Program Manager Project

SANDRA WRONA

Katy, TX ***** ● 630-***-**** ● ad5ysc@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-wrona-pmp-6759657

PROGRAM MANAGER

Experience Leading Teams of Engineers Skilled at Solving Difficult Problems Technical and Business Innovation SaaS Implementation PMP Certified

PROFESSIONAL CAREER PROFILE

Resourceful, Reliable, and Energetic Program Manager with over 25 years of professional experience planning and managing large-scale state-of-the-art projects using Agile and traditional methodologies. Successfully led large global teams to deliver high-quality products in fast-paced and complex environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lumen Technologies – Broomfield, CO (Remote)

Lead Product Development Manager 03/23 – 11/23

Delivered an MVP product to market.

As Chief Product Owner defined and prioritized the Program Backlog for the Lumen Voice Direct portfolio.

Worked closely with Solution Managers, Product Owners, and internal cross-functional teams for the development of IT functionality.

Collaborated with external partner companies to coordinate development and define requirements.

Nokia – Austin, TX

Technical Manager Data Center Infrastructure 02/21 – 02/23

Led a 15-member team supporting the hosted SaaS environment's infrastructure and database administration.

Managed IT infrastructures for two hybrid data centers.

Coordinated software infrastructure migration from physical to SaaS implementation via AWS.

Delivered multiple complex hardware and software projects, including a project that successfully replaced and migrated multiple database servers.

Responsible for the OPEX and Capex management related to the data centers and operations support with a budget of over 3 MIL USD.

Oversaw vendor and supply chain management relations.

Nokia – Austin, TX

Senior Technical Project Manager 01/11 – 02/21

R&D Project Management Lead responsible for large-scale projects with over 300 team members spread across multiple geographically diverse locations, including China, Poland, India, and the US

Served as the SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE).

Transformation Lead moving our large development project from waterfall to SAFe®.

Delivered over 10 releases per year with 129 features with a size of over 388 THCM per release including front-end release planning, feature estimation, and feature commitment.

International experience - effectively coordinate all aspects of the project which is developed and tested by a global team located in the US, China, and Europe

Alcatel – Lucent – Naperville, IL

Technical Project Manager 08/08 – 01/11

Managed and led the IP Call Server solution of many software products.

Effectively coordinated deliveries from multiple software products developed by product teams from different countries and cultures.

Successfully managed the iteration testing of these different components for each IP Call Server

Release and deliver the solution to external customers including hardware, software, and customer documentation.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Project Management – PMP Certification, Scrum at Scale, SAFe® RTE, SDLC, Agile and predictive methodologies

Tools - JIRA, Confluence, Office 365, Slack

Software Development – JAVA, C++, C, Unix, SIP, TLS, TCP/IP, SQL, JQL, Eclipse GIT, SaaS, AWS

EDUCATION

Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL

Bachelor’s degree in science (Mathematics)

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional (PMP) – PMI

Registered Scrum@Scale PractitionerTM – Scrum, Inc.TM

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