Sr. Technical Program Manager

Infrastructure, hardware, and the web, with analytics and AI layered on top.

Twenty years of program management across virtualization, network architecture, distributed device fleets, and the reporting layers that keep them all visible to leadership.

Based
Seattle, WA
Focus
Infrastructure · Hardware · Web / Edge
Current
Nordstrom Technology · TSS / ISG
Available
Sr. / Staff TPM roles
$40M+ Portfolio budget managed
300+ Store footprint scope
11 Nordstrom programs shipped
20 yr Program management practice

Profile

Program management, close to the metal.

I run infrastructure programs — the ones that touch racks, radios, network gear, and the applications that sit above them. Most of the work involves getting hardware, software, and store operations to agree on the same reality, then keeping that agreement visible while it changes.

I like programs where the outcome is legible to an operator on the floor and to a VP on a slide, using the same numbers.

My last decade has been at Nordstrom, running programs inside Technology Shared Services and the Infrastructure Services Group. Before that, I spent years in commercial banking systems and in supply chain and store technology consulting.

Some of it is people work: getting store leads, network engineers, DBAs, and product managers around a shared plan. Some of it is technical: sizing a data platform, choosing between RFID sled vendors, deciding when Power Apps is enough and when it isn't. Most of the value comes from doing both at the same time, without pretending one is the other.

I write documentation people actually read, I build the dashboards I promise, and I don't ship a program until the operating model behind it is real. When something doesn't work, I say so early.

Signature programs

Six recent programs, briefly.

A short read of the last eight years — infrastructure, hardware, and the web layer above them. Each shipped something real underneath.

2019 – 2020 · Infrastructure

Virtualization & DHCP consolidation.

Retired legacy Windows DHCP infrastructure onto a virtualized platform serving hundreds of stores. Standardized scope configuration, reservations, and failover so field engineers stopped inheriting one-off exceptions from prior projects.

Result Fewer network incidents at store open. A DHCP layer that the on-call engineer can reason about at 2am.

2023 – 2026 · Hardware · RFID

Distributed hardware & RFID rollout.

Program-managed the rollout of RFID sleds, handhelds, mobile printers, and their supporting network to Nordstrom Rack stores. Owned the readiness process across store ops, network, security, and vendor partners so each wave shipped on the same checklist.

Result A predictable rollout cadence and a device fleet the field could inventory instead of guess at.

2023 – 2024 · Governance

TSS PMO design & standup.

Designed the Technology Shared Services PMO from a blank page — intake, prioritization, roadmap review, and the reporting spine that connects them. Wrote the operating model, published the RACIs, and ran the first two quarters of governance.

Result A single intake and a single roadmap view across a group that had previously been running three of each.

2025 – 2026 · Asset tracking

PRISM — asset-tracking platform.

Named, designed, and built an internal Power Apps platform for hardware check-in / check-out and RFID audit across Nordstrom Rack. Full data model in SharePoint, 113 DAX measures for utilization and loss trending, POC at two stores, close-out report adopted as an ISG template.

Result Documented the enforcement gap that stops asset tracking from working at 305-store scale. Retired the program with the documentation intact for the next attempt.

2022 – 2023 · Portfolio reporting

Infrastructure portfolio dashboards.

Built the reporting layer for the ISS TIW portfolio — status, spend, and delivery risk across a rolling book of infrastructure programs. Consolidated inputs from Jira, ServiceNow, and finance so the monthly review ran on one source of truth.

Result Portfolio reviews that started with data instead of arguments about the data.

2020 – 2021 · Web / Edge

Web & mobile platform programs.

Ran cross-functional delivery on nordstrom.com programs — the homepage redesign, buy-online-pickup-in-store launch, and supporting store-ops enablement. The infra and store technology context underneath the storefront was mine to keep honest.

Result Shipped on plan through peak season with the store side of the experience ready before the marketing calendar said go.

Credentials

Certifications, methods, tools.

Certifications that reflect how I actually work — program management, agile delivery, and AI program management — plus the methods and tools I use most.

Certifications

  • PMI-CPMAI Certified in AI & Data-Science Program Management
  • Certified Scrum Master Scrum Alliance · CSM
  • Six Sigma Process improvement methodology

Methods

  • Program & portfolio management
  • Agile / Scrum delivery
  • System design & architecture reviews
  • Process improvement (Six Sigma)
  • Stakeholder alignment & governance

Tools

  • Jira · Confluence · ServiceNow
  • Power BI · SharePoint · Power Apps
  • Docker · GitHub · Cloudflare
  • Prometheus · Caddy · Tailscale

Get in touch

Let's talk about the next program.

Open to Sr. / Staff TPM roles that touch infrastructure, hardware, data platforms, or the web layer that sits above them.