Yasaman Thompson

Senior Technical Project Manager at Zero Hash
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Dana Point, California, United States, US

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Credentials

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
    Scrum Alliance
    May, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
    Scrum Alliance
    Jun, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified Scum Professional (CSP)
    Scrum Alliance
    May, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • SAFe Practitioner
    Scaled Agile Academy
  • Scrum@Scale Certified Practitioner
    Scrum, Inc.

Experience

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Senior Technical Project Manager
      • May 2023 - Present

      ● Responsible for driving company objectives and key result adoption and strategic planning utilizing best practices and data. ● Leading the security, IT and funding engineering teams as their dedicated TPM. Key responsibilities are scrum and lean methodology training and practices to drive repeatable quantifiable results. ● Heading up the international expansion initiatives to open up new jurisdictional offerings. Key responsibilities are building processes and developing life cycle strategies to repeat and scale projects Show less

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Senior Technical Project Manager
      • Aug 2021 - Jan 2023

      o Managed the compliance and security engineering teams. Under my leadership, the engineering teams adopted a hybrid of scrum and agile methodologies utilizing estimations and data points to drive product launches and delivery milestones. o Facilitated key meetings with both engineering and business partners to initiate and define scope, milestones, timelines, and project risks to ensure engagement and prioritization of work. o Built and refined reporting metrics and dynamic dashboards to reflect status, blockers, and timelines for engineering and business stakeholder alignment. o Created efficient software development processes for engineering to review, refine and plan their work. o Worked with product and business leadership to adopt an approval process for requirements gathering, mapping and traceability. o Managed 5 TPM direct reports under the RISK work vertical; this included coaching, hands on training, 1:1s and quarterly reviews. o Provided Scrum/Agile training to technical program management, product, and engineering teams. o Built out the TPM hiring pipeline. This included mapping out core competencies to levels within the TPM team, establishing pertinent interview questions for these levels, providing evaluation criteria and actively leading TPM hiring. Show less

    • United States
    • Staffing and Recruiting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Information Technology Program Manager
      • Apr 2020 - Aug 2021

      o Worked as a senior program manager at Kaiser Permanente for their Enterprise Health Program Experience (EHPE). EHPE was a two year $52 million dollar program that's focus was on upgrades to the customer's experience across Kaiser services and departments. o Built out processes and procedures for quarterly and yearly Product Roadmapping. o Delivered timelines and metrics of the development teams velocity and delivery cadence o Managed relationships with external partners to ensure alignment on feature requirements, development, service integration, testing, rollout timelines, resources and budgets. o Identified opportunities to create lightweight functional processes that bridged and Waterfall engineering teams. o Managed resource and budget allocation to ensure product costs and forecasts were met. Show less

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Senior Technical Project Manager
      • Sep 2017 - Mar 2020

      o Partnered with product to identify and meet quarterly revenue by defining customer generating opportunities and creating value propositions and priority ranking metrics to align resources with high value deliverables. o Communicated product line quarterly KPIs, project priorities, project timelines and initiatives status’ to executive management through daily reporting and weekly presentations. o Drove engineering, business, operations, customer support, and marketing teams to provide end-to-end leadership on cross department project development, launches and maintenance. o Built engineering development reporting metrics and dashboards to forecast and reflect current engineering work and feature production status. o Facilitated meetings with key stakeholders to initiate and define project goals, scope, deliverables, resource allocation, timelines, change requests, project risks and mitigation strategies. o Streamlined operations and engineering process and maintaining schedules to ensure maximum program success, while developing tools and defining processes/documentation for successful software and operational project management as the company scales from startup to mid-size. o Coached and mentoring product, development, and project management to establish repeatable and consistent processes that adhere to Acorn's culture. o Provided Scrum/Agile leadership to scaling operations and engineering Show less

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master
      • Aug 2016 - May 2017

      o Worked with product owners to identify and define product initiatives, assign business value and help establish product projects in JIRA. o Communicated goals, development status, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross- functional and remote project teams to ensure transparency through project dashboards and metrics. o Assisted product and development teams to create and groom backlog stories. o Built project initiative reports and development team reports to capture delivery timelines and projected velocity. o Directed daily stand up meetings, scrum ceremonies, and team meetings. o Designed optimal solutions and prevented distractions that interfered with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goals o Proactively managed risk by identifying and resolving impediments or escalating risks before they became blockers. o Provided trade-offs with executive stakeholders to protect the development teams from uncontrolled injection of work. Show less

    • France
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Systems Engineer
      • Jan 2013 - Jul 2016

      o Budgeted and scheduled in-flight software applications and services for major airline customers. o Captured internal and external customer inputs on software applications and system services and derived them into technical software requirements. o Synchronized and monitored application development, integration, and implementation activities in coordination with the software department, test department, quality assurance and subcontractors. o Facilitated software development communication by driving daily tag ups, team meetings, milestone meetings, and program workshops between the development teams, testing teams, and quality assurance group. o Verified interim and final software deliverables. o Developed software/system documentation such as concept mockups, software requirement specifications and user stories. o Performed risk mitigation by identifying potential issues and meeting committed timelines. Show less

    • United States
    • Aviation & Aerospace
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Systems Engineer II
      • May 2004 - Dec 2012

      o Worked as the integration and test lead for Boeing Energy Smart Grid Technologies. o Developed processes and procedures as required for support of Boeing Energy Smart Grid Technologies and introduced Agile methodologies to streamline software development, testing and integration activities. o Produced project documentation including: Software Test Plans (STP), Software Test Descriptions (STD), Software Version Descriptions (SVD), and Software Test Reports (STR). o Supported the development of system/software requirements from our energy distribution customers and participated in requirements reviews and user story creation. o Tested code, developed test cases, and executed formal acceptance testing on interim and final deliverables of our Smart Grid Command and Control system and User Interface software. o Developed and maintained project deliverable documentation including User Manuals, Use Cases, training tutorials and demonstration storyboards for the Smart Grid UI. o Performed software integration, network testing, on site system configuration, overall system performance evaluation and software process performance documentation during installation and support of the Boeing Secure Border Initiative. o Identified software bugs, created troubleshooting reports, documented new features and provided input to support the Boeing Secure Border Initiative project goals and milestones. o Supported system trouble shooting between our on-site and virtual development teams, along with assisting in Command and Control system demonstrations and field exercises across various Boeing and non-Boeing sites. Show less

Education

  • California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems, Network and Telecommunications
    2000 - 2003

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