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)