Head of Blockchain Engineering
$185K+
Summary
2+ years of experience in Crypto and Blockchain: Tech Stack/Blockchain Used: (Eth, BTC, C#, C, Node, GoLang, React, AWS)
Directs multiple teams of IT professionals including hiring, developing, performance management, coaching and technical leadership.
Senior Technical Project Manager for project lifecycle management including: Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitor and Control and project release.
10+ years of experience in front-end web design, front-end development, Middleware, API’s and back-end programming.
BI roadmap development for strategic, tactical and operational assessment.
Experience identifying dynamic risks embedded in project elements through interactions among internal (people, process and technology), and external (business environments).
Adopted principles of service-oriented architecture (SOA), and agile management strategies.
A/B testing, prototype testing and development of key performance indicators (KPI).
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Tech Stack/Blockchain: Eth, BTC, C#, C, Node, GoLang, React, AWS
Programming: HTML / XML / JS / PHP / CSS / SQL / Node
CMS: Umbraco/ WordPress / Sitecore / AEM
Platforms: Windows: (10) / Mac OS 10+
Software: Microsoft Office: (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
Microsoft Project / Quickbooks / FTP
PM Tools: Wrike / Workbench / ADO TFS / Smartsheet / Jira / Trello / Asana
Production Tools: Adobe Creative Suite / Fireworks / Maya / Final Cut Pro
Web Analytics: Tableau / Google Analytics / Double Click / Overture / Google Adwords
Alexa Analytics / Coremetrics / Ensighten / Optimizely / Adobe Analytics
Experience
Head of Development, 2021- Current
Development Lead for Crypto Software Start Up:
Provide Sr. level leadership to multiple organizational levels.
Day to day operations management of DevOps and Technical teams.
Resource and Budget department planning.
Manage concurrent Devops, NFT, R&D, POC and Blockchain projects.
Kanban/Scrum Agile processes. Agile methodology with a light shade of waterfall.
Program management - including annual planning and prioritization, quarterly review, realignment, road map and executive status reporting.
Capture technical requirements and create fit-for-purpose project plans, and other artifacts
Lead project and program level intake process.
Develop and manage organizational change review board.
Provide overall program governance, planning, team building and oversight.
Create and maintain program level risk assessments and risk scorecards.
Define new hiring and recruiting solutions for organization.
Recruiting coordinator for Tech Department.
Create valid estimates of effort to complete engineering work streams
Source and oversee vendor relationship/management.
Defined and implemented Project Management Tools (Jira/Confluence)
Provide Technical bridge for the tech department. Explain and define tech to business.
Develop strong relationships with senior business leaders, articulate risks, negotiate tradeoffs facilitate decision-making, prioritize, and remove cross-team impediments.
Lead cross functional teams from various work streams and multiple organizations.
Disseminate project/program status to stakeholders through various methods
Scrum Master for multiple teams – lead all scrum ceremonies.
Implement 4 layer agile transformation. Agile transformation road map.
Tech Stack/Blockchain Used: (Eth, BTC, C#, C, Node, GoLang, React, AWS)
Sr. Technical Program Manager, 2020- 2021
Program manager for concurrent big data analytics related projects:.
Infrastructure and Architecture projects working with internal data platform teams.
Support customer supply chain, merchandise and store product teams.
Enablement of real time data consumption by technology.
Develop and manage machine learning platform to develop customer focused features.
Manage day to day program management of big data team.
Roadmap development for event driven data platform teams.
Manage and maintain jira/confluence based sprints using Kanban/Scrum pm methodologies.
Use data to define team based KPI’s.
Partner with stakeholders to shape capability expectations.
Work with data scientists to ensure reporting and analysis is straightforward.
Onboard new internal customers to data platforms.
Create valid estimates of effort to complete engineering work streams.
Build the relationship between technology and business to unlock core capabilities.
Provide recommendations within technology that enables business to achieve goals.
Present demos to broader audience including senior leadership.
Oversee vendor management.
Track program timeline and resource demands.
Mitigate risks, resolve issues, roadblocks and any potential conflicts.
Create and deliver on project requirements, business goals and objectives.
Lead cross functional teams from various work streams, within different organizations.
Communicate project/program status though various methods to stakeholders.
Scrum Master for multiple teams – lead daily stand ups, sprint planning and estimating, sprint retrospective, back log grooming.
Oversee management of program back logs.
Agile development and coaching
Tech Stack Used (Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, Docker, Yarn, Presto, Hive, AWS)
Sr. Digital Solutions Program Manager, 2019-2020
Program manager for concurrent multi-million-dollar long term projects.
R&D Venture focused projects driving start up based global initiatives with the goal of developing future programs, apps and platforms.
Manage multi-year Native App Development Projects with annual operation cost of 10+ million.
Inter-disciplinary project management - get things done as efficiently and effectively as possible. (Kanban – Scrumban – Scrum – Waterfall)
Work within an Agile PM framework with emphasis on SAFe and Scrum.
Perform quality assurance (QA) testing/user acceptance testing (UAT) prior to deployment.
Determine feasibility of backend architectural designs that fit within the Philips ecosystem.
Compliance program management. Work with privacy, security, legal and regulatory on program based adherence. (Privacy policies, GDPR, CCPA, IP and various ISO certifications requirements.)
Present research and development findings to senior leadership while providing persuasive information for products and services.
Turn an idea into reality by creating new protocol, new processes and new solutions using start up NBX venture strategies.
Develop value propositions that are aligned with complex business plans.
Manage large projects from pre-seed, through beta, based on a phase gate approach to scalability.
Track program budget, timeline and resource demands.
Determine supply chain design and logistical solutions.
Coordinate and Manage Digtial Release process.
Agile development, coaching and mentorship – 4 layer Agile transformation
Create project requirements and business goals and objectives.
Lead cross functional teams from various work streams, within different organizations (global teams with differing influences, cultures, goals, agendas, and objectives.)
Communicate project/program status though various methods to stakeholders.
Coordinating, and maintaining schedules across multiple teams with shared resources.
Provide in-depth analytics analysis, create analytic dashboards, determine trends etc.
Determine various tagging strategies to create the appropriate data sets to track program status.
Develop various data ingestion solutions that adhere to internal privacy and security policies.
Create robust project plans, project charters, task trackers and program updates.
Ownership of the overall project and program solutions while being the go to for stakeholders.
Risk mitigation strategies. (5 Why’s, Decision Tree Analysis, Quantitative - Qualitative Analysis)
Create data governance policies and procedures.
Maintain CMS (Salesforce) for subscription platform.
Lead steer co meetings and review boards.
Scrum Master for multiple teams – lead daily stand ups, sprint planning and estimating, sprint retrospective, back log grooming and maintment of scrum artifacts.
Manage and oversee multiple off shore engineering teams.
Manage clinical studies trials that adhere to standardized practices and methodologies.
Sr. Technical Project Manager, 2017-2019
Provide leadership across IT teams consisting of technical project managers, product managers, QA engineers, business analysts, designers, software developers and business leaders.
Manage full lifecycle of technical/IT projects including strategy, roadmap, planning, budget, statement of work (SOW), scope, project charter, project execution and project closure/handoff.
Led continuous delivery, development, integration and implementation of complex, large-scale IT projects, B2C/B2B mobile application development, website solutions, SAAS and custom tools with optimum support for clients.
Provide direction for IT team on executing software development practices in a .Net build environment to support critical business applications and software development processes.
Managed Xamarin based Native App redesign projects with 5-20 million annual budget(s).
Develop resourcing strategies with use of TrackIt!, Trello, Jit Bit, Azure Dev Ops, Smartsheet and Jira ticket systems to create issue logs, manage defects to determine workflow.
Create governance process to ensure data integrity, reliability and accuracy across all phases of discovery and development of the project lifecycle.
Create white papers in a succinct format with research findings for senior leadership presenting useful, persuasive information for products and services.
Spearheaded the ideation and creation of an internal content management system (Umbraco).
Integrate internal systems into 3rd party systems for data ingestion.
Manage the development and upkeep of a SAAS based platform for clients.
Led the migration of the local hosted internal IT infrastructure to the Azure cloud platform.
Oversaw API management with vendors/3rd parties and clients.
Partner/client relationship management with oversight of risk management and compliance.
Manage lines of communication and ensure vendor relations grow to meet business objectives.
Set, maintained and managed the yearly IT department budget.
Provided leadership, guidance, set goals and performed quarterly reviews for staff members.
Implemented a change control board for projects and programs, set change objectives, determined change process, adherence and governance.
Cross functional management of localized consultants and off shore developers.
Creation, maintenance and grooming of the IT backlog.
Scrum/Kanban PM methodology with daily stand ups through a Kanban board.
Scrum Master for multiple teams – lead daily stand ups, sprint planning and estimating, sprint retrospective, back log grooming and maintment of scrum artifacts.
Project Management Methodology training and coaching – 4 Layer Agile Transformation
Managed IT operations service desk for internal and external clients.
Created new hiring practices, new processes and procedures for onboarding and over hauled the candidate acceptance criteria.
Tech Stack Used (.Net , SQL, ADO)
Director of PMO, 2014-2017
Provided project management office (PMO) direction for a team of technical project managers and analysts utilizing Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Led project lifecycle management of large-scale digital data and custom web projects for fortune 500 clients with accountability of financial, governance and user acceptance oversight.
Interfaced and collaborated with technical team to identify, assess and drive a customer technology roadmap and unify customer data across all lines of business and customer channels.
Oversaw the execution of data development activities and turned data into actionable insights that led to change and improvement for end user experience.
Developed attributing modeling, segmenting of visitors and improved multi-channel effectiveness.
Produced technical feature requirements, data flows, process flows, diagrams, and authored technical feature requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.
Provided managerial oversight to clients who were establishing PMO’s.
Project Management Methodology training and coaching. 4 layer agile transformation.
Oversaw data governance management and developed best practices to ensure high quality data.
Developed tools and systems for managing projects, defects, resources and issue logs utilizing TFS, Trello, Wrike, OpenAir and Jira ticket systems.