Kams Thorum Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Kent, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Design Lead for DellEMC PowerScale (formerly Isilon), InsightIQ, and DataIQ- Enterprise-level product design; products created for experts while still learnable and accessiblefor novices. Value-add features with high usability, featuring the workflows users most desire.- Pre-visual design (VCED, journey maps, conceptual diagrams), wireframes,comps/mockups.

Greater Seattle Area

• Team lead for a cross-functional design team. Research, strategy, interaction, styling, prototyping, testing, and developer handoff. Mentor current team members to encourage them to grow in both depth and breadth..
• Design lead for all new user-facing features in Isilon releases: task definition and workflow mapping for CLI-based interactions; wireframes, mockups and specs for GUI-based interactions, assessment and user testing of.
• Research lead for user-based research on Isilon products: targeted surveys, longitudinal surveys, user interviews, user testing, and beta testing. Research data used to set product strategy, define areas of investment.

Greater Seattle Area

• Established team-specific estimation and sizing rubrics for dev work items. Created project plans, schedules, risk registers and mitigation plans. Tracked and reported progress internally and cross-functionally..
• Developed phase-gate processes for major product releases. Determined release criteria for each phase and tracked metrics for the same. Reported progress to mid- and high-level executives as a basis of confidence in.
• Developed mind-share process for major product releases. Process success metrics include efficiency (dev hours saved per session) and efficacy (increased test coverage, decreased bug count, increased schedule fidelity).

• Managed international teams for government programs up to $25m in value
• Managed the transition of a major product line (>$12m in annual sales) from the UK to the US, completed in 8 months without interruption of customer deliveries.
• Managed an international field-based product retrofit of 238 fielded units in 6 countries, saving the company over $3m in replacement costs
• Developed a deliverable documentation process that brought program performance from 10% on-time delivery to 98% in 6 months

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Vetted over 100 local technology start-ups on behalf of the Wayne Brown Institute; approved start-ups were invited to the Investors Choice venture capital conference in February 2013; attendance > 300
• Mentored The Raw Data prior to their presentation at the Investors Choice in developing their pitch for a second round of funding; startup closed a deal for $1M based on their pitch.

Anchorage AK

• Maintained and updated a database of over 100 leading economic indicators for the Alaska region on behalf of the Alaska Center for Economic Development
• Provided an economic analysis of this database for publication as a feature in Alaska Business Monthly Magazine (print readership >35,000); topics included currency exchange, labor force distribution, regional oil and.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Planned, promoted and executed 10 public forums sponsored by the Canada Institute in 6 months, each with a targeted audience ranging from 10-50 public policy officials and subject matter experts; topics included.
• Planned, promoted and executed a major, energy policy conference in May 2008 featuring speeches by 4 high-level government officials from both the US and Canada, attended by over 200 subject matter experts.
• Investigated potential topics for future Canada Institute forums, including urban planning, oil and gas leases, and climate change, as well as targeted audiences for each event.

• Maintained department databases of oil and gas industry data, including oil prices and production volume.
• Developed models to predict future state revenues from oil and gas production under the direction of the Economic Department Director.

Master Of Technology (Mtech)

B.A., Economics

Activities and Societies: University Honor Society Economics ClubAttended as "Cami Woolam"