Eliot Lee

Senior Technical Project Manager

Anaconda, Montana 59711

303-***-****

ad357p@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced Technical Project Manager of managing complex projects for medium to large sized companies. Vast knowledge of technological systems, design systems, project management practices and methodologies, and customer relationship management.

SKILLS

● 20 years of both back-end and

front-end coding experience using

multiple languages and frameworks.

● 14 years working with digital

agencies, software engineering firms,

and website development companies

that included majority client-facing

projects.

● 10 years of Project Management

experience including scoping,

planning, scheduling, facilitating

Sprint ceremonies, monitoring budget

and performance, and risk and

change management

● In-depth knowledge of Software

Development Life Cycle

● Excellent interpersonal and

communication skills to effectively

collaborate and convey information to

business owners and software

engineers and testers.

● 20 years of Agile development processes

including Scrum and Kanban and Waterfall

development process

● 12 years working with educational and

non-profit organizations as web developer,

web administrator, and consultant.

● 6 years combined operating my own

technology consulting company that

worked mostly with start-ups and small

companies.

● 7 years of experience in Jira / Confluence

● 4 years of Team Lead experience including

mentoring other developers, guiding the

development process, and managing

junior developers

● Excels in problem-solving, root-cause

analysis, and expectation setting

● Excellent UX and UI design skills.

● Advance knowledge of API and KPI

WORK HISTORY

BlueModus, Denver, CO - Remote - Senior Project Manager May 2023 - Present

● Assist with Project Scoping and Discovery

● Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Client Status Calls, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Client Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives for multiple projects

● Work closely with various Client and Vendor Stakeholders on day to day requests

● Work closely with Strategic Directors to schedule tasks aligned with project priorities and budgets.

● Work closely with Solution Leads to manage tasks and resource allocations.

● Update senior management on a regular basis about project status and progress in terms of colleague performance, client temperature, and project budgets

● Advise and implement process improvements

● Manage projects using JIRA (including Premium Timeline, Dependency Map, and Resource features), Confluence, and other tools

● Manage multiple concurrent time and material contract based build and maintenance project budgets between $150,000 and $500,000 SingleMind, Portland, OR - Remote - Senior Technical Project Manager

September 2022 - March 2023

● Assisted with Project Scoping and Discovery

● Facilitated Agile ceremonies including Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Client Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives for multiple projects

● Worked closely with Product Owners of various mobile apps and web apps to identify priorities during each Sprint

● Worked closely with Director of Engineering to identify resource allocations for various projects

● Updated senior management on a regular basis about project status and progress in terms of velocity and budget

● Advised and implemented process improvements

● Managed projects using JIRA, Confluence, Notion, and other tools

● Managed project budgets between $100,000 and $1,000,000 Merkle, Inc., Denver, CO - Remote - Senior Technical Project Manager February 2021 - August 2022

● Scoped projects with multi-disciplinary teams

● Sourced teams for various web design, web development, digital transformation, and digital experience projects

● Managed scope, budget, schedule, risk, change, and improvements of concurrent multiple projects

● Tracked project burn rates and reported them to clients and internal management teams

● Worked with account directors to maintain appropriate communication cadence with other service lines and partner vendors

● Worked with multi-disciplinary design and development teams to address project milestones in a timely manner and within budget

● Employed a variety of project management frameworks, methodologies, and principles, including Agile, Waterfall, and Extreme Programming

● Managed project budgets between $100,000 and $2,000,000 Colorado Digital, Denver, CO - Hybrid - Web Project Manager July 2020 - February 2021

● Scoped projects with sales team

● Managed complex website development and digital marketing projects using Agile methodology including facilitating ceremonial meetings (Sprint Planning, Sprint Pre-Planning, Client Bi-weekly Status, Daily Dev Standups, and Retrospectives) and other duties including backlog grooming and managing tasks

● Managed client expectations via frequent communications about project budget, progress, and change requests

● Evaluated budgets and sprint reports on a weekly basis

● Provided budget and sprint reports to senior management on a weekly basis

● Conducted quality assurance testing of tasks

● Administered Project Management Software (JIRA)

● Managed project budgets between $15,000 and $150,000 Beyond Campus Innovations, Greenwood Village, CO - Hybrid - Team Lead of Multimedia Design/Project Manager

April 2018 - July 2020

● Managed team of contract web designers and interns who loaded courses for academic, corporate, and nonprofit clients via several Learning Management Systems, including Blackboard, Canvas, Litmos, Schoology, and TalentLMS

● Hired Multimedia Design contractors

● Mentored and trained junior Multimedia Designers

● Advised and improved project management processes

● Established partnerships with client tech groups

● Conducted quality assurance reviews of team projects

● Managed project budgets via processing expense and resource capacity reports

● Managed web-based systems including Web and Database servers

● Maintained company and other resource Websites using WordPress, PHP, CSS, and Javascript

Blizzard Internet Marketing, Glenwood Springs, CO - On-Site - Web Development Project Manager

November 2017 - January 2018

● Managed Maintenance Requests via Zendesk and Genius Project

● Managed Web Dev projects via Podio, Genius Project, and Microsoft Suite Applications

● Managed schedules via Outlook and Podio

● Managed budgets via Genius Project

● Client consultations ranged from technical support to guidance of web development process to negotiations of scope creep

● Recommended improvements for project management processes amongst internal departments and clients

● Assisted with bug fixes and enhancements using ManageWP, WordPress, and custom PHP programming

● Managed project budgets between $25,000 and $100,000 Technical Product Manager, New York, NY - Remote - Technical Product Manager

February 2016 - March 2017

● Worked with small e-commerce product subscription businesses and start-up companies with marketing strategies, improve purchase flow, and improve administrative processes via Agile development methodologies

● Worked with sales account manager to maintain project budgets

● Worked with clients to collect requirements and organize them into functional roadmap planning documents that include clearly defined milestones and goals

● Worked with developers to organize Sprints via estimating tasks and evaluating available resource hours

● Facilitated daily scrum stand-up meetings with developers to gauge progress and weekly touch base meetings to review current Sprint progress, blockers, and future Sprints

● Coordinated quality assurance testing for all deployments

● Wrote project reports including retrospective and client updates on a weekly basis

● Advised contract organization on improving software development life cycle and processes

● Managed project budgets between $25,000 and $1,000,000 Delivery Biz Pro, Longmont, CO - Hybrid - Senior Web Developer September 2015 - November 2015

● Enhanced features and fixed bugs in many websites using custom PHP, Smarty, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Vagrant using LEMP stack, Mercurial via Bitbucket, and AWS in a SaaS environment

● Managed data via custom PHP Scripts

● Interacted with customers via online portal and addressed customer's requests and technical problems

Accenture Federal Services, Washington, DC - Remote - Senior Web Developer/Team Lead/Project Manager

October 2014 - September 2015

● Developed new features in one web site and fixed bugs using Drupal 7.X, Git, and Acquia Desktop

● Developed new features in another web site and fixed bugs using PHP Codeigniter MVC Framework

● Analyzed Excel model comprised of complex formulas and compared it with an online version programmed in PHP

● Managed team of remote web developers using Agile methodologies

● Worked with International clients

● Managed project budgets between $50,000 and $1,000,000 Wowza Media Systems, Evergreen, CO - Hybrid - Web Technologist July 2013 - September 2014

● Developed new features in online customer portal and store with PHP, ExpressionEngine, HTML, Javascript ( jQuery and Bootstrap), and CSS

● Managed applications in multiple AWS environments

● Fixed bugs in existing web applications

● Worked with multiple third party APIs (Salesforce and Zuora)

● Assisted with developing internal custom RESTful API

● Analyzed database systems to identify holes in Billing process

● Worked with remote web developers using Agile methodologies

● Addressed customer's requests and technical problems Crazy Good Marketing, Louisville, CO - Remote - Senior Web Developer/Project Manager

July 2013 - September 2014

● Designed and developed Web sites using Wordpress, Joomla, and custom PHP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript ( jQuery)

● Modified content in various web sites

● Fixed bugs in existing web applications

● Worked directly with clients to address requests and technical problems

● Managed web projects from design to development to maintenance phases

● Improved SEO and SEM

EDUCATION

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ - Masters of Arts August 1995 - May 1998

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI - Bachelor of Arts August 1990 - June 1994

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