Michelle Carnot, PMP

Experience

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  United States Air Force

  Sept 1997 - Sept 2001

  Weather Observer

  Demonstrated strong organization skills to collect, distribute, and catalogue vital meteorological data. Earned early promotion honors for exceptional performance.

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  Pennsylvania Air National Guard

  Jan 2001 - Sept 2007

  Created print, multimedia, and video presentations for military wings. Designed and delivered meteorological presentations to large teams of military aircraft fighter pilots in order to maximize their job performance. Achieved rank of Technical Sergeant and advanced skill level for outstanding performance.

  • Graphic Artist

    Jun 2006 - Sept 2007

  • Weather Observer/Forecaster

    Jan 2001 - Jun 2006
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  Philadelphia International Airport (under various contractors)

  Jun 2003 - Mar 2016

  Certified Weather Observer

  Ensure the flight safety of 86,000 passengers daily by effectively communicating with vital government and civilian agencies within minutes during high pressure and rapidly changing weather conditions.

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  NAVTEQ (formerly traffic.com)

  Mar 2008 - Oct 2012

  Team Manager - Media Development Graphics

  Graphics management lead for 60 broadcast television customers. Led the development and implementation of the various proprietary traffic solutions, including CommuteVantage, Jamcast, and Jamcast Voice. Monitored employee performance, provided coaching and mentorship, and created performance reviews for team of 3 to 7 subordinates and reporting contractors.Key Accomplishments:• Successfully delivered on client's creative needs and timelines by effectively managing resources, project schedules, evaluating the scope, monitoring budgets and timelines and facilitating interdepartmental communications. • Saved 1200 hours of resource's time per year with a streamlined content management process. • Developed and delivered training to team on emerging technologies relevant to developing media. Show less

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  Radiate Media

  Oct 2012 - Mar 2016

  Manager of Digital Art

  Developed, tracked, and oversaw tasks and delivery dates for a range of client initiatives which included new and existing implementations and upgrades for our new broadcast television product, TruTraffic© with estimated deal values per customer ranging from $100,000 to $1,000,000 each.Key Accomplishments: • Worked closely with our 40 broadcast television clients across the country to determine design specifications for their market, resources required, and other unique features suitable to meet their needs and secure their brand.• Used a combined scrum/kanban method of story tracking to establish and track team efforts for concurrent projects in various stages of development, QA, and across releases. • Provided critical support for the agile end-to-end development of a new broadcast television traffic product, TruTraffic©. Mapped out needs and features as they related to graphics and manpower estimates, and maintained up-to-date projections of graphical feature completion. • Translated the needs of each client's brand and marketing strategy into a complete set of graphic, typography, and color elements as they would be applied into their TruTraffic product. • Built and fostered a collaborative environment between digital artists, product managers, and QA engineers. This allowed for effective and efficient communication on projects involving multiple teams and stakeholders. • Work with outside vendors to find and coordinate best-value solutions for outsourced graphics work and satellite imagery integral to client products.• Used a combined scrum/kanban method of story tracking to establish and track team efforts for concurrent projects in various stages of development, QA, and across releases. Show less

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  Liberty Fox Technologies

  Apr 2016 - Jul 2019

  Project Manager

  Responsible for managing multiple concurrent projects as well as assigning resources to each project from a shared pool. Utilize Agile development methodology and professional principles, practices, and techniques to manage project resources while controlling project planning, project schedules, and related budgets.Responsibilities: • Compile and articulate project requirements, budget estimates, timelines, and limitations into formalized proposals, SOW’s, documentation, and Change Orders. • Thoroughly understand and communicate project requirements to team members. • Establish clear ownership for project tasks and ensure team members have the tools and training needed to complete their tasks. • Coordinate and facilitate delivery of project objectives. • Track progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met appropriately. • Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer goals. • Manage expectations and proactively communicate project status, issues, and risks to both internal and external stakeholders. • Organize and lead project planning, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other alignments.• Provide one-on-one and team guidance and coaching to achieve highest possible team performance.• Work closely with Quality Assurance to review concerns, make decisions, and improve processes. Show less

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  NorthStar Solutions Group, LLC

  Jul 2019 - May 2022

  Senior Technical Project Manager

  Using principles of Agile teambuilding, coordinate defining project scope, timelines, resources, and optimal team. Partner with developers, QA, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to create Sprint plans, escalate and resolve issues, and provide timely and effective communications.Achievements: • Hand-picked to deliver to completion a priority cross-organizational program. Coordinated between multiple organizational branches, including development teams, middleware and data teams, marketing, information security, and editorial teams to capture and resolve blockers, dependencies, and risks. • Led a large and complex team of technologists, Product and Project Managers, and non-technical stakeholders through requirements definition, project planning, dependency tracking, risk management, and start of development on the a high visibility initiative. • Building upon continuous improvement, developed and implemented a highly successful and much-praised Quarterly Planning process within Stream and with their most common stakeholder teams.• Developing artifacts, goals, phases, team requirements, and relationships to support the implementation of Xumo within the Stream App. This multi-phase project requires coordination and partnership amongst multiple Comcast organizations and an external partner.Responsibilities: • Manage a large variety of customer-facing projects in support of company functional and legal requirements across multiple application platforms – including Web, iOS, Android, FireTV, Flex, Roku, and Smart TVs.• Facilitate and coach diverse application and development teams through Agile transformations and development of best practices, ceremonies, and enhanced transparency.• Compile and track project requirements, deliverables, timelines, risks, and stakeholders for software feature and product platform implementations.• Capture sources of risk and work with Stakeholders to develop risk management plans to handle and minimize risk sources. Show less

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  Comcast

  May 2022 - now

  Technical Program Manager IV

  Support cross-functional delivery of critical Portfolio programs. Facilitate creation of tooling and other solutions to uncover challenges within programs. Partner closely with Engineering teams to develop, build, and maintain processes and tooling across the program delivery organization. Works directly with teams to facilitate unified solutioning for Strategic Initiatives, Initiatives, and Feature handling tooling and systems per TPX unification strategies. Educate and train engineering, product, and program teams directly on leveraging “evergreen”, automated, and smart solutioning for management and reporting of portfolio projects. Responsibilities:· Coordinate and facilitate delivery of project objectives.· Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality, and project goals.· Manage expectations and proactively communicate project status, issues, and risks.· Manage a large variety of customer-facing projects in support of company functional and legal requirements across multiple application platforms – including Web, iOS, Android, FireTV, Flex, Roku, and Smart TVs.· Facilitate and coach diverse application and development teams through Agile transformations and development of best practices, ceremonies, and enhanced transparency.· Compile and track project requirements, deliverables, timelines, risks, and stakeholders for software feature and product platform implementations.· Capture sources of risk and work with Stakeholders to develop risk management plans to handle and minimize risk sources.· Using Jira and Confluence resources, create usable and intuitive information trackers, Sprint tools, and repositories to facilitate nimble, on-demand communications between Stakeholders.· Build a culture of openness, continuous improvement, and free-flowing communication.· Provide support and coaching through the creation of Agile artifacts, such as User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, and Retrospective documents. Show less