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

Amazon

Senior Technical Program Manager

Technical Program Manager

NextEra Energy, Inc.

- Have managed the development and delivery of OPC UA server application which allows operations to monitor generation sites in real-time. I also managed its deployment using AWS Fargate.
- Have helped drive a multi-million dollar, cloud based IoT and data historian project reading 4MM data points at 24B data points per day. I have provided SME support related to protocols, edge devices computation and data flow, scoping work, specifying customer requirements, designing and implementing of visualization infrastructure for real-time operational data monitoring of NextEra’s entire renewable fleet.
- Designed and managed the development of NextEra’s generation data visualization system infrastructure in AWS cloud. Moreover, I hardened the infrastructure by making it highly available and scalable using 9 EC2s, ASG and load balancer.
- Managed the development of innovative and custom security plugin to an application called Ignition and integrated it to a backend token-service API. This effort has enabled users to automatically assume roles and dynamically provision them access to the right Ignition resources.
- Employed extensive python scripting to make dynamic visualization screens a reality for the above mentioned IoT project. This was applied to various technologies including Wind, Solar, Battery and Fossil resulting in 400k dollars cost saving and have allowed quicker and more efficient onboarding of new sites. I later became Green Belt certified for creating a Six Sigma process to come up with the solution and successfully deploy it across the system of 360 plus sites with 2MM data points being monitored visually.
- Have managed NextEra’s data historian system (PI) by managing hundreds of servers and interfaces to ensure 24x7 system availability for operations and various users across the company.
 - Prepared scope of work and functional requirement documents for various projects. Reviewed bidding documents and prepared comparison matrix used for vendor selection.

Senior IoT Engineer

Florida Power & Light Company

-	Designed, integrated, tested and commissioned communication systems for SCADA control and eDNA monitoring applications of various Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). 
-	Wrote substation RTU specifications for new and replacement installations.
-	Led a multi-million-dollar project to improve FPL’s substation reliability camera system by introducing a new Video Management System and analytics hardware.
-	Designed and implemented remote relays HMI system for quick and intuitive way of determining root cause of faults. 
-	Designed and standardized a signal booster system for pre-fabricated substation relay vaults to mitigate data and cell phone.

Engineer , Design and Standards

-	Worked on distribution and transmission line breaker, transformer replacement, testing and commissioning 
-	Worked in Transmission line panel replacement, testing and commissioning
-	Worked on substation increase capacity projects such as adding transformers, breakers, etc.
-	Performed various NERC related tasks such as transmission line panel and back up panel operational tests and periodic RTU maintenance tasks.
-	Tested EM and microprocessor relays such as differential, overcurrent and distance relays
-	Installed and replaced various substation communications and metering equipment.

Protection and Control Engineer

University of Miami

Research/Teaching Assistant

Florida International University

-	Implemented real-time Adaptive filter-based digital guitar tuner in C using TMS320C6713 microprocessor kit.
-	Performed real-time lab experiments realizing different sound effects including flanging, and reverberation in C++.
-	Developed QRS detection for determining different heart problems from ECG recordings.
-	Analyzed brain activity from EEG recordings.
-	Designed and implemented real-time graphic equalizers.

University of Asmara

-	Lectured courses including Data communication and computer networks, Microprocessor and Interfacing, Digital Communication, C programming.
-	Performed speech spectral analysis and source and line coding.
-	Conducted lab experiments and simulation.

Lecturer / Research Assistant

I am a cloud solutions architect and technical product management professional with over ten years of experience in the design, implementation, and management of IoT systems. I employ strong product management,analytical and programming skills to drive customer centric solutions.

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