San Jose, California, United States
Product/program manager skilled in managing the day-to-day product development and product life cycle processes, removing impediments and driving communications between planning/marketing, different development groups, QA, service, sales and other product stakeholders. Balanced conflicting requirements and priorities within the cross functional teams. Experienced in working with all functional groups within the organization, both local and in geographically dispersed locations. Has driven complex multiple product projects including coordination of requirements and product deliverables with different individual project completion dates. Delivered products to meet the broad, larger corporate-level combined release introductions. Excels in diverse, high pressure environments. This includes dealing with requirements and priorities that change mid-stream, as well as completing deliveries that may require abbreviated release processes. M.S., University of California, Los Angeles, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science. Member: PMI. Certified ScrumMaster. Prefers the San Jose / San Francisco Bay Area. Specialties: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), agile scrum methodology, project & program management of geographically disperse teams. Creative problem resolution, process improvement, team building, internal and external customer relationships, detail-oriented and big picture thinking, effective communicator with all levels of management, facilitator. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project.
Team lead of an engineering services group that provided program/project management, official software builds, technical publications and integration test for all development projects including autonomous computing, high availability and clustering. Held role of Senior Program Manager for all projects. Was primary communicator between FSC, Inc., FSC Germany and Japan for program planning, product development, release coordination and customer support for key customers. On average, 3-4 product versions were under simultaneous development, plus > 4 product sets under support maintenance. Each product version included packages on ~7 OSs and ~3 platform architectures. New or changed requirements were often introduced mid-project due to changing customer conditions.