Tim Hogg Email & Phone Number

Bothell, Wa, Us

Portland, Oregon, Us

Responsible for the observability practice, cloud optimization, and influencing cloud strategy and governance.Tasked to identify cloud computing optimization opportunities, and to manifest them as changes in our organizational practices to realize and maximize value.Identify redundant or underperforming tooling investments and drive remediation against these risks.Aggregation of marginal gains to drive down the cost of doing business in our multi-cloud environment.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Hired as a consultant through https://www.profocustechnology.com to join the Columbia Sportswear Digital Technology division. Focus on observability as it pertains to disaster recovery, DevOps, and digital infrastructure. Stood up from green field the observability practice for the division responsible for all digital infrastructure.Invented a maturity index to assess relative maturity of applications, systems, and interfaces. This Observability Maturity Index (OMI) allows self assessment and reporting of observability opportunities within a technology domain. Captured this parameter as an attribute to those entities in LeanIX. This enables data driven backlog to drive roadmap priority, and to measure progress against defined success criteria.Collected requirements from client teams, build solution selection criteria, and defined and managed a competitive POC for an enterprise observability solution to replace or supplement the various point solutions.Product leader and founding member of the Columbia Cloud Center of Excellence (Cloud City), responsible for thought leadership, cloud strategy, and multi-cloud governance efforts at a division level.

Seattle, Washington, Us

In the Platform & Infrastructure Product Group I was responsible for working with our on and off shore teams in the areas of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Systems Engineering/DevOps, Test Engineering, Content Ingestion, Information Security, Privacy Compliance, and Product Support. The work involved defining strategy and governance, short and long term initiatives, features, and project plans. For all of these areas, except Privacy Compliance, I was the only PM working in that space and I was responsible for every deliverable.A significant highlight from this time is my work relating to migrating the primary CDN pattern of the largest US domestic broadcaster from our legacy system to a modern, secure, extensible, and scalable CDN delivery pattern.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Senior TPM for the Sinclair Digital SRE team. Managed the transition from a reactive Dev/Ops team to a proactive SRE team. Division Information Security PM, including updates to the corporate IRP/SRP and coordinating various incident responses.Division Privacy Manager, including managing division readiness for compliance with CCPA.Offshore team 'Pod Model' management and delivery, defining and standing up our offshore engagement model. Responsible for release architecture and release management.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Technical Program Manager for the Xbox Studios Tools team. Product Owner, Scrum Master, and TPM for the software engineering team delivering internal tools for the Xbox SLT and 1st Party Studios.Led team migration to using an Agile Scrum framework, resulting in a regular release cycle, increased quality, and happier engineers and customers.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Technical Program Manager for mobile applications within the Xevo Automotive Programs division, focusing on the Acura client relationship.Product Owner for the AcuraLink native mobile companion application on Android and iOS.Managed remote and onsite client engagements, joint development and testing support, and client escalations.Managed numerous client releases, hot fixes, and maintenance updates using an Agile Scrum framework.

Manchester, Gb

Managed >60 person organization (PMO and Development Team), split between Bellevue, WA and five engineering sites across Poland. Shipped native mobile applications on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms. Led the engineering team and the client to adopting an Agile Scrum framework, resulting in a regular release cadence, happier engineers, happier customers, increased quality, increased frequency, and lower client costs.Customer base of over 30 million active users monthly, with a sustained rating over 4 stars in the Android and iOS marketplace; highest rated app in its category.Customer relationship, communication management, and primary incident escalation point. Numerous successful client escalations handled. Team and delivery model reorganized to accommodate changing business requirements.Business development liaison and acting SEM/Director of Engineering as needed. Mentor with numerous personnel development successes. Skilled at conflict resolution. Skilled manager and proven leader.Information Security officer for Bellevue office. Developed and provided client specific information security compliance training on site in Bellevue and Poland offices.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Software Program Manager, Release Manager, Privacy Manager, and Self Host Program Manager for the Surface Post Launch Engineering Team.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Technical Product Manager for the Surface 1.0 table and the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Security and Operations PM for the Interactive Business Unit (Xbox & Zune) Information Security Team.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Customer advocacy and release management for the Live Mesh Tech Preview, Windows Live CorePrimary customer/engineering liaison.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed WLPC (Windows Live Partner Center) communication for the APAC (Asia Pacific) and European Microsoft regional solution providers on a daily basis.

Us

QA Lead with 4 direct reports for 6 major product releases over a 12 week period Contributed to and implemented healthy process, planning and communication changes throughout the engineering organization.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Lead UI tester and UI/UX test specialist for Windows Live Shared Data Experience team (SDX) with a customer footprint of over 160 million.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Lead UI tester for Microsoft Project Max and Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, v2.0 (MBSA2.0) working directly with Project Management and Development.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Helped to reorganize the BVT process on the IE team, raising the standards of quality for the entire test organization.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Performed daily BVTs for MSN8, Longhorn (Vista), Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003.

Computer Science & Software Engineering

Computer Science

Computer Science

Education record