Executive Technical Product Manager
New York, Ny, Us
Pivoted from project manager to scrum master to project owner while honing my passion for modern, lean, user experience delivery.● Product owner for framework for delivering user experience independent of technology which promotes data-driven hypothesis validation. This framework allows designers and marketers to rapidly iterate features based on date, device, user, location, or content specifications.● Product owner for migration effort of 25+ applications (drupal, wordpress, iis, java, ruby) from colocation to AWS and release automation (git, chef, jenkins, artifactory) while engineering a new load balancing and caching strategy using Amazon ELBs and Varnish.● Scrum master for automation and migration of Scholastic’s top earning eCommerce application using git, chef, artifactory, VM’s, and AMI’s enabling Scholastic Reading Clubs to have their most trafficked and highest revenue season in history.● Coordinated between development and devops to stabilized a custom ColdFusion CMS which included changes to Akamai caching and a new release process using git. Trained development team on using git.● Managed four direct reports to support seven divisions with an aggregate budget in the millions.● Co-architected a Drupal solution for Scholastic’s largest and most trafficked content site and ledmigration effort from a custom Teamsite, Typepad, and HTML environment. Coordinated releasemanagement using GIT, drush, and features.● Championed agile methodologies while migrating Teacher Express to Magento Enterprise in AWSin order to better support high-volume spikes in sales.