ABOUT
Alexandra Foote
COMPUTER SCIENTIST | PRODUCT MANAGER
Professional Profile
Alexandra is a product manager passionate about user experience. As an experienced career coach, she has coached hundreds of students into landing job offers at top companies. While studying computer science at Georgia Tech, Alexandra held numerous leadership positions and made meaningful change on campus while running multiple businesses.
EDUCATION
Harvard Business School
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Class of 2025 (expected) | Boston, MA
Admitted via the 2+2 deferred enrollment program
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Aug 2015 - Dec 2019 | Atlanta, GA
Concentrations: Intelligence, Media | Minor: Industrial Design
EXPERIENCE
Microsoft
Program Manager
Mar 2020 - Present
Bellevue, WA
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Shipped visually immersive search experience for Bing Recipes that stimulated a >5% DAU increase
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Drove expansion of Bing recipe features to international markets, sparking a +140% YoY FC DAU
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Spearheaded Bing movie user re-engagement campaign for over 2M users, lifting engagement by 8.59% WoW
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Appointed director of Microsoft's Black Summer Intern Experience (BSIX) and increased retention of Black intern talent to 84% while boosting intern opt-in rate to 95% and program satisfaction to 90%
Associate Product Manager(APM) Intern
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Mountain View, CA
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Developed solutions for advertisers to understand how their ads perform on YouTube
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Launched improvement that increased survey efficiency for BrandLift by 14.6%, allowing for a 17.5 million decrease in surveys sent daily
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Developed detailed implementation plan for actionability pathways for advertisers in BrandLift for YouTube Ads
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Collaborated daily with other PMs, engineering, UX designers, and researchers to ensure successful launches
Microsoft
Program Manager Intern
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Redmond, WA
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Owned new Cortana experience expected to scale to 3.99 million monthly active users
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Managed team of engineers through entire creation and development of experience
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Developed detailed and robust specs, proposals, research artifacts, and a vision video
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Collaborated with multiple teams to ensure a delightful experience for users and differentiators from competitors
Microsoft
Explorer Intern
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Redmond, WA
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Provided a viable Cortana Alarm AI prototype expected to scale to 84K monthly active users
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Managed the Cortana Alarm AI product design and feature development using C#, C, and Python
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Used Azure Web Services with Microsoft Cognitive Services to analyze data from camera input
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Rotated between Program Manager and Software Developer Engineer roles
Bank of America
Technology Intern
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Charlotte, NC
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Implemented user interface enhancements in JavaScript for Everest credit management tool
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Led design sessions to capture customer feedback regarding usability and functionality requirements
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Performed project management support on myHelp application for 3,800 Global Compliance employees
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Facilitated communication between business and development teams in Global Compliance Technology Program
Longleaf Solutions
Product Management Intern
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Atlanta, GA
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Coordinated and monitored 6 software implementations by integrating data and educating clients
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Designed training materials for clients base and led bi-weekly webinars, resulting in 30% fewer support calls
Footeworks, LLC.
Owner
Feb 2013 - Present
Atlanta,GA
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Founded a company that designs and sells uniforms to private school
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Sustained over 93% repeat purchase rate and average order value of over $20,000
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Maintained relationships with multiple international manufacturers; sold $150,000 in first 18 months
Leadership & Development
President
Georgia Tech Student Ambassadors
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
President
Minorities at the College of Computing (M@CC)
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
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Restructured organization that serves over 800 minority students at the Georgia Tech college of computing
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Manage relationships and programming with over 50 corporate partners; increased member engagement by 400%
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Helped 75% of freshmen and sophomore members secure summer internships
Justice
Undergraduate Judiciary Cabinet
Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
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Judicial Branch of the Georgia Tech Student Government Association
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Hear cases of academic and non-acamedic miscounduct to determine responsibility and give sanctions
Conference Scholarships
Various
2015 - Present
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Grace Hopper Scholar 2018
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Grace Hopper (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020)
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Tapia (2017, 2018)
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SXSW (2018)
Skills
PROGRAMMING
Proficient: Java, Python, C#, HTML
Famililar: C, Assembly, SQL, CSS, JS, MATLAB
SOFTWARE
Proficient: Photoshop, Premiere, InDesign
Famililar: Adobe XD, Final Cut Pro, Encore, Illustrator