Greg Purcott

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Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Telephone: 818-***-****

E-mail: ad4xxx@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

A leading professional Technical Project Manager with 23 years of experience, enthusiasm to learn new technologies and a successful track record gained in consultancy, full project cycle development and implementation for private corporations. Seeking to fully utilize technical expertise while implementing scalable and reliable tools, architectures and APIs, manage a full development team from back to front as well as coordinate with the Design Team and Product Owners to support each team's requirements. A strong skill set and desire to create proof-of-concept prototypes, intuitively and quickly analyze existing architectures both for what works and what doesn’t. Experience in both small-scale deployments and enormous, high-availability infrastructures serving millions of users.

Key Achievements

·Key member of development team providing support to the internal needs of management and product owners while also providing support to external and cross-department management as requested.

·Developed and maintained intuitive web-based tools to support various needs of a broad set of teams, reducing repetition and day-to-day tedium and increasing efficiency and availability to focus on complex challenges.

·Lead unique task force called upon to audit global infrastructure performance, determine available options and provide a course of action to improve performance.

·Designed and Architected data center and new hardware rollout for Comcast. Optimized third-party caching strategies (i.e. Akamai Technologies). Optimized international redirection strategies to maintain geo-specific content deliveries.

·Increased Comcast site uptime and availability to 99.999999%

·Assisted with load-testing strategies and analysis for new architecture and data-center rollout plans for Comcast’s infrastructure.

Key Skills

·23 years of experience in Technical Project Management utilizing daily scrum, reviews, and retrospectives in Agile software development.

·Excellent technical knowledge and experience using leading project management software.

·Ability to provide business strategic overviews on how the technology can be fully utilized and its successful implementation through full lifecycle project management.

·Strong analytical and problem solving skills used to assess, design and produce effective websites for both small and large private and public organizations.

·Forward-thinking and innovative, able to think clearly and present to teams, clients and senior management to meet all objectives within given budgets and time constraints while also providing options for increasing or decreasing scope based on resource availability and unpredictability regarding shifting priorities within a dynamic environment.

·Excellent interpersonal skills both oral and written to communicate successfully with clients, colleagues and senior management to produce an effective and efficient web presence as well as providing a compromise where all parties' desires and requirements are met.

Technical skills

·Expertise in JIRA administration with over 18 years of experience working with Atlassian products.

·Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.

·Fast learner and can easily master technical systems and processes.

·Self-motivated and driven achiever, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

·Process and project oriented problem solver.

May 2015 – October 2023 Abacus Insurance Brokers, Project Manager

•Created and maintained detailed timelines of current work, documents and plans for future products/enhancements.

•Administrated and Managed Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence)

•Created complex JIRA workflows, project workflows, field configurations, screen schemes, permission schemes and notification schemes.

•Integrated JIRA with other applications including Git and Slack.

•Scheduled and managed developers.

•Facilitated daily meetings, sprint planning, review and retrospectives.

•Worked directly with VP of Technology to translate business requirements into detailed explanations of what the developers need to work on.

•Assisted in creating UX wire frames, development flow charts and diagrams.

Nov 2014 – Jan 2015 Aydus, Technical Project Manager

·Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, review and retrospectives as scrum master.

·Managed off-shore, third-party developers and coordinated development efforts with in-house team.

·Managed budgets and facilitated weekly status updates with multiple clients.

·Developed and communicated technical processes, standards and best practices within the development team.

·Led and collaborated on solutions across teams.

June 2013 – April 2014 Fullscreen, Inc., DevOps Manager

·Recruited and oversaw the Technical Operations team supporting a global network of content creators and brands on YouTube.com.

·Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, review and retrospectives as scrum master.

·Coached and mentored agile team members and provided performance feedback.

·Led the creation of large-scale architectures for a significant product area or across multiple large systems.

·Led an Architecture Review Committee to routinely audit current and planned architectures.

·Led and collaborated on solutions across teams.

·Ensured an exceptional experience for users around the globe while maintaining an agile, rapid pace of innovation in the services.

·Designed and oversaw solutions for specific use cases that provided frameworks, interfaces and services that could be extended and reused for future requirements.

·Created complex architectural designs.

·Documented current and future state business processes and information flow maps.

·Performed root cause analysis to identify current state process inefficiencies.

·Identified additional requirements that could benefit proposed solutions and worked with other architects and engineers to design robust, generalized capabilities.

·Develop and communicate technical processes, standards, and best practices within a business unit.

June 2008 – June 2013 Comcast/NBC Universal, Senior Software Development Engineer

·Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, review and retrospectives.

·Responsible for managing resources and deliverables utilizing JIRA as well as communication to key stakeholders.

·Coached and mentored agile team members and provided performance feedback.

·Created Gantt charts using Omni Plan.

·Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.

·Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the VP of Engineering.

·Designed and Implemented new system / infrastructure architecture for multi data-center platforms.

·Lead redesign of architecture and infrastructure to support highly scalable performance at above “5-nines”.

·Designed and Implemented site-code release process including Perl scripts, approval process, code repository check-in procedures and code reviews.

·Created and Modified business process and information flow diagrams to document current system behavior and incorporate new business requirements.

·Provided support, troubleshooting and investigation of issues for internal Content Management Systems.

·Applied optimization and code refactoring in order to improve stability, reliability and overall response time of outward facing properties as well as internal CMS tools to support those sites.

·Coordinated with Front-End Developers and Back-End Engineers in order to ensure proper communication and connectivity between the service layer and the display layer of each system.

·Met directly with end-users and clients to gather project requirements, eliminate discrepancies and trace steps required to produce bug reports.

June 2004 – June 2008 Shopzilla, Inc., Manager, Software Development

·Facilitated daily scrum meetings, participated in sprint planning, review and retrospectives.

·Responsible for managing resources and deliverables utilizing JIRA as well as communication to key stakeholders.

·Managed a team of 5 developers through all aspects of project life cycle including taking part in client meetings, initial project specifications to design, engineering, final build and user interface development, testing and quality assurance.

·Primarily involved in the design phase and the HTML build, linking with other developers in the successful design of major websites. Involved in the technical specification, system design and overall graphic design of each site and project.

·Built efficient systems to handle busy teams' requirements and fulfil responsibility for a variety of roles.

June 2002 – June 2004 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., Lead Web Developer

·Designed and implemented site architecture, UI and administrative tools.

·Managed projects through internal and external resources while maintaining a consistent look and feel between corporate, b2b and consumer sites.

·Architected and maintained a web-based project tracking system to record deliverables, milestones, dependencies and notes pertaining to each project.

·Provided coordination between Creative Services, Brand Management, Marketing and Information Technology.

June 2001 – June 2002 Fox Family Worldwide, Inc., Web Developer

·Developed UI and performed bi-weekly content updates and refreshes to main channel and program sites such as FoxKids.com, FoxFamilyChannel.com and MoolahBrach.com.

·Primary site developer for teenage reality-program Moolah Beach described as "Survivor: For kids".

·Sole developer for transition from Fox Family to ABC Family during ownership transfer from News Corp. to Disney.

Education Qualifications

·Bachelor of Business Administration: Systems Architecture and Analysis, Major – Florida Atlantic University, Graduate 1999

Philosophy

Clearly define the ultimate purpose or overall result for the system. Provide utility access in a way that makes sense to the user. Utilize the appropriate tool for the appropriate task. Complex tasks can always be divided into discrete, simple units making the whole achievable. Always seek the fundamental, underlying or root cause of an event; a new perspective will almost always provide unique insight to the issue at hand. Focus the solution(s) on the root cause and avoid treating the symptoms. Understand the separation between presentation specifications and content and how raw data becomes useful information as well as the relationship between the user and the machine, design to work within that relationship and make life easy for the user.

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