Nicholas Kramer Email & Phone Number

Burlington, Vermont

As a servant leader and coach for the Dealer.com Advertising and Business Solutions Release Train, I enabled our teams to successfully plan and deliver a variety of products and features in support of our company’s advertising platform. This included launching a new advertising budget recommendation tool, adding programmatic launch of video advertising campaigns on YouTube to our internal tooling, and successfully integrating our real-time bidding system with two third-party ad-fraud detection services.Responsibilities include:Working with the teams’ Scrum Masters to foster continuous improvement on both the individual development teams as well as the leadership teamFacilitating the product and engineering leadership in the quarterly release planning process, with particular focus on value delivery as well as communication and management of cross-train dependenciesIdentifying and championing process improvements at all levels to increase overall value delivery and enterprise agilityAssisting in the collection and reporting of metrics related to project status/completion, quarterly plans, agility health, etc. for the purpose of fostering organizational improvement

Burlington, Vermont

As a servant leader and coach for the Dealer.com Advertising Release Train, I enabled our teams to successfully plan and deliver a variety of products and features in support of our company’s advertising platform. This included launching a new advertising budget recommendation tool, adding programmatic launch of video advertising campaigns on YouTube to our internal tooling, and successfully integrating our real-time bidding system with two third-party ad-fraud detection services.Responsibilities included:Working with the teams’ Scrum Masters to foster continuous improvement on both the individual development teams as well as the leadership teamFacilitating the product and engineering leadership in the quarterly release planning process, with particular focus on value delivery as well as communication and management of cross-train dependenciesIdentifying and championing process improvements at all levels to increase overall value delivery and enterprise agilityAssisting in the collection and reporting of metrics related to project status/completion, quarterly plans, agility health, etc. for the purpose of fostering organizational improvement

Burlington, Vermont Area

As Product Owner for our Enterprise Data Warehousing team, I enabled on-going and improved financial reporting, e.g. sales performance tracking and lead-to-cash analyses, through a variety of projects, including the migration of integrations supporting employee dimensional data sources from SAP to PeopleSoft and expansion of our integration with Salesforce across multiple Salesforce instances, powering sales performance tracking and lead-to-cash analyses.Responsibilities included:Coordinating regular meetings with Product Managers and other stakeholders to gather and assess business needsManaging team backlogs for Scrum/Kanban teams, writing features and user stories to ensure accurate communication of business needs and value explanation to the development teamPrioritizing overall feature prioritization in concert with product managers, accounting for both stakeholder needs as well as technical feedback from the development team with the goal of maximizing value delivery

Greater New York City Area

As Data Integration Manager I had the opportunity to modernize and greatly enhance a 10-year old data management system. In collaborating with a team of consultants we undertook a full redesign/rebuild of our organization’s data infrastructure, migrating to a modern ETL/Data Warehouse architecture. Once completed I took responsibility for managing the team that administered, maintained, and continued to develop that system.Responsibilities included:Directing administration of the infrastructure underlying the Enterprise Data Management System (built on SQL Server 2012), including regular backup and restoring of DEV, QA, and Production environmentsActing in the role of Data Tech Lead for EDMS Agile Development Team, overseeing Database/ETL technical architecture, managing ETL developers’ progress, and alternating as acting Scrum Master for entire development team, as well as designing data model and ETL process enhancements to continuously improve performance and meet evolving business needsPerforming ad hoc reporting and bulk data updates as requested by Data Acquisitions staff and other subject matter experts

Greater New York City Area

In this role I increased our data processing capacity and helped improve overall data quality by automating many aspects of the data intake process. Responsibilities included:Coordinating automated extraction, cleanup, and loading of grant information into various databases.Developing and maintaining a library of excel macros to aid in data processing and cleanupParticipating in maintenance and expansion of custom taxonomy (FCGCS, formerly National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities) as well as in design and expansion of the database systemsAiding in the supervision of consultants and outsourcers in conducting various work ranging from data-entry and indexing to user-experience and web-design

Greater New York City Area

Responsibilities included:Indexing (Cataloging) grant information with codes from the Foundation Center’s Grants Classification System, fka National Taxonomy of Exempt EntitiesMaintaining and updating database records to ensure data integrity, researching and validating names, addresses, websites and other contact information, and mission statements for non-profit organizations world-wide

Greater New York City Area

Responsibilities included:Performing various library clerical activities, including shelf-reading, basic cataloging, and digitization of library materials

Greater New York City Area

Responsibilities included:Managing translation and multimedia (transcription/voiceover/subtitling) projects, ensuring a high standard of quality while meeting deadlines and budget constraintsCoordinating both in-house and freelance staff, assigning balanced workloads appropriate to highly variable availability and skill-setsPackaging product output in a variety of media for client delivery, including text documents, images, and a variety of multimedia content

Bachelor'S Degree, English Language And Literature/Letters

Master'S Degree, Library Science

Study Abroad, English Language And Literature/Letters