Chris Pollock

About Chris Pollock

Professional and highly skilled manager with broad engineering and business background including successful project and program management experience. Extensive background in all aspects of product development. Comprehenssive knowledge in organizing, leading, driving, and facilitating global projects and building collaboration among globally dispersed cross functional teams. • Certified Project Manager Institute Project Manager Professional (PMP) • Successful experience in release management, integration management and on time product launch. • Detailed cost budgeting and P&L experience. • Comprehensive quality background and practices including and quality systems. • Highly motivated and creative manager with the ability to organize throughout all project phases. • Strong project management skills, including project planning, scheduling, risk management, resource management, quality management, tracking and reporting. • Intuitive problem solving and strong interpersonal communication skills. • Significant experience in managing vendors and 3rd party development. Specialties: • Expert problem solving and root cause analysis. Proactive at identifying and resolving potential issues to prevent major problems. • Leadership, team building, strategic, goal based, solutions oriented interfacing style. • Intuitive, creative, pragmatic thinker. Able to clearly work in high stress situations. • Detail oriented while maintaining the big picture. • Natural ability/tendency to leverage and streamline processes.

Experience

1. Staff Technical Project Manager

   GE HealthCare

   Jul 2016 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Manage Software development and release for Perinatal Monitoring Software with $100M annual sales. Performed Lead Product Integrator/Software Release Manager and Program Management roles in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment. • Responsible for overseeing 5 scrum teams. Work with scrum masters to develop high performance teams and monitor and escalate issues as needed. • Develop and manage release roadmap and release schedule. • Work with product management to establish release scope. Manage feature grooming to prepare for release planning. • Prepare and participate in Regulatory audits. Perform ongoing oversight to assure projects are complaint with regulatory requirements. • Lead core team and product change control board. • Develop and manage project delivery schedule. • Implemented continuous improvement of various processes: story writing, PI planning, retrospectives, test planning and monitoring, and task management. • Managed team to automate project release metrics.

Education

• The George Washington University

  Masters Cetificate

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science