Rob Culbert

About Rob Culbert

Versatile leader adept at meeting project goals on-time and within budget while fostering self-organizing cross-functional team environments through Waterfall and Scrum methodologies. Demonstrates strong communication and problem-solving skills, coupled with both traditional project management and Scrum practices, driving efficiency and delivering exceptional results in dynamic, complex and ever-changing work environments.

Experience

1. Sr Project Manager, CTO Pmo

   CrowdStrike

   May 2024 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   CrowdStrike has redefined cybersecurity with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform that protects and enables the people, processes and technologies that drive modern enterprise. CrowdStrike secures the most critical areas of risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity, and data – to keep customers ahead of today’s adversaries and stop breaches.I play a key role in driving the successful execution of our business transformation initiatives, focusing on Product Launch Readiness (PLR). I lead end-to-end management of PLR initiatives within our business transformation portfolio. My strength lies in communication and coordination, facilitating effective collaboration among cross-functional teams and bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders. In this role I interface regularly with executives in group decision-making settings and 1x1.Noteworthy Individual Impacts:Balanced priorities and constraints of 2 distinct engineering verticals to align quarterly feature development goals.Consolidated Product Launch Readiness program status meetings to single weekly cross functional forum freeing > 50 cross-functional resource hours per week.Led program to implement internal AI studio tool to keep ahead of adversaries coordinating 8+ development teamsEvolved PLR process with data-driven incremental improvements based on survey feedback and interpretation of KPIs.Led development of Product Brief Document empowering SEs to give customers meaningful information about product announcements at conferences and events. This served as a forcing function compelling Product Marketing to include specific SE-driven elements as appendices to Marketing Product One-Pagers.Served as judge for annual XLR8 internal innovation competition reviewing 103 video submissions to nominate finalists in 3 categories. Completed Falcon Ignite Demonstrate, an internal second-level leadership development program.

Education

• Texas McCombs School of Business

  Master of Science (MS), Technology Commercialization

  2013 — 2014

• St. John's College

  Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Management
• Team Building
• Data Entry
• Critical Chain Project Management
• Microsoft Word
• Team Leadership
• Retail
• Event Management
• Commercialization
• Customer Service
• Social Networking
• Nonprofits
• Agile Project Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Market Research
• Editing
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Technology Commercialization
• Risk Analysis
• Project Management
• Social Media Marketing
• Microsoft Excel
• Technology Transfer
• Analysis
• Research
• Leadership
• Graphic Design
• Account Management
• Public Speaking
• Pricing
• Negotiation
• Training
• Windows
• New Business Development
• Marketing
• Budgets
• Inventory Management
• Strategic Planning
• Sales Management