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Menlo Park, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Managed a team of Technical Program Managers in San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland. Served as interim Director of Technical Program Management.- Led process for teams across engineering (Payments, Platform, Infrastructure, Fraud/Risk Management, Content, Mobile) as well as gathering requirements and visualizing progress across non-engineering teams.- Designed process and documentation used across the organization. Programs including IPO/Public Company Readiness, Financial Reconciliation Engine, Payments, Platform Engineering, Trust+Safety, Billing, Internal tooling, Vimeo Integration, Vendor/Partner Evaluation, Incident Management, Bug Process, and overall SDLC project process.- Worked with leadership to define and improve program tracking process, communication, and lead cross-org and upward meetings.- Led discussions among engineering teams to drive consensus on design and execution questions. Most notably for entire site backend and frontend redesign.- Led financial, security and technical audits and remediation.- Navigated engineering teams through multiple restructures and two changes in leadership.

London, Gb

(Fintech/Proptech)- Managed remote development team of 25 (3-4 teams, project managers, QA and DevOps/SRE), implemented and trained Agile development processes and full SDLC and risk management.- Handled all communications from the business to the technical implementation teams and all communications about progress, requests and deliverables, including to C-level staff and external stakeholders.- Led all technical projects within the company, including move of apps to new platform with a microservice architecture, APIs, environments and release management, API implementation/integration (Salesforce, Zoho,) and AWS deployment.- Attained Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) associate status, representing knowledge of regulatory compliance implementation in accordance with the UK banking system.- Led implementation and compliance to General Data Protection Regime (GDPR) compliance throughout company, including training all levels of staff, data governance policy creation and production of training materials and documentation library.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

(Acquired by Monsanto in 2013, Agriculture/ Biotechnology/ Insurance) (Project Manager 2-->Senior Technical Program Manager 4) - Led up to 10 projects and programs for full SDLC simultaneously, with stakeholders from every part of the organization, partner organizations and external vendor management, bidding (RFP), and budgeting. Regularly prepared reports for and presented to executives.- Built and managed PMO from just myself to a team of 6, through acquisition and growth from 60 to over 1000 employees. - Developed delivery and spend control processes for data science, big data and teams using machine learning to develop mathematical algorithms using large amounts of AWS data processing and storage.- Coached teams and project managers (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, modified) in locations across the US (Seattle, San Francisco, St. Louis, New York City, remote) and developed PMO mandate and analytics to give insight into team progress and work breakdown. - Built metrics and technical discussions within engineering to agree upon cost, scope and timelines., driving consensus and prioritization within and across teams using influencing rather than top-down control. - Promoted twice in 5.5 years (Project Manager 2, Program Manager 3, Senior Technical Program Manager 4.) - JIRA/Confluence administration, Smartsheet, Tableau, Salesforce, vendor management of most developer tools for Devops team (New Relic, CloudHealth, Amazon Web Services, Copperegg, Splunk, etc.) - Led programs including CI/CD, AWS infrastructure migration and upgrades, identity federation, BA/BI, and regular Technical Review meetings across engineering organization (Product Management, Infrastructure/DevOps, UI, QA, etc) through entire Software Development Life Cycle and into maintenance and deprecation. - Led IT projects during acquisition phase to integrate systems with new parent company. Worked with Monsanto and TCC security and compliance teams, RFP/vendor analysis.

Oakland, Ca, Us

(Healthcare/ Biotech/ Insurance) - Managed digital marketing campaigns, analytics and presentations to executives, able to hit the ground running from past experience. A/B testing, JIRA/Confluence, SEO/SEM. - Built reports on Website and marketing campaign performance and made recommendations on optimal paths forward. - Designed RFPs (Requests For Proposals) and managed process for redesign of two Websites and accompanying mobile, CMS and email properties.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

(Digital Marketing Industry)- Worked with large clients on complicated custom social media marketing projects with budgets up to $2M. - Ran digital marketing campaigns, advising clients on optimal strategies using SEM/SEO tools, Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics. - Communicated between all stakeholders and clients. - Worked with Facebook platform team directly on performance optimization of campaigns and used Facebook's onboard tools to optimize campaigns for metrics like click-through rate and time on site. - Increased levels of efficiency and communication as sole project manager in remote office.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

(Digital Marketing Industry)- Initiated Project Management team, process and documentation and trained subsequent project managers. - Worked with large clients on complicated custom social media marketing projects with budgets up to $2M. - Translated requirements between Sales/Account organization and Engineering, and communicated reports on project status to clients, sales, accounts and exec teams. - Used Facebook audience selection and Google (AdWords, Display Network) to gather analytics and optimize client advertising campaigns. - Put in place procedures for successfully executing marketing campaigns, working directly between sales/customers and development teams through the entire process of design and delivery.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

(Digital Design Industry) - Worked within Worldwide Marketing team to optimize marketing websites for Autodesk's 80+ products.- Used Google Analytics, SEM/SEO tools, Adobe Analytics to build reports and analyze data for presentation to directors and inform digital marketing campaigns to millions of customers. - Worked across QA and Web Project Management teams to plan and implement projects including SEO, localization, standardization of partner sites and upgrades, using a CMS. Sharepoint, HTML, BRD, PRD, and requirements documentation.

Us

(Digital Health Industry)- Coordinated with Marketing team to integrate state of the art SEO as we built out a brand new 40,000-page Website. - Built marketing campaigns, integrating A/B testing and data gathered through Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics. - Worked with Operations team on performance optimization of Website. - Supported stakeholders across content, design, engineering, marketing and legal teams. Delivered full SDLC projects from conception to go-live, maintenance and deprecation. - Managed internally-developed content management system and day-to-day leadership of web production team and content ingestion.

Washington, Dc, Us

(Regulatory and Compliance Technology)- Managed digital marketing campaigns and tracked analytics using Google Analytics. - Managed large customer accounts, developed support documentation, software QA. - Gained extensive knowledge of FEC and state, committee and PAC, election compliance and regulatory issues.