Sr. Product Manager, Yahoo! Search Distribution
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Sr. Product Manager, Search Distribution at Yahoo!
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- Engineering Manager and Evangelist, Performance at Yahoo!
- Software Engineer, Pervasive Computing at IBM
- Software Consultant at Viant, Inc.
- Engineering Intern, Eudora at Qualcomm, Inc
- Education
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- University of California, San Diego
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Tenni Theurer’s Summary
Tenni Theurer joined Yahoo! in early 2006 as a technical evangelist in Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance group. She then took reigns as manager and grew the engineering team to lead the global effort on making Yahoo! products faster and accelerating the user experience worldwide.
Tenni is currently a Sr. Product Manager in Yahoo!’s Search Distribution group. Tenni has spoken at several conferences including Web 2.0 Expo, Ajax Experience, Rich Web Experience, AJAXWorld, BlogHer, WITI, and CSDN-DrDobbs. She is a featured guest blogger on Yahoo! Developer Network and Yahoo! User Interface Blog.
Prior to Yahoo!, Tenni worked in IBM’s Pervasive Computing group on enterprise mobile solutions where she worked directly with high profile customers on large-scale deployments.
Tenni Theurer’s Specialties:
search distribution, search relevance, product management, product development; managing and recruiting teams; competitive analysis; defining and building products; usability; performance and capacity planning; public speaking; communications; technology; Web 2.0; enterprise applications; database systems
Tenni Theurer’s Experience
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Sr. Product Manager, Search Distribution
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
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Engineering Manager and Evangelist, Performance
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
February 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 5 months)
Recruited and managed Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance group, an engineering team dedicated to quantify and improve the performance of Yahoo! web products worldwide. Led the global effort on accelerating the user experience and making Yahoo! products faster and better for the user experience.
Evangelist/expert for performance at Yahoo!. Spoke at several external conferences worldwide including Web 2.0 Expo, Ajax Experience, Rich Web Experience, AJAXWorld, BlogHer, WITI, and CSDN-DrDobbs. Featured guest blogger on Yahoo! Developer Network and Yahoo! User Interface Blog.
Co-authored two pending patents on technical solutions that improve web page response times. -
Software Engineer, Pervasive Computing
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — February 2006 (5 years 1 month)
Customer consultant and product evangelist; liason between marketing, consulting and development teams. Worked directly with high profile customers on large-scale deployments. Involved in marketing and competitive research, as well as performance development. Authored competitive sales articles and technical whitepapers. Compared competitor products in areas of performance, technical features and product licensing to trigger continual competitive positioning in both development and marketing.
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Software Consultant
Viant, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2000 — December 2000 (5 months)
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Engineering Intern, Eudora
Qualcomm, Inc
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; QCOM; Telecommunications industry)
June 1998 — July 2000 (2 years 2 months)
Tenni Theurer’s Education
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University of California, San Diego
Computer Science
