Stephanie Gellar, Pmp® Email & Phone Number

Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Managing a team of 5 Program Managers in the US and UK who support over 24 cross-functional software teams located in the US, UK, Germany, and India, covering 10 products in the Simulink® product family (a graphical programming environment for modelling, simulating and analyzing dynamic systems), includingEmbedded Coder, the third largest product of the company.• Improving planning visibility, cross-functional coordination, and feature delivery by transitioningdevelopment teams to Agile software development practices.• Driving a 5-year, 50-person development effort to enhance workflows for generating readable, compact and fast C and C++ code for embedded processors used in mass production applications in the automotive and aeronautics sectors. Influencing without authority as a mediator and facilitator, aligning priorities between stakeholders, addressing gaps, establishing clear goals, and maintaining visible progress.• Improving critical development processes through change management projects, including updating org-wide operating standards for high priority bugs, introducing new processes and an org-wide infrastructure for managing work in progress and area-wide feature readiness assessment. • Applying congruent leadership and the situational leadership model to build and support a respected team of high-performing individuals. Experience with resolving performance issues, as well as interviewing and attracting talent.

Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Supported 5 cross-functional development teams located in the US and UK and external partners in Hungary and Switzerland, covering 4 products including MathWorks’ AUTOSAR product for automotive customers, and rapid-prototyping tools; Simulink® Desktop Real-Time™ and Simulink® Real-Time™.• Managed a 4 year, 120-person company-wide absolute priority program estimated to bring in an additional $30M in revenue. Included developing new infrastructure, features, and code generation workflows in partnership with a major automotive supplier (owning more than 30% industry market share). Coordinated extensively with sales and advanced support engineers, as well as several development teams to manage customer communications, feature development, and delivery plans.• Led a cross-functional change management team in the development and roll-out of a new process and operating standard related to reducing critical incorrect code generation issues and mitigating impact to customers. As a result, 20% less issues are being introduced and over 80% of issues are mitigated by the time customers use the products.

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Managed strategic IT outsourcing projects that delivered new business features and significant IT infrastructure changes, including a web-based commission calculation and reporting application and the creation of a MS SQL Datawarehouse and report generation framework.

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Managed design, development and testing of all electronics deliverables for Nokia S60 phone programs starting from concept phase through development and production phases.• Led a team of 15-20 engineers spanning PWB designers, UI, GPRS, antenna and other electromechanical component experts. Coordinated with SW, Mechanics, and Manufacturing project managers to align plans and dependencies. • Shortened project timelines by 10% by removing waste in the quality review process and tightening up hand-offs between HW and mechanics engineers.• Transformed an R&D phone concept into an approved production product by providing visibility on the timeline impacts of the feature choices and driving to a coherent MVP.

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Planned and drove the development and integration of software deliverables for Nokia S40 Phone Programs. • Managed a two-year SW program for the Nokia 7020, introducing a new chipset and new software architecture to one of the mass-market, low-cost product lines and establishing the baseline for a follower product that became a best-seller, shipping over 10 million units. • Led and coached a core team of six project managers handling the input of over 100 full-time and part-time contributors. • Coordinated deliveries from four major divisions within the 1200-person Nokia S40 software organization, including development software and customized sales packages distributed to countries and operators on four continents. • Maintained delivery commitments despite a Nokia-wide reorganization and a site-wide shift from mass-market phone development to smart phones by negotiating transition needs and moving delivery responsibilities to a virtual team in Germany.• Collaborated in a high-level change management team designing the new Nokia-third party partnership model based on experience gained from the Nokia 7020 Program.

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Accepted and groomed incoming requirements for the Nokia S40 Browser, including review and response to North American wireless operator compliance requirements. • First member of pilot to explore transition from excel-based compliance reporting system to Telelogic DOORS, proving a 30% reduction in effort and 30% faster response to operator compliance requests.• Designed and rolled out a new capacity management system for the Nokia S40 SW organization of 1200 people located world-wide as a member of a hand-picked 10-person team.

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Managed error correction activities for the Nokia S40 Browser to support the successful releases of over thirty mass-market phones per year. • Reviewed over 100 incoming error reports per month, prioritized, assigned, tracked resolution and provided weekly status and critical issue updates to managers and customers.

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Managed several releases of an OEM WAP 2.0 and XHMTL browser application. Covered all project phases from requirement definition to final release with team sizes between 2-40 and timelines between 2-7 months.• Led a 40 person, 7-month project to integrate the web browser application into the Nokia S40 phone platform and meet mass-market release standards. Project was a semi-finalist in the Nokia Americas Region Customer Excellence Quality Award.

Introduced first behavioral end-point security system. Start-up acquired by Cisco in 2003 to become the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) deployed on over one million units.

Responsible for onsite support of Teloquent's largest customer. Gathered information for a knowledge database and training materials for other support engineers. Responsible for the design and maintenance of the call center routing system and phone lines.

Provided telephone customer support services for a complex telephony system. The system was based on a UNIX server with an Informix database that tracked and controlled voice calls incoming to a DOS server and forwarded to telephony clients running on Windows machines.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

International Baccalaureate, Higher Level In Mathematics, Physics And Chemistry

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, London Honor Band, Math Team, Model United Nations