Professional Summary

Technical Project and Program Manager with a proven track record of successfully managing concurrent software projects, programs, and PMO teams in the Streaming Media and E-Commerce spaces. My experience leading multiple interdisciplinary project teams provides a solid foundation for success in all phases of both simple and complex projects. I have a passion for growing people and teams as well as driving organizational efficiency by implementing processes and tools to empower people to do their best work.

Paramount

Manager, Technical Project Management [2022 - Present]

  • PMO Lead for Android Application responsible for facilitating Platform communications, health, readiness, status reporting, and critical escalations

  • Lead Native Communication Globalizion Efforts by unifiying and simplying communication channels and minimizing distrutions with platform and team tags

  • Successfully coached and developed direct reports into lead roles or promotions

  • Helped Impliment Native PMO Confluence and knoweldge repository

Senior Technical Project Management [2022 - 2022]

  • Scrum Master for Apple, Android apps and OTT project teams including work with Infrastructure/SRE and API teams

  • Manage multiple interdisciplinary teams of including Development, Design, UX, QA, and external steakholders

  • Manage mobile releases across several teams by tracking fix versions in Jira and working with technical leads for deployment

  • Collaborate with Engineering Core engineers and various partners to prioritize and coordinate development efforts

  • Coach, facilitate and maintain a steady and beneficial Agile process methodologies for the teams

Tradesy

Manager, Technical Project Management [2021 - 2022]

  • Lead multiple interdisciplinary, multi-platform Agile and Project teams through the entire project lifecycle from conception through post-delivery support

  • Implemented and leveraged performance metrics and Scrum tools to stabilize, and improve the delivery velocity of the Android Scrum team by 95%

  • Drove measurable, and positive change to process through team and relationship building

  • Monitored projects to proactively capture and mitigate risks both at a team and program level

  • Owned all project and program documentation including timelines, product requirements, decisions and, meeting minutes

  • Facilitated effective Scrum, project, and program-level meetings from daily stand-ups to C-Suite presentations

UI Centric

Senior Technical Project Manager [2017 - 2021]

  • Technical Project Manager on flagship digital streaming media products with annual budgets of >$3MM [CBS: Xbox/Playstation, CBS Local: iOS/Android React Native, PIX System: tvOS, Univision: Roku, NEP: ReactJS]

  • Managed multiple interdisciplinary teams of including DeveloManaged development, certification, UAT, and on-time global launch of the Front-End Android Client and Developer Web Portal for the proprietary App Store on the RED Hydrogen One Android

  • Coordinated cross-team dependencies such as UI, UX, Third-Party SDKs, and Marketing to ensure projects remain on track

  • Regularly provided reporting to SVP and C-Suite Level Stakeholders

  • Successfully coached project team migrations from Waterfall to Agile and further growth to continuous deployment

  • Managed Associate Project managers and achieved goal 20% project cost/profit margin

  • Created Statements of Work, Project Plans, and Project Requirements for successful project and contract management 

  • Managed PMO Program Risk to ensure projects company wide have adequate mitigation, resourcing, and escalation plans

  • Administrated Confluence, Jira, and other Atlassian tools including the development of automated Program Health Reporting

Bar-Z Mobile Development

Project Management Team Lead [2010 - 2014]

  • Oversaw the entirety of custom app development and deployment process using both agile and waterfall development practices
  • Trained customers to use proprietary content management systems
  • Designed UI and UX for internal digital products, marketing collateral and customer's apps
  • Developed automation scripts for Photoshop and Illustrator to save time completing routine tasks
  • Optimized Project Manager workflow moving to cloud-based tools to more effectively communicate internally and with clients
  • Assisted in onboarding/training of new team members
  • Engineered, Designed, and deployed a custom Ruby-on-Rails Project Management system
  • Helped drive Product development strategy and roadmap

Pulse Music

New Music Stratey & Operations [2010 - 2014]

  • Developed Marketing & Product Strategy to enter Sonic Branding Market

  • Developed marketing department communications and digital prototypes with Adobe Creative Suite

  • Coordinated marketing efforts through the setup and management of a CRM and other cloud based marketing tools

  • Managed Internship Program to ensure a measurable balance of effecient studio operations and intern growth and learning

Apple

Family Room Specialist [2015 - 2016]

  • Triaged, diagnosed and provided solutions to resolve customer’s problems with their devices

  • Identified and executed upon new opportunities to grow relationships with Business customers

  • Presented educational workshops for customers

  • Facilitation in-store initiatives to drive for better results in session satisfaction

  • Regularly exceeded efficiency and customer satisfaction development goals

Education

Baruch College

  • BA: Management of Musical Enterprise
  • 2009 - 2011

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