Jennifer Fernandez

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Head of Program Management Cisco Meraki @ Cisco Meraki
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San Francisco, California, United States, United States
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About Jennifer Fernandez

Results oriented, hands on Technical Program Management leader and Chief of Staff with a strong background in motivating, leading and coaching high performing engineering and operations teams through continuous development and delivery of Consumer and Enterprise products and services; enabling organizations to scale best practices in product delivery and transformation leadership around large-scale strategic planning, and portfolio management; highly effective at establishing relationships across all levels of an organization and partnering closely with CSuite leadership. -> Transformation Leadership: Hands on strategic leader and thought partner to executive leadership teams in flat and complex matrix organizations; providing the business operations rigor and leadership to drive strategic planning and execution around technology and operational transformational initiatives, using a variety of tools such as empathetic design practices, OKR's, KPI's, data analytics, Agile, PMO best practices.-> Technical Program Management: Building and leading co located and distributed cross functional development and product teams through collaboration and coaching in the development and delivery of products, applications and services using Agile/Scrum and Kanban. Burn Down Models, Agile Coaching, Product Owner, Risk management and mitigation, Resource Management, Conceptual understanding of systems architecture, service design, and implementation.-> Team building and leadership: Leading matrix organizations through cultural, operational and product development transformations. Driving execution through empowerment and collaboration. Leading teams to consensus building and gaining executive level sponsorship.-> Product delivery: Drive the design, development, implementation, and delivery of product releases and dependencies with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Develop and execute plans under implementation and delivery time constraints. Drive technical and operational requirements and issues to resolution at the tactical and strategic level.

Jennifer Fernandez's Current Company Details
Cisco Meraki

Cisco Meraki

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Head of Program Management Cisco Meraki
Jennifer Fernandez Work Experience Details
  • Cisco Meraki
    Head Of Technical Program Management
    Cisco Meraki Oct 2023 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
  • Google
    Technical Program Management Leadership, Google Cloud Platform
    Google Oct 2021 - Oct 2023
    Mountain View, Ca, Us
    Senior Leader, Technical Program Management, Google Cloud Platform
  • Salesforce
    Senior Director, Technical Program Management
    Salesforce Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
    San Francisco, California, Us
  • Stitch Fix
    Director Technical Program Management, Office Of The Cto
    Stitch Fix Apr 2017 - Feb 2019
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    • Established the engineering and operations PMO for the CTO's organization. (Engineering, IT, Product) Recruited and hired TPM for Eng and IT; Operations PgM for Product.• OKR rollout: Partnering with head of product, rolled out OKR’s across the org, leading dev teams through prioritizing work and measuring progress with OKR’s. Defined the Technology scorecard tracking measuring progress against delivery.• Drove the product delivery of technical product releasees and strategic initiatives across the CTO's & CFO’s org.• Lead the Monthly, Quarterly and Annual roadmap planning and reviews for the CTO's org with cross functional stakeholders.• Established product and eng best practices on agile and kanban development, incident management, collaboration tools, guidelines for posting internal and external blog posts, cadence of status reporting, • Chief of Staff responsibilities: Act as communication liaison for the CTO across the company. • Drove CTO’s weekly staff meeting and follow up; contribute to CTO's qtly offsite agenda and subsequent followup. • Drove annual Budget, HC + Contractor planning, manage OPEX • Coordinate Board updates; Own annual strategic planning sessions; SOX Compliance process definition and rollout across engineering, IT, Finance and Op’s • Provide mentorship and leadership to newly promoted engineering and product management directors; partner with people and culture teams, L&D: focus on recruiting dashboards, recruiting process, training plans for emerging leaders.
  • Sabbatical
    Global Citizen
    Sabbatical Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
    San Francisco, California, Us
    A year of travel, self exploration, and reconnecting with the Aina. Also coaching entrepreneurs in on agile and business operations.
  • Salesforce.Com
    Director, Technical Program Management
    Salesforce.Com Jan 2014 - Jul 2016
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Technical Program Manager for Search.• Drove the continuous release planning, execution and deployment of Search’s new server infrastructure from SAN to Solr (Lucene) across multiple “Cloud” engineering teams. Phase I delivery resulted in significant improvements search performance (76% reduction in average incremental queue times and a 42% reduction for average bulk indexing.)• Drove collaboration with product owners, UX, eng and ops to improve alignment on release planning and delivery of continuous releases; established a light weight process for monthly sprint reviews and retro’s, provided coaching and leadership to scrum teams for improving “say vs do” ratio, implemented improvements and transparency around team execution and product delivery through tracking of burndown, against overall release plan.
  • Adobe
    Sr. Group Manager Tpm, Mobile, Desktop And Web Platform
    Adobe Jun 2006 - May 2013
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Sr. Group Mgr. TPM, San FranciscoHired, managed and mentored a high performing engineering TPM team of 22, including managers, Agile coaches, IC’s to scale to support Adobe’s pivot to a SaaS platform. • Drove the change in Adobe’s SDLC processes between platform, web platform, mobile, engineering & product line teams (Op's, Service, Sales,Marketing, L&D ) established common milestones, dependency management, Agile and Lean Start Up best practices, reduced product release timelines from 18mos to 6mos.Chief of Staff to SVP of Engineering and Product.As the COS, drove SVP staff meetings, partnered with Engineering, Product and Marketing leadership teams to drive alignment on strategy, KPI's, decision making (DACI), org best practices, ran RCA's, attended e-staff; ran special x-functional projects for the org. Sr. Engagement Manager, Northern EMEA• Technical PM lead at MindShare. Led a team of 22 developers, testers, analysts and architects in the redefinition and automation of business processes and instrumentation on consumer trends and behaviors of Unilever’s top 25 global brands; resulting in 25% reduction in daily operational costs. • Technical PM Lead for The BBC (British Broadcasting Company); Delivered Project Cost Analysis against SOW; Defined and delivered monthly milestone reporting to the BBC Board.• Reduced BBC IT Services costs by 15%; introduced continuous development releases through introduction of Agile and UX workshops.Group Manager Engineering Program Management, Mobile Flash Runtime (San Francisco CA)• Led the successful migration of the AIR Engineering and PM team (180people) from Waterfall to SCRUM• Drove delivery of over 20 continuous releases for mobile and web platforms, including all aspects of the SDLC (Concept to Ship Readiness) .• Reduced Engineering re-planning, dev productivity and communication by 40% by introducing Agile, increasing transparency on releases to stakeholders executive leadership.
  • Tellme Networks
    Sr Project Mgr
    Tellme Networks Nov 2004 - Jul 2006
    Us
    Senior Project Manager, Enterprise Application Development for AT&T Wireless, American Express. Lead the enterprise application development teams and customer teams through the product lifecycle.• Managed product and business requirements, budgets, project schedules, resources, issues, escalations, test plans, installations, communication plans, launch plans, and Risk Analysis• Delivered QBR’s, and identify new business opportunities within the market segment.• Developed and implemented the PMO’s Lesson’s learned process, tools vendor evolution, Partner Program SOP’s, and partner and client training material
  • Force Computers / Motorola
    Senior Oem Program Manager, Product Marketing
    Force Computers / Motorola Mar 2004 - Nov 2004
    Force Computers (acquired by Motorola) Managed OEM relationship for Compact PCI boards with Intel and Mercury Computer Systems.Developed pricing and collateral, managed product life cycle, including PRD, development, quality assurance, beta testing, SAP part number creation, product status change, and all aspects with manufacturing.
  • Taos
    Director Project Management
    Taos Jun 2003 - Mar 2004
    Boise, Idaho, Us
    Defined the PMO, Developed the Project Management Service offering and pricing for TAOS’s Professional services.

Jennifer Fernandez Skills

Product Management Agile Methodologies Mobile Devices Saas Program Management Scrum Enterprise Software Software Project Management Agile Project Management Mobile Applications Cloud Computing Cross Functional Team Leadership Software Development Vendor Management Pmp Product Marketing Professional Services Sdlc Telecommunications Software Engineering Management Partner Management Visio Testing Change Management Requirements Analysis Sharepoint Strategy Go To Market Strategy Project Management Quality Assurance Pmo Ms Project Start Ups Product Development Crm Leadership Consulting Strategic Partnerships Requirements Gathering Integration User Experience Team Leadership Customer Relationship Management Software As A Service Software Development Life Cycle Strategic Planning Project Portfolio Management Business Analysis Business Process Improvement

Jennifer Fernandez Education Details

  • San José State University
    San José State University
    Business Admin. Management
  • San José State University
    San José State University
    Political Science Eastern European Studies
  • University Of Notre Dame - Mendoza College Of Business
    University Of Notre Dame - Mendoza College Of Business
    Negotiation
  • San José State University
    San José State University
    General

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