Leigh Woody

About Leigh Woody

I am a Technical Program Manager (TPM Manager) and Certified Scrum Master with 10+ years of experience leading distributed engineering teams across healthcare, emergency response, and cloud environments. My career has centered on enabling high-performing teams, driving Agile transformation, and delivering secure, scalable software in always-evolving, regulated industries.At ESO, I advanced from Scrum Master to DevOps Manager to TPM leadership, coaching teams to Agile maturity, implementing metrics-driven delivery planning (cycle time, throughput, capacity forecasting), and ensuring compliance with HIPAA, PCI, and PII standards. I bring deep expertise in execution, delivery planning, and stakeholder alignment, with a proven record of building Agile maturity across teams in the U.S, Canada, and Europe.Beyond technology, I am also a professional chainsaw carver, creating large scale sculptures for public spaces, festivals, and commissions. This work has sharpened my creativity, adaptability, and ability to bring big visions to life. These are qualities I bring into program management when guiding complex initiatives from concept to delivery.Key strengths include: • Business intelligence & performance analytics: Jira Advanced Roadmaps, Flow, and custom dashboards to track cycle time, throughput, release forecasting, and capacity planning. • Agile & program leadership: Certified Scrum Master (CSM, SAFe), with program-level experience equivalent to PMP standards. Skilled in scaling Agile across distributed teams and managing large, complex applications. • Resource planning & forecasting: Experienced in capacity modeling, release roadmaps, and cross-team alignment to balance strategic initiatives with delivery capacity.What drives me is building resilient, collaborative teams that solve complex problems and continuously improve. Whether guiding a distributed engineering program or carving a sculpture from wood, I thrive at the intersection of creativity, process, and execution

Experience

1. Manager of Technical Program Management

   ESO

   Aug 2025 — Present · Bellingham, WA, US

   AI-Driven Applications, Enterprise Planning & Portfolio Leadership • Lead enterprise-wide quarterly planning and directly own Fire & EMS portfolios, aligning strategy, capacity, and execution across teams • Serve as Jira Site Administrator and Jellyfish Administrator, managing tooling, workflows, and data structures that support planning, delivery tracking, and engineering insights • Built an AI-assisted portfolio management dashboard (web app) tracking 100+ initiative-level status signals, enabling leadership to quickly assess program health, risks, and progress • Designed the application to centralize updates, reduce manual reporting, and provide real-time visibility across multiple teams and workstreams • Developed a lightweight capacity planning tool (HTML-based) to model quarterly delivery based on resource allocation, team capacity, and initiative prioritization • Enabled scenario planning by visualizing tradeoffs between scope, timelines, and available engineering resources • Leveraged AI-assisted development workflows using Claude and Magic Patterns to rapidly design, prototype, and iterate on both tools • Accelerated development cycles by combining prompt engineering, rapid prototyping, and iterative refinement to move from concept → functional tools quickly

Education

• Shoreline Community College

  Environmental Technology (A.A.A.S Degree)

• Bellevue College

  Associate of Arts and Science Degree

• University of Washington

  Electronic Information and Records Management (Certified)

Skills

• Pre-Sales
• Document Imaging
• Integration
• Document Management
• Enterprise Content Management
• Kofax
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Records Management
• Oracle Ipm
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Content Management
• Sharepoint
• Business Process
• Software Documentation
• Requirements Analysis
• Access
• Solution Selling
• Business Analysis
• Program Management
• Process Improvement
• Direct Sales
• Software Development
• Web Content Management
• Enterprise Software