Director, Project Management Resume

SUMMARY

Focused on strategically planning, while tactically executing through direct contribution.
Motivated by leading development organizations in creating a culture and process using best practices that helps unite its teams to deliver great products.
Experienced in delivering software using both Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies, including Agile coaching and oversight of successful companywide Agile transformations.
Responsible for prioritization and effective management of product roadmaps, concurrent project plans, resources, change requests, and risk mitigation.
Knowledgeable in establishing development priorities, planning sprints and executing them, with an excellent track record of delivering software on time and on budget.
Proven ability to understand customers’ needs, translating them into product requirements, and presenting to the engineering team.
Seasoned in establishing, motivating, and leading cross - functional internal teams and multiple vendors based on executive, stakeholder and partner goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Director, Project Management

Responsibilities:

Influenced executives and senior leadership to endorse a structured chartering processes to fuel a research backed roadmap that has a high probability of achievement delivering value to our customers.
Introduced an agile development processes from the ground up helping the development organization iteratively deliver value while coaching the team and increasing velocity by removing impedances to work more efficiently.
Created a collaborative environment between the India, China and US offices to break down the silos that have been hindering the development organizations to deliver efficiently.
Reconstructed the build teams into small self-sufficient cross functional squads that were able to deliver value in two week iterations

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Executed Several Multi-Million dollar programs overseeing a portfolio of programs for the DotCom and Mobile businesses as well as some store digital projects.
Assembled and elevated scrum team’s confidence and ability to self-organize by provided guidance using various Agile techniques resulting in predictable velocity working towards executing a Roadmap aligned with the Sephora pillars and growth strategy.
Support the PMO organization in process improvements, budget, demand planning, and on-boarding new team members.

Confidential

Director

Responsibilities:

Collaborated with partners in product, IT, sales, CS and support, to plan and manage the organization’s initiatives by driving the engineering organization to deliver reliable solutions that enabled the company to continue being at the forefront of the educator evaluation and professional learning market.
Engaged a mobile development vendor to integrate with our in-house quality assurance team bringing much needed features to the company’s Android and iOS aging solutions.
Created and ensured a remarkable development culture with strong teams that not only contributed as individuals, but worked together to successfully build and deploy quality software.
Post acquisition has continued to oversee the ongoing maintenance and enhancements of the Teachscape suite of products and have been put in charge of the migration effort to integrate the Teachscape suite with the Frontline platform to combine and expand the market share.
Worked on integrating Teachscape’s engineering organization with Frontline’s organization to seamlessly continue supporting the companies growing portfolio of products and their customer base.
Led Frontline’s effort in introducing the Scaled Agile Framework into the organization to align the companies executive level goals with each teams’ initiatives.