David Grigg Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas Area

• Resource management leadership for seven project managers, three business analysts and one QA manager Partnered with HR to champion a career ladder for PMs, mentored a BA through promotion to project manager
• Maintain PMO delivery commitments by meeting with PMs 1x1 weekly to proactively anticipate risks and issues of scope, schedule, budgets, resourcing and change management
• Direct project management of mission critical initiatives such as the organization’s attainment of NCQA accreditation, more than 50 stakeholders throughout the organization and 200+ distinct project deliverables
• Led the creation and adoption of a formal PM lifecycle methodology to institute standards and metrics for measuring project performance, stage gates, checklists and change management process
• Communications facilitation (both written and oral) reporting internally and externally on project progress, issues, alerts, escalations, UAT, handoff to support and final acceptance
• Facilitate monthly executive portfolio review meeting; contribute to annual strategic roadmap to validate direction and budgets

Austin, Texas Area

• Championed the ALM vision for the company - ALM platform was deployed to the global development organization consisting of more than 40 different product teams utilizing either Waterfall or Agile
• Managed ALM vendor selection process and procurement (hardware, software, 3rd party)
• 60% cost recovery from centralizing infrastructure, vendor management and maintenance of a common solution
• Architected ALM integration to Salesforce resulting in real-time transparency between product development and customer support
• Instrumental in establishing common development processes and operational definitions; oversaw development of standardized reports and dashboards for defect backlogs, turn-around times and quality

Austin, Texas Area

• Restructuring supplier agreements, eliminating redundant or conflicting services, and consolidating accounts for a 40% technology cost reduction
• Led the procurement and implementation of SalesLogix Customer Relationship Management system
• Instituted policies for disaster recovery, security and desktop configuration
• Intranet forum adoption for knowledgebase of information on lender programs, loan submission requirement

Austin, Texas Area

• Championed adoption of an enterprise configuration management solution; oversaw the successful migration of millions of code lines, automated builds and releases
• Drove a process improvement initiative resulting in improved traceability, consistency and reduced cycle times; authored the R&D configuration management plan
• Innovations included centralized SCM for build and release management
• Improved build repeatability, optimized QA and module aspects of testing, correlating defect reporting and resolution to specific builds for useful tracking