Technical Project Manager at Blist
Greater Seattle Area
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- Technical Program Manager at blist
- Past
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- Technical Project & Product Manager at Amazon.com
- Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com
- Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University
- Software Developer at University of Michigan
- Software Development Intern at International Business Machines
- Software Development Co-Op at International Business Machines (IBM)
- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Michigan
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Chris Metcalf’s Summary
Technical Project & Product Manager with knowledge and experience in the areas of software design, architecture, analysis, project management, requirements analysis, usability, software lifecycle management, and SCRUM.
Chris Metcalf’s Specialties:
Java, Perl, C/C++, Ruby, Relational Databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL), Unix/Linux
Software Development Lifecycles, Software Process Management, Requirements Management, Configuration Management, Software Architecture & Design, Analysis, Usability, SCRUM
Chris Metcalf’s Experience
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Technical Program Manager
blist
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
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Technical Project & Product Manager
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Computer Software industry)
July 2007 — May 2008 (11 months)
• Managed multiple cross-team projects from conception to completion, from requirements analysis through architecture, development, and deployment.
• Served as SCRUM master and managed multiple successful sprints
• Provided design and architecture advice and feedback for my software engineers
• Developed many scripts and tools to make my management tasks easier.
• Built and maintained metrics gathering systems that created financial reports distributed through the SVP level.
• Created long-range project plans and scoping, including the generation of project ideas, resource scoping, and models for financial and business impact. -
Software Development Engineer
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZ; Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — July 2007 (1 year 10 months)
• Acted as interim team lead for several months, managing a team of 6 software engineers while also handling my own development responsibilities
• Lead the development of several large software projects, including a highly fault tolerant system for delivering reliable notifications.
• Developed numerous other smaller systems for metrics gathering, data analysis, and other tasks
• Aided in data mining projects for six sigma analysis
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Graduate Student
Carnegie Mellon University
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Coursework:
• Requirement analysis
• Management of software development
• Software lifecycle processes
• Commercial off-the-shelf software systems
• Models of software systems
• Team building and communications
As my final practicum project, I lead the development of an Internet Explorer plugin for an Internet security firm located in Israel. The plugin was designed to detect and block potential phishing attempts by performing heuristic analysis of a pages content and images.
I was also a member of the Red Team, Carnegie Mellon's entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, a $2 million competition for the fastest robot to complete a rugged desert race without human intervention. I performed software engineering tasks for our machine's long-range LADAR gimbal mount as well as serving as unofficial team photographer. "Sandstorm" and "H1ghlander", our two entries, finished second and third place, respectively. -
Software Developer
University of Michigan
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
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Software Development Intern
International Business Machines
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)
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Software Development Co-Op
International Business Machines (IBM)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
May 2003 — December 2003 (8 months)
Chris Metcalf’s Education
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Carnegie Mellon University
MSIT-SE , Software Engineering , 2004 — 2005
Graduated in 12 months with a 4.0 GPA.
Coursework:
• Requirement analysis
• Management of software development
• Software lifecycle processes
• Models of software systems
As my final practicum project, I lead the development of an Internet Explorer plugin for a security firm located in Israel. The plugin was designed to detect and block potential phishing attempts by performing heuristic analysis of a pages content and images.
As a member of the Red Team, CMU's entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, a $2 million competition for the fastest robot to complete a rugged desert race without human intervention. I performed software engineering tasks for our machine's LADAR gimbal mount as well as serving as unofficial team photographer. "Sandstorm" and "H1ghlander", our two entries, finished second and third place.
Published "Model Problems in Technologies for Interoperability: OWL Web Ontology Language for Services": http://is.gd/efSu- Activities and Societies:
- Carnegie Mellon's "Red Team" entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge Race
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University of Michigan
BSE , Computer Science Engineering , 2000 — 2004
Awards:
• Magna Cum Laude graduate, 3.65 GPA
• James B. Angell Scholar, Deans List, University Honors
Coursework:
• Natural language generation
• Artificial intelligence
• Operating systems
• Database management systems
• Patent law
• Linguistic analysis- Activities and Societies:
- Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, Michigan Sailing Team, Michigan Human Powered Submarine Team
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