Shivaun Robinson

About Shivaun Robinson

Highly experienced, communicative, and detail-oriented Technical Program Manager who hits the ground running, leverages leadership, management, technical expertise, and strategy to cross-functionally collaborate with teams and ensure a project’s success. Looking to bring a passion for technology and games to initiate programs, clear paths through roadblocks, provide escalation management, and balance business needs with technical constraints.Specialties: Engineering | OR | Software | Delivery | Management | Technical | Development | Project | Projects | Fast-paced | Leading | Product | Software Engineering | END | Team | Agile Development | Large-scale | Attention To Detail | Communication | Company | Continuous Improvement | Create | Distributed Systems | End-to-end | Improvements | Leadership | Problem-solving | Professional | Software Development | Technology | Solutions

Experience

1. Principal Technical Program Manager

   Motif

   Jan 2024 — Present

   Lead company-wide program management and delivery operations across Product, Design, and Engineering for Motif’s architectural design platform. Drive alignment, predictability, and scalable processes as the company transitions from early-stage to growth. Established a structured release management process across Dev, Stage, and Prod environments, coordinating QA validation, bug triage, and deployment readiness. Partnered with Product and Engineering to define prioritization frameworks, sprint cadences, and quarterly roadmap execution, improving delivery velocity and focus. Built cross-team structures for backlog refinement, estimation, and dependency tracking to improve transparency and reduce friction. Introduced measurable Agile practices, enabling data-driven retrospectives and stronger ownership across teams. Standardized GitLab as the single source of truth for engineering work tracking, integrated with Notion and Slack for documentation and communication. Coordinated work across frontend, backend, platform, plugins, QA, and ML teams to deliver high-quality, customer-facing releases. Partnered with executive leadership on roadmap sequencing and quarterly planning to translate strategic goals into technical execution. Championed release quality through structured QA triage, clear severity and priority standards, and continuous process improvement. Mentored PMs and engineers on delivery practices, release readiness, and collaboration to reinforce a culture of clarity and accountability.Skills: Technical Program Management · Agile Methodologies · Program Strategy · Release Management · Cross-functional Leadership · Process Design · CI/CD · GitLab · Notion · Communication · SDLC · Risk Mitigation · Stakeholder Alignment

Education

• Roosevelt University

  MBA, Arts and Not for Profit Mgmt.

  1999 — 2001

• St. Cloud State University

  BA, Theatre and Film Studies

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Android
• Manual Testing
• Gameplay
• Python
• Software Quality Assurance
• Interactive Entertainment
• Terminal
• User Experience
• Test Cases
• Jira
• Mobile Applications
• Bug Tracking
• Github
• Mmo
• Perforce
• E-Commerce
• Online Gaming
• Css
• Localization
• Javascript
• Social Games
• Regression Testing
• Online Marketing
• Console
• Html5
• Ios
• Nintendo Ds
• Multiplayer
• Gaming
• Mobile Devices
• Test Planning
• Video Games
• Facebook
• Google+
• Mobile Games
• Game Development
• Computer Games
• Confluence
• Ps3
• Testing