Sr. Technical Program Manager

Twenty years shipping infrastructure, hardware, and web programs at enterprise scale.

Portrait of Eugene Brink, Sr. Technical Program Manager

Senior TPM with 20 years across virtualization, network architecture, distributed device fleets, and the web layer above them. Owned 11 enterprise programs across 305 Rack and 116 Full Line stores, managed $40M+ in portfolio budget, and stood up the TSS / ISG PMO from a blank page. Programs run end-to-end: intake, governance, delivery, and the operating model the team inherits at go-live.

Based
Seattle, WA
Focus
Infrastructure · Hardware · Web / Edge
Current
Enterprise infrastructure & device programs
Available
Sr. TPM roles
$40M+ Portfolio budget managed
300+ Sites in program scope
11 Enterprise programs owned
20 yr Program management practice

Profile

Program management, close to the metal.

I run infrastructure programs: racks, radios, network gear, and the applications that sit above them. The work is getting hardware, software, and store operations aligned on the same reality, then keeping that alignment visible as scope and dependencies change.

I like programs where the outcome means the same thing to the operator on the floor and the VP on the slide — same numbers, same story.

A decade at Nordstrom running programs across Technology Support Services and the Infrastructure Services Group. Before that, years in commercial banking systems and store technology consulting.

Half the job is stakeholder alignment: getting store leads, network engineers, DBAs, and product managers to a shared plan. The other half is technical judgment: sizing a data platform, picking between RFID sled vendors, deciding when a lightweight internal application is enough. I do both without pretending one is the other.

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

Signature programs

Six programs, scope and outcomes.

A representative slice across infrastructure, hardware, RFID, governance, portfolio reporting, and the web layer. Full list on the projects page.

2023 – 2026 · Infrastructure · Network

Next Gen BOH — SIAB deprecation + centralized DHCP.

Led enterprise infrastructure modernization replacing legacy VMware SIAB systems across 305 Rack and 116 Full Line stores against a hard contract deadline, concurrent with 2025 new store openings. Identified an unowned DHCP dependency between programs and partnered with NSG to declare centralized DHCP as the fix.

Result 100% Rack DHCP migration complete. 14+ 2025 stores opened on modern infrastructure. Zero store opening delays attributable to the DHCP dependency; VMware renewal cost avoided.

2023 – 2026 · Hardware · RFID

RFID inventory & hardware rollout.

Coordinated enterprise RFID deployment across 305 Rack and 116 Full Line stores plus DCs: Clarity app rollout, hardware refresh (777 next-gen sleds across 300+ stores), DC ticketing go-live, and overhead reader POC. Owned vendor incident management with SML.

Result 70% inventory labor reduction vs. manual cycle counts. 80% of active merchandise categories RFID-enabled by Q2 2024. First DC RFID go-live August 2025.

2023 – 2024 · Governance · PMO

TSS / ISG PMO design & standup.

Sole author of the TSS / ISG program management operating model: 9-section playbook, 11 required + 5 conditional artifacts, phase gate model with entry/exit criteria, G/Y/R status definitions, and Confluence documentation standard applied across an active enterprise portfolio.

Result 20 playbook requirements across 5 strategic dimensions. First two quarters of governance run under the new model. Close-out standard adopted org-wide across TSS / ISG.

2025 – 2026 · Asset tracking

Asset Tracker.

Designed and built an internal mobile application for hardware check-in/out and RFID audit across 305 Rack stores, backed by a SharePoint data model and a metrics dashboard covering device utilization, loss trending, and audit coverage. Business case targeted $5.2M annual savings and 85% device loss reduction against a ~15% baseline. Ran a 7-month lifecycle through a 2-store POC.

Result Recommended formal cancellation when POC evidence showed the enforcement gap could not be closed at scale. Delivered a 14-section close-out with 58 documented user stories — same numbers, same story — subsequently adopted as the org-wide ISG close-out template.

2022 – 2023 · Portfolio reporting

ISS TIW portfolio dashboards.

Designed and delivered Power BI portfolio dashboards for ISS Technology Infrastructure & Workforce leadership. Consolidated Jira, ServiceNow, and finance inputs into one model with defined health metrics, delivery KPIs, and a standard status convention aligned to ISS governance.

Result Consolidated portfolio visibility embedded into the standing governance cadence. Data-driven portfolio management established as a repeatable practice inside ISS.

2020 – 2021 · Omnichannel / Web

NRHL: ISS Swarm, BOPUS, and Hack the Rack.

Lead TPM for NordstromRack.com's three concurrent 2020 programs under COVID-era emergency conditions: ISS Swarm (NRHL-to-JWN integration), BOPUS for Rack, and Hack the Rack (emergency inventory liquidation). Coordinated 15+ named stakeholders across product, engineering, UX, finance, and store ops without direct engineering authority.

Result Hack the Rack: 62,625 orders / 21,208 units / 241 stores in 57 days (Mar–Jun 2020). NRHL iOS on Canvas Sept 23, 2020 — pre-Holiday target met. ND BOPUS at Rack launched Mar 2021 across 10+ national markets.

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
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Process improvement methodology

Methods

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

Tools

  • Delivery & tracking Jira · Jira Advanced Roadmaps · Confluence · Azure DevOps · Smartsheet
  • Diagrams & whiteboards Miro · Lucidchart · Figma · Confluence Whiteboards
  • Comms & async Slack · Microsoft Teams · SharePoint · Loom · Zoom
  • Reporting & analytics Power BI · Tableau · Looker · Snowflake · Databricks · dbt
  • Engineering & DevOps GitHub · Git · Docker · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Jenkins
  • Ops, ITSM & observability ServiceNow · Jira Service Management · PagerDuty · Datadog · Prometheus · Grafana
  • Cloud & edge AWS · Azure · GCP · Cloudflare · Caddy · Tailscale

Get in touch

Let's talk about the next program.

Open to Sr. / Staff TPM roles across infrastructure, hardware, data platforms, and the web layer above them.