Christopher Cho Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, MO, US

St. Louis, MO, US

Austin, TX, US

• Advise on management methodologies, facilitate scrum processes, and foster a design and product management mindset for business analysis, overseeing IT projects with values up to $3M+
• Scrum Master for multiple teams, initiating a prototype Agile transformation team for the IT Division
• Lead a team of IT business analysts and business partners in learning about and implementing opportunity canvases, release mapping, and story mapping
• Manage release planning for the Adopt-A-Highway program by determining functionality requirements, organizing across teams to assess architecture, writing work authorizations, and financial plans for execution
• Assess and plan updates for Drive Texas, a web application focusing on road conditions, ensuring mobile accessibility for input and display of data to a road condition database
• Managed the outsourced training for a major software upgrade, and identified a procurement change for an existing SaaS license, resulting in savings of approximately $300K over 3 years

St. Louis, MO, US

• Managed the new product development process for both hardware and software products of the DeltaV distributed control system, coordinating with business unit teams (10+ including supply chain, legal, business.
• Managed portfolio reviews, categorizing based on risk and size, shepherding involvement of other teams, and ensuring clear communication and understanding of needs and timelines across business units
• Utilized Agile frameworks to develop methods for conducting review meetings and collaborating across teams
• Coordinated an independent research program with cross-functional members, providing employees with the opportunity to pitch innovative projects to stakeholders in order to receive funding

St. Louis, MO, US

• Led a team of 12 engineers across 4 locations to test a major release utilizing Waterfall development methods
• Identified schedule estimate gaps of up to 100% using a statistical failure model, and redeveloped plans, reducing variances to less than 10%
• Implemented Agile development methods to improve software integration, resulting in shorter feedback cycles and improving software quality
• Created work breakdown structures and managed performance scaling, in addition to developing baselines for completing test efforts
• Collaborated with engineers to write test scripts and exploratory missions, training other team members on the new methods
• Coordinated activities for the summer intern program, managing the budget and facilitating opportunities for networking, mentorship, and project presentations

St. Louis, MO, US

• Performed quality and safety tests on both software and hardware products, serving as an expert on industrial Ethernet and Ethernet I/O controllers
• Developed VBA scripts to create large test setup files, reducing the setup time for 3 engineers by 90%
• Created a MODBUS simulator in Ruby for largescale functional and performance stress testing
• Utilized empirical analysis to improve a load estimator app to within 15% accuracy
• Created a product compatibility VBA Excel workbook for both internal tracking and reference use by end users

Laurel, Maryland, US

• Coordinated data analysis for naval test mission events for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), conducting real-time and post-mission analysis for event reconstruction, what-if analysis, and interoperability.
• Compiled and presented findings to the BMDS mission panel to provide analysis and insight on interoperable missile defense tests
• Refactored MATLAB to enable swift chart generation for a team of 6 analysts, reducing the total generation time by 98%
• Created a ballistic propagation model which accounted for atmospheric effects and combined with real-time sensor data and uncertainties to find differences between model and actual performance and extrapolate the.

• Perform cost model comparisons
• Work with VBA to enhance/increase functionality of existing products/methods
• Re-branding of software products
• Additional Programming Support
• Developed a cost model comparison analysis and delivered findings to a NASA cost team.

SAT, ACT and Subject Tutoring

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Masters Of Science, Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Management