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RONALD HIGGINBOTHAM

RONALD HIGGINBOTHAM

Los Angeles,California

Summary

Senior Project Manager with 10+ years of software and systems delivery experience. Successful at demand forecasting and development of comprehensive plans in alignment with resources and specifications. Proficient in implementation of full project management life-cycle with focus on agile industry standards.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Consulting Project Manager

Nokia Networks
03.2022 - 05.2023
  • Contractor to Nokia North America supporting multiple high-value projects delivering new technology into T-Mobile’s network to support 4G and 5G call processing
  • Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
  • Coordinate lab testing of Nokia custom features selected for implementation in T-Mobile’s network ahead of FOA implementation
  • Manage internal and external teams to deliver hardware and services in support of strategic projects
  • Track hardware deliveries, schedule on-site integration teams, coordinate testing, and customer site handover
  • Responsible for creating presentations for project reporting to internal and external management teams.
  • Designed new projects with timelines, budgets and scope of work plans.

VP Project Manager

PennyMac
11.2020 - 03.2022
  • Managed processes for tracking project status, agile maturity, and strategic forecasts
  • Created and delivered ongoing financial reports to executives detailing portfolio spend, which was valued at over $1 billion
  • Extracted agile development statistics in Jira and EazyBI for projects across PMO
  • Used SmartSheets for data reporting, project tracking, and collaboration
  • Facilitated agile transformation process by implementing metrics to track agile “maturity”
  • Defined project management lifecycle (PMLC) policy for PMO
  • Collected and tracked project artifacts for compliance with PMLC for audit purposes
  • Supervised development and implementation of interactive training material on PMO policies
  • Managed weekly strategic initiative status collection for board-level reporting
  • Drafted presentations for quarterly business review meetings
  • Supported development of project status tracking in Clarizen

Sr. Technical Project Manager, Project/Program Governance

DIRECTV
10.2013 - 11.2020
  • Managed multiple high-value waterfall projects including NFL Sunday Ticket, NDS DRM, VOD streaming, CMS enhancements, asset management, and interactive applications
  • Scrum Master for multiple agile teams (“Godfathers” and “Ghost Riders”) in SAFe environment for Premium Satellite Program (PESAT) agile release train (ART) comprised of approximately 28 scrum teams
  • Coordinated team ceremonies (daily scrum, grooming, code reviews, retrospectives, etc.), managed and tracked dependencies, team progress, and coordinated team interactions in PI planning
  • Developed automated processes for tracking project budgets, actuals, and forecasts using MS Project Server
  • Authored and delivered regular reports to executives detailing annual portfolio spend valued over quarter billion dollars
  • Defined and documented PMO project intake process, including authoring project management playbook defining roles for all PMO project members and external teams
  • Managed intake team to transition strategic initiatives from intake to execution, and identify rollover efforts for following year’s funding
  • Tracked project/portfolio status updates with PMO managers
  • Provided weekly consolidated portfolio reporting to upper management
  • Worked with upper management to agree documentation for transitioning DirecTV’s project management processes to AT&T’s (post-acquisition)
  • Release Management: Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Release Management
  • Manged iterative delivery of on-going software releases for head end systems for DirecTV satellite and streaming services
  • Used Jira and JiraAlign to track code development, manage defects, and report on agile delivery timelines
  • Coordinated with project managers to schedule software installations into end-to-end test environment

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

Boston University
Boston

Skills

  • Reporting
  • Agile / Waterfall / Hybrid
  • Operational Efficiency
  • Resource Forecasting
  • Change Management

Certification

  • PMP, PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification #1526267
  • SAFe Practioner

Technical Skills

  • C, Java, Swift, VB, VBA
  • Linux
  • Jira, Clarizen
  • SmartSheets
  • MS Project
  • MS Office
  • SQL

Affiliations

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Project Management Institute

Languages

German
Limited Working

Timeline

Consulting Project Manager

Nokia Networks
03.2022 - 05.2023

VP Project Manager

PennyMac
11.2020 - 03.2022

Sr. Technical Project Manager, Project/Program Governance

DIRECTV
10.2013 - 11.2020

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

Stanford University

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

Boston University

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