Hired as a PM & Scrum Master for a team of 30+ Software Engineers, QA Engineers, Tracking Engineers, and Product Managers. Promoted to Sr. Technical Project Manager, and then Manager of Technical Project Management for all Smart TV / HTML5 project teams. Then promoted to Sr. Manager, Technical Program Management & RTE (Release Train Engineer) for the Monetization US ART (Agile Release Train) Project Management - Responsible for organizing the team structure into unique scrum teams with their own separate verticals & scrum ceremonies (planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and daily stand-ups) Project Management - Initial team began as a single 30+ person project team, and was reorganized into 6 unique scrum teams with specific organizational focuses (Monetization, Content, Video, International, Core, & Reliability) Program Management - Work with Product Owners & Leadership to understand the prioritized backlog, dependencies, and LOE to complete the work Program Management - Work with cross functional teams (Backend, Design, CMS, Curation, etc.) to complete quarterly commitments Program Management / RTE - Facilitate Quarterly Planning sessions (PI Planning) while following SAFe’s (Scaled Agile Framework) practices Program Management - Partner relationship management: weekly partner syncs, customer support triage, partner roadmap planning in conjunction with internal commitmentsProgram / Project Management - Work closely with development and product teams to understand and document clear and achievable requirements Manager - Onboarded new PMs to the agile/scrum structure and team organization Project Management - Worked with QA and Design teams to navigate troubleshooting and feedback loops with the dev team to get projects completed within their expected timelinesPM Tools: Jira, Confluence, Airtable, Jira Structure, Asana, Slack, Google Docs, MS Office, MS Teams

CBS Interactive | Paramount+

CBS Interactive | Paramount+

Responsible for new customer engagements, onboarding, budget adherence, and product hand-offs via HubSpotResponsible for transferring SOW requirements into JIRA projects and stories/tasksMigrated legacy GitHub Issues project management setup to a JIRA cloud projects and customer-based structure (integrated sprints, workflows, team permissions, and external customer visibility methods)Change Request Mgmt, Resource Scheduling, Budgeting, Risk Mitigation, and Customer “Happiness”Mgmt.Tools: Github, Jira, HubSpot, Google Docs, Slack, Zoom

Managed API deliverables for the “dial” smartwatch launch in the UKManaged marketing website(s) updates, device management development for the “dial”, and ecommerce launch for the “buttons” (bluetooth headphones) using JIRA, Confluence, and Monday softwareHelped build and implement standard PMO processes for all teams throughout the organization: PI Planning, Weekly Executive Round-Ups, Release Trains (SAFE), and QRBs (Quality Review Boards)Tools: Jira, Confluence, Slack, Shopify

Web and Mobile product development (MVPs for start-ups)Managed team of local and offshore software engineers & QA for multiple projects running parallelManaged client relationships throughout discovery and software development lifecyclesMaintained project resource scheduling, budget constraints, and timeline requirementsCreated functional and business requirements documentation for development and business usersImplemented Scrum Ceremonies ( Stand-Ups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Retros, and SprintReviews)Tools: BaseCamp, Jira, Asana, Trello, Google Docs, Skype for Business

Developed insurance rating, binding, and policy administration software for insurance providers. Coded primarily in PHP, Javascript, and SQL (Oracle & MS SQL Server).