Dianna DeCristo

• As Project Manager and DevOps Architect, successfully completed service contracts on time and within budget for Fortune 500 companies: Microsoft, McKesson, KPMG, etc.
  o Elevated partnership with Microsoft by surpassing project expectations set by Microsoft executives, fostering a stronger collaborative relationship
  o Managed customer expectations, risks, and timelines effectively without compromising quality
  o Designed scalable solutions tailored to client requirements
• Lead Product Owner of PACE (Platform for Accelerated Cloud Engineering) for 4 Scrum and 3 Kanban teams
• Managed strategic product roadmaps and backlogs in collaboration with customers, stakeholders, and teams to deliver value every 2 weeks, measuring success through Outcomes, OKRs, and KPIs
• Devised auto-discovery feature, resulting in 35% reduction in product onboarding time
• Led UI/UX initiative to create a more streamlined and accessible environment that significantly boosted customer satisfaction
• Increased product quality by 28% through self-test features, architectural changes, and adoption of Gherkin for AC and BDD
• Counseled teams in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and DevOps, best practices, to deliver product features that elevate Agile and DevOps maturity, thereby maximizing value for customers while simultaneously streamlining internal operations
• Mentored 4-member Professional Services to perform high-value integrations and customizations. Led team operationally to resolve high-value escalations with MTTR usually under 1 hour

• Product Owner for DevSecOps COE and self-service platform, enabling seamless migration to Azure, ongoing DevSecOps services, and transparency through integrated Power BI dashboards. Platform reduced compliance and security issues by 20%
• Co-led Agile/Scrum transformations and trained 14 teams
• Significantly streamlined cross-team user workflows via integrations with financial, CRM, and SDLC tools, increasing efficiency between Finance, Support, Security, and Dev teams
• Launched DevOps division by transitioning 6-member Release Engineering team to top-performing DevOps Scrum team. Grew division to 3 Scrum and 1 Kanban team (~25 members)
• Architected solutions to migrate 12 IaaS apps from VMWare to Azure, transforming 3 to PaaS. Solutions included migrations of apps off disparate tools (e.g., Jira, SVN, Jenkins, Rally, etc) to Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Saved company $1MM by finding $.5MM annual overpayment to Microsoft and optimizing Azure resource costs for capacity planning

• Assembled cross-functional team to deliver early on high-profile initiative to automate provisioning of on-demand, ephemeral, complex n-tier VM based web app environments
• Re-architected proprietary test framework and led QA Automation team to reduce regression test run times by 30%

• Major contributor to the success of IBM/Symantec partnerships. Collaborated with partners to invent OEM solution, simplifying integration and branding with Cybersecurity product
• Led 4-member DevOps team to automate VMWare vSphere/ESXi environments and self-service automation platform in both India and US, enabling timely delivery of 3 releases/month
• Reduced downtime for upgrades from 4 hrs to 1hr via Puppet
• Reduced CICD times by 25% through profiling/refactoring

• Hands-on Technical Product Owner successfully defining, delivering, and supporting Koders IDE search plugins and website
• Directly responsible for engaging Microsoft to acquire Koders and led due diligence effort
• Performed customer demos and incorporated feedback into actionable product backlog items

Details provided upon request

Details provided upon request