Chris Urban (urbanlegend)
From Drupal.org: Open source project manager, agile enforcer, scrum master, solutions architect, digital strategist, digital marketer. Chris has worked in industries of media/entertainment, healthcare, education, consumer goods and tourism/hospitality.
From LinkedIn: Senior Manager with experience in large-scale agile/lean software development, program/project management, effective team mentoring and coaching. Balanced mixture of technology expertise, program management, digital strategy. Enthusiastic advocate for team, customer and company.
Strong business acumen: nurtured and matured teams to multi-million annual sales. Manage multiple programs with combined $10MM+ annual budget. Effective communicator and decision maker, detail-oriented, cool under pressure, disciplined leader and problem-solver in unstructured environments.
Innovation and Development Governance:
Establish processes and workflows to promote rapid development and release of software to improve customer productivity and experience.
Technical Project management:
Leverage software development experience for complex streaming data platform and infrastructure design, implementations, expansion, consulting and migrations.
Solutions management:
Create and refine plans and team allocations for estimation-to-contract close tasks for qualified opportunities with new and existing customers.
Program and Delivery management:
Promote, refine and improve appropriate agile methodology implementations for delivery teams and for customers to achieve optimal experiences.
Agile coach and JIRA administration nerd.
Team management:
Manage and lead global teams from 10 to 80 in a matrix organization with mentoring and empathetic coaching.
Consulting client expertise:
Financial, healthcare, household products, media, software, retailing, government, hospitality, tourism; multiple Fortune 100 engagements.