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Seattle, Wa

ROLE Build and lead project team, working on multiple large multi-year local and regional projectsPROJECTS Currently I am leading a major regional initiative designed to provide high-resolution aerial imagery and GIS supporting data. The project is massive, spanning some 165 stake holders and nearly 100 cities, utilities, and private businesses from 4 counties, as well as including state and federal agencies. The project has a budget of approximately 2 million dollars and will collectively save these agencies and their taxpayers over 12 million dollars (85+% savings) through economy of scale and by leveraging the immense number of participants in negotiation with the vendors.TASKS As lead PM for this project, my responsibilities include: • Coordination with and documentation for the Sponsor, governance boards, PMO, Legal, Procurement, Finance and the CIO.• Facilitation of Steering Committee meetings, votes and related activities• Manage participant membership• Manage the RFP and vendor selection process• Create the SOWs and related vendor contractual documentation - then walk through the edit process with the Contracts and Legal teams• Management of the content and execution of the participating agency contracts, including agency-specific requirements• Create and maintain the project SharePoint (including content, permissions, cloud migration, etc.)• Make project-related presentations potential participant external agencies/user groups• Provide vendor management, including oversight and approval of work plans, tools, processes, methods and execution to plan• Includes extensive coordination and tracking of local, county, state and federal government agency requirements and data.

Bellevue, Wa

Senior PM / Consumer Services CTO Dec. 2012 – Mar, 2013T-Mobile (client) Seattle, WAROLELed project team, working directly with Business, Sales, Marketing, Care, etc. to help define the business requirements for a large new consumer services offering. Offering is one of the company's foremost marketing initiatives.PROJECTS(Not yet launched; limited information due to NDA. Related to the company’s No-Contract and Value programs.)TASKS • Deliver business product requirements based on feedback from the Business, Sales, Marketing, Care, Ops., etc. Coordinate with PMO, Legal, various sales channels on this new talk and text offering.• Work with peer project teams to identify current and legacy product inter-dependencies; mitigate identified risks• Define release scopes for multiple launches in the life cycle of the new product offering• Work closely with multiple tech orgs including Architecture, Dev, QE, IT Ops & the vendor (AmDocs)• Trained on the T-Mobile technical and business product management-related processes.• Contract ending due to extensive layoffs of most contractors in preparation for their merger with (public) Metro PCS

Redmond, Wa

ROLEEnsure the team is driving its' projects to delivery effectively within AT&T's mobility infrastructure.PROJECTSProjects include direct Marketing and Supply Chain suport of new vendor offerings in the Advanced Mobility Services sector as well as a new Multi-Service Proxy Platform in the IT core, designed to transparently optimize, route and provide business logic for cellular IP traffic for AT&T's approximately 100 million U.S. customers. TASKS • Work with senior management and stakeholders to establish short and long-term product road map for the products• Coordinate multiple concurrent projects, including doing project planning, vendor management, team resource and task tracking, meeting facilitation, communications with executive management, Supply Chain, Legal as well as cross-organizational stake holders and vendors• Work with peer project teams to identify project inter-dependencies and mitigate risks once identified• Establish and maintain detailed project schedules throughout the life of the product launch and life cycle• Work closely with multiple orgs• Trained in the AT&T OAA NTD development process• 3 1/2-month gap prior to this project due to the recovery from spinal surgery.

Redmond, Wa

ROLEEnsure the team is driving its projects to delivery effectively within AT&T's mobility infrastructure. This team is responsible for implementing the new platform described below.PROJECTSA new Multi-Service Proxy Platform in the IT core, designed to transparently optimize, route and provide business logic for cellular IP traffic for AT&T's approximately 100 million U.S. customers. Note: This is an entirely new platform, specifically designed to optimize data bandwidth (IP data, including text, video and other types of in-line compressible traffic) as well as apply a variety of caching, business logic and reporting to best utilize the available network bandwidth and other resources.TASKS • Work with senior management and stakeholders to establish short and long-term product road map for the multi-service proxy platform functional releases• Coordinate multiple multimillion dollar concurrent projects, including doing project planning, vendor management, team resource and task tracking, meeting facilitation, communications with management as well as cross-organizational stake holders• Work with peer project teams to identify project inter-dependencies and mitigate risks once identified• Establish and maintain detailed project schedules throughout the life of the project implementation. Includes working with technical managers and external partners to ensure that planned milestones are appropriate, resource requirements are acceptable and project goals are achievable within the established time line. Drive team towards executing on schedule commitments and taking ownership of responsibilities and work in their areas• Work closely with multiple orgs including Architecture, Dev, Test, Security and IT Operations and the vendor.

ROLER&D and PM work for audio/video-based preconditioning and compression optimization algorithmsPROJECTSAudio/video -based preconditioning algorithms delivering improvement of both quality and compression, for use in digital A/V internet streaming and satellite broadcast transmissionTASKS Research and development with our CTO regarding new methods for enhancing digital A/V quality and compressibility when used with existing standard codecs and containers, thus eliminating any broadcast or consumer client software / hardware compatibility issuesAssist with the vendor evaluation / selection and contract negotiationDelivered algorithm and hardware solution allows near-real time conditioning of 720p and 1080p content, while both improving content quality and allowing significantly greater compression Team also has developed and deployed into the industry the only current audio volume leveling solution which consistently does not break the digital audio watermark used for tracking of content usage.I concluded my activities with this company following successful completion of all current R&D development activities. As I am a partial share holder, my involvement was no longer needed once my R&D work had been completed and stocks granted, thus I returned to work as a senior consultant.

Redmond, Wa

ROLEAs a Senior Product Realization Manager, work with Marketing, internal stakeholders and external partners to drive the release and road mapping activities for the new mobile music platformPROJECTSA new cutting edge mobile music and video platform for the carrierTASKS • Work with senior management and stakeholders to establish short and long-term product road map• Gather, integrate and document all new technical and business product requirements from all teams• Build formal requirements documentations for internal teams and external vendors• Work with peer project teams to identify project inter-dependencies and mitigate risk• Manage the RFP process, facilitate gap analysis and coordinate vendor scoring / selection• Work with various project team members to finalize vendor contracts, including Supply Chain and Legal• Establish detailed project schedule and ensure all participants and tracking on execution of owned tasks.• Track and manage issues, dependencies and risks across multiple internal & external teams. Communicate project status to various parties including executive management, business and technical stake holders• Work closely with multiple orgs including Marketing, Architecture, Dev, Test, Security and IT Operations.• Worked with the TNRP, PDP and 3D development processes.

Redmond, Wa

ROLEAs PM, coordinated various aspects of a new Internet services gateway (referred to as DSDN or EAG), including defining scope, developing detailed technical requirements and working with vendors & internal teamsPROJECTSA new middle tier wireless Internet Web Services gateway. Platform supports the use of SMS, MMS, WAP, Parlay, Parlay X and MLP as well as HTTP, TCP/IP, XML, SOAP, LDAP, etc. Led product management for this complex multi-protocol web services gateway for third party content providers during release 2.0 TASKS (both projects)• Gather and or design from scratch all detailed technical platform requirements, then integrate and document them into formalized requirements documentation• Work with peer project teams to identify project inter-dependencies and mitigate risk• Establish detailed project schedule. Includes working with technical managers and external partners to ensure that planned milestones are appropriate, resource requirements are acceptable and project goals are achievable within the established time line. • Drive team towards schedule commitments and task ownership• Track and manage issues, dependencies and risks across multiple internal & external teams. • Communicate project status to various parties including Executive Management, business and technical stake holders• Work closely with multiple orgs including Marketing, Architecture, Dev, Test, Security and IT Operations.• Worked with the TNRP, PDP and 3D development processes.

ROLESenior UAT Tester and requirements analyst for a various new online banking productsPROJECTSWamu Direct, Instant Checking and Strong AuthenticationTASKS • Coordination with internal organization management and business users to track user experiences at major milestones and both track defects uncovered and suggest product enhancements• Assist in improving the overall team efficiency by facilitating up-front analysis and process engineering• Work closely with Development, Ops, PMs, BAs, etc.

Manage a team of QA and Test Engineers both onshore and offshore (in India) in a hybrid team model. Also performing root cause analysis in environment, change management and general SDLC processes to improve team efficiency while driving to project milestones.

Mentored existing QA staff regarding process-managed approaches and project planning/estimation practices. Also built and maintained documentation for extremely complex premium calculation systems including project schedules, work estimates, test and use cases, training guides, etc.OTHER• Appointed to company-wide Departmental Steering Board at 5 weeks (set practices for approximately 140 QAs in the company)• Appointed by the QA Director to join a select invite-only training series for PMs at 6 weeks.

ROLESenior technical PM between Ford and MicrosoftPRODUCT Dealerpoint, a online dealership sales lead toolTASKS • Coordinate all project deliverables between Ford and MS. Typically appx. 50+ concurrent Ford change requests w/ weekly production code rollouts• Changes included new features (e.g. a wireless rollout), feature enhancements, site metrics, bug fixes, etc. • Provide a high degree of technical guidance to Ford management; performed extensive negotiation work. • Key role in marrying Ford’s Six Sigma-based process requirements with the existing MS processesOTHER • Key role in bringing consensus between Ford and MS, balancing MS Dev, QA and Operations resources in a fixed-cost license agreement vs. high volume of Ford change requests• Ford-funded position permanently eliminated due to 23% white-collar layoffs at Ford. Both MS and Ford staff offered professional references• Also participated in off-shore vendor selection for consulting firm.

ROLEProject Manager for a short discovery phase work-estimation only contractPRODUCTSelfReliant 2001, a sophisticated telecommunications clustering and automated failover / recovery product TASKS• Coordinated all Discovery Team activities with GoAhead to provide reliable task assessment to client. • Provide input to GoAhead on improving SDLC practices OTHER• After receiving our work estimate based on analysis of product readiness (low) and the projected costs of remaining QA and related development work, client re-mothballed the product. Contract completed.

ROLEBegan as QA Engineer, eventually managed QA, Release Management and Tools teams at this small startup prior to their sale to BEA Systems in May, 2001PRODUCTJava, XML, SOAP and XHTML supporting IDE now sold by BEA Systems as WebLogicTASKSTeam leadership, project planning, resource loading and interfacing with management on strategy and status

ROLEBuilt and directed new Web QA organizationPROJECTSTeam QA’d in excess of 100 projects over 14 months, including 2 corporate site rollouts, new web apps, new extranet product site, etc.TASKS• Work with other managers, customers, BAs and PMs to build and refine project requirements and schedules• Maintain schedule and workflow coordination with off-site and outsourced teams in Virginia and Massachusetts• Strategic emphasis on defect prevention rather than just defect detection. QA Methodologies included: o QA involvement early in the product cycle o Utilization of a variety of test tools early in the cycle o Encouraging peer code reviews + source code controlOTHER • Projects involved HTML,XML, DHTML, ASP, JavaScript, Flash, Lotus Domino and Cold Fusion. Servers included both Microsoft IIS and Netscape Enterprise Server. DBs included Microsoft Sequel Server and Oracle.• Assisted with the transition of QA program to Reston, Virginia.

Variety of additional software engineering roles from 1994-July of 1999These roles involved in a variety of technical leadership, development and QA roles for companies such as MS, IBM, Attachmate, etc. These were primarily senior QA / QA lead consultant roles, as well as development with Installshield and VB. Additional details and references are available upon request.