Michael Daitzman Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma

Cambridge, Ma

o Leading team in agile transformation.o Transform teams from agile product dev to a devops perspective by o building cross-functional/cross-departmental teams o changing teams perspective to look at the whole value streamo Ensuring on time delivery of 2 major software releases to VA pilot sites, on the path to national deploymentso Spread Scrum methodology across the companyo Created visibility into company roadmap, deliverables and priorities

Cambridge, Ma

o Lead agile transformationo Ensure on time delivery of product deliverables

Greater Boston Area

ExpertFind.com is a two-sided market focused on finding the right academics to solve companies technical and training needs.Applied Lean Startup MVP and Validation Board methods to rapidly and inexpensively test and refine ideas with customers.

Greater Boston Area

WhatWhen sought to procure and organize event listings via semantic web ontologies to provide users with one place to find a personalized list of events.

Burlington, Ma

Led a team including Business Development, Evangelists and Technical Writers to design and roll out an evangelism program to support the Nokia Browser in BRIICA countries in local languages. Increased organization’s visibility in the larger web community through conference engagements and publications in web journals. Drove support for key web development-centered features into the browser and the device developer APIs.

Greater Boston Area

o Reorganized Product and Program Management teams to focus on user-centric design while managing constant changes in schedules and frequent reorganizations.o Achieved agreements to move from approximately 100 specific software deliveries per year (each device and country variant) to device independent software deliveries on a predictable schedule, which refocused 50% of engineering resources to feature development.o Led a migration from 3 Requirements and QA/Development systems and a fourth SCRUM management tool to a single unified solution ahead of schedule and under budget resulting in increased development team satisfaction and effectiveness.o Directed the roll out of agile methodologies (SCRUM based) in Product and Program Management to support product development.o Planned annual budgets of between $12 and $16 million dollars and instituted practices which kept our budget variance to within 2% despite foreign currency fluctuations.o Managed the transition of Continuing Engineering as well as Product and Program Management responsibilities from Boston to Bangalore enabling the Boston team to refocus on new products and technologies.o Created, monitored, and refined KPI’s for all aspects of the software development process.

Software management consultancy focused on enabling organizations to manage their software projects.

Rebuilt a Project Management and Quality Assurance team from scratch while implementing flexible processes for product quality control and feature enhancements under aggressive timeline demands. These processes ensured a high rate of product release while decreasing system downtime and improving the company’s response to system performance problems.

Program Manager for Digital Home Technologies. Worked with SCEA, Nintendo, and others to make AOL's technology available on a variety of consumer electronics platforms. I was primarily focused on the gaming space and managed the PjM's, User Interface Design and QA teams for the larger Digital Home Technologies effort (eg. You've Got Pictures.)

Held Management and Individual Contributor positions at AOL and including Group Program Manager, Senior Project Manager, Senior QA Manager, Product Manager

Massachusetts, United States

I worked in the US branch of a Perth, Australia based Civil Engineering and Surveying software company.