Mark Adolph Email & Phone Number

Tukwila, Wa, Us

(Full time continuation of contingent position) Working within the IT PMO in a strong matrix organization, provide project management to IT-supported business projects. Manage all aspects - scheduling, resourcing, budgeting, risk management, vendor management, and stakeholder communications - for pure Agile and mixed waterfall/Agile projects.

Tukwila, Wa, Us

Working within the IT PMO in a strong matrix organization, provide project management to IT-supported business projects. Manage all aspects - scheduling, resourcing, budgeting, risk management, vendor management, and stakeholder communications - for pure Agile and mixed waterfall/Agile projects.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Lead a team within FLASH (Financial Ledger & Accounting Systems Hub) responsible for onboarding accounting requirements from new public and confidential business initiatives onto Amazon's worldwide accounting platform. Implement processes to increase the velocity and accuracy of onboarding projects in the face of ever increasing expansion of the volume and breadth of Amazon's offerings.

Seattle, Wa, Us

During off-peak seasons, work with machine learning and statistical researchers, data analysts, and software engineers to create, test. and implement features to enhance the accuracy of Amazon's worldwide, individual item, customer demand forecasting algorithms whose results feed directly into buying decisions, inventory management, and transportation planning. During peak buying season, coordinate operational response to volatile demand, pricing, and promotion inputs to ensure that buying signals drive results that avoid over- and under-stock conditions. Implement forecast quality control procedures and respond in real time to exceptional occurrences and forecasting system behaviors.

Redmond, Washington, Us

* As Feature PM for database schema and object model underlying a new system to consolidate all SE case, SE bug, and SE/RTM release management for Microsoft Office, originated the basic object concepts underlying the entire system and maintained their integrity through multiple development milestones.* Specified, implemented, evangelized, and operated critical customer escalation response policy and mechanisms for Microsoft Office Division.* Managed PM team handling approximately half of customer hotfix escalations for Microsoft Office (~1200 requests annually), encompassing but not limited to Office SharePoint products.* Originated, defined, and managed standalone PM/Dev/Test SE team for SharePoint Portal Server 2001, and full-text search used by Windows, Exchange, and SQL Server.* Independently developed and evangelized information management concepts and strategies for SharePoint Portal Server culminating in a highly-rated TechEd Europe presentation in Nice, France.* Internationalization features for SharePoint Portal Server 2001, with focus on Japanese requirements, including customer meetings in Tokyo.

Led team that unified service releases for multi-OS, multi-DBMS document retrieval system that previously took more than a year to release all platforms.

Courbevoie, Ile De France, Fr

* Specified, subcontracted, and delivered document retrieval system for statewide police agency.* Crafted statewide WAN/LAN architecture linking central and remote portions of formerly stand-alone systems from three different vendors.* Negotiated, specified, and managed implementation of an interface between major biometric products built by teams in three separate companies and two different countries.* Specified major new subsystem to implement recently approved ANSI standard for inter-system fingerprint communications.* Earned excellent performance reviews during 18 months of work for parent company in France.

Arlington, Va, Us

Analyzed, designed, coded, tested, and delivered real-time research software under DOD-STD-2167A project constraints.

Ms, Software Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering - Computers