David Gore Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Actively support the product owner in strategizing on work to deliver features. Facilitate the breakdown of product owner desired features into epics or high-level stories, and high-level sizing estimates of work within the feature. Present data appropriate with allocating work into minimum marketable functionality and end-to-end testable groupings. Consistently promote the concept of servant leadership. Initially collected data to build a predictable model for the next release within three to four days of target, a major improvement over prior performance with heightened communication amongst stakeholders and management.Serve as a catalyst for change in efficiency and productivity, and approach iterative software increments with value and a delivery mindset, while equally balancing the needs and requests of the business and product owner with needs and requests of the development team to achieve the best outcome for delivery of value.Consistently scan the team work area to identify appropriate conversations to join, bring out critical points, get others involved, and drive conversations to action items. Organized and monitored the tasks associated with pending software releases though the use of effective labeling in JIRA to ensure the development team remains focused on the minimum viable product (MVP).Assist the UX/UI team and product owner in identifying how to translate feedback into a prioritized backlog, and assist in coordinating the release and timing of regression testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), beta and production.Plan sprints with product owner and members of the development team by defining a goal for the sprint, ensuring priorities are respected, and search for portions of work that can be completed based on the team’s velocity.

Houston, Texas, Us

Formalized the product management strategy to incorporate the agile mindset at the seismic data imaging company recognized for guiding clients through the use of proprietary software to create seismic images. Served as agile coach to design scrum framework, streamlined and standardized planning, workflows, KPIs and the client experience. Employed lean software development processes while segmenting product development work into incremental phases to improve design, effectiveness and client satisfaction.Expanded scrum/agile adoption to increase product exposure, guiding teams through scrum transition, and utilizing a servant leadership mentality to build a more collaborative, effective work environment.Promoted a value and delivery mindset, balancing the needs and requests of the business and product owner with the requirements of the development team, and consistently joined conversations with the team to bring out critical points, and drive conversations to action items. Managed a breakdown of product owner desired features into epics or high-level stories, facilitated the sizing estimates of work within the feature, and worked with product owner and technical lead to write stories.Actively participated in meetings with other teams around dependencies in current and future work. Communicated defects to the team, and assisted the testing team in articulating what was broken, and what impacts it had on delivery. Guided executive decision-making and conflict resolution across company-wide departmental functions, taking on roles as product owner, scrum master, and development team leader, and building trust/accountability amongst the team.

Houston, Texas, Us

Introduced the first phases of agile framework into the company, moving from a prior waterfall approach toward projects into an agile mindset to enhance efficiency and place heightened accountability on the team while encouraging independent thinking.Transformed the department from a reactive project management approach to an agile structure focused on high-touch communication, lean project planning, and early project identification and resolution.Seamlessly mentored teams during and after transition to Agile/Scrum environments, providing continuous assessment of needs to drive positive performance.Coded SQL to mine databases for data and pull resource usage per product. Led the performance of 6 to 10 technical staff, supporting the understanding and success in team members by promoting collaboration and transparency, delivering hands-on guidance, and influenced proper resource allocation while encouraging each team member to take pride in their own work.Mentored teams during and after the transition to an agile/scrum environment, creating KPIs and continuously assessing departmental needs to maintain positive performance.Delivered full-cycle management of complex geophysical and seismic technology services products up to one year and $1MM in scope, driving rapid issue identification and resolution, risk mitigation and progression while preventing schedule delays and removing impediments by managing change, working with clients to comprehend requirements, communicating scheduling impacts, and delivering optimal talent utilization.Reduced product costs by $2MM YOY as a direct result of implementing agile frameworks consisting of streamlined workflows, process gap identification and task reallocation with a reduced cost per unit moving from ~$700 to ~$200.Generated $30MM in new revenue by leading the development team to complete a high-profile technology product.

Houston, Texas, Us

Directed the training and coaching of in-house and remote/offshore teams while identifying organizational and instructional roadblocks to create enhanced training materials and a guidebook containing practice projects.Directed the performance and tasks of 10 team members while improving training efficiency for both staff and clients through the translation of technical terminology for non-technical and diverse audiences.Managed four short-term concurrent projects each year with technical project teams of up to four implementation specialists, successfully aligning project deliverables with requirements.Strategized and transformed a series of project workflows to effectively mitigate risk by addressing potential changes previously overlooked during initial project planning stages.

Houston, Texas, Us

After advancing quickly from Junior Data Analyst to Data Analyst, I partnered with internal and external clients to lead data analysis project, prepare data sets, and create presentations for team meetings. I reduced downtime by collaborating with off-shore teams to identify and correct early warning errors, providing technical support, and monitoring project reports.

Houston, Texas, Us

Served in progressive roles as Junior Data Analyst and Data Analyst. Actively partnered with internal and external clients to lead data analysis projects, prepare data sets, and create presentations for team meetings. Reduced downtime through collaboration with offshore teams to identify and correct early warning errors, provide technical support and monitor project reports.