Agile Coach and Program Manager at Ascentium
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- Project Manager at Ascentium
- Past
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- Program Manager at Microsoft
- Senior Program Manager at Webforia
- Senior Project Manager at Homegrocer.com
- Quality Assurance Manager at Internet Development Group
- Software Tester at GTE Entertainment
- Education
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- San Diego State University-California State University
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Mitch Lacey’s Summary
Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner (effectively titled Technical Project Manager) with Ascentium Corporation in Bellevue, WA. Mitch has 10+ years of project management experience and has managed numerous plan driven and Agile projects over his career. Mitch honed his Agile skills while at Microsoft Corporation where he successfully released large backend core services for Windows Live. From this, he transitioned roles from Program Manager to Agile Coach, where he worked hand in hand with other groups throughout their transition to Agile practices. Mitch continues to practice and refine his craft by running projects for internal and external customers. He is a registered Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST).
Mitch Lacey’s Experience
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Project Manager
Ascentium
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
• Deliver corporate education on program management and software development best practices based on methods
• Build custom software solutions for Fortune 500 clients
• Drive corporate business improvement to improve overall capacity of development and delivery organization -
Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
2001 — 2006 (5 years)
• Pioneered best practices using agile software development practices through a pilot project, resulting in shorter development time, higher quality and lower overall development costs
• Evangelized and showcased the benefits of agile software development across the company
• Built a collaborative team environment through adoption of agile development practices
• Pioneered analysis of subscriber usage behavior, detailed performance data and pricing models, to create a patented “POP-timization” system, which dramatically reduces cost by optimizing the assignment of subscribers to POPs.
• Fostered and nurtured complex cross-group relationships to ensure the successful delivery of team projects.
• Consistently delivered high impact presentations with complex subject matter, which were very well received at the highest levels of management. This resulted in getting the approvals and support we needed. -
Senior Program Manager
Webforia
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
• Innovative program development of “Clickbar Communicator” software package
• Enlisted customer collaboration to produce custom software applications for customers, resulting in improved customer satisfaction.
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Senior Project Manager
Homegrocer.com
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HOMG; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
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Quality Assurance Manager
Internet Development Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
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Software Tester
GTE Entertainment
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
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Mitch Lacey’s Groups:
PMI, Agile Alliance, Dale Carnegie, Scrum Alliance, World Cup 1994
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