Leon Poll, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Long Beach, California, US

• As a PMO leader, effectively guided a $6M innovative program crucial to the company’s technology advancement, focusing on revenue growth, product quality, cost reduction, and ROI. Orchestrated the strategic planning.
• Collaborated closely with business stakeholders, product and engineering teams to establish clear project goals in alignment with company’s OKRs and strategic program / product roadmaps.
• Established and maintained project scope, schedule, budget, and risk management, aligning milestones and timelines with project / product backlogs and program release schedules.
• Managed projects by eliminating obstacles, resolving competing requirements and multi-functional dependencies, anticipating bottlenecks, and making tradeoffs to balance business needs with technical constraints.
• Consistently reported on projects life-cycle performance to key stakeholders using Earned Value Management, keeping them well-informed about obstacles and recommending solutions to remove roadblocks.
• Facilitated productive Scrum ceremonies, established a shared product vision with engineering teams through product refinement/grooming sessions, streamlined workflows across teams leading to improved efficiency.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Managed the end-to-end scope, design, and delivery of online banking digital solutions for well-known financial institutions. Led a team of BSAs, Product/Project Managers, and UX Designers across 7 on-shore/off-shore.
• Owned the product roadmap, ensured that product backlog prioritized in a logical sequence and aligned with release schedule, proactively addressed roadblocks and technical issues during project execution complex.
• Developed well-crafted User Stories, managed all Scrum Ceremonies for the engineering teams in an Agile framework.
• Successfully met project milestones within aggressive timelines, ensuring alignment with defined objectives.
• Effectively managed stakeholder communications throughout project lifecycle, provided verbal and written explanations of technical issues with precision and accuracy, recommended alternative technical approaches to.
• Initiated adjustments to work processes focused on enabling teams to perform efficiently resulted 28% increase in combined teams’ velocity, established 2 globally distributed development teams by defining roles and.

Westlake Village, California, US

• Designed and orchestrated the implementation of highly complex loan prioritization system (expedites speed of loans going through LOS pipeline) for Mortgage Lending financial services company.
• Defined desired application functionality based on collaboration with stakeholders, developed Epics/Features/User Stories, managed product backlog, ensured that tasks/dependencies prioritized in logical sequence.
• Led planning and execution of high-impact cross-functional projects by leading multi-time zone technical teams in reaching SMART objectives/KPIs, ensured that all milestones were completed on time and under the budget.
• Leveraged PMP methodologies to guide engineering tasks throughout the SDLC process, bringing alignment, clarity, and focus to deliverables.
• Foreseen dependencies, risks, and issues of the system functionality ensuring it is fully integrated with workflow of Mortgage Loan Origination/Fulfillment system’s advanced logic.
• Built sustainable processes in meeting established OKRs, optimized the development process for expedited an quality product delivery.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Designed and implemented the SAAS based mission critical technical solutions for international travel brand.
• Provided analysis of existing business practice based on input from key stakeholders, identified objectives focused on improvement of company’s KPIs,
• Designed and developed the 'Proactive VIP Travel Service' application, which provides virtual travel assistance to users with a strong focus on customer obsession aligned with enhanced user engagement and PMP.
• Defined desired Web/Mobile application functionality, developed Epics/Features/User Stories.
• Personalized user engagement by combining real-time analytics with design of high-performance application.
• Established & managed projects/milestones/timelines/teams within Scrum/Agile software development process.

La Canada, CA, US

• Designed and led the implementation of Business Intelligence analytical platform for national transportation company.
• Assessed new and emerging technologies to determine the best fit within analytical capability.
• Transformed load estimation logic by designing and delivering unique custom analytical application that resulted in $1.5M of cost savings in year 1.
• Acted as key product leader by owning the product’s roadmap, estimated/planned all development activities.
• Leveraged data as an asset which boosted volume of processed loads by 25%.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Managed successful execution of large-scale, multi-functional projects to support implementation of Analytical strategy across Information Systems of global pharmaceutical company.
• Established and managed a team of developers from around the world (Germany, UK, India), ensuring quality and consistency by conducting performance reviews, mentoring colleagues, and developing standards for Software.
• Owned the environment providing full support and addressing all technical issues, implemented Change Control policies and procedures leveraging PMP methodologies, and delivered exceptional business users' training.
• Provided outstanding Customer Support and effective stakeholder communication including status reporting throughout projects lifecycle, ran and documented effective meetings, tasks/dependencies prioritization in.

US

• Owned the reporting source data in the Loan Origination System (LOS) of a major lending bank.
• Developed complex Stored Procedures and database Queries, utilizing hands-on SQL for efficient data retrieval and manipulation. Proactively initiated performance tuning of the database to optimize reports performance.
• Implemented ETL processes to integrate data from various sources, serving as foundation for Business Intelligence and Analytics to drive informed business decisions.
• Designed and developed reports and dashboards that transform data into actionable insights. Conducted thorough data analysis to ensure the accuracy and integrity of data used in the reports.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Technology And Product Management

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science And Engineering