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Los Angeles, CA, US

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

• Built, led, and mentored/coached a team of project managers in Irvine and Santa Monica, CA. Rolled out Agile Methodologies to a formally Waterfall environment; stood up 8 Agile Teams in the Irvine office.
• Responsible for strategic planning, status reporting, and tactical execution of the McGraw Hill Education ALEKS platform.
• Provided oversight and guidance to 8 in-house development teams consisting of program, product, engineering, content, quality assurance, automation, and business analyst resources. Communicated across project teams.
• Helped team establish milestones and monitor adherence to PMO artifacts such as charters and schedules, identify program problems and risks, mitigate and escalate as necessary.
• Drove annual and cycle-based planning activities and initiatives. Partnered with engineering and product leadership to ensure appropriate delivery towards product vision, approved strategic roadmaps and engineering.
• Worked closely and communicated effectively with executives to align on prioritization and coordinate work and resourcing across all teams (both business resources and consultants). Managed PMO department budget and T&E.

New York, NY, US

Beverly Hills, California, US

• Managed ~20 developers and 7 QA personnel including scoping of projects and schedules per Senior Management.
• Successfully converted teams from Waterfall methodologies, utilizing Agile methodologies including daily stand-ups, story points, demo, sprint retrospectives, and lessons learned sessions to streamline 10 projects in.
• Managed countless deployments to production for Live Nation / Ticketmaster Resale initiatives as well as all documentation required for change control board review, security board review, and the architecture board.
• Created an updated template for Release Readiness, Project, as well as Integrator Signoff which was approved by the PMO and was adopted as part of best practices and required per the SDLC for all members of the PMO.
• Coordinated efforts across software development, infrastructure, operations scrum teams (8-10 people each), and across teams with product development and product management groups to ensure delivery of program/product.
• Organized and led ALL release planning activities resulting in the creation of release roadmaps. Ensured all teams aligned with external corporate planning expectations and ran multiple Scrum of Scrums.

El Segundo, CA, US

• Managed 12 developers and 5 QA personnel including scoping of projects and schedules; set milestones and hard deadlines. Created functional specs from information given by Senior Management stakeholders; managed.
• Managed ~500 website deployments: ATG store deployments, PhotoStamps integration (with HP, American Idol, Best Buy, Avery, Apple, Apple iPhone iOS Mobile Application, Warner Brothers), and countless USPS requests. In.
• Worked closely with Customer Support to identify, review and escalate issues from customer feedback.
• Closely monitored industry trends and suggested upcoming technologies to senior management.

New York, US

• Formed my own consulting company to offer the following core services: Program and Project Management, Business Analysis, Information Architecture, Web Design & Development, GUI Design, Visual Design, and Online.
• Provided all facets of design: software GUIs, trade show booths, corporate newsletters, logos, brochures, websites
• Partial client list: BitCentral, Sony, CBS, NBC, PBS, Ford, Mazda, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche, BMW, Monster.com.WorkLife Solutions Inc., Art Director 2001 – 2003
• Created co-brands for the ENTIRE WorkLife vertical network of sites (approx. 2000+ sites), including the initial planning, mockups, design, and HTML slicing / PHP coding of each site.
• Ran the company adserver, monitored click-throughs, performance, and optimized various campaigns.
• Created corporate identity, logo, letterheads, business cards, etc.

• Managed program managers, project managers, design managers, sales traffic, QA, web development, and translation departments, including offices in Ukraine, Argentina, and India.
• Gathered and assessed requirements from upper management and coordinated internal department team efforts.
• Teamed with QA on test planning for overall product quality. Reviewed and assessed requests for enhancements, bug fixes, and content updates. Created MS Project charts to track progress of teams and set team.
• Supported Sales in marketing the products; managed deployment of hundreds of e-commerce websites.