Christa Kerin Email & Phone Number

Albany, New York Metropolitan Area

Manage International Geocoding Software project execution for a globally dispersed team achieving 95%+ target deadline accomplishment. Recognized across Engineering twice for outstanding achievement.• Guided project execution across global teams including prioritization, scheduling, budgeting and coordination.• Spearheaded introduction and adoption of Agile collaboration tools to insure common process and practice • Manage the project management for rapid global coverage expansion, doubling new releases in 12 month period.• Managed and liaised with Product Owners: Product Management, Support, and customer-facing stakeholders.• Initiated and managed the new quarterly release planning for the team, resulting in one set of common goals.• Organized, collected and reported out global, organizational metrics on a quarterly and yearly basis to executives• Managed all upstream, downstream and lateral dependences for project releases, minimizing cross-team friction• Translated client and market requirements from Product Management into user stories and functional requirements • Guided junior project managers on project execution, scheduling, prioritization, budgeting and use of tools to insure common processes and practices.

• Led the Quality Team across multiple product lines engaging global remote teams to analyzing feature design, creating master test plans and report project quality status.• Evaluated feature implementations to assure adherence to product requirements.• Planned, coordinated, and scheduled all testing tasks for each software release. • Identified and managed risk, which also troubleshooting and managed escalation.• Recognized across Engineering for my leadership efforts specific to the Software Copy Protection component which was used by internal teams.• Contributed to a more comprehensive automated testing process by creating and adding additional use cases as part of the automated testing suite.

-Project Lead for the following MapInfo’s Products: MapInfo Professional (Windows) MapMarker (Windows\Solaris\HPUX) Grande Project (Windows) Lock: Licensing Component Team (Windows)- Responsible for Certifying MapInfo Professional 7.5 and 7.8 for Microsoft Designed for Windows XP Logo Certification Program.- Planned, coordinated, and scheduled all testing tasks for each software release. - Involved in SDLC from beginning to end of releases.- Responsible for defect tracking for validating and clarity of incidents.- Responsible for System Level Testing.

- Wrote and executed test plans for Functional, Regression, Integration, and Installer Testing.- Created automated tests for Functional and Regression Testing.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services

Aas, Computer Information Systems