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W H AT I O F F E RALLYSON KIRKLAND

A leader with a demonstrated track record in driving new product development, strategic planning, marketing, and commercialization of Cloud-based services. I have an eye for opportunity, adept at

leveraging untapped skills across teams while never shying away from tough decisions.

Self styled software geek, I'm constantly trying to manage my cattle with RFID GPS solutions, however unsuccessfully. But practice makes perfect (fingers crossed).

Project Management

I apply my 15+ years of experience leading technical, creative and multiplatform projects to manage all phases of each unique endeavor through knowledgeable application of associated best practices.

Product Management Program Management

Leadership

I strive to create an inspiring vision of the future for each of my

endeavors that motivates and excites people to engage at all

levels.

Knowledge Transfer

I seek to organize, create, capture and distribute knowledge I have

gained to ensure its availability for use by others so no useful

information is lost.

Lifelong Learning

I believe in the pursuit of knowledge for personal and

professional reasons to enhance my social interactions and personal

development.

LEARNING SOMETHING NEW – JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT

Lifelong Learning

I believe learning should be more than just a practical application of skills – keeping the mind agile means doing something new on a regular basis so the mind stays pliable.

Last Sunday I took a Pysanka (Ukrainian Egg Painting) class at Pioneer Farms in East Austin and created two shaky-lined eggs. Just for the fun of it.

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OPEN EDUCATION FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Lifelong Learning

Not all learning is just for personal enrichment and I regularly take courses from edX online – the last of which was using MS Excel Pivot Tables and the upcoming course on an Introduction to UX.

W O R L D T R A V E L E RALLYSON KIRKLAND

N AT I O N A L T R A V E L E RALLYSON KIRKLAND

I have lived and worked in over 20 States including Alaska, Hawaii and Guam and been fortunate to make my home in Texas for the past 15 years.

United States & Territories

[ I N T E R ] N AT I O N A L T R A V E L E RALLYSON KIRKLAND

I have traveled extensively through Britain, Ireland and Germany both for work and for leisure and spent some time learning German so my travels through there would be more productive.

Europe

[ I N T E R ] N AT I O N A L T R A V E L E RALLYSON KIRKLAND

During my stay in country, 2005-2007, I traveled extensively throughout Iraq via various routes and methods and had opportunity to work in some of the surrounding countries.

Middle East

B E N E F I T S C U LT U R A L A W A R E N E S SALLYSON KIRKLAND

Over the past 10 years I have managed geographically disperse, multilingual teams from Mexico, India, Costa Rica,

Kuwait and the UK.

Cross Cultural Team Management

P R O F E S S I O N A L H I S T O R YALLYSON KIRKLAND

T I M E L I N EALLYSON KIRKLAND

2016 -

‘11-’15

CHALLENGE: Manage multiple product lines of enterprise class software through a time of major development with limited resources and budget.

RESULTS: Grew product teams through use of contract resources to control budget and maximize overall outputs. On track to successfully complete several major product initiatives within the year.

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER

CHALLENGE: Spearhead new line of digital technology business for the home building and manufacturing industries to capture their core business and driving demand for existing products while defining new PMO processes and procedures.

RESULTS: Maintained business continuity for an ever growing client base through several seasons of change and uncertainty by establishing a strong foundation of design, robust onboarding, agile development practices and clear processes across multiple areas of the organization both domestically and internationally

PROGRAM MANAGER, PRODUCTS- INTERIM ART DIRECTOR-

‘09-’12

‘08-’12

Working with the program’s creator, developed new training materials for Agile programs and delivered training to professionals across education levels and industries for PMI Professional Development Units (PDUs) and Certification by the University. Evangelist for Agile Methodologies in software development and project management.

AGILE & INTEGRATED PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTORDIRECTOR PROGRAMS & OPERATIONS

‘07-’11

‘02-’09

CHALLENGE: Support client’s onsite technical training needs through world class instruction and instructional materials design.

RESULTS: Highly requested to provide onsite and remote training for clients across industries and knowledge levels in the US and Canada through extensive knowledge of products and ability to communicate at all levels of an organization.

SENIOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPER

Helping companies transform meetings with project management, meeting facilitation and training to help resolve the toughest business challenges at the onset or during the life-cycle of large and complex projects such as those facilitated for Microsoft, Bank of America Merchant Service and ExxonMobile.

PROJECT MANAGER- MEETING FACILITATION-

TRAINING-

CHALLENGE: Identify avenues to grow small consulting firm to media savvy organization through operational efficiencies and product development leveraging skills in Business Intelligence.

RESULTS: Increased revenue through expansion of programs with clients such as Microsoft and overall reducing waste through aggressive trimming of duplicated roles within the company as a whole and paving the way for the next step in developing a multimedia powerhouse of books, movies and apps.

‘07

‘05-’07

PROJECT MANAGER

CHALLENGE: Expand adoption of RFID Systems under the SBIR contract through increased education and marketing. Salvage $12 million Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program embedded with deployed logistics command while increasing profits and decreasing costs.

RESULTS: Succeeded in winning inclusion in US Army RFID III approved suppliers and increasing company’s reputation and visibility to US Marine Corp Command and Pentagon officials. Achieved the renewal of the SBIR contract beyond its original expiration for an additional 18 months while reducing costs and increasing employee satisfaction and living conditions in active war zone.

DEPUTY PROGRAM MANAGER- SYSTEMS ENGINEER-

OPERATIONS MANAGER-CHALLENGE: Spearhead a mission critical, complex projects with no direct influence in the organization and constrained timeline.

RESULTS: Completed the largest and most successful technical project in the companies’ separation finishing early and below budget; offered full time position with the financial branch as a result of work done.

P R O J E C T S

Managed Simultaneously

20M O N T H S

Longest individual Project managed

11PA G E S

Length of largest comprehensive Project Plan

written

363B U D G E T

Average budget managed for individual project.

500,000

P R O J E C T S O V E R V I E WALLYSON KIRKLAND

Highlights from my career as a Program Manager, Project Manager and Product Manager over the past 15 years working across hardware, software and support systems.

Lead Project Manager for over 150 website implementations with overall budgets ranging from

$10k - $100k.

C U S T O M W E B S I T E SProject Implementation

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FEATURES & SERVICE

UI/UX Designer for Enterprise Software Applications used across the Home Building Industry – from

sketch to wireframe to interactive prototype through development.

A P P L I C AT I O N D E S I G NProduct Management

STANDARD USER

PREMIUM USER

System Architect for web, mobile and integrated db systems that include hardware, software and handheld units both commercial acquired and custom built for products with annual income of

1M to 12M.

S Y S T E M A R C H I T E C T U R EProduct Management

PROGRAM, PROJECT & PRODUCT SOFTWARE

ALLYSON INGERMAN

MS Project Power User for managing projects of all size. MS Office Suite proficient.

Atlassian Jira, Confluence & Hipchat Power User.

Aha! Product Roadmap administrator & Power User including integration with Jira.

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

DEPLOYED ASSETS VISIBILITY SYSTEM

Middle East Operating Theater

Onboarded as Field Service Engineer but my assessment of the clients’ needs once on the ground required a leadership role – was promoted within weeks to Operations Manager with in-country program management responsibility.

Over the course of a year I was able to take a program that was shelfed, hardware literally being used as coffee tables and ottomans, and deploy across Iraq, train over 100 Soldiers, Airmen and Marines and begin tracking vital data for mission success.

T E S T I M O N I A L SALLYSON KIRKLAND

Allyson took an unstructured program and gave it structure and provided much needed guidance to a program. She worked under extremely difficult conditions in Iraq and provided direction to the program that she was working. She worked independently at times because of the lack of communication back to the US and provided extremely valuable on the spot decision making. When she returned to the US, she continued her solid decision making on the program. The feedback she provided was extremely valuable in enhancing

the product. Her insight on customer's requirements and being able to translate the customer's requirements into program requirements has benefitted the company in many ways. Her leadership in this process has

been extremely beneficial.I have never worked with anyone who has been more committed to getting it right and dedicated to

improving the product than Allyson.

Cal LakeVice President, Information Systems - SPEC

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