Eric Straub Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

After a rewarding tenure in the tech industry, accentuated by achieving my AWS Solution Architecture Associate certification, I embarked on a career sabbatical to further focus on personal growth and rejuvenate my creative and strategic capacities.During this period, I've completed the "AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty" certification, demonstrating my ability to design, deploy, and operate solutions for data analytics. I'm preparing to test for the "AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty" certificate.I am now actively seeking new opportunities where I can apply my blend of technical expertise, leadership, and strategic thinking. I'm eager to contribute to an organization that values technical innovation, strategic planning, team collaboration, and a supportive work culture.

Seattle, Wa, Us

* Shaped the product roadmap; led fast-paced, agile team of 15 SDEs; delivered 6 major releases in 18 months; ranked in Amazon top 25% in leadership, inclusion & team satisfaction.* Boosted efficiency and customer experience with revamped on-call approach that motivated ops wins & zero security/customer impacting issues; introduced Amplify priority frameworks. * Applied management, problem-solving, and research skills to transform the CLI delivery pipeline; fixed tests, cut: test times by 80%, CircleCI usage by 40%, & build times by 98%. * Enhanced CLI observability at scale with improved usage data, dashboards, & an innovative Diagnose command that seamlessly transfers non-sensitive configuration data to AWS.* In 9 months, elevated CLI security by orchestrating security reviews/resolving issues, shifting to packaged architecture, and improving identity and permission security models.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

* Led RPO planning rituals and messaging, coordinating 30+ orgs; innovated operations and tooling, streamlining the process and reducing weekly coordination meetings by 50%.* Stewarded Riot portfolio level "Business Epics" (tickets used to plan and track delivery of the Riot roadmap), enabling strategic analysis and planning with trusted dashboards.* In 6 months, collaborated with a cross-company team to create a "flow framework" visualizing Riot's roadmap from 1000+ Rioters' data, aligning business goals with tech delivery.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

* In 3 months, built Program Management for the IP global organization (120 rioters) delivery; used to build infra for 5 games & 6 data centers; now the standard for IP delivery.* Represented IP, ensuring 100% readiness & stewarding intake through delivery on all commitments with other platform & game partners, achieving total alignment and trust for IP.* In 4 months, revamped Riot Platform's work system into a unified, reliable tool, reducing overhead & boosting leadership confidence with aggregated data from 70+ team/500+ Rioters.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

* Analyzed e-commerce & new technologies for Wizard's digital games; evaluated 20 vendors, executed on 2 POCs, created report on the options & gained executive approval for top pick.* Established & led Wizards' 1st global DevOps team of 10; used BDD with SpecFlow/Gherkin, VSTS (now Azure DevOps), Sonar & Swagger to stand up a micro-service solution in 6 months.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Led teams to create & launch Magic Online's 'Leagues' feature & new Customer Service tool; reduced event session times by 80%, enabled match repairs & fixed paid events integrity.Initiated and spearheaded a cross-functional collaboration to overhaul Magic Online's legacy digital pipeline, reducing deploy & build times by 67% and 60% respectively.

• Kinetic Ideas. Led agile team for startup concept investigating, designing, and planning multiple platform mobile and cloud based vertical event platform. Worked as product owner, suggesting and negotiating priorities, user stories, and features with team. Created User Experience screen mock-ups for prioritized user stories• Microsoft Premium Mobile Experience (PMX) Team. Investigated, negotiated, and created PMX story and value proposition for games. Introduced and facilitated discussions between Microsoft and key mobile game developers• Microsoft Mobile Embedded Device (MED) Marketing Team. Provided strategic advice, demos, and presentations on mobile gaming for executives and marketing team on how to improve game experience on Windows Mobile devices. Formulated strategy to create mobile Xbox Live client (codenamed: Anthem) and worked with teams to create proof of concept demo. Created game related content for windows mobile portal• Microsoft Mobile Devices Division (MDD) Solutions Group. Built strategy and established partnerships with third parties and Microsoft Game Studios to get quality games created to help drive adoption of Microsoft PC Phone and Smartphone

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Credited in production of over 20 games and four major operating system releases; member of Windows 95 mission control• Consistent top 25% performer over 13 year Microsoft career• Multiple awards for leadership and achievement from Microsoft; leadership award from Intel Studio Manager - Microsoft Game Studios1996 to 2002• Managed, led, and rebuilt three separate program management (PM) teams into top performing teams• Spearheaded collaborative effort to define mission and roles for game program managers• Spearhead cross division multi-function “virtual team” leading to the resolution of the DirectX problems• Managed 35+ person game development studio producing first party and third party game titles like MechWarrior, Age of Empires, & Munch’s Oddysee. • Responsible for business relationships with key development partners in US, Canada, and Europe.Principal Group Program Manager, Personal Systems Division1990 to 1996• Mission control for Windows 95. Group manager for Windows 95 System Tools & Plus! team• Technical Program Manager (TPM) Windows 3.0, MS-DOS 5 through 6.2• Planning, design, and implementation of key integrated operating system tools built on new system technologies while other teams built those system technologies • Led successful collaboration of key industry companies creating and adopting DPMI technology standard (awarded Intel Leadership Award)• Awarded several patents for operating systems innovation

Richland, Wa, Us

Lead engineer creating software to aid research projects.