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

Apple

Driving programs for App Store and Arcade

Program management 

TPM Events, a nonprofit corporation

TPM Summit Speaker for 2023. Leading the events for TPM Trails Bay Area Chapter

TPM Trails Bay Area Chapter Lead

Momentive-AI (maker of SurveyMonkey)

In this role, I leverage professional expertise in effectively directing portfolio/program management and roadmap delivery of Surveys/GetFeedback BUs that contributed around $100M+ in annual revenue in product offerings.
Below is the list of some of my key accomplishments in this role,
• Increased web leads by 60% along with accomplishing a 16% growth in quality leads through the launch of a new website (Getfeedback.com).
• Focused on convergence strategy of M&A products as a foundation for new business, renewals, and expansion, while leading sales and marketing efforts.
• Played a vital role in accelerating business growth and improving team culture by promoting operational excellence for GetFeedback GM and cross-functional leadership team, while shaping and leading delivery on strategic priorities.
• Directed strategic planning, execution, portfolio operations for 300+ member Surveys BU.
• Enhanced professional capabilities of team members by establishing a community of Practice within PMO for knowledge sharing.
• Built new BU post merges and acquisition of two cross-geo/cross-cultural international companies, while leading the PMO function for establishing GTM program across all functions to deliver Business Strategy and team formations with org structures.
• Boosted products delivery by 15% yearly by integrating Engineering teams into the PDLC and leading Agile transformation across Engineering, Product, and Design.
• Steered efforts to launch a new product/program post-M&A that accounted for 30% approx. total revenue by product unit.
• Grew enterprise customer base by 20% with cross-sell and upsell opportunities, resulting in increasing revenue by 30millio.

Lead/Staff Technical Program Manager

Akamai Technologies

This role required me to lead media services live product programs and operations to deliver a large-scale distribution of video, music, and software over the highly scalable Akamai platform. Working here, I liaised with management and stakeholders to communicate Key Program Metrics.
Key contributions,
• Founded an enterprise-wide PMO from scratch and defined PMO framework, dashboards, metrics, and automation to advise the leadership team and stakeholders.
• Succeeded in delivering 50 releases each year across six media streaming networks on the Akamai platform.
• Delivered proactive support to more than 100 members across different functions, including Engineering, Product Management, Product Architects, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Operations and Services, and Support spread across geographies (NA, APAC, EMEA).
• Contributed to lowering network incident0s by 25% through the introduction of group-wide "Focus on Quality" initiative.
• Strengthened relationships among teams by employing conflict resolution and negotiation tactics.
• Promoted a culture of diversity and innovation by recruiting volunteers from teams dispersed across the organization to launch Women in Tech West Coast chapter and "Wizards" ideation program from scratch.
• Executed agile transformation that resulted in 20% faster product feature delivery.

Manager, Technical Program Management

Cisco

At Cisco, I oversaw and managed end-to-end integration and adoption of a static analysis tool across business functions via vendor management to reduce defects and accelerate time to market.
I achieved the below,
• Devised a new toll via vendor management to maximize the SDLC delivery.

Project Manager

Symantec

As part of this role, I set up a framework to timely resolve complaints and enhance customer satisfaction, resulting in improving the customer escalation process.
Key achievements,
• Launched v1.0 ((Certificate Intelligence Center) product from idea to delivery.
• Enhanced productivity, integrated workflow, and reduced defect rate through the implementation of the Atlassian suite in Trust Services BU.
• Instituted Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, starting from v1.0, 2. x -Cloud-based SSL certificate discovery and automation within the website security business unit with a revenue of $1+ billion, resulting in customer retention.

Engineering Program (Release) Manager

SunGard

•	Solely responsible for managing release process for disaster recovery projects in Availability Services BU 
•	Revamped the legacy tool set to emerging technologies like Atlassian Suite, Python DistUtils, and Subversion

Release Specialist

•	Collaborated with cross-geo teams to implement a global release process for Storage and Availability Services BU
•	Founding member of build/release team to lead growth of the team to manage releases to support 100+ stakeholders 
•	Recipient of multiple awards – “Applause Award’ for creating a new automation tool, “SF Innovent ’09” for implementing process improvements, “Star Performer” for release management, “A++ award” for optimizations and reducing release cycle time

Senior Release Manager

NE Technologies Inc

•	Worked on porting Telecommunication Management Network(TMN) tools on HP-UX 11iv1 PA 64bit OS with acc A.03.70 B.11.16 compilers and on LinuxES4 2.6.9 OS
•	Wrote test cases according to the functional specifications and analyzed test plans and executed them to validate the functionality and transactions
•	Performed functional and system testing to check the stability of the application.

Software Developer

I have a passion to identify customers’ problems and solve them with modern technology. I have a proven track record of building strong teams, instilling innovative culture & taking initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
I have enjoyed several executive positions throughout my career in Product Management, TechnicalProgram Management, Release Management, and Software Engineering.
I have a history of cultivating strong working relationships and collaborating across multiple teams.
I can successfully manage all aspects of planning and execution of technical programs as well as product execution plans.
Among many other talents are an ability to manage software applications, revise designs, provide recommendations, train less experienced staff, resolve technical glitches, and lower risks.
I have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like, agile development environment.
I am a constant learner who always remains calm under stressful conditions.
I am a Certified Scrum Master (CSM ) and Project Management Professional (PMP).

Professional Skills
SDLC & PDLC  | Release Management | Product Operations | Portfolio & People Management | Agile Methodologies
Operational Excellence | Technical & Strategic Acumen | Strategic Planning | Technical Program Management

Technical Knowledge
Technologies: SaaS, CDN, Storage, Security, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Cloud Computing, ML | Tools: Jira, Confluence, Asana, Smartsheet, G Suite, Salesforce, Miro, Figma | PDLC, SDLC, Quarterly Planning, Product Operations

Connect with me today, or email me at snehalshahapmp@gmail.com to find out how I’ll implement the best program management practices to achieve your organization's strategic missions!

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