Julia Carpenter, CSM, PMP, Toastmaster, Doctoral Student

Experience

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  SAS

  Oct 1996 - now

  As a Senior R&D Project Manager, I lead projects by defining goals, managing resources, and ensuring effective communication. I use Agile methodologies to accelerate delivery, mitigate risks, and coordinate cross-functional teams domestically and internationally. My focus on optimizing outcomes makes me a valuable asset in project execution.* Collaboratively define project scope and goals, plan, prioritize, implement, and adjust delivery schedules, scope, resources, and quality based on individual project needs, demonstrating adaptability and problem-solving skills. Negotiate and coordinate domestic and international technical resources, ensuring alignment with project demands.* Coordinate, communicate, and facilitate activities among team members and stakeholders to keep projects on track, manage conflicts, and mitigate risks, escalating issues as necessary.* Leverage methodologies, processes, project tools, and best practices to accelerate and optimize project delivery, ensuring the audience knows your secure approach. * Manage multiple simultaneous projects, proactively identifying milestone risks, resource dependencies, and gaps to reassure the audience about your foresight. Identify project dependencies and collaborate with cross-functional teams, acting as the central point of contact with stakeholders across departments, including Product Management, Testing, Documentation, and Sales.* Review and follow up on issues or risks through regular updates, reports, and scheduled interactions.* Conduct regular project status calls to ensure work progresses as planned, with risks identified and mitigated.* Offer strategic and tactical guidance to management on project portfolio management, ensuring the optimal delivery of solutions and instilling confidence in your leadership. Maintain accurate and timely updates on project status, dates, risk logs, and reporting. Show less My experience is in supporting individual solutions through the Release Engineering process and supporting developers in providing the tools for these solutions. I manage small and larger projects that impact divisions across R&D or other parts of our company. Part of the virtual team promoting Agile processes and tools within our company. I am an Administrator for our Atlassian Jira and Confluence Instances serving our R&D Community. I have extensive user experience with Atlassian products: Jira and Confluence. Experienced user: MS Teams, Zoom, and Skype.Manages the development and implementation process of the company’s R&D products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams from inception through delivery of new or existing products.* Develops a detailed project plan to monitor and track project progress.* Leads and/- or coordinates project planning, resourcing, staffing, supply and subcontract management, progress reporting, troubleshooting, and people management.* Communicates and tracks regularly on the status of project goals by ensuring project results meet requirements regarding quality, reliability, schedule, and cost.* Monitors performance and recommends schedule changes, cost adjustments and resource additions.* Provides direction and support to project team to ensure accomplishment of agreed upon goals, objectives, and deadlines.* Coordinates project staff while managing resource availability and allocation.* Reports on progress of project to all stakeholders by presenting reports defining project progress, problems and solutions. Show less * Ensure product development goals, milestones, budgets, and timelines are met and accurately executed according to the development plans. * Product coordinators create, manage, and execute the lifecycle plan for a product’s development and launch. * Collaborating with different teams, from manufacturing to marketing, to ensure timely and accurate development for product launches. * Track project timeline progress and quality assurance while ensuring sufficient resources and employees are in place to support the plan. Show less Worked in former Computer Games Division: SouthPeak Interactive. Oversaw scheduing, logisitics, manufacturiing, accounts payable, accounts receivable and distribution of computer games worldwide. I have experience in working with Commercial Printers, Media Replicators, US/Global Manufacturing, Global Distribution, Retail support, and managing vendors.I handled shipping computer games on global scale. Coordinating air freight/customs for games out of Japan and Europe. Tracking order delivery to global retail customers to ensure meeting contractual deadlines. Show less Worked in former Computer Games Division: SouthPeak Interactive. Oversaw scheduing, logisitics, manufacturiing, accounts payable, accounts receivable and distribution of computer games worldwide. I have experience in working with Printers, Media Replicators, US/Global Manufacturing, Global Distribution, Retail support, and managing vendors.1st product release involved approx 35,000 units of multiple titles, on-site at warehouse to oversee packing/shipping store displays with different configurations while handling distribution changes. Show less

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