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Resume Headline: Sherman Wong - Vice President

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Sherman Wong

302 Tustin Field Dr.

Tustin, CA 92782

Phone: (949) 981-5248

E-mail: shermanwong@gmail.com

Twitter : @shermanwong

LinkedIn :www.linkedin.com/in/shermanwong
 

 

Summary of Qualifications

§    A positive leader in trending technologies in large companies with an entrepreneurial mindset of an emerging small startup company.

§    Managed, mentored, and coached a department of multi-disciplined software engineers and designers in the story definition, development, implementation, and support of web applications.

§    Managed the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities including creative ability to do mock-ups and communicate key benefits to customers, stakeholders, and marketing.

§    A liaison between executive teams and engineers to report dashboard status of projects, facilitate decisions, and manage expectations between stakeholders. 

§    12+ years of Product Management and Project Management experience to deliver compelling products and services to businesses and consumers.

§    Keeping up with the latest web trend technologies (Social Media, Mobile Apps, Big Data, Data Science, Google BigQuery, Hadoop, Single Page Applications, ElasticSearch) and assessing how they fit into the company brand.

§    Extensive knowledge in data management, data hygiene processing, SalesForce.com, job search engines, email sending (Amazon SES and SendGrid), social media, enterprise content management, and online learning.

§    Hands-on knowledge of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), SDLC, SCRUM, and agile development methods to track project progress and ability to identify opportunities to compress project tasks.

 

Professional Experience

Restoration Media (www.restorationmedia.com), Tustin, CA

Vice President, Product Development May 2013 – Aug 2014

§    Led, expanded, and mentored the Product Development department that consisted of designers, software engineers, and managers.

§    Built a high performance team by aligning team members’ career goals with opportunities on projects to set them up to succeed.

§    Collaborate with executive management to broadcast company vision, initiatives, and product roadmaps to align how the department team is part of it.

§    Led the initiative of Big Data site metrics reporting by introducing Google BigQuery to help transform a group of aggregated MySQL databases to a centralized managed high performance data warehouse.

§    Led the cost down initiative of migrating out of an ISP to hybrid elastic cloud infrastructure using AWS, Google Cloud Computing, and Linode.

§  Forecasted to cut costs nearly half of $200,000/month in infrastructure and services costs.

§    Managed a network of career sites that each averaged 1.7 million unique visitors per month.  Company averaged a monthly send volume of 200 million emails a month.

§    Worked closely with the SVP of Operations to effectively derive requirements, user stories, resolve issues, and ensure the successful delivery of reliable products on schedule and on budget.

§    Centralized bug reports, user stories, and product backlogs of products by implementing Jira company-wide to increase department transparency and involve all necessary stakeholders.

§  The company adoption of Jira helped uphold Scrum methodology outside of the department.

§    Implemented a Product Owner culture of Product Vision Boards, Product Canvas Boards, and Business Model Canvas Boards to establish a solid product foundation for new initiatives.

§    Introduced new technologies and services such as backbone.js, node.js, MaxCDN, SendGrid, AWS, DynamoDB, Google BigQuery, and MongoDB into company to handle large traffic sites.

§    Led the consolidation of code and documentation into BitBucket (Git) repositories and a wiki platform to decouple dependencies of company tribal knowledge with developers and lower risks of issues for maintenance.


 

Yamaha Corporation of America (www.yamaha.com), Buena Park, CA

Software Engineering Manager April 2008 – March 2013

§    Managed and coached teams in Japan and in-house resources, and vendors to implement a global enterprise CMS to reduce operating costs of having multiple CMS’s in different Yamaha subsidiaries.

§  Enterprise CMS built upon a LAMP stack with multiple data services integrated such as FAQs, Dealer Locator, Product Data, and SalesForce.com (SFDC) with Service Cloud 2 for customer support.

§  Team members were mentored along with establishing career goals and performance evaluations annually (revisited on a quarterly basis).

§  All projects were managed with Agile methodology.

§    Implemented a global instance SalesForce.com to centralize and route customer service issues to the correct subsidiary.  Created custom apps on Force.com platform using Apex code and VisualForce.

§    Synchronized Product Registration data and Product FAQ data to help Customer Support service customer cases more efficiently in SalesForce.com.

§  Customer inquiries through the multiple Yamaha sites and social channels such as Facebook fan pages and Twitter were streamlined into Cases.

§    Implemented a standardized micro site platform for all Yamaha subsidiaries to be able to create, deploy, and manage micro sites at a lower cost of ownership.

§    ETL: Consolidated and transformed multiple customer databases into a global database instance that can be accessed by multiple subsidiaries through a standardize web service API.

§  Social Sign-On implemented to allow customers to login with Facebook Connect, Google, and Twitter.
This increased customer logins and signup rates by 20% on the first month of deployment.

§    Standardized software deployment with TeamSite and version control methodology with minimal resources and open-source software packages.

§    Implemented a standardized email-marketing platform with Manticore Technologies that allow subsidiaries to send newsletters with goals and conversions identified then tracked with an Analytics tool (RT Metrics).

 

Panasonic Avionics Corporation (www.panasonic.aero), Lake Forest, CA

Product Manager - Applications and Services April 2006 – April 2008

§    Full Product life cycle management of in-flight applications in eCommerce PCI compliancy over SATCOM, SDK for third party development, Crew-side Apps, Mobile Office, Duty-Free Shopping App, and Food Ordering Apps that were installed on In-Flight Entertainment Systems on Airbus A380s (QANTAS, Emirates, Singapore Airlines)

§  Applications built upon a LAMP stack in aircraft environment similar to an intranet (servers that stream content/media to a client running a browser on passenger side)

§  Applications were developed with Agile and Scrum methodology.

§    Strategically source new multi-region third party vendors, create SOWs, and manage new application developments.

§    Develop long-term business strategy for products and set up product goals (revenue, amortization, operation budgets / resources, and forecasting).

§    Lead cross-functional teams to adjust product activities and respond appropriately to ensure product continues to meet its objectives.

§    Champion of the customer.  Research customer needs, the market, and the competition to determine product fit within overall strategic focus of the company.

§    Translate customer needs into clear and attainable product requirements.  Responsible for the Product Requirements Documents (PRD) and traceability of Application Requirements Documents (ARD) inputted into Telelogic DOORS. 

§    Provide the ongoing definition and refinement of the product strategy roadmap, to meet both short term and long-range goals, for the duration of the product’s market viability.
 

Learning Network (www.learning.net), Laguna Beach, CA

Technical Project Manager February 2001 – April 2006

§    Managed a team of 5-10 programmers, instructional designers, and SMEs to create e-Learning courses for multiple clients from industries ranging from Tax Accounting firms (Deloitte, KPMG), Mortgage Banking, Motorcycle Dealer Training, HIPAA, Real Estate CE, Corporate Ethics, Enterprise Software CBTs, etc.

§    Mentored and coached direct reports of back and front-end developers to establish career goals and measure performance.

§    System architected the new LCMS (Learning Content Management System) for the Learning Network.

§  LCMS built upon a LAMP stack in PHP

§    Product managed the company LCMS as the main company product and project managed custom courseware development.

§    System integrations with clients’ and vendors’ enterprise LCMS platforms via e-Learning Industry Standards (AICC, SCORM) as well as custom server communications and BizTalk.

§    Managed up to six ongoing projects with different clients and overlapping schedules.

§    Ability to see all the project tasks for different clients in queue and align reusable code objects to accelerate schedules.
 

Web Developer November 2000 – February 2001

§    Mimicked client company look and feel structure for each course.

§    Developed Flash, PHP, Perl e-Learning web and CD-ROM based interactive applications.

§    Maintained company Linux and NT based servers and databases.
 

Corporate Solutions Group, Laguna, CA

Web Developer April 2000 – September 2000

§    Involved with meeting clients to design front-end web interfaces with flash and other Adobe products.

§    Maintain and update existing client web sites.

 

Skills and Knowledge

Product/Project Management: Jira Agile, Microsoft Project, All aspects of SDLC, SQA, Visio, UML,
Telelogic DOORS, RUP, Agile Development, Scrum, SVN, GIT, MVC
Programming Languages: PHP, SQL, Perl, C++, HTML5, CSS3, XML, JavaScript (AJAX), VisualForce, Force.com, APEX
Applications and IDE: Adobe Captivate, Adobe Photoshop CC, Microsoft Office, Articulate, Coda, Eclipse IDE, TeamSite OpenDeploy, Talend ETL
Platforms, ERP, and Middleware: Red Hat Linux Ent, CentOS, Apache, Windows 7, Mac OSX, Nginx, AWS (EC2, S3)

Databases / Storage: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Google BigQuery
Web Applications and Services: SalesForce.com (Service Cloud 2, Enterprise, Chatter, Platform), RT Metrics, Google Analytics, Manticore, Vertical Response, Mantis, CloudForge, Atlassian Jira, SendGrid, MaxCDN

Popular CMS / eCommerce: Magento, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla

Frameworks and Libraries: Zend, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Backbone.js, ElasticSearch

 

Education

University of California Irvine, Irvine CA

Bachelor of Arts, June 2001

§    Studio Arts, Information and Computer Science, Digital Arts Minor
 

Training

PM Alliance, Irvine CA

§    Project Management (36 PDU Credits) – May 2006

Learning Tree University, Irvine CA

§    Managing Project Teams (15 PDU Credits) – December 2003

§    Principle of Project Management (25 PDU Credits) – December 2003


Affiliations

Chair of Professional Development for NAAAP – SoCal (www.naaapsocal.org) 2013-2014
Project Management Institute OC Member (www.pmi.org) 12/2003 – 1/2007

Director of Information Systems for Asian Professional Exchange (www.apex.org)11/2004

 

Sherman Wong

shermanwong@gmail.com

 



Experience

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Vice President of Product Development

Restoration Media

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)

Date of Availability:

Immediately

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

None

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Vice President

Desired Job Type:

Employee

Desired Status:

Full-Time

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Industry:

Internet Services
Computer/IT Services

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-CA-Los Angeles
US-CA-Orange County

Relocate:

Yes

Willingness to travel:

Up to 25% travel

 

Languages:

Languages

Proficiency Level

English

Fluent