Mika Akutsu

About Mika Akutsu

Highly experienced PMO Leader and technical program manager, successfully hiring and building a team of high performing TPgMs to drive inter-department company wide programs and initiatives, manage complex software and app (android, iOS) development from inception to release, go to market, internationalization, localization, and post-release support. Active experience building high-performing, scalable global technical program management teams from scratch. Enjoys mentoring, guiding, discovering and training strong contributors, and partnering with stakeholders across product, engineering, special projects, and emerging technologies to build up world-class team that delivers results consistently. Handled legal audits, product partnerships in various industries, mobile security, dataset business, research, crawlers, app acquisition, feature development, release management. Able to manage tight deadlines and schedules, exercise effective diplomacy, communicate issue/status to stakeholders in a timely/clear manner. Works autonomously and collaboratively. Excited to take on new challenges and figure out plan, strategy, and solutions.Special emphasis- Launching in global markets (Asia in particular)- Enterprise and Startup experience - Creating repeatable, scalable process out of scratch based on various development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, etc) that best adapts to each situation - Honest, open communication with integrity - Strategy to scale- Reliably grow and guide TPgMs to deliver on complex, novel, company-wide strategic initiatives such as Compliance/Certification (FedRAMP, A11y), technology driven initiatives, and global strategic partnerships.

Experience

1. Sr Director, Pmo

   Cloudflare

   Oct 2023 — Present · US

   Leading a team of ace TPgMs supporting wide array of R&D portfolio programs for Product, Engineering, and Emerging Technologies, as well as company-wide priority initiatives and projects. Grown team from 0 to scale with company growth with a high average of programs per TPgM and thorough completion rate, earning high average net promoter scores from stakeholders. Established career ladders and management opportunities from scratch. Team has continuously contributed to successful delivery of outcomes, such as innovation weeks, on-time delivery on contract commits, improved reliability and security.

Education

• Keio University

  B.Env.Inf., Environmental Information

Skills

• Testing
• Virtual Teams
• Jira
• Mobile Applications
• Localization
• English
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Vendor Management
• Change Management
• Magics
• Android
• Intercultural Communication
• Mobile
• Ms Project
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Team Leadership
• Translation
• Enterprise Software
• Program Management
• Saas
• Software Engineering
• International Business
• Microsoft Office
• Process Improvement
• Agile Methodologies
• Writing
• Start-Ups
• Customer Relations
• Multilingual
• Release Management
• Outsourcing
• Project Management
• Management
• Team Building
• Software Quality Assurance
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Problem Solving
• Strategy