JAMES (JIM) NICHOLSON

• Providing Program leadership for 5 high profile, revenue generating roadmap projects in support of the Commercial Banking Product Suite
• Currently leading 20 FTEs across 3 Agile teams in the engineering organization
• Partner with Product leadership to devise a roadmap that meets the organizational goals while aligning to engineering capacity and internal initiatives
• Provide quarterly engineering briefings to senior executive leadership outlining teams quality, capacity and overall delivery
• Defined new processes within the Product and Engineering organization to improve budget planning and forecasting, resulting in new reporting methods to the Board of Directors
• Transformed Engineering leadership team from “gut based” decisions to data driven analysis as it pertained to capacity and overall deliverability of the product suite
• Currently, overseeing the day-to-day project activities and deliverables, including schedules, financials, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery
• Provide regular feedback to both junior engineers and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations.

Technologies: JavaScript (ember), Node.js, GoLang, Python, AWS

• Led multiple complex projects in the expansion of Schwab's Market Data capabilities
• Led 3 agile teams consisting of 25 FTEs and 3 contractors across the Market Data Development and QA capabilities
• Provided leadership, oversight and support for Market Data team wit s responsive for the consumption and distribution of quota and trade data across Schwab
• Provided support to Market Data and Trading Technology leadership by assuming the role of
• Delivery Lead for large and highly visible projects
• Provided guidance and leadership in the prioritization of work in order to balance operational and new development
• Led the Dev and QA team in agile transformation and defined key process and procedures to achieve program goals
• Partnered with the Build and Release Manager to lead the team in adoption of CI/CD
• Managed relationships with mission critical vendors
• Consistently worked with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to achieve program goals

Technologies: C#, JavaScript, Python, Solace appliance, VMWare

• Led complex system integration projects with average budgets exceeding $30M with on time, on budget delivery.
• Designed and delivered processes that provide guiding principles to the organization.
• Built and maintained relationships with key Senior Leadership stakeholders through open communication and immediate identification and mitigation of program level risks.
• Over the course of tenure went from entry level developer and was promoted on an accelerated path from team lead through delivery lead

Technologies: Java, VMWare, Google Search Appliance, Google Analytics, Akamai, AWS