Cameo Wood

Past

Product Manager at Zivity
Product Manager at LiveOps
Usability Researcher at Six Apart

Technical Editor at Wiley Publishing
Consultant at Neoteny
Chief Technology Officer at Free World Dialup
Director of Operations at eDial, Inc.
Senior Network Engineering Consultant at Lucent
Senior Design Engineer at Alphanet Telecom
Research Engineer at Sprint
Director of Network Operations at IDT

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Education

Bard College at Simon's Rock
Bennington College
University of Alabama in Huntsville

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Industry

Internet

Cameo Wood’s Summary

I just try to do good work, help people, and form a sort of artistic midwifery that comes from joining things together and helping the right person at the right time do the right thing.

Short and sweet summary:

• Creative problem solving ability.
• Curiosity and knowledge about what makes things tick.
• 13 years as a program manager and engineering manager.
• Ability to lead a cross-functional project team.
• Experience gathering requirements and turning them into detailed functional specifications.

Detailed Program Management skills, knowledge, and experience:  

• 13 years of product management experience in managing multiphase, complex internet projects
• Knowledge of user experience and research methodologies and how it drives technology.  
• Experience managing a variety of solutions involving web application development, creative/user experience design and marketing strategy.
• API-level understanding of development frameworks through the entire development lifecycle from requirements definition to system deployment.  
• Experience managing multiple tracks of a project as an integrated program, with differing timelines, deliverables and expectations.   
• Experience leading and motivating a cross-functional project team within  budget and schedule constraints while meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
• Highly developed organization, communication, presentation, leadership, facilitation &  negotiation skills.
• Expert knowledge of Program Management principles, methods & techniques:
• Scope management
• Risk and issue management
• Change  management
• Team communication
• Cost management
• Project planning
• Financial budgeting, forecasting, tracking, reporting

Cameo Wood’s Specialties:

web 2.0, web standards, social media, community, project management, product management, creative development, optimisation, heuristic walkthroughs, java, soap, ajax, laughing, smiling, having fun, VoIP, security, artificial intelligence, waterfall, RUP, agile, telecommunications, SIP, bioinformatics, cognitive science, user-centered design, artistic midwifery

Cameo Wood’s Experience

Product Manager

Zivity

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)

• Managed and delivered large projects (10+ members) on-time and managed multiple smaller projects simultaneously 
• Actively provided strategic insight and direction into developing innovative  solutions for our customers as well as tactically managing the day to day project operations and communications.  
• Independently and actively managed all aspects of the project: scope, schedule, quality, communication, and team relationships on a daily basis.
• Provided thought leadership and participated in initiatives to build and contribute to ongoing improvement practices and knowledge sharing. 
• Responsible for the project administration such as ongoing  project financials analysis, time approval, internal weekly status  reports, project customer conversion.
• Administered and designed usability tests, and taught others to design and conduct them as well.
• Worked closely with the CTO and engineering staff before every release, and acted as final approver on all releases.
Product Manager

LiveOps

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 5 months)

• Provide motivation and direction to ensure that project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved in a timely manner.
• Worked on social network and community for large agent community
• Product and project managed the creation of a golden master reference stack and the development and implementation of our code release and rollback system
• Lead and drive project status meetings.
• Develop and review complex technical project plans.
• Regular reporting of capacity and project status to upper management.
• Work with department leads to determine resources necessary to see projects through to completion
• Contribute to a positive work environment - Lead the creation of quarterly and yearly award programs, new hire orientation, and other community wellness activities
• Define scope and solutions to complicated and ambiguous operational problems
Usability Researcher

Six Apart

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

June 2006 — October 2006 (5 months)

• Designed and conducted usability tests for all Six Apart products: Movable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal.
• Wrote scripts, screeners, questionnaires, and final usability reports.
Technical Editor

Wiley Publishing

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; JWa; Research industry)

April 2006 — September 2006 (6 months)

Reviewed and made technical edits to "BitTorrent for Dummies".
Consultant

Neoteny

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

December 2002 — February 2003 (3 months)

I researched and presented Japanese VoIP solutions for a free VoIP network for the Nagano Prefecture. In another project,I developed recommendations and wrote a proposal publication to the government of Japan on Biometrics, evoting, and PKI systems.
Chief Technology Officer

Free World Dialup

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

February 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 1 month)

• Designed and managed SIPop!, a general availability interoperability event with full marketing and technical support.
• Managed technical relationships with hardware vendors and software integrators.
• Built technical relationships amongst integration partners, representing Pulver.com/Free World Dialup, Inc. from a technical perspective.
Director of Operations

eDial, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

November 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 4 months)

• Managed the design of a network capable of supporting five million users with a 99.99% uptime.
• Evaluated and made budgetary recommendations to ensure continued profitability.
• Negotiated contracts to obtain all assets needed to acquire capital purchases.
• Worked with contractors and engineers to design HVAC and power for our facilities and datacenter.
Senior Network Engineering Consultant

Lucent

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

February 1999 — November 1999 (10 months)

• Deployed DWDM equipment and configured NSAP, IP and network configurations for Qwest's Fibre Repeater Sites
• Researched and Developed a VoIP network design for GTE Laboratories
• Performed research and development with Cisco, Nortel, and Telcordia on VoIP solutions as an alternative to H.323, i.e. MGCP, SIP, GLP
• Engineered a beta network using Cisco VoIP SS7 equipment for CTC Inc
• Researched and developed VoIP SS7 solutions for CTC Inc
Senior Design Engineer

Alphanet Telecom

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ZNCM; Telecommunications industry)

January 1997 — January 1998 (1 year 1 month)

• Directed a team of two in developing a VoIP Class 5 switch
• Responsible for SS7 ITU-T and ANSI conformance testing
• Redesigned network strategy with senior management for sustainability
Research Engineer

Sprint

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FON; Telecommunications industry)

January 1997 — January 1998 (1 year 1 month)

• Designed and implemented Sprint's Distributed Sniffer System
• Worked with CAIDA, Cisco, UMICH and UUNet on new network security and network monitoring tools
• Designed network diagnostics for Sprint's entire IP Services Division
Director of Network Operations

IDT

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IDT; Telecommunications industry)

November 1995 — January 1997 (1 year 3 months)

• Responsible for all aspects of operations and data engineering
• Reported directly to the CTO as director of 22 personnel
• Negotiated partnerships with tier 1 carriers for IP connectivity
• Developed ticketing and network management tools
• Constructed a national DS3 backbone using Nortel Passport Switches and Cisco routers

Additional Information

Cameo Wood’s Interests:

Dressage, cinema, travel, beekeeping, falconry, steampunk, Zeppelins, clockwork, wine, third spaces, inspiring art, undersea exploration, freedom, pirates