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Seattle, Washington, United States

Global TPM organization leader partnering with Product and Engineering teams to define and deliver Disney’s strategic roadmap for direct to consumer Disney Streaming products including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+.Leadership of largest scale, cross-organization programs bringing streaming content across multiple platforms and clients, with several TPM leaders.

Seattle, Washington

Global leader with a team of 45+ engineers implementing Human Resources technology and delivering against a Platform vision that includes Workday, ServiceNow, and an AWS Data Lake. Transforming the team with a focus on agile delivery, engineering maturity, employee experience, and modern, simplified architecture while improving culture, organizational.

Seattle, Washington

Leading a team of Technical Product Managers through a transformation including stronger alignment to HR product areas and solving for business needs through requirements analysis, coordinated prioritization, and technical solution delivery. Implemented processes to align the People Technology team’s deliverables to overarching HR strategy while.

Bellevue, Washington

Led a team of 7 TPMs responsible for Consumer Payments programs ensuring that assignments aligned to employee strengths and areas of interest in order to promote TPM growth.Developed and improved organizational processes for the program management discipline and delivery of programs, including capacity management and resource alignment, and status.

Greater Seattle Area

Engineering Management team member, facilitating organizational and strategic goals for the Engineering organization, managing the rhythm of the business, and coordinating leadership activities.Recruited to evaluate existing Program, Engineering, and cross-team processes to improve ability to ship specified scope on time at high quality.Built Program.

Greater Seattle Area

Provide oversight to Vertigo's project portfolio with leadership and mentoring to project leads and input on staffing and new business opportunities for Business Development team.Direct program responsibility for several client product development projects for iOS, Android, Windows Store 8.1, Windows Phone 8, and Xbox Development platforms.Participate in.

Redmond, Washington

Modeled new team structure and defined charter to provide Microsoft IT (MSIT) support to business group executives, grew team from 4 to 15 senior employees in a four month period, developed business and executive reporting processes for an inbound work request function, and supported business group requests resulting in Deliver IT award and improved.

Greater Seattle Area

Implemented and managed PMO and Program Management team including development of project, release, and engineering processes for an online multi-tier Bill Analytics and Payment service.Developed business processes for managing professional service requests, including prioritization and estimation.Facilitated migration to Agile Development using SCRUM (from.

Kirkland, Washington

Interim Director of Engineering for a team of 40 (Development, QA, UX, and Technical Writing) ensuring that department goals, corporate and executive communication, and team morale were maintained at a high level resulting in on-time product launches and receipt of Employee of the Quarter achievement award.Improved the Engineering department's reputation.

Bellevue, Washington

Launched industry-first accounting package solutions of integrated eInvoicing and ePayment for Great Plains Dynamics, Navision, and QuickBooks including invoice and payment approval workflow, electronic disputes, and branded online customer account centers.Facilitated development of product roadmap with input from internal and external Stakeholders.

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead consultant managing electronic bill pay implementation projects with budgets up to $2M including WebPay on AOL, Patelco Credit Union, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Wells Fargo, and Chase Manhattan Bank.Coordinated Engineering and IT resources to quickly resolve issues related to beta implementation projects.Developed training materials and.

San Francisco, California

Managed a cross-functional task force to identify and resolve single points of failure in online banking and bill payment products and services.Provided process and workflow analysis and trained teams in effective problem identification and elimination

San Francisco, California

Supervised Federal Reserve Bank Automated Clearing House (ACH) 24/7 operations, maintaining 99% uptime and managed 12 person team providing technical support and training to participating financial institutions for all online products and services.Managed team reorganization project and realigned resources to reduce overhead by 20%.

Kirkland, Washington

Managed customer service and professional services team of 4 responsible for over 125 banks on mainframe and PC based document processing and imaging applications. Lead project consultant for over 20 on-site document processing and imaging software conversions and hardware integrations including Cleveland National Bank, American Savings Bank, First.

Silverdale, Washington

Responsible for Proof operations and all back-end processing, including IBM AS400, IBM System 36, Treev Optical Imaging, Sort Pattern development, and Report Management. Upgraded software and hardware, provided network support, and implemented disaster recovery plan in addition to providing New Accounts, Bookkeeping, and Cash Vault support.

Graduate Certificate, Servant Leadership

Bs, Business Management

Education record

Activities and Societies: Software Product Management Intensive, March 2005

Ata, Business Management

Certified Scrummaster, Scrummaster