Lisa Cohen
About
Lisa Cohen is from Greater Seattle Area. Lisa works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Internet", "Higher Education", and "Information Technology & Services". Lisa is currently Director of Data Science at Twitter, located in Greater Seattle Area. In Lisa's previous role as a Director of Data Science at Microsoft, Lisa worked in until Sep 2021. Prior to joining Microsoft, Lisa was a Principal Data Science Manager at Microsoft and held the position of Principal Data Science Manager at Greater Seattle Area. Prior to that, Lisa was a Head of Developer Division Telemetry and Customer Engagement Team at Microsoft, based in Greater Seattle Area from Jan 2012 to Sep 2015. Lisa started working as Senior Product Manager Lead - Visual Studio Community at Microsoft in Greater Seattle Area in Jul 2008. From Sep 2004 to Jul 2008, Lisa was Product Manager II - Visual Studio Languages & IDE at Microsoft, based in Greater Seattle Area. Prior to that, Lisa was a Mentor & Researcher at UCLA, based in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro from Jun 2002 to Aug 2003.
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Lisa Cohen's current jobs
Leading an organization of talented data scientists, advancing the public conversation on Twitter. We leverage analysis, experimentation, causal inference and machine learning to help users discover and connect with relevant information. Partnering closely with product management, engineering, design and research to pursue data-driven product innovation and achieve strategic goals.
Lisa Cohen's past jobs
Leading a Data Science org in Microsoft Cloud Data Sciences. Customer Growth Analytics is a strategic business advisor to many functions across the company, driving customer and partner growth through E2E data science perspectives & experimentation.
Leading a Data Science org in Microsoft Cloud Data Sciences, driving customer success and business growth. Partnering with C+AI Engineering, Marketing, Field and Finance teams to create program enhancements and measure the impact. Responsible for analyzing business metrics, informing data-driven decisions, and developing data science models to help customers be successful on the Microsoft Cloud. Bringing new ideas and opportunities to help drive business goals. End-to-end view of Azure, across our "Go To Market" motions (for customers, partners, field), foundational areas (support, content, retention, fraud), and website entry points. Cross-functional areas include data science, analytics, machine learning, MLOps, experimentation, product management and data visualization. Lead team planning with stakeholders to identify highest opportunity areas. Passionate about leading team initiatives for learning, mentoring, manager excellence, etc.
Led the team responsible for Developer Division Customer Engagement, including both inbound and outbound telemetry and communications. Delivered regular business reviews and release reports, in which we analyzed our product telemetry and drove the appropriate actions to achieve business goals. In the process, we increased the focus on product telemetry to drive a culture of data-driven decision making. We also invested in improvements to our divisional data pipeline, to improve efficiencies and insights, and drove our telemetry roadmap planning. In addition to telemetry, we analyzed qualitative feedback from the led central systems we led, to help the division best engage with customers. This included feedback channels (bugs, suggestions, support cases), customer programs (top account relationships, MVP program, pre-release betas), and communications (blogs, social, release notes). Our overall mission was to help customers be successful adopting and using Visual Studio, and ensure that their experience engaging with Microsoft is first rate. Partnered closely with all Developer Product Engineering teams, Customer Support, Marketing and PR. I also spent a year in this role managing Executive Communications and Event Content. This involved developing content for blogs and presentations, to communicate our strategy and messaging. I was responsible for Divisional Blogging and the Developer MVP Influencer Program, and launched a new blog network to improve discoverability and SEO: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/developer-tools/
In this role, I led the Community program for the Visual Studio Professional team, which included the Visual Studio IDE and Managed Languages (Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual F#, IronRuby, IronPython). I gathered customer feedback to drive product planning, and also created content such as videos, blogs, websites, and conference presentations. I gave 50+ conference presentations and keynotes at events around the world, and received top speaker scores from attendees.
As a technical product manager, I was responsible for product development at each stage of the software life cycle. This included understanding customer requests and industry trends, designing the software features, prioritizing and scheduling plans, working with the team through the implementation, and presenting the final product to customers. I led a virtual feature team of ~12 developers and testers, who were working on the C# and VB IDE. Shipped the Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 releases. One of the most interesting projects was when we brought SQL query syntax into the C# and VB languages, and updated the Editor, Debugger, IntelliSense, and various IDE features to make the experience feel natural and provide discoverability for the new language features.
Conducted Hughes Research Lab research to create a feasibility model for semiconductor thin film growth, using numerical implementation of transport equations. Led NSF-funded research program in Brazil to optimize channel allocation for a cellular provider with multiple resources.