Adam Grimes Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Highly adaptable generalist for hire. I provide leadership to client organizations through program management, product management, and process coaching.Most recently for a regional destination marketing organization:· Led the executive leadership team through exercises to align department strategies with enterprise-wide strategic priorities, highlighting.

· Indulged in an intentional mini-retirement through part of the pandemic lockdown. · Ticked off my #1 bucket-list adventure of sailing offshore in deep water by crewing on a sailboat from Bermuda to the USVI. · Tackled exhaustive list of projects to refit my own sailboat, teaching myself hands-on skills along the way.· Refined my snowboarding skills.

Portland, OR, US

· Managed overlapping commercial demand response programs responsible for curbing PGE’s energy strain during peak weather events.· Owned all operations for the Energy Expert program, an intricate data visualization tool for commercial customers to analyze their energy performance at the individual energy meter, building, and full campus levels.· Launched a.

Portland, Oregon, US

• Selected Engagements:Nike
• Supply Chain Technical Program Manager / Epic OwnerStood up a logical distribution center within an existing wholesale distribution warehouse to facilitateshipping products direct to consumers.
• Coordinated numerous technical deliverables across internal and vendor development teams to integrate new functionality into an operational warehouse space.
• Acted as an epic owner for all technical deliverables on the program, championing and coordinating a web of changes through a Scaled Agile framework.Nike
• Program ManagerManaged several IT projects to enhance and maintain the client’s $2.7B custom E-commerce platform.
• Coached teams through a scaled agile transition

Portland, Oregon, US

• Developed a robust, completely customizable data synchronization library for public resource directories to enable the client to deliver with greater consistency, speed, and profitability.
• Translated business needs into technical requirements, workflows, system architectures, and use case scenarios.
• Proactively identified risks, technical challenges, and potential bottlenecks—and corresponding alternativesolutions—to optimize customer implementations and continued development.
• Led DevOps initiatives to facilitate continuous integration using Git, Capistrano, and bash on AWS to automate code deployments, database synchronizations, and software updates.

· Co-guided international adventure tours. Helped lead a team of 9 clients on a strenuous, multi-week, ski expedition over the arctic ice cap to the geographic North Pole.· Developed websites in Drupal and WordPress for small businesses.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Analyzed, architected, and delivered a complex money-movement service in the mobile channel for iOS, Android, mobile web, and Blackberry browser within an aggressive schedule.
• Guided project development through multiple teams from business analysis through launch.
• Filled multiple-roles within the project team, acting formally as Architect and Project Manager, while serving as the primary liaison with internal and external stakeholders, improving communication and strengthening.

• Founded a digital agency with delivery focused on agile iterations.
• Architected software solutions to clients' business and technology goals across a wide range of platforms.
• Brought a $1M health care business from conception to launch, built its full technology stack, helped secure its first customer, and set them on a scalable path to rapid growth.
• Built development teams and processes focused on delivering high quality products, serving as-needed in roles from product owner to scrum master, lead architect, dev ops engineer, software developer, and tester.
• Created development plans driven by business goals, within budget, using a continual release cycle for rapid deployment and feedback.
• Helped direct and define long-term internal strategy on the executive board.

Chicago, IL, US

· Directed interactions with project stake-holders, designers, developers and marketing leads to consistently guide teams to deliver client work on time and to standards. · Performed requirements gathering, technology screening, business feasibility analysis, and system and database architecture for a wide range of projects. · Architected applications in.

Wilmette, IL, US

· Consulted to evaluate internal operations and implemented new strategy, designing and building systems to more effectively manage trip scheduling, staffing, client enrollment, and payment processing, which streamlined office procedures and automated daily tasks to more effectively manage the business· Designed, architected, and developed custom Database.

· Worked on the production of embedded real-time software for Basestation Transceiver Systems as part of the Radio Access Network for CDMA Network Infrastructure.· Authored software in C and C++ through entire SDLC for Wind River VxWorks based proprietary hardware systems.· Provided on-site system support in Tokyo, Japan for the first deployment of a 3G.