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

To lead and oversee the strategic framework, development and execution of the architectural data capability for Fintechs verticals (Payment & E-Commerce, Wallet, Remittance, InsureTech, BankTech )  to support BankTech’s data monetisation vision, ensuring alignment to business strategy, profitability and continuous improvement.

Responsible for ensuring 16 Markets level integration in support of BankTech’s product and credit risk requirements, standardising both the data architectural and integration methodologies deployed.

Support and contribute to the development of the sub-divisional strategy in line with overarching divisional goals with an emphasis on client experience (internal and external) in the area of digital banking 
	Develop and implement innovative banking and value proposition leveraging MTN’s assets, specifically focusing on data and integration standardisation in the context of supporting BankTech’s cloud solutions.

Group Senior Manager, Data Architecture & Integration:  Beyond Payments , BankTech , Fintech

MTN Cameroon

Providing a consolidated view of the enterprises technology and business landscape Track Technical progress of a project implementation to ensure compliance with best practice architecture
 Manage the sub unit budget: Estimate requirements; prepare annual budget; schedule expenditures; analyze variances;
 Manage relationships between key external stakeholders (Banks, aggregators, Telecom Regulator Board ).
 Managing and maintaining a project plan in line with the Work Breakdown Structure
 Overall management and support for key trade partners by providing prompt and proactive support in line with our Service Level Agreement
 Engagement of internal and external suppliers of development resources, weekly and monthly alignment.
 Improve operational framework for the delivery of Mobile Financial Service at all touch points
 Implement and deliver new products and service through proactive engagement of key stakeholders internally and externally

Project & Program Manager ICT, Digital and Mobile Financial Services 

Acting Project & Program Manager Digital and Mobile Financial Services 

• Evaluate business requirements and provide guidance to the business during product, service and project initiation requiring new or modified applications.
• Identify and/or audit product proposals, business requirements, existing policies and technologies
• Perform optimization and performance monitoring for established business processes that are dependent on IT support.
• Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Analyze information needs and deliver functional requirements and business requirements documentation.
• Collaborate with external and internal customers to transform Requirements and concerns into business Use Cases.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Acts as a main point of contact between business customers and IT units regarding IT services demands, designs and deliveries provided to MTN external and internal customers.

Analyst, Business Support & Information System 

My responsibilities include  validation of commissioning, monitoring and maintenance of all Electronic Voucher Distribution and Mobile Money platforms.

·        Ensure smooth service operation, oversee the implementation of the operation and maintenance procedures covered by the technical standards within the area
·        Be responsible of interacting with fellow professionals outside the company
·        Monitor, plan and optimize nodes, services and features in the field of virtual top up and mobile banking. 
·        Ensure the implementation of requests from IS Service delivery and / or the business developpement team
 Create processes and procedures to manage Mobile Money and virtual topup environments
 Ensure that operational delivery of system outputs are met
 Ensure availability and reliability of systems
 Review and document existing processes and procedures and propose enhancements
 Establish and document processes and procedures and submit them to the Manager
 Maintain a complete documentation on services within the area.

Specialist , Payments Systems

- Ensure  availability  of various server such as EVD (Electronic Voucher Distribution) Platform, Mobile Money (GSM+Finance), MIS (Reporting tool), AML (Laundering Money tracking system)
- Resolve all incidents according to Service Level Agreement
-SIM Card Management with OTA Services (Gemalto)
-Provisioning of Subscribers on the GemConnectSecure , Service Manager , provisioning Manager
working on integration beween S@T gateway (Gemalto) and  mobile money (fundamo)

Jr. Engineer , Application Support

•Write down tests scenarios document versus solution document
•Perform Functional and Exceptional tests
•Report on issues
•Follow up corrections by performing regression tests
•Report on defects and known issues

Intern Quality & Performance Engineer

Koossery Technology

•	Industrialization of the realization of workflow around ALFRESCO  GED / BPM platform  
o	Definition of a problem solving approach based on Prince2 and best practices of Business Process Management  for  enterprise content management  application powered by Alfresco.
o	Designing Koossery Workflow  , a BPM application Business-centric , based on BPMN 2.0 workflow engine such as JBPM , ACTIVITY
o	Integration monitoring and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) components with BIRT , Desmo-J

Software Development Engineer  SDE

Designing an application for property management

•	Designing administration component of a management of the property management application
•	Design of Data Model
•	Provide a migration model of the Front-end Framework for Koossery to C # 1.0 ASP.NET MVC
•	Implement administration module
•	Deployment on pre-production Server, UAT testing and production of user manual

Software engineer trainee

Premiers Pas SARL

•	Design a training platform for SGBC employees with Claroline 1.8
•	IT Systems Administrator LAN (ADSL/PPOE ) of Capital – Rh www.capital-rh.biz ADSL/PPOE
•	Installation of a security policy for the Web applications based on Mehari

Information Technology Professional

XTENDED TECHNOLGY

in the DATABASE service, I help with various tasks of the database administrator of the company.

Academic Internship

Senior Manager, Beyond Payments | 🏦 BankTech |📈 Fintech | Wallets |📊 Data Architecture | ✅Sr. Technical Program Manager |💡 Design Thinking | ⚡ API | 🎯 Coach | 🎙 Speaker

As the Group Fintech Senior Manager for Data Architecture and Integration at MTN, Africa's leading telecommunications company, I have over a decade of experience in delivering technical and business solutions for the digital and mobile financial services sector. I have the credentials and competencies to design and execute strategic data capability frameworks that align with the organization's vision and profitability goals.

In my current role, I lead the development and execution of the data capability for Fintech's verticals, including BankTech, Wallet, Remittance, and InsureTech. I ensure the integration of 16 markets in support of BankTech's data monetization vision, standardizing the data architectural and integration methodologies deployed. I leverage my skills in Agile, API, and Design Thinking to enable collaboration, innovation, and efficiency across teams and stakeholders. I am passionate about understanding and meeting the needs of African users, and I am a coach and speaker who shares my insights and expertise in the industry.

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