Technical Product Manager, Software Engineering Manager, Director

Stan Spilman

****@***************.*** 303-***-**** Remote and/or Denver South, CO http://www.spilmansoftware.com/

Professional Summary

Experienced Software Engineering Leader with over 20 years of expertise in the software development life cycle (SDLC) and a proven record of driving AI innovation, including the adoption of GitHub Copilot (GHCP). As a Product Owner of GHCP, I specialize in fostering the adoption of AI technologies to build high-performing teams and spearhead strategic initiatives that deliver transformative software solutions. Committed to cultivating a culture of innovation, I excel at leveraging emerging technologies to drive revenue growth and amplify organizational impact.

Skills

Technical Leadership & Management

Four years of experience as a manager, including two years in consulting roles

Skilled in leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact projects and solutions

Proven ability to drive team collaboration, performance, and strategic development initiatives

Experienced in Agile methodologies, including Scrum, and utilizing tools like Azure DevOps

Technical Proficiencies

Proficient in C# and end to end full-stack development

Skilled in database development and management

Experienced with AI tools, including GitHub Copilot (GHCP)

Comprehensive knowledge of SDLC processes

Certifications

MCPD, MCTS, MCT, MCSD.NET, MCP, Scrum

Experience

Product Owner of AI, GitHub Copilot (GHCP) H&R Block (Remote) 10/2021 – 05/2024

Key Responsibilities:

Spearheaded the rollout and adoption of GHCP, driving towards 100% AI usage across technical teams.

Developed and maintained usage reports, analyzed performance metrics, and prepared Sprint summaries for management, directors, and VPs.

Organized and coordinated internal/external hackathons, managing logistics and collaborating with engineering teams to foster innovation.

Administered GHCP accounts, ensuring security compliance and managing user permissions effectively.

Partnered with Microsoft/GitHub to conduct company-wide training sessions, refining programs based on employee feedback.

Key Achievements:

Achieved 83% AI adoption within months of program inception, with progress toward 100%.

Cultivated positive champions’ meetings, leading to increased AI adoption and engagement.

Ensured consistent and accurate metric reporting for upper management accessibility.

Successfully planned and executed multiple hackathons, boosting collaboration and creativity.

Conducted monthly Community of Practice meetings, providing developers with guidance and insights on GHCP usage.

Consulting Manager: RevGen Partners, Centennial, CO 80111, (Remote) 10/2021 – 05/2024

Led, organized, and facilitated regular meetings between managers and architects to enhance collaboration, communication, and strategic alignment within the company.

Marketing Content Manager for Data Analytics and Insights vertical, driving brand visibility and thought leadership in the industry. Please see LinkedIn posts.

Consulting Contracts listed Below:

Privacy Manager Onboarding: Comcast

Security Compliance: Implement measures to ensure systems meet regulatory bodies and industry standards, facilitate remediation, and identify and mitigate risk for California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPRA).

Privacy Program project, collaborate with stake holders to drive projects to completion for each vendor application. Advise third party vendors to meet Individual Rights Requests (IRR) policies to ensure compliance.

Project Manager: Cable One

Manager of Revenue Assurance Analyst project.

Defined roadmaps and priorities to drive analysis of data to capture revenue for all services rendered.

Scope and create project plans, developing processes to execution.

Communicate to senior management on status, risks, and process/product changes.

Track financials for the project including budget tracking, expense monitoring, and financial reporting, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency throughout the project lifecycle.

Execute Business Development initiatives by cultivating relationships with stakeholders to secure additional service offerings.

Software Engineering Manager: Denver Public Schools

Provided leadership and guidance to a team of developers by setting clear goals, managing performance, and fostering a positive work environment.

Delegate team member’s responsibilities, select and onboard direct reports to project, and provide strategy.

Executed clear vision and goals with the team to enhance an existing teacher scoring application.

Met weekly with stakeholders to provide updates on project and communicate any risk to completion.

Identified additional business development areas and pursued to a signed extension.

Orchestrated Midyear / End of year closing of scoring model and data imports.

Created and managed a project to upgrade the 2012 server to 2016 to match all other environments.

Managed the feature update project for custom built software – LEAP.

Solutions Architect: Dish

Solutions architect and managing implementation of their Customer Experience (CX) program.

Diagramed 3rd party data in / data out applications, AWS Snowflake data lake integrating with Qualtrics CX program.

Leading technical design for future Voice of the Customer (VoC) program.

Requirement implementation and documentation.

Security compliance coordination for wireless roll out.

Winner of the business development contest.

Database Developer: Comcast

Managing and helping analyze business logic delivery for front end consumption.

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) analysis and review defunct SSIS packages. Database clean up.

Execute Business Development initiatives by cultivating relationships with customers to secure additional service offerings.

Software Engineer Manager: Arrivia, Scottsdale, AZ 85256, (Remote) 8/2020 – 10/2021

Maintain Epic level delivery plan.

Company merged, managed a multi-disciplinary Agile team for platform consolidation.

Delivery of features for Epics/stories. Working closely with product owner for on time delivery.

Direct reports, six team members. All HR responsibilities for immediate team members.

PCI Security compliance remediation and Production defects.

Technical planning and prioritization of initiatives.

Responsible for the development lifecycle of the detail solution design and implementation on complex projects.

Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide technology support.

Work closely with Senior Engineers to architect, design, and develop features and services to build our travel platform by providing technical depth on a full-stack product development team in a .NET and Azure environment.

Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.

Recruit, develop, and maintain an engineering team that can deliver on time and quality.

Provide thought leadership on domain metrics and produce reporting to senior management.

Advocate for change in quality, durability, and technical debt reduction by working with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and other important partners.

Safeguard the privacy, security, and trust of our members’ sensitive data throughout our implementations, in partnership with our Risk and Security teams.

Unleashed the velocity of our engineers and systems with processes and implementations that allow us to ship quicker, learn sooner, and isolate impacts.

Provided dedicated off-hour ticket support, ensuring uninterrupted service and prompt resolution of critical issues for clients, contributing to high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.

Senior Lead Software Engineer: Accesso Technology Group, Lake Mary, FL, (Remote) 12/2015 - 8/2020

Leading big teams on our large enterprise project centered on migration from FoxPro to WEB.

Manager for daily stand up, sprint planning and other Agile meetings.

Cross-team collaboration on integration (CI), continuous deployment and other Team Foundation services.

Overseeing development on AngularJS, 4.5 C# MVC5, .NET, SQL 2017, TFS, jQuery and JavaScript libraries.

Delivered committed after-hours ticket support, guaranteeing seamless service and swift resolution of high impact client issues.

Senior Software Engineer: Aspenware Consulting, Denver, CO, (On-site and remote) 01/2014 - 12/2015

Large enterprise project centered on migration from FoxPro to MVC5, AngularJS and other JS libraries.

Provided support for AngularJS, 4.5 C# MVC5, .NET, SQL 2012, TFS, jQuery and JavaScript libraries.

More experience upon request.

Education

Metro State University, Bachelor of Science, Business Management and Entrepreneurship

Seven Microsoft Certifications, MCPD Enterprise, MCP, MCSD, MCTS, MCT

Scrum Certified

Gallop Clifton Strengths Top 5: Achiever, Strategic, Competition, Relator, Learner

Police Academy

LinkedIn: Classes

Extras / Interests

Family, Enjoy spending time with my five year old son and wife.

Champion, 2025 US OpenIT Hackathon/Codeathon (H&R Block event)

PPG 2 Pilot: 2022 – present

Owner, Meet Up: Boulder .NET User Group: 2005 – 2019.

Speaker:

oApplication Insights Overview September 2021

oWindows 10 IoT & Raspberry Pi 2 2015, Boulder, Ft Collins, CO Springs. Introduction to AngularJS 2014

oVolunteer motivational speaker at Adams County Jail 2008-2012

oMicrosoft C# Direction 2008 & 2009

oASP.NET Training for Classic ASP and PHP Developers 03/2009

oCode Generation - Boulder User Group. 11/2007

oMS .NET 3.0 framework - Denver and Boulder Visual Studio User Group. 04/2007

Colorado Ranger: Graduated police academy in 2016 and served from 2015-2018

Races:

oSpartan Trifecta (1st place in my category) Colorado Spartan Race 2015 - 2022

oTough Mudder 2018

Archery: 1st place in bare bow recurve archery league (2016 and 2017)

Volunteer:

oMentored College Students in software development

oColorado Ranger – assisting all police agencies in CO

oChristmas gift wrapping and distribution

oHigh School interview prep

oValverde Elementary School renovation and teacher assistance

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