Software Program Manager
Houston, Texas, Us
Improved costs savings and customer support experience by leading a cross-functional program to introduce a support automation product. Proficient with the software development lifecycle and agile software development processes. Managed program meetings, requirements, schedule, budgeting, checkpoints, roadmaps, program communication, and successful release and delivery.• Created and presented justification, user stories, requirements and ROI to obtain program sponsorship.• Instrumental in adopting Scrum agile software development process.• Performed product management role maintaining product backlog using Scrum.• Facilitated and presented updates to senior management.• Hired and managed technical writers to develop all system help and user guides.• Recruited customers for worldwide beta testing and drove legal, and management activities of all beta installations.• Provided user testing to development team and identified 25 prerelease software defects.• Managed development and delivery of worldwide support training for 60 tech support engineers.• Increased customer adoption of self-healing services by promoting its benefits through presentations and software demos to customers, sales teams, and support teams.• Initiated and completed prerelease investigation and developed post release marketing materials including customer letters, data sheets, demo CDs, trade shows, and web content.• Managed release schedules and manufacturing and distribution of 13,000 product CDs.• Created and led the OpenView Supportability Working Group to establish a partnership with the OpenView support delivery organization. This significantly improved quality and functionality by providing a path to receive support and customer feedback.• Coordinated process changes resulting from facilitating the project retrospective.