Brad Lamar Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Supports the needs of business teams in the optimization of Human Resources systems. I work on an agile delivery team bridging between business stakeholders, SMEs, and the technical delivery team to translate business needs into technical deliverables. I supports overall planning and execution of programs, projects, features, and enhancements delivered though technology apps such as Workday, ADP, Kenexa, and Cornerstone.• Partner with business, internal/external stakeholders, and leadership to understand current customer experiences, identify areas of opportunity, and work with internal consultants as they create and manage product vision and near-term roadmap.• Support customer focused design thinking that allows for consistent experiences and ease of use across platforms.• Partner with business partners to understand and create an actionable roadmap and priorities for HR program and operational teams.• Support delivery of solutions through Agile Workstreams. Ensuring priorities, resources and capacity is maximized to deliver customer value.• Represent business in the sequencing and delivery of technical capabilities.• Develop strong stakeholder relationships and touch points with internal business partners and maintain regular communication and reporting.• Identify stakeholders, facilitate requirements gathering and support business teams to identify MVP (minimum viable product) / capabilities for technical delivery.• Support the evaluation of information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile requirement conflicts, and extract true needs to distinguish solution ideas from presented user requests.• Partner with P&T workstream resources to create concept proposals and facilitate intake.• Work with project managers to coordinate workstream and non-workstream initiatives, resource usage, and impacts.• Initiate and execute activities to improve the processes, procedures, and tools utilized by the team.

Bellevue, Wa

Supports the needs of business teams in the optimization of Human Resources (HR) systems (ADP, KeneXa, and Cornerstone) – equipping managers and employees with transparent, meaningful and accessible tools and resources. Using Agile delivery team to bridge between business stakeholders, SMEs and the technical delivery team to translate business needs into technical deliverables. Work to define requirements and acceptance criteria, develop features, break down user stories, coordinate user acceptance testing and business validation.• Primary responsibility for delivery of solutions through Agile Workstreams. Ensuring priorities, resources and capacity is maximized to deliver customer value.• Represent business in the sequencing and delivery of technical capabilities.• Develop strong stakeholder relationships and touch points with internal business partners.• Partner with business, internal/external stakeholders and leadership to understand current customer experiences, identify areas of opportunity, and work with internal consultants as they create and manage product vision and near-term road-map.• Identify stakeholders, facilitate requirements gathering and support business teams to identify MVP (minimum viable product)/capabilities for technical delivery.• Elicit and evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile requirement conflicts, and extract true needs to distinguish solution ideas from presented user requests.• Assist businesses/product owners/other as needed on how to break down features into smaller and cross-functional user stories.• Work with developers and quality assurance to ensure appropriate scenarios and employee experience are considered in delivery.• Plan and coordinate user acceptance testing and business validation.• Manage personal work-plan to deliver on assigned tasks, deliverables, and schedule commitments; provides information and status to stakeholders and Agile delivery teams.

Bothell, Wa

Responsible for leading and driving innovation and product full stack development that allow complex design authoring capabilities on the back end while delivering on the front end video and image rich experiences to the customer with the intention of increasing sales for DIRECTV and wireless products.• Product Manager for web design application that delivers rich media experiences on homepage - over 1 million views per day.• Design & UX lead for feature usability and marketing campaigns.• Product Manager for video player that won three industry awards.• Roadmap designer showcasing over 25 unique feature sets.• Submitted ten user stories per week to scrum team.• Showcased new feature sets to 3 client organizations per month.• Researched and designed requirements for performance improving technology reducing page load time by 50%.• Expert of accessibility for users with disabilities establishing fully ADA-compliant customer experiences.• Supervised user stories with Agile and Kanban iTrack platform.• Key stakeholder for scrum team delegating 6 user stories per iteration.• Created UAT and regression testing resulting in less than 5% defects per release.

Bothell, Wa

• Supervised updates to video database, establishing up to 25 updates per week for video player application.• Delegated project work and supervised 4 employees.• Created video encoding solution for AT&T customers with cross compatible video playback on all browsers and devices.• Designed on average 10 video title cards per week.• Facilitated weekly project meetings and documented requirements for content implementation requests in JIRA.• Technical lead for analyzing and documenting solutions for video playback issues resulting in less than 5 defects per year.

Greater Seattle Area

• Managed SDLC projects with developers, clients, and vendors.• Designed and created over 100 feature sets in Redmine.• Created video encoding solution that delivered content through web browsers, mobile devices, Roku, & Xbox.• Supervised three employees with new content launches of up to 50 videos per week to website.• Created QA strategy for video quality reducing defects by 35%.• Developed infrastructure for film acquisitions and deliverables increasing video ingestion numbers by 50%.• Designed new video title cards and re-encoded video library which increased subscription revenue by $25,000 in a month.

Greater Seattle Area And Greater New York Area

• Provided comprehensive support to architects and engineers on reprographic and print help desk support and design and printing tech support for clients. • Ensured system integrity by assisting IT with troubleshooting printers and printer errors. • Conducted on-site tech support, maintenance, calibrations, and replenishing supplies for office printers and plotters.

Greater Chicago Area

• Organized two-week production of over 15 interviews in 4 cities including booking flights, hotels, car rentals, and videographers.• Operated and managed A/V decks/editing suites for all major broadcast formats for capturing and dubbing.• Conducted fact checking of episode script by researching and providing two sources for every fact.• Researched and purchased usage rights for archival b-roll footage.• Organized and sub-clipped over 150 tapes for an episode.• Key person to collect resources from gang members around the country.• Tracked and recorded budget on all expenses using Filemaker Pro and delivered show to network under budget.• Handled resource planning and scheduling for productions.• Coordinated multiple production shoots including booking and scheduling videographers and field producers. Scheduled and organized flights, hotels and car rentals.

Greater Chicago Area

• Co-founded and organized the first annual festival at the historic Biograph Theater.• Supervised projection of video and audio for film playback.• Participated in selection and award committee and reviewed over 200 films.• Designed, built and maintained the festival website.