised fine\-tuning, and feedback that improved logical accuracy and reduced response errors\. ## Services - IT Project & Program Management - Systems Engineering - Natural Language Processing \(NLP\) - Program Delivery Management - Mentoring - Jira - Confluence - ServiceNow - Salesforce\.com - Java - Retrieval\-Augmented Generation \(RAG\) - Reward Modeling - Reinforcement Learning - JavaScript - Stakeholder Management - Process Engineering - Change Management - Product Innovation - Engineering Management - Systems Development Management - Software Solution Management - Customer Satisfaction - Risk management and mitigation - Roadmap development - OKRs and KPIs - Supervised Fine Tuning - Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback - AI/ML - Freelancing - RESTful WebServices ## Highlights - Designed enterprise operating architectures for legacy modernization, post\-acquisition convergence, governance, canonical data models, and scalable operating\-model redesign\. - Led a mobile licensing and data\-flash refurbishment transformation across 13 product lines, reducing costs by $100,000 per month, reducing data\-flash returns by 85%, and achieving ROI within one quarter\. - Managed licensing\-platform architecture supporting 6 product families, 12 product lines, more than 100 license types, and more than $71 million in annual revenue at ARRIS\. - Built a Python, TensorFlow, and AWS SageMaker ML model for estimating compute\-job cost and completion time on internal systems versus AWS, contributing to a 30% reduction in cloud\-computing expense\. - Developed a Java API connecting external issue\-tracking systems with a corporate CRM, eliminating manual reports and increasing customer satisfaction by 50% among key clients\. - Integrated an LMS with the Cadence Online Support portal, expanding eLearning and instructor\-led training access and saving $3 million annually\. - Integrated Salesforce\.com with Marketo, Google Firebase, and automated marketing technology, doubling engagement visibility across email, web, video, and events\. - Managed offshore development of a customer\-visit mobile application that increased customer satisfaction by 20% across the Salesforce\.com sales process\. - Implemented Salesforce CPQ Deal Quality statistical\-analysis enhancements for sales\-contract equability visibility in approvals\. - Re\-engineered product data encoding and encryption using proprietary API methods, DES, RSA, and hash\-value algorithms for U\.S\. Customs compliance\. - Led Azure migration of enterprise workloads across Dev, QA, UAT, and production with Azure Migrate and Terraform deployed BizTalk, web, database, and reporting servers and cross\-region disaster recovery\. - Directed Motorola Mobility corporate\-system and domain migration to ARRIS standards, including data\-center procedure changes, building\-utility migration, and server\-build updates\. - Aligned Apple hardware, software, and operations teams during a five\-month engagement automated daily reporting and developed an ML model identifying cross\-model issue patterns\. - Improved Motorola Home & Networks Mobility customer\-license, data\-center, and business\-process integrations, reducing support issues by 20% and increasing customer satisfaction by 15%\. - Introduced CI/CD processes with automated testing that maintained at least 95% unit\-test and system\-test code coverage per release\. - Managed four critical PayPal Infrastructure Platform programs with 100% on\-time delivery within six months\. - Facilitated 20 successful PayPal project completions within six months and accelerated completion timelines by 20% through resource optimization\. - Produced PayPal KPI reporting and books of work that improved stakeholder engagement, risk mitigation, milestone tracking, and reporting transparency\. - Improved Terayon enterprise\-application stability and reduced downtime by 40%\. - Re\-engineered Terayon’s SLK licensing and serial\-number platform with C\#, \.NET, SQL Server, and REST APIs, reducing revenue loss and saving $10 million annually\. - Supervised an EAI solution featured in Microsoft’s “Supply\-Chain Solution Boosts Productivity 75 Percent for Video\-Equipment Maker” case study\. - Integrated Terayon SLK with repair and return processes, reducing downtime by 25% and increasing productivity by 20%\. - Led Nomi Health engineering initiatives supporting COVID\-19 response in 20 states and directed three consulting teams building patient\-encounter systems that supported more than 10 million people\. - Engineered more than 20 Nomi Health microservices using Go, webhooks, AWS Lambdas, and Kafka listeners, reducing contingent\-worker provisioning time by 90%\. - Built AWS Lambda and Python reporting for partner talent agencies, supporting timecards, revenue recognition, and payroll for more than 500 contingent workers\. - Selected and implemented an eLearning LMS at Nomi Health, increasing training compliance by 100%\. - Improved AI logical accuracy by 50% within three months through complex\-prompt design and evaluation, and evaluated more than 1,000 model\-generated responses\. - Used RAG and supervised fine\-tuning to reduce AI response errors by 30% within three months\. - Serves on the Texas A&M University–Texarkana Women in Leadership Program Advisory Board, helping shape a hands\-on program covering personal leadership, team building, negotiation, communication, and organizational culture\. ## Experience - **Principal / Engineering Consultant at S\. L\. S\. A\. LLC** (2025\-11\-01–present) - **Women in Leadership Program Advisory Board Member at Texas A&M University\-Texarkana** (2023\-06\-01–present) — Industry experts design the Texas A&M University\-Texarkana Women in Leadership Program for professionals seeking expert advice, strategies, and practical tools\. From the initial Personal Leadership assessment to team building, negotiation strategies, communications, organizational culture, and more, participants are ready to roll up their sleeves and apply new skills in this hands\-on, interactive course\. - **Engineering Program Manager at Apple** (2025\-06\-01–2025\-11\-01) — Led cross\-functional alignment across hardware, software, and operations during a fast\-paced five\-month engagement\. Resolved persistent issues, streamlined communication, and built scalable solutions—including automating daily reporting and developing an ML model to surface cross\-model issue patterns—enabling faster, more strategic decision\-making\. - **Technical Program Manager at PayPal RU** (2024\-10\-01–2025\-04\-01) — Led large\-scale Infrastructure Platform Engineering projects from inception to completion using various project management methodologies, including the Scrum and SAFe Agile methodologies\. Guided engineering teams using system tools and a project management framework\. \- Managed four critical programs in PayPal's Infrastructure Platform Domain, achieving 100% on\-time delivery by aligning technical and business goals within six months\. \- Facilitated cross\-functional collaboration, aligning business and technical goals, resulting in 20 successful project completions within six months through effective team coordination\. \- Enabled data\-driven decision\-making by generating comprehensive project KPIs reports, strengthening stakeholder engagement, and risk\-mitigation efforts across multiple projects\. \- Enhanced project timelines by implementing resource optimization strategies, resulting in 20% faster project completions within 6 months\. \- Crafted comprehensive books of work to align engineeri - **Advanced AI Trainer \| Invisible Technologies at S\. L\. S\. A\. LLC** (2024\-05\-01–2024\-09\-01) — Developed and tested coding prompts to train LLMs in multiple programming languages, algorithmic problem\-solving, and advanced STEM queries\. \- Implemented advanced training techniques, such as RAG and SFT, and achieved a 30% reduction in AI response errors within 3 months, significantly improving model conversation quality and reliability\. \- Collaborated with multiple teams to boost model performance for real\-world applications by improving code output, handling complex STEM queries, flagging reasoning flaws, and hallucinated responses\. - **Generative AI Model Performance Analyst \| Outlier at S\. L\. S\. A\. LLC** (2024\-03\-01–2024\-10\-01) — Analyzed AI\-generated content for accuracy, logical coherence, tone, and completeness provided structured feedback to guide model improvement and ethical AI training\. \- Enhanced AI model reasoning by designing and evaluating complex prompts, resulting in a 50% improvement in logical accuracy within 3 months\. \- Contributed to multiple AI projects by evaluating 1,000\+ model\-generated responses for step\-by\-step logic, code quality, and completeness, improving overall model accuracy\. - **Sr\. Software Engineering Manager at Nomi Health** (2021\-04\-01–2023\-02\-01) — Implemented strategic engineering initiatives as a leader in the Nomi Care Division, streamlining processes and reporting systems\. Leveraged technology to support COVID\-19 response efforts in 20 states, enabling governments, businesses, and organizations to navigate the crisis and achieve remarkable outcomes\. \- Directed the efforts of three external consulting teams in developing software solutions for patient encounter records for testing, vaccines, laboratory testing, and analytical reporting to customer and governmental agencies, enabling over 10 million patients to return to work and children to resume school activities safely\. \- Engineered an ecosystem of 20\+ microservices to seamlessly integrate HR, LMS, operational, and access control systems\. Streamlined onboarding and off\-boarding processes for contingent staff, ensuring security compliance, training completion, schedule adherence, and timesheet approval data using GoLang, Webhooks, Lambdas, and Kafka listeners in AWS\. This re - **Business Analyst at Cadence Design Systems** (2017\-08\-01–2020\-12\-01) — Executed multiple projects to enhance business agility for internal and external customers, providing technical insight for products and processes, systems architecture & design, and vendor & contract management\. \- Devised an ML model to estimate cost and time for completion of compute jobs run on internal systems vs\. AWS using Python, Tensorflow, and AWS SageMaker, enabling data\-driven decision\-making, leading to a 30% reduction in cloud computing expenses and enhanced customer satisfaction\. \- Developed an API that facilitated the integration of external issue\-tracking systems with the corporate CRM using Java, rendering updates in both systems and eliminating the need for manual reports between the support team and external users, leading to a 50% surge in customer satisfaction among key clients\. \- Successfully led the integration of a new LMS system with the Cadence Online Support portal, granting internal and external users unrestricted access to valuable eLearning resources and en - **Software Engineering Manager at ARRIS** (2013\-04\-01–2016\-02\-01) — Managed the software architecture and enhancements to the proprietary software license key inventory management system \(SLK\), supporting 6 product families with 12 product lines and 100\+ license types, delivering $ 71 M\+ per year in revenue\. \-Implemented a data flash refurbishment process, seamlessly integrating ERP, CRM, repair tracking, and distribution systems, resulting in a notable $100k monthly cost reduction and an impressive 85% decrease in customer returns of data flash\. \- Re\-engineered data encoding and encryption for domestic and exported products, leveraging proprietary API encoding methods with DES, RSA, and hash value encryption algorithms for US Customs compliance\. \- Led migration of enterprise workloads from an off\-site data center to Azure using Azure Migrate and Terraform, encompassing Dev, QA, UAT, and Prod environments\. Architected and deployed BizTalk, Web, Database, and Reporting servers, and established a cross\-region disaster recovery solution\. \- Planned and eff - **Software Engineering Manager at Motorola Home & Networks Mobility** (2007\-11\-01–2011\-01\-01) — Managed engineering, IT, and customer service resources to support customer license management, data center management, and integrations with sales processes, customer maintenance contracts, manufacturing, distribution, and repair programs achieved a 20% reduction in customer support issues and a 15% increase in customer satisfaction\. \- Planned and executed the seamless migration of Terayon's corporate systems and domains to Motorola standards, directing cross\-functional teams to revamp data center operational procedures\. \- Introduced CI/CD pipeline processes, which achieved and maintained unit test and system testing code coverage of 95% or higher per release using automated testing\. - **Enterprise Application Engineering Manager at Terayon** (2004\-06\-01–2007\-11\-01) — Led resource management and provided technical guidance for enterprise applications supporting finance, HR, sales, and manufacturing teams improved system stability and reduced downtime by 40%\. \- Spearheaded the re\-engineering project for the corporate licensing and serial number management system \(SLK\) using C\#, \.Net, SQL Server, and Rest APIs, reducing revenue loss by implementing robust security measures and saving the company $10 million annually\. \- Supervised the delivery of an EAI solution written up as a Microsoft case study, “Supply\-Chain Solution Boosts Productivity 75 Percent for Video\-Equipment Maker\.” \- Facilitated the implementation of interfaces to integrate the SLK system with repair and return processes, resulting in enhanced data integrity and streamlined operations reduced system downtime by 25% and increased productivity by 20%\. ## Education - MultiCloud Specialization Program — The Cloud Bootcamp (2023\-04\-01–2024\-04\-01) - Master of Engineering \- MEng, Software Engineering — Penn State University (2016\-01\-01–2018\-12\-01) - Bachelor of Science \- BS, Accounting — University of Southern California \- Marshall School of Business ## FAQ ### What does Sonya do now? Sonya is a Principal and Engineering Consultant at S\. L\. S\. A\. LLC\. She designs enterprise operating architectures and leads technical programs focused on legacy modernization, post\-acquisition convergence, governance, system integration, data consistency, and scalable operating models\. ### What are Sonya’s core strengths? Sonya is strongest in technology architecture, operating\-model design, governance discipline, enterprise architecture, systems and solution architecture, program delivery, and cross\-functional leadership\. She focuses on simplifying the user experience while maintaining consistent measurement, meaning, resilience, and governance at the core\. ### How does Sonya approach enterprise transformation? Sonya begins transformation work by mapping organizational authority, documenting end\-to\-end process architecture, analyzing system redundancy, and aligning canonical data definitions\. She treats transformation as architectural convergence rather than simply tool consolidation, and she uses a pain\-first approach: pilot with key customers, prove value, and then scale\. ### What did Sonya accomplish in AI model performance analysis? At S\. L\. S\. A\. LLC, Sonya has worked as a Generative AI Model Performance Analyst for Outlier\. She analyzed AI\-generated content for accuracy, logical coherence, tone, and completeness provided structured feedback for model improvement and ethical AI training designed and evaluated complex prompts that improved logical accuracy by 50% within three months and evaluated more than 1,000 model\-generated responses for step\-by\-step logic, code quality, and completeness\. ### What has Sonya done as an Advanced AI Trainer? As an Advanced AI Trainer with Invisible Technologies at S\. L\. S\. A\. LLC, Sonya developed and tested coding prompts for LLM training across programming languages, algorithmic problem\-solving, and advanced STEM queries\. She used RAG and supervised fine\-tuning techniques, reducing AI response errors by 30% within three months, and collaborated with teams to improve code output, complex STEM\-query handling, reasoning\-flaw detection, and hallucination flagging\. ### What did Sonya accomplish at Cadence Design Systems? As a Business Analyst at Cadence Design Systems, Sonya delivered projects supporting business agility for internal and external customers across product and process technical insight, systems architecture and design, and vendor and contract management\. She built a Python, TensorFlow, and AWS SageMaker ML model to estimate compute\-job cost and completion time on internal systems versus AWS, contributing to a 30% reduction in cloud\-computing expense and improved customer satisfaction\. ### How did Sonya improve customer support and learning systems at Cadence? At Cadence, Sonya developed a Java API integrating external issue\-tracking systems with the corporate CRM, updating both systems and eliminating manual reports between the support team and external users\. The work produced a 50% increase in customer satisfaction among key clients\. She also integrated a new LMS with the Cadence Online Support portal, expanding access to eLearning and instructor\-led training booking and saving $3 million annually\. ### What Salesforce and marketing technology work did Sonya lead at Cadence? Sonya partnered with Marketing to integrate Salesforce\.com with Marketo, Google Firebase, and other automated marketing ad\-tech, doubling visibility into customer and visitor engagement across email, websites, video content, and events\. She recruited and managed offshore resources for a mobile application that improved post\-customer\-visit communication and actions, increasing customer satisfaction by 20% across the Salesforce\.com sales process\. She also implemented Deal Quality statistical\-analysis enhancements in the Salesforce CPQ module for sales\-contract equability visibility during approvals\. ### What was Sonya’s role at ARRIS? As Software Engineering Manager at ARRIS, Sonya managed architecture and enhancements for the proprietary software license\-key inventory management system, SLK\. The platform supported six product families, 12 product lines, and more than 100 license types, contributing more than $71 million in annual revenue\. ### What licensing and data\-flash transformation did Sonya lead at ARRIS? At ARRIS, Sonya implemented a data\-flash refurbishment process integrating ERP, CRM, repair\-tracking, and distribution systems\. It reduced costs by $100,000 per month, decreased customer returns of data flash by 85%, and delivered ROI within one quarter\. She also re\-engineered data encoding and encryption for domestic and exported products using proprietary API methods, DES, RSA, and hash\-value encryption algorithms to support U\.S\. Customs compliance\. ### What infrastructure modernization work did Sonya lead at ARRIS? Sonya led enterprise workload migration from an off\-site data center to Azure using Azure Migrate and Terraform across development, QA, UAT, and production environments\. She architected and deployed BizTalk, web, database, and reporting servers and established cross\-region disaster recovery\. She also planned the migration of Motorola Mobility corporate systems and domains to ARRIS standards, directing cross\-functional data\-center procedure changes, building\-utility migration, and server\-build updates\. ### What did Sonya do at Apple? During a five\-month Engineering Program Manager engagement at Apple, Sonya aligned hardware, software, and operations teams\. She resolved persistent issues, improved communication, automated daily reporting, and developed an ML model to surface issue patterns across models, enabling faster and more strategic decisions\. ### What did Sonya accomplish at Motorola Home & Networks Mobility? As Engineering Manager at Motorola Home & Networks Mobility, Sonya managed engineering, IT, and customer\-service resources supporting customer license management, data\-center management, and integrations with sales, customer\-maintenance contracts, manufacturing, distribution, and repair programs\. Her work reduced customer\-support issues by 20% and increased customer satisfaction by 15%\. ### What modernization and engineering\-practice work did Sonya lead at Motorola? At Motorola, Sonya planned and executed Terayon corporate\-system and domain migration to Motorola standards\. She directed cross\-functional teams that updated data\-center operating procedures, migrated building utilities, updated server builds, replaced hardware, and relocated servers to an off\-site facility\. She introduced CI/CD processes that achieved and maintained at least 95% unit\-test and system\-test code coverage per release using automated testing\. ### What did Sonya accomplish at PayPal? As a Technical Program Manager at PayPal RU, Sonya led Infrastructure Platform Engineering projects from inception through completion using Scrum, SAFe Agile, and other project\-management methodologies\. She managed four critical programs with 100% on\-time delivery within six months, aligned business and technical goals, and facilitated 20 successful project completions in the same period\. ### How did Sonya improve delivery governance at PayPal? At PayPal, Sonya produced project KPI reports that supported data\-driven decisions, stakeholder engagement, and risk mitigation\. She implemented resource\-optimization strategies that accelerated project completion by 20% within six months and created comprehensive books of work that improved milestone tracking, stakeholder alignment, and reporting transparency within three months\. ### What did Sonya accomplish at Terayon? As Enterprise Application Engineering Manager at Terayon, Sonya managed resources and provided technical guidance for enterprise applications serving finance, HR, sales, and manufacturing\. She improved system stability and reduced downtime by 40%\. She also re\-engineered the SLK corporate licensing and serial\-number management system with C\#, \.NET, SQL Server, and REST APIs, using stronger security measures to reduce revenue loss and save $10 million annually\. ### What notable integration work did Sonya lead at Terayon? At Terayon, Sonya supervised delivery of an enterprise application integration solution documented in the Microsoft case study, “Supply\-Chain Solution Boosts Productivity 75 Percent for Video\-Equipment Maker\.” She also facilitated SLK interfaces with repair and return processes, improving data integrity, reducing system downtime by 25%, and increasing productivity by 20%\. ### What did Sonya accomplish at Nomi Health? As Senior Software Engineering Manager in the Nomi Care Division at Nomi Health, Sonya led strategic engineering initiatives that streamlined processes and reporting systems supporting COVID\-19 response efforts in 20 states\. She directed three external consulting teams developing patient\-encounter software for testing, vaccines, laboratory testing, and analytics reporting to customers and government agencies, supporting more than 10 million people returning to work and children returning to school safely\. ### How did Sonya improve onboarding, reporting, training, and sales operations at Nomi Health? At Nomi Health, Sonya engineered an ecosystem of more than 20 microservices integrating HR, LMS, operations, and access\-control systems\. Using Go, webhooks, AWS Lambda functions, and Kafka listeners, she reduced contingent\-worker account\-provisioning time by 90% and improved training\-compliance reporting accuracy\. She also built an AWS Lambda and Python automated reporting system for partner talent agencies that supported approved timecards, revenue recognition, and payroll for more than 500 contingent workers selected and implemented an eLearning LMS that doubled training compliance and formalized Salesforce access controls, Definitive HC and D&B Connect lead validation, and customized sales pipelines and approval processing\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/ACoAAAANAfQBRJE3WWNE\-3Kj3WE2njIUT9GCcAs