United States | Canada
Only need a little help? Only need help for a short time? Right now I'm available for small contracts! Let's get you some breathing room by: * Define realistic and reasonable AI policies and procedures * Red-team/Black hat pitches, plans, and contracts to maximize returns * Sanity-check forecasting
(Contract position) * Collaborated with IT Leadership to plan $250k+ worth of work to improve resource utilization across the entire IT organization, with a target of reducing project delays due to resourcing by 20% * Identified win-win compromises with stakeholders to accelerate discovery processes by a month * Produced concise and well-structured project documentation and transition materials to reduce rework delays by ~40 hours over 6 months * Lead a cross functional team comprised of analysts, architects, and engineers to produce quality, actionable insights into customer needs and behaviors and identify realistic metrics and implementation designs for the new process * Moderated technical working sessions to drive full engagement * Analyzed requests and created rough orders of magnitude to use for estimating cost, schedule, and effort * Worked with internal customers to refine asks, define success, and identify the MVP+ deliverable
* Created pitches and proposals to bring in ~5M in contracts * Imagined and evolved top-level applications to showcase our platform capabilities to customers and to pitch demonstrably achievable proposals for Small Business Innovation Research funding * Designed and quarterbacked the 'Airlock' feature in the highly secure CrossClave productivity suite which allowed for secured onboarding protocols and secured out-of-band data shares * Defined requirements, testing plans (including UAT), and user stories for the Proof of Concept (0-1) for OrbitSecure (a pioneering secure communication app for space operations) * Created and prioritized an enterprise features roadmap for CrossClave in JIRA and Confluence, aligning development efforts with business objectives and available resources * Assisted in converting roadmaps to sprint plans, participated in Agile Ceremonies * Collaborated with Design, UX, and stakeholders to create smarter workflows and increase accessibility within CrossClave * Developed new roadmapping processes to capture effort and value data to enable fast-but-informed decisions about 'where next?' * Reduced the turnaround for the CrossClave DemoKit by 33% by creating strong processes and ‘aviation’ style checklists * administered JIRA
* created efficiencies in our team procedures to save about 20% of testing ttime * streamlined regression-testing processes to save QA hours * standardized bug-documentation to reduce confusion with off-shore/opposite hours teams * represented QA concerns to division and organization * developed a new training program * coordinated on-the-job training * trained and mentored new QA team members * reported and tracked defects * automated testing via custom frameworks * developed tertiary requirements for ACME products to simplify QA work * analyzed software design documents and requirements to identify completeness and accuracy