Project Manager Management

MARTIN MILLER

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Summary: Enterprise experience and expertise (SME) in B2C and B2B full life

cycle (SDLC) web application development, system integration, PMO

governance, methodology (RAD, RUP, Agile/SCRUM) business analysis,

new media/social networking, business intelligence, and Content

Management Systems (CMS).

For companies including Fox Interactive Media, Hulu, IGN (Internet

Gaming Network), The Africa Channel (www.theafricachannel.com),

Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment (CTHE), Magna, News Corp.,

Honda, Nissan North America, CSC, Edmunds.com, Raytheon, and

Hughes.

Broad experience managing in-house J2EE application development

teams and third party system integrators and interactive agencies.

A convergence of leading edge technical, creative, and marketing

skill sets.

Education: University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA

Graduate work in the sociology of organizations, survey research,

and information technology.

California State University Dominguez Hills, Dominguez Hills, CA

Masters in Communications/Behavioral Science

University of Southern California (USC)

Bachelors in Social Policy/Public Administration

Experience: Nebula Communications

SR. DIRECTOR, DIGITAL

December 2008

to present Consultant and business analyst to investment banks, venture

capital firms and other consulting firms.

Managed design and development of www.theafricachannel.com, LAMP

site and 2006 Promax award winner for best web design

Consulting for American Honda on site development for

www.honda.powersports.com

Consultant to L.E.K. Online video: monetization strategy and

application development

Consultant to McKinsey for assessing www.weather.com

Consultant on VOD (Video On Demand) for LG Electronics.

Consultant to Technology Crossover Ventures on the Fox Audience

Network

Consultant to Viking Global Investors, LP

Consultant to Viking Global Investors, LP for Online Network

Programming Distribution

Consultant to BAM Capital on Video Content Delivery Networks:

Akamai, Internap, and other CDNs.

Apr 2008 Nebula Communications

to Dec 2008 Client: American Honda Motor (AHM)

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

For American Honda Motors (AHM) www.powersports.com, Documentum,

and eShopping.

Directed upgrade/migration effort to EMC's Documentum 6.5 CMS

and/or CenterStage.

Documentum updates using Agile/SCRUM daily meetings, fast docs,

wiki's, and team synchronization.

Video strategy for AHM web sites including Honda, and

www.honda.powersports.com

Governance in the Honda PMO: Ensured PMs followed Rapid

Application Development (RAD) and Agile/SCRUM processes to meet

requirements to speed through stage gates.

Marketing strategy and incentive programs across Honda, Acura, and

Powersports sites.

Best practice methodology for PMO: Rapid Application Development

(RAD) meets Agile/SCRUM

Oct. 2006 Fox Interactive Media (FIM) and Hulu.com

to Feb 2008 DIRECTOR, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

For enterprise social networking and Content Management Systems

(CMS) for FoxSportsInteractive.com, IGN.com Mobile, and Hulu VOD.

Owned, wrote, and edited the product requirements document (PRD)

for Hulu (www.hulu.com.

Directed the set up of interfaces with The Platform for the Video

CMS, Interwoven for the site CMS, and Akamai as the streaming

video distributor. This involved extensive metadata and content

ingest.

Managed Agile/SCRUM process for Hulu content ingest, metadata, and

application development.

Championed open source development for Fox Interactive Content

Management Systems (CMS)

Managed Razorfish design team, including integration of Interwoven

as the site CMS.

Led the development of an in-house J2EE Ajax-ian Web 2.0 CMS for

Fox Sports Interactive

Provided strategy and content for IGN.com mobile WAP sites,

including AskMen.com and gaming sites

Researched, proposed and road-mapped a mobile Content Management

System (MCMS) for www.ign.com, www.askmen.com, and other Internet

Gaming Network properties/BU's.

Sept. 2004 Nebula Communications

to Aug. 2006 Client: Nissan (North America) NNA

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Managed development of the $5.5M Parts Pricing (PPS), an intranet

J2EE application and data warehouse that enables "Best-in-Class"

pricing strategies for Nissan Parts (a $2.5B sales unit). PPS

generated an ROI exceeding 1000% in its first year.

Achieved $5M project approval by preparing corporate PPT

presentations for the Nissan CFT (Cross Functional Team) and IRC

Executive Steering Committee (Japan) that funds projects.

Consulted for CIO on portfolio management, PMO best practices and

methodology.

Assessed and evaluated proposals from 3rd party vendors, including

Cap Gemini, Infosys, and Wipro, on a J2EE application multi-phase

project.

Managed a $10.5M data extraction/cleansing (ETL) program for

Service Marketing and Parts Inventory using Digital Motorworks

(DMi).

Directed in-house teams and vendors on SOW's, strategy/discovery,

gathering functional requirements, application architecture, and

front-end design. RUP/iterative development.

Did BI vendor due diligence and negotiated/bought/implemented

Microstrategy 8.01.

Researched and made application hardware technology decisions to

purchase IBM p570 mid-range servers, Sun application servers,

VMware to partition a new 8.02 version of Microstrategy

July 2003 Nebula Communications

to May 2004 Client: Sony (Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment)

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

PRISM Intranet Business Application Suite (Consultant), an

intellectual property rights and distribution management and data

warehouse system for DVDs. Columbia Tri-Star Home Entertainment

(CTHE) is a $3.5B division of Sony that distributes DVD's and

other media domestically and internationally.

Responsible for the strategy, design and development of a major

$5M intranet J2EE web portal featuring modules for CTHE's legal,

contract rights, marketing, programming (scheduling), operations,

and sales - the entire global supply chain for DVD distribution by

Sony Home Entertainment.

Produced PowerPoint presentations, wire frames, storyboards,

mock-ups and user workflows, as necessary, for VP and director

level business sponsors.

Conducted morning meetings and mentored team not experienced in

web development.

May 2001 POV Collaborative, Inc.

to Apr. 2003 DIRECTOR, PROJECT MANAGEMENT

POV Collaborative is a consulting company specializing in org.

development, software application development, and e-learning. POV

was set-up by Tenny Mickey, a former VP of HR for News Corp.

Developed and maintained overall project plans, training

materials, operations, QA, and business teams. Managed resources

throughout these groups, ensuring that deliverables were on time.

Managed an on-line knowledge supply chain for curriculum products

and e-learning training video for B2B product via

www.povcollaborative.com

Prepared SOW's, functional specifications, and agendas/minutes for

meetings, as well as cross communication that facilitates meeting

project goals.

Aug. 2000 Digital Boardwalk

to Apr. 2001 VP, CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Digital Boardwalk was the interactive agency that built the first

eToys web site. Their clients included News Corp., Baxter

Pharmaceuticals, Magna Entertainment, Fox Home Video, and DIRECTV.

Directed production of web sites, web applications, and new mobile

media.

Led and mentored a 10 person design and development team working

with client News Corp to build a custom web based performance and

talent management J2EE application (for Rupert Murdoch and Peter

Chernin)

Developed/wrote training materials for News Corp HR department

Successfully directed the Digital Boardwalk/Oracle partner new

media effort to develop mobile 'wireless web' and content in

vertical markets using HDML and WML code on top of Oracle 9is.

Dec. 1999 Edmunds.com

to Aug. 2000 CREATIVE DIRECTOR

www.edmunds.com has been the #1 rated automotive research site.

Recruited, hired, trained, and managed a 25 person web services

department of Flash action scriptors, Java developers, project

managers, information architects, producers, designers, and

coders.

Led the migration effort of Edmunds from a 65,000-page static HTML

web site to XHTML compliant and XML enabled site with a J2EE 3

tier architecture that supports data warehousing and syndication.

Directed efforts at developing new media content using with Flash

and video streaming.

Initiated and managed the Edmunds.com mobile program that created

"Edmunds- to-Go," which offered mobile content and access to the

Edmunds site by the Palm VII.

June 1998 Nebula Communications

to May 1999 Client: Computer Sciences Corporation

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) www.csc.com

Supervising Project Manager for over 25 project managers on the

Hughes/Raytheon IT Infrastructure Separation Program, a $30

million effort to separate the information technology environments

of Raytheon/Hughes Aircraft from Hughes Electronics as a result of

the spin-off merger between the two corporations.

Proposed, developed, and managed a 700 page intranet site that

served over 100,000 employees of Raytheon, Hughes and CSC. The

site became a communication hub for knowledge transfer from

project managers and leads to users.

Wrote/designed a 64 slide PowerPoint "Road Show" marketing doc

that earned CSC permission from the Raytheon VP/IT to make changes

at 10 Raytheon sites.

Jan. 1995 Western Data Systems

to May 1998 SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

WDS was a worldwide leader in Enterprise Resource Planning

applications for the aerospace and defense industry. Its clients

include Boeing, Litton, North Island Naval Base (US Navy), Orbital

Sciences and GEC Marconi. WDS was acquired in 2003 by Manugistics.

Partnered with client Hughes Aircraft and programmers to manage

the development of CompassSCP (Supply Chain Procurement), a

complex J2EE supply chain purchasing solution based on Oracle 8

and Xerox's In Concert Workflow application.

Clients included Boeing, GEC Marconi (UK), Orbital Sciences and

Litton

Documented CompassSCP and an Oracle Financials-based application.

Oracle approved tech writer.

1992 to 1994 Honeywell/HyCal Microswitch Division

MARKETING MANAGER

Managed product and applications development for sensors for

Indoor Air Quality/HVAC systems.

Worked with senior engineers to develop functional specifications

for products.

Authored an article about Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) with another

executive at HyCal that was published in Engineered Systems

professional journal.

Skills: Tools: MS Project, MS Office (including Visio), SharePoint,

Photoshop, Acrobat...

Platforms: J2EE, .Net, ...

Languages/Code: java script, XML, WAP (Wireless Application

Protocol), Ruby on Rails, HTML, Flash...

EAI (Enterprise application Integration), video content ingest and

metadata, CMS (Content Management Systems, including mobile)

Methodologies: RAD (Rapid Application Development),

RUP/Agile/SCRUM...

Middleware: ETL (Extract, Transform/cleanse, Load) architecture:

Business Intelligence (Microstrategy), Data modeling (logical and

physical)

Applications: Oracle-based, .Net, custom web applications, "build

or buy" decision-support...

Hardware (server purchases)

Management: Program/Project, Vendor Reviews, Selection and

Management; Business Process Re-engineering (BPR): Stage gate

Processes, Development/QA Team Management

Other skills: Writing (publishable), RFPs, PowerPoint

presentations, design, research...

Freelance/Other eCommerce Consultant, K-TEL International. Worked with K-TEL to

Projects: track and maximize delivery of music CDs and downloads via web

site and Valley Media.

Music business experience - freelance -- at A&M Records (Artist

Relations), EMI America Records (A&R), and K-Tel (for database

driven music distribution).

Knowledge management for Bowne Global Systems, which handles

localization and internationalization of web sites and application

software.

Taught the Sociology of Organizations and Institutions at Cal

State Univ. Dominguez Hills for a year

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