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

Adobe

Enterprise Resilience Program  (October 2023 - Present )
On Contract with Adobe through UST

- Leading & overseeing Enterprise Resilience Program ensuring strategic alignment with the organization’s objectives and operational capabilities to mitigate risks associated with business disruptions
- Coordinating with cross functional teams to develop & implement comprehensive resilience strategies
- Managing engineering teams for Business Continuity on ServiceNow platform 
- Managing stakeholder communication and tracking program Metrics & KPIs
- Planning & coordinating simulation exercises & drills
- Prepare & present comprehensive reports to executive leadership

Senior Program Manager for IT Service Management at Adobe (Dec 2022 - Dec 2023) 
On Contract with Adobe through UST


- Lead the implementation & adoption of framework for Service Health Metrics 
- Collaborate with Service & Product stakeholders in educating & engaging on importance & use of Service Health metrics
- Overseeing implementation & deployment of data collection & analysis
- Coordinating & managing implementation of ServiceNow solutions 
- Product requirements refinement 
- Develop & oversee project timelines and scope

Senior Program Manager 

Kyndryl

•	Managed and coordinated efforts to set up an effective management and governance system for an organization unit spread across 10 countries comprising of 3000+ people
•	Responsible for monthly & quarterly operations and performance reporting and driving initiatives based on report insights
•	Led and coordinated strategic transformation programs 
•	Process improvement efforts for employee on-boarding, employee engagement
•	Engineering budget planning & management 
•	Headed internal communications including Website content & design, monthly newsletters, employee surveys and organized events like Townhall, Hackathons and All hands

Program Manager

•	Led diverse and global enterprise customer projects across Communication/Media, Entertainment, Retail, Finance industries in their journey to cloud
•	End to end delivery for Cloud Adoption, Acceleration & Migrations Programs and helped customers with best in class & smooth cloud onboarding experience
•	Collaborated with client executives & stakeholders to understand strategic and tactical business objectives, creating project plans, defining key milestones and deliverables in journey to cloud
•	Worked with cross functional, multi geography teams of Architects, Engineers, Migration experts to deliver innovative & value driven solutions to our customers
•	Experienced in creating roadmaps, strong governance structure, diligent at tracking, prudent in identifying schedule slippage
•	Adept at Risk management for complex programs, creating risk mitigation plans in collaboration with engineering teams & executives
•	Identified areas to drive efficiency and work towards adding value, reducing overall time & efforts to deliver end results
•	Coached & mentored new team members for their easy & smooth deployment in projects

•	Led & coordinated solutioning and delivery readiness efforts in the Presales phase with new customers, sales teams, solution architects and delivery teams,essentially being the bridge in transformational projects
•	Hosted & planned Client briefing sessions and client visits as part of the business development team
•	Managed programs to pre-fill demands based on win probabilities

Engagement Manager - Global Technology Solutions

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES - Financial Solutions

•	Handled Presales activities – Opportunity Assessment, responded to RFIs/RFPs, Presentations and Demos for TCS BaNCS Service Integrator
•	Created winning presentations with product capabilities, customized use case demonstrations , rate cards.
•	Coached & assisted 3rd party partners in specific countries to increase the product sales

Presales Specialist

Tata Consultancy Services

System Engineer

As I was steering the wheel of my career towards Project Management, I asked myself the most important question.

Are you sure ? Have you answered the WHY ?

The response came to me  one by one :

* Being organized & systematic is my being 
* Collaborative is my adjective
* Change intrigues me 
* Risk I am ready and also very prepared for
* Communication is my superpower 

I knew I was ready for a career in Project Management. 

What I added to this with my varied experience in managing large and small projects in some of the greatest companies are :
* The dynamics of the real world
* The criticality of crisp communication up & down the chain 
* The importance of lessons learnt
* The diversity of projects, industries & stakeholders
* The quick adaptability to a changing technology landscape

Somewhere along, honing this skill and experience , I added the PMP certification to it. 
It started to make a lot more sense. 

Now I know the WHY & the HOW

Its a matter of WHERE and that's why I am here.

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