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GoDaddyTechnical Program Manager IV
Mar. 2022 - Apr. 2024Tempe, Arizona, United StatesManaged cross-functional portfolio and initiatives for two different major programs taking into account team structures, technologies used, and workflows. Engaged with teams to plan concurrent deliverables. Balanced prioritization based on OKRs as determined by management, other necessary work , and anticipated capacity. Organized and managed deliverables for development and operational teams using different software stacks, server types and setups. Developed a dependency management system to assist my teams and others within the division and company. Facilitated and hosted relevant ceremonies related to dependency management and initiative tracking. Facilitated negotiations and trade-off discussions to help bring structure and improvements to engineering scrum processes. Analyzed operations and throughput to identify bottlenecks and drove process improvements to lead proactive change. Led a program to write and update Program Documents, including Program Plans and Program Overviews for a Unified Control Plane project involving five different products and development teams.
GoDaddySr. Technical Product Manager III / Scrum Master
Oct. 2021 - Mar. 2022Tempe, Arizona, United StatesManaged life-cycle of various projects, concentrating on scope and schedule. Continual planning for complete delivery of initiatives. Gathered data to inform decisions while determining prioritization using relevant factors (i.e. customer impact, revenue, resource and opportunity cost, strategy, etc.) along with stakeholders. Pointed out impact of decisions made by team, worked to negotiate as necessary to balance capacity and priorities. Maintained critical path management via problem solving by analyzing situations or data to then breaks down solutions into a plan with tasks. Engaged with technical teams in development and operations to facilitate efficient planning while allowing for unknown work and interruptions. Assessed engineering practices to establish right solutions for project delivery.
Wowza Media SystemsProduct Owner
Mar. 2019 - Oct. 2021Golden, Colorado, United StatesResponsible for ownership of web store, company web site, and internal web-based tools. Worked with two independent teams in the same Holacratic circle to refine workflow. Initial major task was to organize and prune a huge backlog of work and technical debt that had been building for years. Once the backlog was organized, worked with company-wide stakeholders and developers to establish better communications. Did constant iteration of development and delivery process to streamline and iterate through incremental improvements. The goal was to provide a better sense or priority to developers and communicate same to stakeholders, while ultimately emphasizing customer (internal and external) needs. Performed duties of Scrum Master, running ceremonies, tracking results, setting OKRs, with tracking and reporting of results.
Wowza Media SystemsWeb Technologist & Senior Developer
Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2019Golden, Colorado, United StatesPrimary responsibilities were to lead the architecture of company web site and online store, both front and back end. My teams were also responsible for developing customer-facing features on the web site and internal tools to assist the sales department. Other responsibilities were to develop code and work with QA department to ensure quality of work. Company used the Holacratic corporate governance framework at the time, and I was conversant in that as well as keeping compatible Agile and Scrum practices. I lead the project to replace and improve a legacy system written on an old version of CodeIgniter with a “blank slate” approach, keeping and expanding functionality while using the more modern Laravel framework. Additional tasks included full stack web application development, primarily in PHP, as well as maintenance of legacy code and systems during the rewrite.
Crowd FavoriteSenior Lead Developer
May. 2012 - Dec. 2015Denver, COLead development efforts and did development of numerous client web sites. Responsible for architecting solutions, planning work, assisting other developers, reporting to project managers, and direct client communication when required. Also tracked in detail work done for client billing. Work was primarily done in WordPress and included client work, as well as maintaining company products. Development included all aspects of the workflow including initial planning, prioritizing work, determining work specifications, verifying customer or client needs, development, database design, and deployment to various local, test, staging, and production servers. Also worked with differing deployment systems, depending on customer set-up or needs. Interfaced with hosting companies as needed.
CPAlead / MONETIZEdigitalQA Manager
Jan. 2012 - May. 2012Las Vegas, NVAs QA Manager, I wrote automated test suites in PHPUnit / Selenium to verify sites and specific pages / services were functioning as well as notification systems when tests failed. I managed a full-time QA tester.
CPAlead / MONETIZEdigitalSoftware Architect
Nov. 2009 - May. 2012Las Vegas, NVIntroduced company to version control systems. Prior work had been done “live on the server”. Once version control was in place, I developed a multi-tiered development environment with local development environments, staging, and production. Developed a workflow to manage the new server structure and automated deployment to the various systems. The deployment system was written from scratch and had multiple-level rollback capabilities as well as a “zero-downtime” deployment. Primary development responsibilities were to lead a team of developers to produce the company web site and back-end code that ran a $20 million a year advertising network. Additionally, I on-boarded and trained junior and mid-level developers, establishing and enforcing best practices and coding standards.
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