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Bellevue, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Manager of an international team of Technical Program Managers, that engineered and delivered multiple critical SaaS platform services, and customer-facing features for Compass’ customers using agile-based methodologies.
• Delivered a long-term roadmap for the multi-stage design and migration to a replacement RBAC-like system for applications, data collection, vulnerability management and auditing across the entire Compass platform..
• Responsible for communication of status, risks, mitigations, and next steps to all levels of the Compass organization, from executive leadership, to engineering, to marketing and operations.
• Established cross-organization process for risk identification and mitigation for large, multi-team engineering projects. Resulting in well managed dependencies and partner alignment.
• Cross-functional coach for Agile best practices across the organization.

Bellevue, WA

⦁ Supported multiple international development teams, coordinating with dozens of world-wide partner teams to build end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery.⦁ Developed and managed end-to-end project plans including analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, deployment and ongoing support. Project deliverables spanned from mobile.

Seattle, WA

Managed teams developing mobility and web-based solutions for Sears Home Services. Creating tools and solutions designed to improve the experience for Sears customers, as well as productivity tools for the field technicians and their support staff.

Seattle, WA

• Successfully led international team of developers and designers to design and deliver a new iPhone based, mobile application solutions, and backend micro-services to replace a decade old legacy solution under a.
• Proactively engaged with key business stakeholders, field managers, and technician focus groups to identify and prioritize key functionality and features for initial product release. Creating key relationships across.
• Integrated an iterative product development approach into historically waterfall based development cycle, working across business and technical teams to achieve buy-in, set expectations, and deliver consistent quality.
• Responsible for all aspects of project delivery, from contributions to multi-year business plan, to gathering business requirements and project approval, user story development and iteration planning, design and.

Greater Seattle Area

• Recruited by Director of eCommerce to lead effort to upgrade and integrate Nordstrom’s Photo Studio processes, workflow and tools previously run by the Marketing Department, into the IT department’s supported.
• Spearheaded evaluation of existing Photo Studio technologies by driving assessment meetings with key stakeholders from marketing, system architect and development teams, and co-designed the architecture that would.
• Rapidly integrated existing Photo Studio solution with recent Nordstrom acquisition (Hautelook) through streamlining collaboration across network, system, and solution architects. Created a product integration roadmap.
• Drove an internal audit of Nordstrom’s product ingestion pipeline in a compressed timeline ahead of 2014 holiday shopping season. Results included prioritized milestones across teams and targeted improvements in that.

Seattle, WA

• Quickly integrated into role owning multiple feature areas for Kindle Textbook reader, and succeeded in shipping on schedule for Kindle Textbook reader across multiple devices (Kindles, iPad, and Android).
• Initiated cross-team acceptance criteria protocol to accelerate consensus decision making and drive informed business outcomes across development, product management and marketing teams in absence of group leader..
• Drove team sprint backlog to include prioritization and tradeoffs, and created status reporting to inform VP. Invited to attend senior leadership sprint roadmap planning with development, product management, and.
• Collaborated on architecture of the database design for the Flashcards feature working directly with engineering development teams. Brainstormed workarounds for platform differences between iOS and Kindle, resulting in.
• Identified underlying cross-product technologies to Flashcards in Kindle Paperwhite Vocab Builder feature to save one month engineering and test time, and collaborated across engineering organizations to influence.

Redmond

• Directed the Technical Adoption Program of the next version of both ADFS and FIM, enabling successful deployments across 12 organizations to be running at the time of new product releases as well as the creation of.
• Designed and deployed a new API set in FIM (ECMA2), to replace the outdated and non-performant API (ECMA) by working with internal and external developers to define, hone, and deliver on the new API. This enabled.
• Instituted meetings to collaborate with internal and external developers during the implementation of ECMA2 to ensure that the API met technical requirements of developers, fixing limitations and identifying creative.
• Designed new hot-fix development and delivery process for FIM. This resulted in an improved process for shipping hotfixes and minimized impact to development team. Results included delivery of 50% more critical.
• Led internal cross-team process to transition development and testing teams to utilize Team Foundation server for tracking development, test, and project tracking. Results included no down time for four teams involved.

Redmond, WA

• Drove implementation and requirements of new product-wide multi-PC feature requirements for next version of One Care, a computer management product. This resulted in the alignment and compliance overhead being.
• Created new internal SharePoint site that resulted in improvements to internal processes, better communication and coordination across the product development units in Redmond, India, and Israel, and increased.

Redmond, WA

• Tapped to lead program management efforts for Parental Controls on Windows Vista. Initiated business case and market analysis and presented to Division VP to prioritize and retain Parental Controls feature in Games..

Redmond, WA

Bs, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering