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Sand City, Ca, Us

Tempe, Az, Us

Tempe, Az, Us

Portfolio Manager Tempe, AZ- ETX designs and deploys cutting-edge digital learning platforms and experiences for high school and university students. - Accountable for contracts, project schedules, budgets, vendor relationships, processes, and technical deployment decisions for the learning platforms. - Led ETX team that migrated 700+ digital lessons to a new digital platform - Documented feature requirements, technology architecture, and concept documentation to aid in understanding product needs and contribute to decisions regarding the selection of partners, platforms, and tech stack. -Worked Scrum methodologies and Jira tracking tools overseeing a development team of four different stakeholder companies (onshore and offshore) building the components necessary for exporting and importing lessons into the new platform. Technology utilized include: React (Java script library), Elixir (programming language), and AWS (cloud computing). -Organized activities Smartsheet (online collaborative tool), created dashboards to monitor budget, schedule, risks, and status. - Documented processes and workplace tools through best-known methods and tools, including GitHub (version control), Scrum, and Jira.

Tempe, Az, Us

Portfolio Manager for ASU's Psyche Mission and the Interplanetary Initiative. • Manage project teams through project planning, execution and closure for NASA Psyche Mission (70+mill) and an internal space project called the Interplanetary Initiative.• Worked collaboratively with direct reports on developing roles and responsibilities, job expectations, and career development opportunities.• Manage team through the engineering process on the Psyche Mission as we work towards large milestones, SSR, PDR, CDR, etc.• Established and continually monitor/manages project metrics/dashboard and expectations with team.• Prepared and maintain all project status reports and schedules; tracks milestones/deliverables, tasks, critical paths. dependencies and risk items• Developed numerous processes to improve communications, and reporting including a communication plan, and budget reporting plan.• Active and passionate about project management, taught a class for PMP students on project planning at ASU, and wrote a blog post about my experience in working on a NASA Mission https://medium.com/the-nasa-psyche-mission-journey-to-a-metal-world/project-management-start-with-the-basics-3c4ff3e6e290

Tempe, Az, Us

ASU Project Manager for the LunaHMap Mission. Duties include managing a team through the NASA engineering process as we worked to prepare for SSR, PDR and CDR. Managing a large budget, multiple subcontractors, reporting progress to NASA and managing a team of professionals, scientists and students to successfully build a cube sized satellite that will orbit the moon to look for Hydrogen.

New York, Ny, Us

Sr. Project manager for iCrossing.- Managed the customer facing iCrossing site includes sites for all regions (UK, DE, Latam ES) using Drupal and Javascript. The sites also included and 4 blogs all using WordPress. Responsibilities include:- Documenting business requirements and ensured design meets the business need.- Created project and staffing plan to support the deliverables.- Developed a process for tracking all content, assets from creative team, SEO components, and Google Analytics.- Manage a 100% offshore development and QA team.- Created QA plans to verify functionality on all platforms, devices and operating systems.- Manage and mitigated ongoing risks.- Use iterative AGILE methodology to drive teams towards focused success.- Elicit business requirements and certified site wireframes and comps meet the business need.- Help determine maintenance project priority by reviewing marketing goals against Google Analytics.- Translations: POC for iCrossing's translations needs.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsibilities include: Developing test plans for all testing types (unit, functional, regression, integrated, user acceptance and load testing) using risked based approaches to effectively validate manufacturing software. Maintain, reviewed and prioritized defects in the system. Managed and reviewed all changes within the change control system. Worked with development team to understand the design, validate requirements, and communicate/prioritize issues.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Developed processes to extract, transform and load data from upstream sources onto worldwide Data Warehouse Sybase servers using MVS, JCL, SAS, SQL and internal DWMS functionality.• Functioned as Technical Lead for 80% of the projects assigned. Deliverables included gathering requirements, developing technical specifications, development, testing, implementation, into production and tracking progress to project timeline for all phases. Received several awards for participation in Enterprise Y2000 development and testing efforts.• Completed the following training courses: Informatica powermart/powercenter, Informatica performance and tuning, MS SQL server 6.0 intro, FrontPage 97 intro, Data Modeling 1, and IBM MVS JCL and Utilities.