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

Allianca Group Inc

Co-Founder

Shoonya.company

Founder

Exponent

Manager

Exto

Senior Consultant

Google

Program Manager, Google Corp Finance (Gaea vendor)

Part of Google Fiber Project Controls team and responsible for -

▪ Interact with business stakeholders to gather business requirements and transform into functional and technical specifications
▪ Led scrum meetings across business verticals to coordinate the work and meet schedule timelines
▪ Provide hands on program management with deep understanding of the need to deliver scalable production systems
▪ Gain partnership with teams during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases
▪ Drive internal process improvements, remove gaps, across multiple teams and functions and insure teams are working on programs moving toward higher level company mission and goals

Project Manager, Google Fiber (Gaea vendor)

Gracenote

Gracenote aims to deliver personalized digital entertainment experiences based on analytics and metadata

▪ Accomplished effective strategy to monetize products and services through advertisement by targeting right audience 
▪ Analyzed market trends/opportunities for Entourage, Automatic Content Recognition technology
▪ Strategized new use cases to capture wide market segment
▪ Defined a roadmap, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive offerings
▪ Architected Ad network integration to serve ads on mobile, tablets corresponding with TV commercials and user profiling

Product Management Intern

Tata Consultancy Services

Assigned on General Electric (GE) assignment, which aims at standardizing Project Management, Resource Vouchering and Project Portfolio Management. Managed and delivered integrated planning solution to effectively manage huge manufacturing projects.

▪ Partnered with IT leadership and cross functional team to develop and maintain integrated project plan
▪ Owned and managed complete SDLC. Managing offshore team of 15 people
▪ Analyzed and evaluated organization’s operations/procedures to offer recommendations; assisted management in identifying issues
▪ Analyzed work performance by calculating CPI and SPI applying earned value tools to manage project baselines

Project Manager

Assigned on General Electric (GE) assignment

▪ Defined project scope, deliverable that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders 
▪ Organized weekly brainstorm sessions for effective requirement gathering and understand business challenges
▪ Managed cross functional, geographical dispersed team of engineers, QA and UI designers
▪ Effectively handled change control board calls for smooth production deployment

Primavera consultant for General Electric - Turbo Machinery business, responsible to manage and design Primavera Integrations for Europe division

▪ Designed scalable Primavera integrations with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Life Management (PLM) system
▪ Developed and managed Project Management training material and trained 50+ candidates
▪ Implemented Lean techniques, reduced average number of recurring IT incidents and business interruptions from 400 to 150 over 8 months

Primavera Consultant

General Electric - Power business, aims to implement effective resource management process for smooth payroll generation and analyze resource overhead 

▪ Developed a report to effectively manage hours vouchered by resources. This implementation reduced manual work by 80% 
▪ Efficiently measure KPI’s and recommend process improvements by following Lean methodologies
▪ Owned and managed complete development and testing cycle
▪ Streamlined the delivery of reports by scheduling the jobs on SQL server, reducing response time from 4hrs to 15mins

Project Lead

Assigned on General Electric, Oil & Gas project, performed root cause analysis and implemented robust planning processes

▪ Automated project creation process in Artemis, which reduced manual effort by 4hrs & benefits the business by $120k/year
▪ Worked in SLA driven environment and met performance metrics of 96%

Software Developer

Vedisoft

Worked on multiple web development project as a lead developer

▪ Designed & developed an online training, game, merchandise portal. Application is based out on ASP.Net using C#
▪ Developed training material for ASP.Net & C#. Trained 20+ candidates

“There is a way to do it better. Find it.” — Thomas A. Edison 

Mr. Edison is right. 

Do you know that businesses achieve only 29% of set goals on time and within budget? 

This means that 71% businesses could have higher productivity, increased revenue and faster scale — but they don’t. 

This is where I come in. 

A little about me: 

After a 15 year stint in corporate — the entrepreneurship bug caught me. 

I helped solve ambiguous problems, lead teams across 3 continents, scaled projects to multi-billion dollars at tech frontrunners like TCS, Meta and Google — and then I asked myself: 

"What happens if startups and SMBs could access my expertise?" 

Growth, growth and growth. 

That is when Shoonya.company was born. 

What sets us apart is: 

— we’re a customer-first consultancy firm
— creativity is at the centrepiece of solving problems 
— we help startups and SMBs act and grow like legendary companies 
— we have one rule and one rule only: how to make innovation a habit for your teams and leaders 

That’s it! 

Struggling with strategic growth? Reach out here: sonali@shoonya.company 

Always up for a brainstorming sessions. 

And when not obsessing over problems, I’m either hiking, travelling or exploring different cuisines.

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