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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. Played a key role in bringing Compass into SOX compliance. • 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 client initiatives on iOS and Android, backend client-platform initiatives, and internal security infrastructure initiatives.⦁ Drove internal process improvements across multiple teams to improve efficiencies, and improve communication and communicate ongoing project state both within team, to partners, and to GrabTaxi leadership.⦁ Led negotiations with competing vendors to choose and procure technical support services for GrabTaxi's backend datastream infrastructure.

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 compressed timeline.• 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 all groups to ensure efficient project progress.• 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 software and services.• 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 development, risk identification and management, manage priorities and tradeoffs, launch management for pilots and release, coordination of training and support services, and continuous integration of customer feedback into existing and future release cycles.

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, compliant and reliable business processes and services.• 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 allow Nordstrom’s Photo Studio technologies to meet future global business expansion goals. • 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 for future acquisitions to follow.• 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 enabled Nordstrom.com to meet business goals for Black Friday.

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. Resulted in clarity of product and feature prioritization, tradeoffs and escalation decisions for the organization VP. Decision making criteria protocol is maintained on team today.• 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 marketing teams. • 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 an integrated, consistent architecture and user experience across all platforms.• 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 leadership to adapt existing technology to support both features.

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 half a dozen whitepapers detailing difference deployment scenarios. • 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 vendors to create over a dozen new system critical connectors using that API in time for the new product release.• 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 solutions to blocking issues.• 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 hotfixes to customers than the previous year.• 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, maintained each team’s unique practice of tracking, and coordinated with the senior leader requirements to enable broad organizational roll up of information to the executive team.

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 accounted for early in the development and testing cycle so product could ship on schedule. • 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 proactive bug fix productivity across teams.

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. Spearheaded process to incorporate Parental Controls for Games and expand feature set to include Windows Vista, including expanding reach to integrate efforts across other relevant Microsoft platforms. Shipped Parental Controls feature in Windows Vista with strong reviews.

Redmond, Wa

Bs, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering