Technical Project Manager at New Classrooms
New York, New York 10001
United States
newclassrooms.org
March 2012-Present

New Classrooms is a recently launched, nonprofit organization that creates transformative innovations for K-12 education. Our founding team includes many leaders and original embers of School of One, New York City’s award-winning, personalized educational program named one of the top 50 inventions of 2009 by TIME. Recent Achievement and Project(s): • Leading the effort to introduce product and project management best practices • Successfully lead the launch of a custom CMS platform for internal users to manager contents and data required by program we run @ schools • Introduced SCRUM practice and currently leading the effort to drive daily maintenance and new product launches • Working directly with product manager to help drive complete product development life cycle effort Responsibilities • Working with key stakeholders to drive strategic requirements through product life cycle • Ensuring technical team's operations align with business needs and strategic goals • Establishing timelines, estimation, milestones, and forecasts for ongoing and new projects • Ensuring on-time, on-budget completion of various projects • Turning daily issues, bugs, and critical requests into existing work plans • Managing the accrual and repayment of “technical debt” across development efforts • Responsible for understanding and validating estimates, development plans, and feature requests against project constraints • Responsible for communication of project status to stakeholders • Coordinating task assignments for team of developers

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