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Los Angeles, Ca

Highlights:TCW is a leading global asset management firm with a broad range of products across fixed income, equities, emerging markets, and alternative investments. With more than four decades of investment experience, TCW today manages over $200 billion in client assets. Hired to initiate and grow a Program Management Office (PMO), tasked with tracking current development alongside planning for future roadmap initiatives. Responsible for aligning project development based on executive management firm-wide immediate and strategic long-term goals. Working together with IT Leadership and team leads to continually improve on process, standards, and velocity without creating redundant overhead. Conduct analysis on legacy products and evaluating risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID) with stakeholders on proposed work.Core Duties:• Manage the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of one or more medium-to-large scale projects• Perform role of scrum master across one or more project teams• Contributor to the evolution of the project management capabilities, improve delivery of solutions and distribute project management knowledge across the organization• Hold delivery teams consisting of product managers and engineers across multiple projects accountable on derived delivery dates• Work with stakeholders to understand and manage project requirements, scope, and timelines• Communicate and report program portfolio to stakeholders and executive management• Create and execute project work plans, as required, and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements of the business• Identify and communicates resource constraints and potential priority conflicts to assist the organization in evaluating and re-prioritizing demands• Establish and implement best practices and user adoption of Atlassian Suite (Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management) and marketplace products; capex/opex tracking, budgeting, resource utilization

Hollywood, Ca

Highlights:StudyMode is a user-generated content (UGC) platform for students, with a global user base of 60M monthly active users. Its network serves more than 2 billion pages per year to students all over the world. Hired to create a team structure that blended an effective balance of process while improving velocity of development. Focus is to ensure projects/products are delivered on time and within scope, while holding all team members accountable for this outcome. Within the first month, held assessment meetings with each department, from client services to executive management, in order to identify common pain points and successes. Immediately began making high impact changes that would benefit the entire organization, yielding increased velocity, project status transparency, and a clear development roadmap. Developed structure and processes that supported rapid resource expansion, which doubled in size in three months.Core Duties:• Responsible for all project management related strategy and tasks, including the implementation of an effective Agile/Scrum framework• Managing sprints, allocating development resources, and as a member of the leadership team, participating in executive strategy and roadmap meetings• Responsible for measuring and optimizing output efficiency via burndown/velocity charts, retrospectives, and sprint metrics• Based on company initiatives, track and prioritize development tasks for internal and offshore team on concurrent projects• Manage incoming development requests from entire company, which includes the CEO, Product team, SEO and Strategy team, Tech team, AdOps, and Client Services• Control scope creep, unnecessary “thrashing” and development shift, and unwarranted disruptive requests

Greater Los Angeles Area

Highlights:Within 18 months, promoted to a Director role responsible for all product, technology and business development for Baseline's suite of professional entertainment products and internal tools. Worked directly with executive management team to ensure product development is aligned with company goals. Manager for approximately 15-20 staff members, ranging from IT Operations, Front End developers, database engineers, QA and Product Managers. Reviewed and managed department budget, constantly researching ways to improve team environment and efficiency adding to the company bottom line.Core Duties:• Managed the Development and Infrastructure/Operations team in a Scrum environment• Collaborated with COO, stake holders, executive team, and product leads on all concurrent projects and future strategy, including management of both internal and offshore product/technology team and IT budget• Established standards with IT Operations, policy and procedure, documentation management, cross-training, team and company building events, and department goals and employee reviews• Required team R&D commitment discovering ways to improve efficiency, encouraging innovation and calculated disruption• Provided team opportunity and tools that foster leadership and professional growth, the capacity to succeed in their role by removing blockers, defining priority based on ROI and KPI’s, and making necessary key executive decisions when necessary

Greater Los Angeles Area

Highlights:Started with company as a business analyst to contribute in a complete technology redesign of Baseline’s flagship product, The Studio System. The Studio System combines industry-leading film and television intelligence with a robust set of data tools to deliver a powerful web-based application that is tailored to meet the specialized needs of entertainment professionals. Worked directly with stake holders and product owner to gather requirements and effectively translate into technical specifications for internal and offshore engineer staff. Completed project and successfully launched within six months. Promoted to a Product/Project Manager role responsible for directly influencing the product roadmap of multiple applications while also overseeing the development of Baseline’s entire suite of professional products, both public facing and internal.Core Duties:• Translated and managed user and stake holder requirements into technical specifications for development from offshore resources• Accompanied technical specifications with detailed Visio wireframes increasing sprint velocity and efficiency• Created, managed, and tested 30-40 daily users stories and defects during Studio System redesign which led to completion of project in six months• Promoted to Technical Product Owner to drive the development roadmap of two internal Baseline applications, while also assuming a project manager role to ensure concurrent product deadlines were met• Conducted sprint retrospective meetings as SCRUM Master in order to learn from mistakes, building product stability, team cohesiveness and chemistry• Worked directly with user group to deliver innovative features increasing speed, efficiency, and accuracy of Content entry into CMS database• Created internal Tools allowing for 50% expansion of content coverage without increasing resource spending

Highlights:Hired to be the driving force of a project, twice failed before me, on developing an internal hedge fund tracking software within six months of hire. Application deployed to production one month ahead of project timeline and replaced multi-million dollar third party software. Ability to establish confidence from expert users, upper management, and development team contributed to the application go-live ahead of schedule. Application gained company wide acceptance, supported multiple business lines, and eventually decided by executives to be marketed as a tool to attract potential new investments. Also helped establish and coordinate IT compliance requirements of core financial applications.Core Duties:• Lead IT expert on developing internal hedge fund tracking software for Fund of Funds team with an AUM over $7 billion• Operated in Agile environment, authors’ use cases and business requirement documents, Visio mockups, and other artifacts as needed to translate high level business requirements into functional specifications for the development team coding mainly in .NET• Define and lead UAT activities throughout the testing life cycle including; risk assessments, test strategy, requirement reviews, release plan, and performance testing• Managed deliverables to meet concurrent project schedules with particular focus on managing requirements changes, issues tracking, and requirements traceability• Provided post implementation production support, user training, and developed user guide documentation• Documented and assessed the customer’s business strategies via state and process workflow diagrams to identify opportunities for improvement or re-engineering• Additional responsibilities included designing requirements and supervising internal IT compliance process of core financial applications.• Coordinated application’s team monthly resource planning meeting which gave business line owners visibility to project scope and prioritization

Mentored a team of 40+ startup entrepreneurs seeking financial independence and residual income. Teachings included live trainings, influencing others, and staying focused and committed to a plan of action. Motivated and coached 25+ clients in health and wellness. Teachings included lifestyle changes, functional conditioning, anti-aging prevention, and commitment to a better quality of life.

Performed Lawson EDI installations and implementations between trading partners at various healthcare systems. Implementation involved creation of EDI tables and jobs using X12 standards, communication and translation testing on CLEO devices over a value added network (VAN), and go-live support for multiple vendors. Trained onsite EDI analyst and developed long term EDI strategy post setup. Also, responsible for project management of web content management (WCM) and E-Commerce implementations. These tasks required a working knowledge of XML, HTML, and XSL.

Started and owned sports apparel clothing line for men and women. Clothes designed for all levels of fitness. Duties included assistance in clothing concepts, marketing, capital allocation, sponsorship, and responsible for overseeing the company in all decision-making processes. Projected plan included seven clothing boutiques located in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas. Company name and logo was sold and is currently the parent company for three upscale health club facilities.

Assisted IS Manager in duties ranging from basic PC upgrades to design, implementation, administration, and security of corporate network which included four servers (two Novell, two NT) and 30+ workstations running a combination of Windows 95, NT, 3.1, and DOS. Coded a variety of in-house programs that perform time-critical, complex analysis of trade ideas and historical data by accessing live data feeds. Primary tools utilized to perform such tasks are C/C++, Visual Basic, Ms Access, and Ms Excel.