Pluto TVTechnical Program Manager
Nov. 2022 - May. 2023California, United States• Led the Transcoding Video Engineering Team as well as the Site Reliability Team through PI planning activities, creating PI objectives, prioritizing projects for the PI, estimating, road mapping exercises, and creating release plans.
• Led the Product Owner to create, prioritize, and maintain team backlogs and led backlog grooming activities across multiple teams extending outside of the teams I led daily.
• Facilitated daily and weekly scrum ceremonies including standups, retrospectives, sprint planning, and retrospectives, ensuring that impediments are resolved or removed, improving efficiency with input from the team, and that the team’s work is able to flow unhindered during the PI.
• Coached multiple safe agile teams in the SAFE scrum framework.
• Worked with other Program Managers and team leads to manage team dependencies, and risks and plan releases in shared environments.
• Shielding teams from external demands while managing stakeholder expectations through prioritizations based on urgency and capacity; kept stakeholders up to date on the progress of committed projects.
• Improved both team relationships and external relationships through improved transparency and building trust.
• Contributed to ensuring team and project artifacts were kept up to date.
• Led tracking project progress throughout the duration of the PI.
• Ensured impediments were removed or resolved so teams could remain on track to meeting objectives.
• Utilized tools such as Jira as a source of truth for project tracking, reporting, and documentation.