Greatest Hits (so far)

Three companies. Three different kinds of broken. Same pattern every time: find the real question, then build the answer.

Sensoride

(acquired)

The Acquisition

Product & Business Strategy

The situation:

  • •Radar technology startup founded by two PhDs from Qualcomm
  • •Breakthrough technology with no roadmap, no pitch, and no business narrative
  • •Answering investor questions with research papers

What happened:

  • •Learned the technology at the level the engineers spoke it(signal processing background)
  • •Rebuilt the entire business narrative from scratch
  • •Bridged the gap between the technology and the business to prioritize what to build, in what order, and why. Turned a build-everything-all-at-once framework into a sequenced, fundable plan
  • •Built all pitch materials and project management infrastructure from zero
  • •They stopped taking meetings without me in the room

The result:

  • •Delivered the presentation to their biggest investor opportunity
  • •That investor acquired the company

“Allison transformed our complex technical work into clear, compelling narratives that won over investors. She kept projects moving, clarified our vision, and made our value impossible to miss.”

Apple

The Stalled Launch & the Security Exploit

Senior Engineering Program Manager, Services

The situation:

  • •Major product launch, so far behind schedule it was holding up contracts
  • •No recovery plan. No alignment across teams.

What happened:

  • •Set up war rooms. Built the review process. Brought every team into alignment
  • •Built the recovery plan and presented it directly to the VP who owned the product
  • •Owned daily status updates to the VP

The result:

  • •Shipped with zero critical bugs

What came next:

  • •Active security exploit costing Apple money for months. A division head pulled 50+ people into a room and handed ownership to me
  • •Built and led a multi-year security program across 20 teams and 11 platforms, spanning the full content playback stack:DRM (digital rights management), cryptography, fraud prevention, CDN security (content delivery network)

Selected to represent Apple on the CDSA (Hollywood's content security board)

Sony

Nine Directions, No Map

R&D Program Portfolio Lead, reporting to VP of Engineering

The situation:

  • •Nine initiatives across machine learning, edge AI, and computer vision
  • •The technology was strong but untested. No market validation, no way to tell which products would actually make money

What happened:

  • •Introduced customer discovery and hypothesis-driven development so the team could validate product-market fit before building
  • •Defined what to build, in what order, and why. Turned nine scattered initiatives into a prioritized product strategy
  • •Built the program management function from scratch to operationalize all of it: phases, decision gates, milestones, reporting

The result:

  • •One product became the foundation for a projected billion-dollar vertical
  • •Saved roughly 50 hours per week across the department

Patent holder: image colorization technology

“Allison leads with clarity, builds cohesive teams, and brings analytical yet innovative problem-solving to any industry.”

Matthew Wnuk, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Sony ElectronicsFull testimonial
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