Okta

Leading the Developer Velocity project (#1 engineering initiative) to break down our monolith to improve speed for all developers. I also formed and now lead an architecture committee comprised of chief and principal architects, allowing us to promote long term technical excellence and decision making for the organization.

Engineering Principal Technical Program Manager

Edgio

Completed the merger of Yahoo + Limelight to form Edgio which now serves nearly 20% of the world's internet traffic.

Manager, Technical Program Management, CTO Org

Yahoo

Managed, mentored, and led a team of 10 Technical Project Managers. Orchestrated company wide planning events for 22 teams and 142+ engineering/product people across multiple locations and time zones.

Manager, Strategic Programs, Technical Program Management

Built out the global platform at scale and reduced business exposure to disaster scenarios within Yahoo Edgecast. I additionally built and led the innovation labs arm within the company from the ground up, producing unique forward looking projects that have earned patents.

Senior Technical Program Manager, Strategic Programs

Verizon Media

TechOps agile focused role where I led a team of 4 Technical Project Managers within the PMO. My team and I successfully completed agile transformations in operations.

Manager, Technical Project Management Office

Managed the strategic partner and infrastructure program around the world, building infrastructure at the edge of the internet in new and emerging markets.

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Planed and built datacenter infrastructure at the edge of the internet in major cities and markets across the globe to increase performance for end users “eyeballs” of the internet—from streaming video, images, applications, credit card transactions, and more.

Technical Project Manager

Southern California Edison (SCE)

A mix of engineering and project management: I was responsible for executing high voltage multi-million dollar substation projects that provide power for northern LA, eastern LA, and southern Orange counties. Worked with teams of 15-50 stakeholders regularly to complete engineering on 90+ substation projects to date. Work impacted millions of customers within the region. Fun fact: I had a big part in the effort to restore nationwide grid stability after San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was shut down.

Project Engineer

I write about program management in an effort to challenge what we know about it. My goal is for you to make a bigger impact as a program and project leader. I write a newsletter that breaks down program tactics that you can use (link in bio).

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My work experience (the regular LinkedIn stuff):
12 years of leading infrastructure and software projects at scale. 3 years leading direct reports with the last team being 10 people. I lead organizational process creation, strategic programs, and implementation of right-sized agile frameworks appropriate for the organization's use case (agile as a tool, not a dogma).

Matt McDannel

DHX Software, LLC

- Develop detailed project plans and timelines, facilitate teamwork, and resource allocation strategies.
- Led cross-functional teams in standing up Azure-based cloud architectures by planning, coordinating, and delivering infrastructure components such as virtual networks, compute services, identity management, and CI/CD pipelines to support scalable, secure application deployment.
- Conduct research with customers and business stakeholders to produce product requirement documentation. 
- Create Product Management framework for software development teams and provide the coaching needed to adopt or enhance Scrum. 
- Ensure teams have clear sprint goals, remove impediments, and track the teams’ progress. 
- Track and manage project risks, dependencies, status, and deliverable timelines.
- Ensure robust quality assurance, UAT and release management processes are in place.

Principal Program Manager

Structure

Technical Consultant

6sense

- Operationalize product and engineering to include planning, agile framework, and release management for all company key objectives. This included complex technical programs to align Leadership, Product, UX and Engineering teams.
- Worked with engineering leadership to provide Technical Program Management in a fast-paced Agile and Web Development environment with standardization and strategy for delivery. 
- Process advocate to enable product managers and technology team members across design, engineering, data science, etc. to perform at their best by creating and managing a plan with clear milestones and goals.
- Develop and manage all aspects of a project from planning, internal team dependencies, communications, resources, change management, risks, and issues.
- Procurement for engineering department to identify and evaluate potential suppliers, negotiate contracts, and manage relationships. Identify opportunities for cost savings and process improvements.

Technical Program Manager

Nextiva

Led cross-functional and technical engineering programs as a Program Manager, overseeing portfolio initiatives from scoping to delivery. Ensured clarity of objectives, optimized resource allocation, and facilitated successful execution across multiple departments. Key contributor to team strategy and roadmap, focused specifically on durable dates and product success. Leader tasked with delivery optimization and lead process improvements.

Sr. Program Manager

Project Manager

OpenTech Labs | OpenTech Alliance, Inc.

Establish operations and release management for the engineering department. Led the transition from Waterfall to Agile Scrum using JIRA and Azure DevOps. Optimized solution delivery and quality standards across the development team through introduction of unit-testing, change management, and streamlined workflows. Examine, analyze, and forecast project strategies and implementation to support more than 15 cross functional products.

Program Manager

Virtuous

As a part time consultant I assisted the Virtuous development team establish QA best practices.

Quality Consultant

American Airlines

Key contributor for end-to-end workflow on two airline mergers and multiple software delivery projects over 12 years. Worked in eCommerce, Product Marketing, Strategic Planning, Airport Automation, and Web Development. Led efforts to define project scope, timelines, resource needs, stakeholder management and risk management. Liaison between the business, cross functional teams, and vendors.

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Skilled in Program & Product Management on technical projects across engineering organizations. Respected member of a team that is well versed in technology and skilled with optimizing project delivery. Thrives when met with a project challenge. Experienced with identifying the unique needs of a team, building trust, seeking clarity, and accountability to achieve goals.
Able to offer experience working on a wide range of software development projects through planning, product and program management, operations, and release management with strong teamwork focus. Over the past several years I have worked to add improvements and organization for fast-growing companies.

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