Carl Pregozen

About Carl Pregozen

25 years in both IT and application-side development with responsibility and influence ranging from individual contributor to CTO/CIO in industries including government, defense, space, automotive, finance, education, healthcare, software, and consulting Solid information security and security architecture experience, including participation in developing corporate security policies, standards, and procedures and designing and implementing identity, federation, and access management solutions for millions of users 7 years in Enterprise Architecture; 15 years in Software Development; 7 years in Systems Engineering & IT Consulting 9 years learning and leveraging Toyota’s renowned Kaizen (continuous improvement) culture and Toyota Business Practice Methodology 4 years building and owning my own company, providing agile methodology consulting and requirements development software and consulting for Global clients including Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, McKesson, Wells Fargo, BMW, and the State of California Expertise in disciplines of Requirements Development & Management, Source Code Control, Software Configuration Management, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (early DevOps), Service Oriented and API Architectures, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and platform strategy Expertise in organizational change management and implementing various agile software development methodologies and frameworks, including Extreme Programming, Feature Driven Development, and Scrum Consistently early and successful in implementing and leveraging methods and technologies that become mainstream: e.g, web services in agile methodologies in 2002, DevOps in 2004

Experience

1. Sr Manager, Technical Program Management

   Amazon

   Aug 2024 — Present

   I lead a team that creates international product access in a localized shopping experience for Amazon customers globally.

Education

• Bryn Mawr College

  Clinical Psychology

• UC San Diego

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Psychology

  1984 — 1987

• UCLA

  Physiology

• Northwestern University

  Computer Science

Skills

• Saas
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Analysis
• Java
• Governance
• Business Process Improvement
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• IT Strategy
• IT Service Management
• Business Intelligence
• Architecture
• IT Management
• Program Management
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Itil
• Strategy
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Unix
• Business Process
• Web Services
• Consulting
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Data Warehousing
• Professional Services
• Testing
• Soa
• Databases
• Architectures
• Process Improvement
• Oracle