HashiCorp

Working across infrastructure teams, product engineering teams, security teams, data teams, compliance teams, and more to level up the company's security and compliance postures as well as infrastructure quality.

Staff Technical Program Manager: Infrastructure, Security, Compliance

- (Delivered 2024 Q1) Successful delivery of Disaster Recovery capabilities across multiple AWS regions, boosting cloud platform Reliability by achieving internal targeted measurements of RTO and RPO (scaled execution across ~12 engineering teams / ~50 engineers over the course of 12 months)
- (Delivered 2024 Q1) Successful delivery of Audit Logging improvements to Beta with identity log streaming to desired SIEM destination (~3 engineering teams and collaboration with non-engineering groups such as product education and marketing)
- Actively driving PCI Compliance for 2 of HashiCorp's product lines, requiring scaled collaboration across Security, Compliance, Product, and multiple engineering teams.

Senior Technical Program Manager: Infrastructure

Blue Jay Digital, LLC

Owner and creator of Blue Jay Digital. I created this LLC as a way to create digital goods and services to help others move forward in their own professional journey.

Currently, this is being done via:
- A course on Technical Program Management, hosted on Educative.io
- A series of YouTube videos teaching the basics of R and R-Studio for data analytics

Owner

Educative, Inc.

Responsible for end-to-end text-based course creation.
- Defined course curriculum and objectives
- Segmented course into 13 major modules
- Wrote 12 hours of content on the topics of program management, leadership, and system design technical skills 
- Provided 61 illustrations

(https://www.educative.io/courses/technical-program-management-a-practitioners-guide)
- Partnered with Educative.io for editing

Author

Twitter

- Driving data privacy program involving 30+ teams across multiple organizations including product, engineering, info-sec, and legal
- Driving a critical path program to improve the privacy controls of advertisers

Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Privacy

- Led various engineering divestiture activities through MoPub sale to AppLovin ($1B deal) across 5 cross-functional domains engineering, product, legal, finance, and audit.
- Drove key process changes to strategic planning and tactical execution for MoPub's product development pipeline and cross-functional collaboration across 5 teams (60 engineers) and 8 product managers
- Drove data privacy program involving 30+ teams across multiple organizations including product, engineering, info-sec, and legal

Technical Program Manager II, Product

ExxonMobil

- Led a team of ~four developers to design, build, and support 15 enterprise-scale API’s which collectively receive over one million requests per day and enable a portfolio of applications to drive bottom-line business value of ~35mil/year
- Collaborated & coordinated across six various project teams to identify business objectives, customer pain-points, and consulted on API solutions
- Coached team on Scrum & Kanban principles/practices to increase speed of project delivery and improve response time to support incidents
- Created and drove roadmap for API support team improvements such as enhanced monitoring, improved log management, analysis of API consumption data, and infrastructure updates for greater availability and performance
- Managed a headcount budget for contractor costs throughout 2019

API Technical Product Manager

- Designed and developed multiple enterprise scale API’s (MuleSoft) using best practice architectural guidelines for API design and implementation
- Co-Created ExxonMobil’s Houston-based API developer community to encourage collaboration across business units
- Designed and created internal website (Angular Front-end, Sharepoint Backend) for new-hire organization detailing events, information, and opportunities

API Software Engineer

- Supported a competitive intelligence application for cross-functional business users by diagnosing issues, discovering root cause, and implementing solutions
- Improved product delivery & support processes by leading team through value stream mapping and customer journey mapping
- Coordinated all cyber security vulnerability assessments and remediation efforts on all systems for parent organization of ~200 people

Advanced Information Systems Analyst

Business intelligence automation and cutting-edge technology product evaluation.

Analytics Intern

Brigham Young University

Learn to extract, transform, load data from existing MySQL to new Graph Database (OrientDB).
Create test scripts to prove accuracy of migrated data against old database.
Design a web-interface to access information from new database.

Database Developer/Research Assistant

Goldman Sachs

Automated a 4 week process to become a 24 hour process.
Created/validated designs against user stories with clients to streamline process and reduce human error.
Led the intern development team by taking the role of middle-ware & backend engineer using Java.

Intern - Technology Analyst/Developer

Created an implementation plan to upgrade system-wide physical security system software
Removed impediments for developers as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment
Prioritized/managed the backlog & gathered business requirements as a Product Manager

IT Project Manager

Developed and maintained internal managerial web-apps using AngularJS/HTML/CSS.
Worked cohesively in a Scrum team to effectively build solutions and meet deadlines.

Junior Front-End Web-Developer

Manually tested 8+ internal software products for 4 different development teams.
Executed automation test-scripts on web-apps with Ruby & Selenium Web-driver.
Learned and pioneered stress-testing with Apache Jmeter on internal servers and web-apps.

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Academy for Creating Enterprise

The Microenterprise Education Initiative (MEI) provides individual business owners in emerging and frontier markets personalized, online business and leadership coaching. I work as a coach with current clients in Africa. I also work with the software team as a UI Analyst to help deliver the most value through the software that is developed.

Business Coach & UI Analyst

Missionary Training Center

Trained 40+ groups on effective interpersonal communication skills, various teaching methods & concepts, and simplifying a broad and deep message to be concise. I was implemented as a lead teacher 4 times. I was a resource for other teachings to assist in helping missionaries understand and practice difficult teaching concepts.

Teacher

Technical Program Management and Leadership

Technical Program Management. Its the craft of solving problems that come from scaled execution of strategically important initiatives.

That's a mouth-full! But it just boils down to the fact that TPM's get big complex things done.

Having spent a decade in various tech roles, I am able to successfully navigate the complex interdependencies of large initiatives. I practice the core skills of planning, stakeholder management, risk management, communication management, dependency management, system design, and leadership.

These can all be summed up in what I call The TPM Craft Framework: Program Management, Technical Versatility, and Leadership. In my newsletter (The TPM Craft), I regularly dive deep into those topics.

Outside of my 9-5 I spend time with my family, read books, write, exercise, watch movies....etc. No major special hobbies, mostly just family time.

I may not know everything, but I can learn anything.

James Dayhuff

LinkedIn

TPM Leadership — AI/ML Infrastructure

TPM Events, a nonprofit corporation

I established and organized the inaugural industry-wide conference for TPMs - the TPM Summit. It attracted over 500 attendees. The event featured speakers and participants from across the tech industry, including Amazon, Google, GitHub, Instacart, Uber, and DoorDash, as well as authors of books related to Technical Program Management. www.TPMSummit.org

Founder | TPM Summit | TPM Trails Meetups

Robinhood

Lead a team of TPMs in Core infra, Data infra, Reliability, and Developer Experience

Sr. Manager - Technical Program Management - Core Engineering

Sr. Staff TPM

Staff TPM @ Data, Infra, Security

TPM meetup

Chief MC 🎤

Uber

TPM in Uber's Big Data Platform working with the teams across multiple open source stacks - Hadoop (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Presto) stack, Kafka stack, Vertica, and others. 

Major programs: Data Platform Cost Efficiency, Containerizing Apache Hadoop Infra, Data Platform Reliability.

Sr. Technical Program Manager @ Data Platform

Project Ice Cream

Swarm Runner @ Matrix 4 (the movie)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Led the team of Operations and System Development engineers to scale the infrastructure for Amazon Elasticsearch and Amazon CloudSearch services.

Manager Operations and Infrastructure

Managed Amazon Elasticsearch launch in 10+ AWS regions including special regions like GovCloud, China, and The Top Secret region.

Senior Technical Program Manager

TPM for two search services provided by AWS:

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for use cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and click stream analytics. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service

Amazon CloudSearch is a managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application. Amazon CloudSearch supports 34 languages and popular search features such as highlighting, autocomplete, and geospatial search. https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

Technical Program Manager

Amazon Search - A9.com

Amazon Search Product Management. If you've done a search on Amazon, you've used the
Amazon Search engine developed in A9.

Managed search product development related to new business categories launches – Amazon Home Services, Amazon Handmade Store, Amazon Fresh and others.

Startup Grind

Startup Grind is one of the largest high-tech startup communities in the world to help educate, inspire, and connect 2,000,000 entrepreneurs in 600 cities around 125 countries.
• Launched a minimum viable product (MVP) of a web application for facilitating mentorship within the community. 
• Gathered feedback from community members and mentors, defined MVP roadmap, and wrote user stories.
• Developed back-end and front-end functionality.
• Co-organized local chapter event in Almaty, Kazakhstan featuring Steven Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Alpha

SDE / Technical Product Manager

Yandex

• Determined country-specific product requirements for Yandex‘s services in Kazakhstan, based on analysis of local usage and market research. 

• Defined minimum viable localization features sensible for local users in cooperation with engineers to ensure efficient allocation of engineering resources and timely delivery. 

• Initiated and coordinated remodeling of Kazakh linguistic structure in web search algorithms, constructed grammar models and diacritic conversion rules.

• Established relationships with content and business partners. Managed full chain of communications: partnership proposal, negotiations, signing agreements and technical connection.

• Initiated and launched (owned) country specific projects.

• Represented Yandex in Kazakhstan, including public and government relationships.

Product Manager

I’m Zhanat, a Technical Program Manager and leader with experience in both leading TPM teams and directly driving complex technical programs in cloud and on-prem infrastructure, search and big data platforms, and Security and Enterprise Risk management across Amazon, AWS, Uber, and Robinhood. 
Currently, I lead a team of TPMs at LinkedIn’s AI Platform, where we’re driving AI innovations at scale.

🌐 Beyond my professional role, I’m dedicated to building the global TPM community. I organize the TPM Summit (www.tpmsummit.org), an annual industry-wide conference that unites TPMs from around the world. Also, I’m spearheading TPM Trails, a network of local TPM community groups with active chapters in the SF Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, Europe, and India.

📕 Recently, I authored the book ‘Evangelizing the TPM Craft,’ a book that reflects my commitment to advancing the TPM role and sharing knowledge within the community: https://amzn.to/46YbXgR

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