Robin Sullivan

• PMO Leader responsible for management of program management and technical excellence
• Work with organization to develop organizational goals for improvement opportunities
• Coordinate, consolidate and work with Directors to prioritize and assign owners to initiatives
• Lay out PMO structure and coach initiative owners on plans, risks, mitigation, status
• Drive phase gate reviews
• Report overall status to global steering committee led by Global Operations VP
• Lead weekly Diagnostics Core Team comprised of all Diagnostics PMs/Programs
• Represent Diagnostics on all corporate initiatives – ISO/PLM/Test Operations Steering Committee
• Support Directors LRP and near term budgeting with finance.

• Collaborate with product owner and technical leads to develop feature roadmap.
• Lead execution of roadmap across ~20 IP teams.
• Own release strategy/plans, organizing technical teams and ensure deliverables are met within budget
• Architected/Adopted best practices Agile methodology to manage team (first agile based project in Diagnostics)
• Developed training materials for Agile process and ensured all technical leads were trained and followed the new process (utilized Atlassian/Jira methodology)
• Set up all communications for internal and external stakeholders
• Led weekly leadership and core team meetings
• Hired and managed release engineers for the initiative (worked with experts to develop TNG release process.
• Scaled TNG to accommodate over 150 developers and supported 3 major AMD products, through implementation of SAFe methodologies
• Supported team with multiple C++ trainings with outside vendor

• Temporary assignment to VP of Engineering IT
• Coordinated with VP’s on top initiatives
• Developed PMO structure and managed portfolio of key initiatives.

• Reported directly to Diagnostics Director or Semi-Custom Products
• Learned Diagnostics Discipline from ground up
• Program Manager for two semi-custom products
• Developed improved program management toolbox for PMs
• Led PLM initiative for Diagnostics and EMI organization which included end to end phase gates and milestones
• Led Diagnostics/EMI PMO for one year.
• Addressed and resolved technical, financial, and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.
• Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
• Met with project stakeholders on regular basis to assess progress and make adjustments.

• Program manager for first Ryzen product launches (Raven Ridge)
• Represented Validation at overarching CEC
• Revised program management structure from previous PM and instituted best practices within the system validation teams
• Co-led multiple product bring ups with Technical Lead
• Led multiple map days
• Consolidated information on design wins
• Put together customer release plans (communicated internally and externally)
• Provided monthly updates to customers on status of silicon releases
• Coordinated with engineering and leadership on issues/mitigation communications to customers
• Developed Hardware budget
• Gathered/consolidated all functional teams demand and supply of silicon and hardware for system validation.

• Developed intake process for funneling marketing requests for kickers
• Worked with end to end teams to support prioritized requests
• Reported out to Validation VP on plans and status
• Coordinated testing for kickers with global test organization

• Program Manager for first ATI/AMD notebook product
• Learned multiple disciplines across AMD engineering
• Collaborated with functional team leads to develop overall validation plans
• Led system validation core team/reported out on status, issues/mitigations.

Supply Chain Planner and Systems Validation PM for NPI products