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Castle Rock, Co, Us

Castle Rock, Colorado, United States

** Currently available - please contact me.Contractual management consulting for various clients including Boeing, Charter Communications, News Corp, and private clients. Roles & responsibilities included:• Build, lead, manage, or support PMOs• Program & Portfolio Management Coach• Change Management Coach• Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) Coach• Delivery leader of up to $60M technical business initiatives• Lead digital transformations• Strategic planning with executives to connect vision and strategy with execution and delivery• Process engineering and continuous improvement• Fix struggling programs and projects• Problem-solving• Waste and cost reductionOffering a wide range of deep subject matter expertise and consulting in the following business areas: - PDLC/SDLC - IT Program & Project Management - Delivery Excellence - Leadership & Team Management - Product Management - Project Portfolio Management - Strategy & Planning - PMO (Building, Leading or Fixing) - Process Engineering & Improvement - Transformation - Change Management - Agile Coaching - Agile at scale/SAFe - Management Consulting - Vendor Management - PM Tools and more....- VMA (Value Managenent Office)- AMO (Agile Management Office)- LACE (Lean/Agile Center of Excellence)- Change Management- Agile at Scale (Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe))- Project management methodologies and frameworks (Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall)- Business Agility- Business Development- Business Operations- Online Marketing- Website Development- Mobile Application DevelopmentOther competencies include:Nearshore and offshore software development, software project management, product launch readiness, product management, organizational transformation, people management, information management systems, governance, online marketing, and more......http://www.tendrilconsulting.com

Castle Rock, Colorado, United States

• Advisor to the head of delivery and all technical program managers • Led transformation to Implement the company’s first lean/agile project portfolio management office across the Enterprise for a portfolio of over 100 active initiatives using Jira and Jira Align• Significantly reduced costs and time to market of key strategic initiatives through process engineering and coaching• Leader, change agent, and driver of transformation, process improvement, change management, and delivery improvement initiatives• Agile coach to product, technology, and design organization leaders• Executive team go-to for driving and delivering high-priority, time, and budget-sensitive initiativesOther key achievements:- Authored a playbook for project portfolio management, implementing over 50 process improvement initiatives and company standards, resulting in enhanced delivery of desired business outcomes, increased efficiency, and reduced waste, risk, costs, and time to market.- Authored a playbook for product software planning, aligning executives on modern product and software planning methods, reducing the process duration from 4 months to just 4 days.- Spearheaded the cross-functional implementation of Atlassian's Jira Align tool for 20 independent pilot programs with a near-zero budget.- Voluntarily recruited four high-performing technical program management professionals to the delivery organization, within the first year.- Successfully migrated over 100 projects across design, product, and engineering organizations to new standards, with the assistance of a single Jira Admin, in less than 3 months.- Educated and coached numerous teams on lean, Scrum, agile, tools, processes, and change management.- Successfully delivered numerous high-value, executive-level special projects within record-setting turnaround time.- Developed and managed the first strategic roadmap for the delivery organization

Englewood, Colorado

• Built and led the 900 person software engineering organization's first project portfolio management practice from the ground up to intake and deliver work faster to our customers (inclusive of people, process, tools, governance, etc.) consisting of over 60 active technical programs and 300 projects• Partnered daily with Sr. leadership, Sr. technical program managers, engineers, IT and Product to get top initiatives delivered and launched to market• Managed a high-performing project team responsible for $45M software engineering budget• Managed metrics, OKRs, and KPIs for Sr. leadership and developed solution to significantly reduce the cost of reportingOther key achievements included:- Designed core processes, reduced inefficiencies, and spearheaded a common delivery framework that helped decrease the time to market of work product- Key driver of critical projects during merger and acquisition for SVP- Developed the first cross-organizational project intake process, guided teams through the change management aspects, and successfully gained adoption from teams and leaders- Re-built team to be lean and high-performing, saving over a half million dollars annually- Developed the organization's first web-based roadmap and strategic planning tool- Key contributor to Agile transformation effort

Englewood, Colorado, United States

• Sr. program leader responsible for successfully delivering customer-facing website portal to 35M+ customers• Responsible for oversight and leadership of the product launch across 16 distributed organizations• Created the first portfolio management practice for the Product Organization ($80M portfolio)Other key achievements included:- Co-created the product organization's project portfolio management solution- Designed and documented the first repeatable enterprise product launch process- Key contributor to product iteration enterprise release management process- Built and managed platform test team (on/offshore) reducing costs by over a half million dollars- Promoted to Director by Software Engineering team Senior Vice President

Centennial, Co

• Built & led $10M portfolio management practice, introducing tools, techniques, and processes to streamline team focus, productivity, and work output• Built and Managed the company's first project management office (PMO)• Increased company revenue by 3.5X• Made company #1 on Google search ranks (organically)• Led digital transformation and sales team Sales Force implementation• Product Owner and team leader of several $10M+ revenue-generating database, email marketing, and lead-generation productsOther responsibilities included:- Product Owner - E-Mail marketing product and thousands of campaigns- Product Owner - Database Products- Product Owner - Lead Generation Platform (envisioned, designed, developed and launched)- Webmaster - company website- Team Manager - (on and offshore front-end designers, software developers and in-house staff)- Internet/Online Marketing (including SEO, SMM, SMO etc.) - Tools (Custom, FogBugz, SalesForce)Other key achievements included:- Significantly reducing operating costs across departments- Launched several profitable products to market (on time and on budget)- Developed a work management, tool, and process framework that is still in place today. - Promoted 2 times by CEO.

Colorado, United States

Managed web content production dept. and staff overseeing the development of online content for a SAAS product with thousands of end-users.Accomplishments included:- Developing and evolving the company's production infrastructure and core processes that significantly reduced cost and decreased time to market- Built and operated the company's first project portfolio management office- Oversaw one of the company's largest projects in India while managing a staff of 53- Promoted 2 times- Identified profitable new business vertical business and offered to run it by the CEO

Denver, Colorado, United States

Importer and distributor of remote control hobby toys and various consumer electronics for various strategic partners in Asia. Marketed and sold these products via various sales channels on the web.Oversaw website development, operations, staff management, business development, online marketing, e-marketing, vendors, customer support, and all international business endeavors.Sold company in 2007

Englewood, Colorado, United States

Supported 20+ accounts and all respective client relationship management responsibilities.

Arvada, Colorado, United States

Envisioned, built and led online customer support services department for an MMORPG online video game with thousands of online customers and virtual team of over 50.Accomplishments included:- Receiving numerous accolades for providing superior customer service- Procured outsourced support arm to reduce costs- Provide consulting service in Hong Kong to strategic partner to help build their support division for a massive online video game

Bachelors Degree, Business Management

Activities and Societies: Chairman, student planning committee

Pmp, Pmp, A+

Activities and Societies: PMI PMP Trained. PMI Member.

College Prepatory, A

College preparatory, general business studies.