Jason Sacks

About Jason Sacks

I\'m an experienced and technically-proficient leader. I\'ve guided large cross-functional…

Experience

1. Lean & Agile Practice Manager

   Unify Consulting

   May 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   At Unify Consulting I\'ve had the opportunity to provide consulting to several different companies in similar roles.Engagement #4:• Served as Program level Scrum Master for a blue sky internal software project aimed to save upwards of $24 million dollars in top line revenue.• Drove smart, just-in-time efficiencies around team management, releases and collaboration, quickly building an atmosphere of efficiency and trust.• Initiated bespoke centralized processes to track status on team & program levels, keep technical issues unblocked across the entire project, and coordinate release planning across multiple teams.• Directly managed flow of work from DevOps team, dramatically improved throughput of DevOps deliverables.Engagement #3:• Served as Program level Scrum Master for four large, multifaced enterprise projects which involved dozens of different teams. • Prompted delivery of value through collaboration and innovation, including dashboarding, collaboration and instrumentation.Engagement #2:• Led a globally diverse Scrum team managing data intensive Privacy compliance mandated by statute. • Improved team velocity by limiting time they spent in unnecessary meetings, keeping the team focused on delivering its highest-value work first.• Guided team to implement a sustainable delivery cadence while improving delivery time and decreasing bugs.Engagement #1:• Led three disparate international teams in delivery of complex projects which drove over a billion dollars of corporate revenue.• Drove the adoption of a bug intake, management and resolution process. Under my leadership, we improved time required for Feature completion by 60%.• Managed creation of a series of internal training sessions to transfer knowledge across teams and across domains. Results: increased employee satisfaction, dramatic decrease in number of escaped bugs, and shortened new employee onboarding time.

Education

• Lewis & Clark College

  Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

  1985 — 1990

• St. John's College

  N/A, Liberal Arts

  1984 — 1986

Skills

• Program Management
• Cloud Computing
• Blogging
• Web Content Management
• Release Management
• Cms
• Quality Assurance
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Publishing
• Digital Media
• Content Strategy
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Editorial
• Social Networking
• Agile Methodologies
• New Media
• Team Building
• Management
• Content Development
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Copy Editing
• Web Content
• Technical Writing
• Leadership
• Creative Direction
• Copywriting
• Editing
• Creative Writing
• SEO
• Proofreading
• Project Management
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Content Management
• Mobile Devices
• Storytelling
• Software Documentation