Technical Program Manager

Technical Programmer Manager

- Interact with Project Sponsors, Project Stakeholders and multiple business and technical teams to define and deliver complex features

- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints

- Plan and manage multiple parallel projects

- Maximize resources for the greater good of the organization

- Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels

- Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders

- Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.

- Be the glue that is able to understand, plan, and manage the cross-team interdependencies for complex systems

- Communicate project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner

- Apply best practices to the software development lifecycle for projects based on experiences with a number of agile and blended approaches, as well effectively coordinating the implementations across teams using very different approaches

- Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, differing SDLC approaches, numerous constraints, and adequately factors in some contingency for some unplanned delays while still be aggressive

- A solid CS foundation including at least 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role, and good knowledge of OOAD, scalability issues and multi-tiered solutions.

- Seasoned project manager with 5+ years experience managing technology projects (software development and application infrastructure) with aggressive schedules.

- Solid experience and track record of successful system implementations utilizing multiple project management methodologies, tools and techniques. Strong familiarity with agile methodologies.

- A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross functional, projects.

- Experience developing Internet products and technologies.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This includes excellent listening skills, concise communications and targeting the message to specific audiences.

- Quantitative analytical abilities.

- Proven problem solving skills.

- Strong organizational skills.

- Excellent technical skills.