Corbin Grimes
Team Leader | Sr. Program & Project Manager | Strategy & Planning | Delivery | Portfolio Management | Operations | Agile Transformation | Process Improvement
Castle Rock, Colorado
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Summary
Project oriented, passionate, business leader with over 20 years of management experience ranging from small business to fortune 80 size companies.
Bridging business & technology - Big picture, strategic thinker and creative problem solver who offers a diverse array of core competencies and employs a people centric, highly organized and systematic approach to achieving business goals.
Core competencies include:
• Project management & delivery
• Planning & strategy
• Project portfolio management
• Process engineering/improvement
• Relationship management
• Business operations
• Team leadership
• Agile transformation
Experience
2015
Feb
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2020
Jan
Director, Software Strategy & Planning
Charter Communications / Englewood, CO
Charter Communications (Spectrum) is a fortune 80 company and the 2nd largest cable/internet provider in the United States with over 100,000 employees and 30M customers.
Project/Program Portfolio Management & Delivery
• Led the Software Engineering organization’s program and project portfolio management team overseeing over 300+ technology and Product projects at a given time (wireless, web, apps, mobile, etc.) (PMO)
• Developed Charter’s first cross Product and Technology program and project portfolio increasing transparency and alignment between the Product, IT, Advanced Engineering and Software Engineering Organizations
• Provided thought leadership and guidance to teams on the SDLC as well as Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall and SAFE methodologies, systems thinking and other best practices.
• Consistent “go to” for Executive special projects where timeliness, cross departmental partnership, creative problem solving, and/or negotiation was required
• Supported massive corporate acquisition by successfully merging 3 companies project portfolios into a single JIRA source of truth relied on by over 700 people and dozens of Executives in the organization
Planning & Strategy
• Aligned Directors on short and long-term business unit priorities using roadmaps, tools and dashboards
Process Engineering & Improvement
• Increased organizational effectiveness, decreased costs, and reduced time to market through inter departmental collaboration, process engineering, implementation, and trainings
Reporting & Analytics
• Implemented and managed the Software Engineering organizations overall executive reporting (metrics, KPIs, OKRs) on all major strategic programs and projects, organizational risks, trends and performance
Cross Functional Team Leadership
• Reputable cross functional partner, relationships manager, change agent
• Owned vendor relations with over 50 company partners
Budget & Finance
• Led Financial Planning and Analysis team responsible for 100M+ capex budget in partnership with executive leadership
2014
Jan
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2015
Feb
Manager, Product Delivery
Charter Communications / Englewood
Project Management & Delivery
- Accountable for program delivery and launch readiness for company’s 30M customer website portal www.charter.net. (now www.spectrum.com)
- Responsible for defining and implementing subsequent software release process and deployments
- Established first repeatable, cross functional and corporate wide product launch process
- Key leader and founding member of Charter’s Agile transformation team
Process Engineering & Improvement
Cross Functional Team Leadership
- Managed partnerships across 16 cross functional technical and business units for the managed user acceptance testing and project launch team
2008
Jan
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2013
Dec
Director, Project/Program Management & Business Operations
Financial Media Group / Englewood, CO
Financial Media Group is a leading provider of databases and marketing services in the financial industry.
Project/Program Management
• Built and ran the project management office (PMO), its tools, processes and reports
• Managed over 200 marketing and software development projects through from ideation to execution
• Implemented Salesforce solution, trained teams and achieved successful adoption by sales team
Product Management
• Improved companies’ database and email marketing products increasing overall revenue by 30%
• Envisioned, designed and launched lead generation product responsible for 1.5M in revenue
Web Master & Online Marketer
• Achieved #1 on Google search results organically through my SEO and SMM optimization techniques
• Designed and managed the company’s WordPress/PHP/MySQL based website
Team Leadership
• Reduced cost by recruiting, and managing an offshore front and back end design development team of 20
• Received award from CEO for “leadership and outstanding contributions” in 2011
• Promoted 3 times during tenure
Education
For Lewis College
BA
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