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Oak Park, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Oversaw more than 20 global partner project managers in successful delivery of strategic digital transformation portfolio, including new product market launch and key zero-trust security initiatives. Reported Portfolio Updates to C-Level Executives.• Lead cross-functional Launch Coordination Office, aligning Sales, Finance, Marketing, IT/ Security, Product and Engineering to deliver new product offering to market ahead of SEC-mandated deadlines. First to market solution created over $11 MM in new annual recurring revenue.• Established value stream-based portfolio and program management across the entire Product Engineering organization, including portfolio risk management, and outcome-driven decision making. Eliminated duplicate work and reduced dependency wait time. • Collaborated with functional leaders to develop and deliver matrixed roadmaps across Security, IT and Product Engineering. Reduced friction between department stakeholders and delivered 100% of 2024 strategic goals before Q4.• Managed, mentored and lead a team of 20+ global project managers and program managers in the successful execution of the portfolio. Well loved people leader. • Key member of Product Engineering Senior Leadership team in determining organizational goals, execution strategy, platform strategy, and cultural transformation.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Built a project and program management practice, overseeing 10+ agile project managers to deliver successful digital transformation.• Created transparency, consistency and delivery excellence to the $40MM SaaS Project Portfolio, leading to the successful execution of our digital transformation. Established radical alignment of staff to goals, outcome-weighted sequence of delivery, and data driven execution framework.• Established the organizational and operational structure for the multi-year cross-department Security Program. Aligned cross-functional leaders and teams, resolved conflicts and provided updates to C-Level Executives. Exceeded our 2023 security program goals for the first time in company history.• Developed the Center of Delivery Excellence, building and mentoring team of 10 agile project managers to successfully execute the SaaS Project Portfolio. • Lead the overhaul of our informal engineering organizational structure to team-based delivery, mentoring managers, providing guidance and training on building highly-collaborative, high-performing, cross-functional teams.• Established the “exploding silos” award to promote a “One DFIN” aligned culture, distinct from the historical siloed culture. Lead to increased cross-product engineering collaboration.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Coached development teams in agile ways of working; set-up and trained the division on tooling to assist with visibility and simplicity in organizing work.• Taught, mentored and trained twenty-year-old established organization on agile techniques and metrics to improve transparency, collaboration and delivery of key projects.• Hired, mentored and trained 5 Scrum Masters to work with teams across 3 distinct product lines.

Chicago, Il, Us

Established agile-based project and portfolio management standards and trained staff to effectively lead delivery of $3-5 MM portfolio of over 15 projects in 2 years.• Created enterprise visibility and execution consistency into all strategic hardware and software projects ensuring staff aligned to the most important work.• Revamped and streamlined existing software agile practice. Established a collaborative, delivery focused culture focused on interim demos of working software. Improved time to delivery and increased trader usage significantly.• Mentored junior project managers, product managers and other informal project managers. Developed enterprise-wide project and product management skills. Led to successful delivery of key projects without adding staff.• Key member of the Technology Senior Leadership Team. Collaborated in staffing decisions, team development, employee reviews, and overall cultural development.

Marketing decisions platform, harnessing the power of real-time social data, advanced big-data technology and team of data scientists and industry analysts. It is an highly entrepreneurial, fast changing environment with a start-up feel but with maturity of a rapid growth business.Established enterprise wide project and project portfolio best practices, including project evaluation, project execution, resource planning and management, capacity planning and overall project portfolio risk management. Added just the right amount of processes have allowed NI to execute on their product strategy, bringing a 10x better product to the marketplace, all without squashing the entrepreneurial energy. Added a level of predictability to product delivery that allowed the sales and marketing teams to align with and plan around as well.Streamlined existing agile processes. Coached and mentored technical leads, engineers, product owners and project managers on agile processes and team building.Conducted hands-on project management and acted as scrum master for multiple "mission critical" projects. This allowed me first hand experience with what processes were working and what needed to change.As part of the NI Management team, I am also responsible for aligning project work to our strategy and making sure we execute on that strategy.

Chicago, Il, Us

Established an enterprise-wide agile project and portfolio management practice. From project intake, evaluation and prioritization through execution and delivery - methods were put in place that focused and accelerated delivery of products. This was applied through not only the technology department, but also the marketing and sales department as well. Agile methods established were used to spin up new business lines. Mentored and coached junior project managers.Eliminated silos of work by bringing together cross-dicipline project execution teams. I won the 2012 company award for team work.

Chicago, Il, Us

Provided Project Managment expertise to clients through coaching, training and hands-on project management.

Sunrise, Fl, Us

Managed all technology work for the entire company portfolio. Conducted project evaluation, capacity planning, program management, and budgeting.Developed and rolled out of Agile Project Methodology; identified the need for a new methodology, created a customized solution that fit the business culture, won executive and stakeholder buy-in, fully implemented and trained technology personnel. Results included:** Dramatically accelerated time to market on critical projects.** Allowed frequent and rapid direction changes to capitalize on market opportunities without degrading to chaos.** Established a culture of collaboration between business and technology and between technology disciplines – eliminating “us vs. them” and “throwing things over the wall”.Actively conducted Agile project management on key portfolio projects; serverd as Scrum Master, leading team through prioritization and estimation of stories, facilitated iteration planning meetings, removed obstacles to team achievement, and created burn down charts.

Sunrise, Fl, Us

* Oversaw all technology work on multiple product lines, including new development projects and maintenance tasks.* Managed multiple major strategic projects with diverse teams of 5 to 13 technologists. * Tore down communication walls between business and technology, dramatically increasing stakeholder satisfaction for all major projects.* Fostered a culture of collaboration within project teams, leading to higher quality products delivered faster.* Piloted first Agile project in coordination with Architects.

Sunrise, Fl, Us

* Managed full life cycle of many simultaneous projects of varying size and complexity in a fast-paced environment. * Projects ranged from feature enhancements to launching new web sites to multi-year rebuild of back-end systems.* Collaborated with diverse teams of technologists and stakeholders to define and achieve project objectives.* Collected, wrote and maintained requirements documentation through in-depth interviews and running JAD sessions. * Developed detailed project plans; tracked and reported project progress to stakeholders and Senior Management and addressed any deviations.* Identified, documented and managed project risks.* Tracked and communicated impact of project scope changes on schedule, budget, quality and impact on other projects.* Assisted Senior Management in project evaluation, program planning and establishing a company wide project portfolio.* Aligned technology efforts with business goals on the Branded Web Properties product line.* Focused technology team to deliver 90% of strategic projects on time and on budget.* Reduced the amount of technology resources spent in “fire-fighting” mode from 60% to 20% through focusing team efforts on key areas.* Contributed to defining and implementing a new product development process company wide.* Implemented JAD sessions as a regular part of requirements gathering process.

* Programmed both fast-track and large-scale web based applications using ASP, ASP.NET, C#, VB (COM Objects), JavaScript and HTML. * Designed data structures and wrote stored procedures using MS SQL.* Fixed website bugs as part of the support team.