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.