Professional Summary
I lead with curiosity, turning understanding into frameworks that scale. With over a decade of experience enabling teams, driving organizational transformation, and delivering programs at enterprise scale, my focus has always been empowering people to do their best work. At GitHub, I lead programs that directly impact the company's most critical goals through data-informed decision-making, AI-driven efficiency, and structured mentorship.
Professional Experience
Senior Technical Program Manager
GitHub (Microsoft)
2022 – Present
Mentorship, Coaching & Program Scaling
- Increased delivery velocity by 45% across multiple programs through structured coaching of TPMs and engineers on execution practices and prioritization
- Expanded program coverage 3x by developing coaching frameworks that enabled peers to independently own and scale new program areas
- Designed scalable onboarding programs that reduced ramp-up time by 60% for new program contributors
- Maintained continuity of all critical business programs through organizational transitions by establishing structured knowledge transfer and succession frameworks
- Established cross-functional technical forums to improve architectural decision-making, reducing production incidents by 35%
Opportunity & Solutions Identification
- Drove compliance and trust standards across 80+ strategic initiatives, contributing to enterprise revenue programs exceeding $200M
- Improved operational maturity of cloud integration partnerships through standardized delivery workflows, contributing to 15% YoY growth in platform adoption
- Identified and eliminated organizational friction points, resulting in 30% faster time-to-market for key initiatives
Program Planning, Execution & Continuous Improvement
- Built the company's primary cross-organizational execution program from scratch, sustaining it as the coordination mechanism for highest-priority initiatives across 6+ consecutive quarters
- Expanded initiative tracking from 150 items in a single repository to 7,600+ items across 200+ repositories, establishing full visibility into the company's highest-priority work
- Drove formal adoption of program data and practices into company-wide planning, aligning prioritization guidance and driving development of native platform features including sub-issues, structured issue types, and project automation
- Established prioritization frameworks increasing product delivery predictability by 40% and strengthening enterprise-wide alignment
- Accelerated strategic planning cycles from quarterly to monthly, enabling faster response to shifting business priorities
Operational Efficiency & Automation
- Reduced program management overhead by 96%, from 120 person-hours/week to 4 person-hours/week
- Automated work distribution across the full program footprint, reducing coordination time from weeks to minutes with a single-action workflow
- Elevated reporting coverage from 30% to 95%, transforming business visibility across the organization
- Accelerated initiative distribution from 2 weeks to 3 hours
- Automated exception handling and approval workflows, reducing turnaround to near-same-day
Director of Engineering – PMO
Calvert Systems Engineering
2019 – 2022
- Led strategic direction and operational execution for a $150M government Program of Record, delivering 100% compliance with federal standards
- Reduced operational costs by 18% through data-driven estimation and analysis while maintaining full scope requirements
- Accelerated product delivery by 35% through implementation of DevSecOps practices and streamlined Agile methodologies
- Achieved continuous ATO status by implementing secure CI/CD pipelines, eliminating 6-month approval cycles
- Increased system performance by 42% through strategic technology acquisition and architecture optimization
- Secured $30M in additional funding through compelling technical presentations to stakeholders
- Decreased vendor delivery defects by 52% through structured feedback cycles and operational touch points
Product Manager / Scrum Master / Software Engineer
Raytheon Technologies
2016 – 2019
- Product Manager (May 2019 – Dec 2019), Scrum Master (Jan 2018 – May 2019), Software Engineer (Feb 2016 – Jan 2018)
- Increased customer satisfaction scores by 28% through targeted demonstrations of product capabilities aligned with user needs
- Improved team velocity by 32% through effective coordination of multidisciplinary teams using agile methodologies
- Achieved 98% on-time delivery rate through effective sprint planning and increment management
- Decreased system latency by 60% through architecture optimization and code implementation
Lead Network Engineer
Rise Broadband
2014 – 2015
- Increased network uptime to 99.98% through proactive management of large-scale LAN/WAN environment
- Reduced security incidents by 87% through strategic integration of advanced network security capabilities
Skills
Technical Acumen
- AI Integration & Automation
- Enterprise Architecture Governance
- Security & Compliance
- DevSecOps & CI/CD
- Cloud Infrastructure & SDLC
Leadership & Strategy
- Mentorship & Coaching
- Organizational Alignment & Change Management
- Vision & Roadmap Development
- Cross-Functional Influence & Stakeholder Alignment
Program Execution
- Cross-Functional Program Delivery at Scale
- OKR / KPI Definition & Tracking
- Risk Management & Mitigation
- Stakeholder Engagement & Executive Reporting
- Resource & Capacity Planning
Education
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
MBA, Graduated with Honors (2020 – 2021)
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
BS: Computer Science (2011 – 2015)
Certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager
- Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM)