Yen Pham
San Jose, CA *****,Tel: 408-***-****, ***.****.****@*****.***
SUM MARY
I focus on empowering my two globally distributed,
m ulti-disciplinary SCRUM teams whose products span
across mobile, web frontend, backend infrastructure, and
i nternal business tools. I have a proven track record for
continuously improving company culture, productivity,
and product quality across all organizational levels and
d isciplines. Finally, I’m a self-educated web developer
w ith a f lair for social collaboration tools
EXPER I ENCE
Software P roject Manager / Scrum Master
Fr ancisco, CA
• Led cultural change and trained 24 teams toward improved presentation
p rotocol/collaboration by repurposing and executing the company-wide demo
p resentations, reducing monthly meeting time by three hours for our globally
d istributed audience, including senior team, area product leads, engineering leads,
customer support, etc.
• Corroborated with engineering/QA directors to revamp our defect management
p rocess, resulting in more proactive ownership of features/defects, decreased
t riage/debugging t ime, and easier submission forms for non-technical workers
• Collaborated with senior UXD designers to increase design team productivity via a
t raining course for faster prototyping and implementing monthly team retrospectives,
leading to company-wide adoption of barebones mockups/prototyping and iterative
i mprovements better suited for our agile environment
• Filed and t r iaged 60+ defects within two months, including pricing calculation errors,
SDK crashes, login failures, photo organizer/video upload crash, Facebook photo
i mport infinite loops, various UI/performance issues, etc.
• Enforced team adherence to release cycle deadlines and guidelines ensuring proper
code check in, keeping features off on staging environments for increased stability,
and preventing revenue impacting bug patch errors
• Ran SCRUM meetings – Release/Sprint planning, daily scrum, SoS
retrospective
Ma rket Research Assistant – ASUS Computer I nternational, Fremont,
CA
• Performed and presented to senior management a weekly analysis of competitor retail
p ricing, product mix, ad share and retailer special offers to help direct retail strategy
• Provided advanced MS Excel t raining to peers on the use of pivot tables, named
r anges, auto-updating charts, vlookup/hlookup, indexes, matches, macros, conditional
formatting, etc.
• Designed, programmed, and maintained the retail division sales reports, using MS
Excel and MS Access
Vice P resident, I n te rnational Student Volunteers
College, Cupertino, CA
• Managed and directed 20+ volunteers to complete
p rojects ranging from ecological restoration, cooking
and serving food to over 250 homeless people,
babysitting, caring for elders, and administrative
work
• Facilitated collaboration between officers and club
members to plan, prepare, and execute the annual
charity dance, raising over $1000 to donate to the
Doctors Without Borders organization
E DUCAT IO N
• B.S. Business Management Information Systems,
San Jose State University, Spring 2011
SK I L LS
• Project Management: Certified Scrum Master, Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, Release Management
• Tools: Eclipse, TestFlight, Rally, SBM, MS Visual Studio/Project/Visio/Access/Excel, Adobe
Photoshop/Premiere
• Software Engineering: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, MS Access SQL