Melody Kirkwagner
- Role
- Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives at Expedia Group
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Melody Kirkwagner
Driven PM with a track record of streamlining team productivity and developing high…
Experience
Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives
Apr 2013 — Present
Present: Program Manager for cross-team initiatives. Current focus on circuit and cloud cost reduction initiatives. Past: Specialize in embedding with teams to identify root cause and solutions for overwhelming support loads, driving down costs and developing visibility and effective analytics. Technology Program Manager focusing on service health, system health management processes and cloud migration using both agile and waterfall methodologies. Effective with globally diverse teams-Product owner of the support function for two sets of key services - 75% improvement of throughput; improved dev productivity and morale-Identified and drove solutions and initiatives that saved millions in lost revenue and waste-Managed two virtual teams to exceed goals while maintaining high morale- Key projects- Company-wide cloud migration - Managed cloud learning events and activities company-wide - PM team member for DevOps adoption - OKR adoption as BAU - Forecasting initiatives - Cloud optimization and spend visibility - Developed and managed support and learning strategies for teams with numerous internal clients - Member of hotel softness investigation team; later adopted as BAU
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