Scott L
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What kind of job are you looking for?
I'm looking for a job that requires a blend of detailed technical knowledge, clear business understanding and the ability to build consensus across teams in order to be able to drive the key technology or end product to a successful release.
I enjoy a challenge in all of these areas and believe I have a strong ability to launch successful projects and to motivate teams to deliver to their potential through respect, clear communications and high expectations.... 
Posted @ 02:30AM, February 02, 2009
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Product Realization Manager (Program Manager)
tags:
project planning
• vendor selection
• program management
• project management
• product realization manager
• budgeting
• converged services
How would you describe your time at Nationwide wireless carrier...?
ROLE
Current: As PM, drive the release and road mapping activities for the new mobile music platform
Prior: As PM, coordinated various aspects of the release of a new Internet services gateway, including defining scope and executing detailed technical requirements development.
PROJECTS
Current: Currently working on a new cutting edge mobile music and video platform for the carrier
Prior: A new middle tier wireless Internet Web Services gateway. Project supports the use of SMS, MMS, WAP, Parlay, ParlayX and MLP as well as HTTP, TCP/IP, XML, SOAP, LDAP, etc. Led product management for this complex multi-protocol web services gateway for third party content providers.
TASKS
* Work with senior management and stakeholders to establish short and long-term product road map
* Gather, integrate and document all new technical and business product requirements from all teams
* Build formal requirements documentations for internal teams and external vendors
* Work with peer project teams to identify project interdependencies and mitigate risk
* Manage the RFP process, facilitate gap analysis and coordinate vendor scoring / selection
* Work with various team members to finalize vendor contracts with Supply Chain and Legal
* Establish detailed project schedule. Includes working with technical managers and external partners to ensure that planned milestones are appropriate, resource requirements are acceptable and project goals are achievable within the established time line. Drive team towards schedule commitments and ownership of tasks
* Track and manage issues, dependencies and risks across multiple internal & external teams. Communicate project status to various parties including executive management, business and technical stake holders
* Work closely with multiple orgs including Marketing, Architecture, Dev, Test, Security and IT Operations....
Senior UAT and Requirements Engineer
tags:
requirement analysis
• workflow analysis
• user acceptance testing
• test planning
How would you describe your time at Washington Mutual?
ROLE
Senior UAT QA for a various new online banking products
PROJECTS
Wamu Direct
TASKS
* Coordination with internal organization management and business users to track user experiences at major milestones, then track defects and suggest product enhancements
* Assist in improving the overall team efficiency by facilitating requirements analysis and process engineering
* Work closely with Development, Ops, PMs, BAs, etc. as well as provide direction for more junior team members
* Hands-on testing including front and back end interfaces including web layer, RTP, EAI, ACH and mainframe...
Contract QA Manager
tags:
data modeling
• technical team manager
• mentoring
• project planning
How would you describe your time at Accenture?
ROLE
Manager for combined team of onshore and offshore (India) QA staff
PROJECTS
Online content management system (CMS) which interfaces with multiple external back end interfaces. Application designed to be used by Microsoft U.S. Sales organization.
TASKS
* Prepare MS Project Plan sections for Test, Deployment and Interop testing with MS.com teams
* Onshore/offshore QA team management
* Assist in the Web portal UI and User documentation definition based on the anticipated needs of the end user.
* Improve the overall team efficiency by facilitating analysis and process engineering to assist in correcting various build, environment, change control and other SDLC-related issues....
Senior QA Analyst
tags:
process engineering
• qa lead and quality assurance
• mentoring
How would you describe your time at Safeco Insurance Company?
ROLE
QA activities for a production maintenance and new product team working on complex risk analysis software
PROJECTS
Variety of financial premium calculation applications supporting automation of the underwriting systems
TASKS
* Mentor existing QA staff regarding process-managed approaches and project planning/estimation practices
* Build and maintain extensive QA project documentation including schedules, test plans & estimates, scripts, cases, succession guides, user manuals, etc.
* Execute testing, document issues encountered and provide QA metrics and status reports to staff / mgmt.
OTHER
* Appointed to company-wide QA Steering Board at 5 weeks (set practices for approximately 140 QAs)
* Appointed by the QA Director to join a select invite-only training series for PMs at 6 weeks....
Sr. Program Manager
tags:
product management
• six sigma
• process engineering
• program management
How would you describe your time at microsoft / ford motor company?
ROLE
Senior Technical PM / Release Coordinator between Ford and MS
PRODUCT
Dealerpoint, a sales lead / CRM tracking Web application used by Ford across a several thousand dealer network
TASKS
* Coordinate all project deliverables between and MS dev, test and business teams and off-site Ford teams. Typically involved appx. 50+ concurrent Ford change requests and weekly releases. Requests included new features (including a wireless rollout), site enhancements, XML data updates, site metrics, hot fixes, etc.
* Key role in marrying Fords Six Sigma-based process requirements with the existing MS team processes
* Provide a high degree of technical guidance to Ford management and performed extensive negotiation
* Introduced wide variety of formalized processes and documentation improvements.
* Provide technical and business user documentation on all new processes, procedures and deliverables
OTHER
* Key role in bringing consensus between Ford and MS, balancing MS Dev, QA and Operations resources in a fixed-cost license agreement vs. high volume of Ford requests for functional, operations, and metrics changes...
QA, Configuration Management and Tools Dev. Teams Manager
tags:
wbs
• technical team manager
• technical team leader
How would you describe your time at crossgain?
ROLE
Began as QA Engineer, eventually managed QA, Configuration Management and Tools teams at this startup prior to their sale to BEA Systems in May, 2001
PRODUCT
Java, XML, SOAP and XHTML supporting IDE now sold by BEA Systems as WebLogic Workshop
TASKS
* Manage activities of the QA, CM and Tools teams
* Align with management on schedules, deliverables and strategy
* Extensive use of WBS (work breakdown structure) modeling and other process diagrams...
QA Program Manager and QA Team Manager
How would you describe your time at XO Corporation (previously ...?
ROLE
Build the Web QA team from the ground up for this large telecommunications company and direct the team???s efforts until company relocated to Virginia. Developed all processes related to QA and other technical / business teams.
PROJECTS
Team QA???d in excess of 100 projects over 14 months, including 2 complete corporate site rollouts, many new web applications, interaction with a content management system (Spectra) and various corporate site changes
TASKS
* Define all team processes including SDLC model, cross-team interfaces and documentation model
* Work with fellow managers, customers, BAs and PMs to build and refine project requirements and schedules
* Maintain schedule and resource utilization / coordination with off-site QA and outsourced development teams
* Produce documentation on projects and processes for both internal team and executive management.
OTHER
* Projects involved HTML, XML, DHTML, ASP, Java, JavaScript, Flash, Lotus Domino and Cold Fusion. Servers included Microsoft IIS and Netscape Enterprise Server (NES.) DBs included Sequel Server, Oracle....
Various software engineering roles
tags:
development
• software testing
• technical team leadership
How would you describe your time at Variety of leading software...?
These roles involved in a variety of technical leadership, development and QA consulting roles for companies such as MS, IBM, Autodesk, Attachmate, etc. These were primarily contract sr. QA & junior development roles.
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