SUMMARY:

• A resourceful, self - motivated, results driven professional with 18 years of experience in the software industry as a Technical Project Manager, Accessibility Evangelist, QA Engineer, and Software Engineer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Software Project Management Functional Testing Visual StudioAgile Project Management Scrum Usability Testing
• Digital Accessibility Project Management Principles Test Planning
• WCAG 2.0 Assistive Technology Tools Confidential Office
• Software Development Life Cycle Section 508 Windows, Android, iOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Accessibility Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed various accessibility contract projects for Confidential .
• Managed creative projects from concept to completion while managing outside vendors.
• Drove planning sessions with both client and management to determine the scope and objectives of each project.
• Ensured project scope, schedule, dependencies, and constraints were up to date by conducting ongoing analysis of variances and risks.
• Organized and facilitated Scrum meetings following Agile methodologies.
• Oversaw work effort of a remote distributed team, promoting consistent, continuous delivery.
• Responsible for all project communications, ensuring the correct information is disseminated to project stakeholders.
• Coordinate resource schedules across projects, ensuring resources are properly assigned workloads based on availability and skill set.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

• Managed a team of 12 engineers to improve accessibility in Excel desktop and O365.

• Collaborated with business and program managers to align project commitments and scope with overall strategic goals.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to draft project schedules and plans.
• Served as the single point of contact for all major project changes.
• Established strategies for continuous risk and issue identification for the team and stakeholders to have visible, measurable, and repeatable processes for managing those risks.
• Responsible for managing team, resource needs identification, and resource acquisition. Worked to onboard SME engineers, re-assign tasks to other teams, outsource testing, and evaluate all tasks to determine a fast-track.
• Created a responsibility matrix for cross-functional teams to define responsibilities and ensure there was no work overlap.
• Ensured project scope, schedule, dependencies and constraints were up to date by conducting ongoing analysis of variances and risks.
• Collected daily updates from the team to create metrics and weekly status reports.
• Documented lessons learned and improved processes for future projects.
• Trained team members on accessibility guidelines and processes. Recorded and documented all trainings which i Confidential eased our ramp-up time for new engineers.
• Defined and executed a comprehensive accessibility test plan for the engineering team.
• Helped engineers fix accessibility bugs, and participated in code reviews.
• Delivered critical phases of the project ahead of schedule including the integration of an accessibility wrapper, accessibility compliance of the Excel grid, cell and formula bar, and fixed all focus and high contrast accessibility bugs.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engaged to lead a team of two engineers to update the use of LCIDs for transient language support in Excel and Windows 10.

• Collaborated with Engineering leads to translate and design business expectations into technical specifications.
• Translated localization use cases into project plans.
• Coordinated schedules ensuring resources were assigned workloads based on availability and skill set.
• Implemented Scrum methodology to ensure completion of the project.

Software Design Engineer in Test II

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in project planning for key product features to understand requirements, and provide design feedback and early test concerns.

• Worked closely with development and program management to provide input on quality issues, and define functional and non-functional test strategies.
• Created test specifications and test cases based on product requirements.
• Executed tests for feature areas, including functional, ad-hoc, integration, automation, and accessibility. Tests were performed for both web and desktop applications across multiple platforms.
• Performed code reviews to identify defects early.
• Created detailed bug reports and helped triage and track bugs.
• Accessibility test champion for Excel. Provided accessibility guideline and tool training for all team members. Created accessibility check-lists. Ran all accessibility test passes, analyzed results, and triaged bugs.
• UX test driver. Worked with UX designers during the design phase of new features. Relayed UX information to the test team, and created test cases based on the design.
• ETE scenario test driver. Worked with PM weekly to define scenarios for our products. Paired scenarios with their corresponding features, and assigned test owners to the scenarios.
• Assisted in improving test processes and procedures throughout the organization. Drafted a best practices and methodologies plan. Engaged testers early in the SDLC, and ensured a 1:1 development to tester ratio. Created weekly metric reports for the team.
• Participated in telemetry planning and research.
• Test automation using .NET and Visual Studio.