Anna Curry

Enterprise Program Manager of complex, large-scale, multi-workstream programs and projects. Creator of productive environments for scaled agile teams to meet business needs and goals. Excellent communication skills and attention to detail. Expertise in media, streaming TV, operations, publishing, content management, and business systems. Looking for Director or managerial role in PMO or software organization.

Anna Curry

Enterprise Program Manager of complex, large-scale, multi-workstream programs and projects. Creator of productive environments for scaled agile teams to meet business needs and goals. Excellent communication skills and attention to detail. Expertise in media, streaming TV, operations, publishing, content management, and business systems. Looking for Director or managerial role in PMO or software organization.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Paramount | Network Streaming

•New York, NY

•04/2022 - Present

Global media company 

Sr. Program Manager

• Lead program management and end-to-end delivery for portfolio of Entertainment and Kids brands (PlutoTV, Smithsonian, BET, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, NickJR) on fast-paced, 18-team Agile Release Train (Mobile, Web, Roku, WebCTV)
• Oversaw critical feature rollout for contract with Comcast cable (Xfinity Logo/Errors Integration): 25 go lives, 9 teams, all brands, Mobile/Web/Roku
• Migrated BET.com News to Web platform: Major platform upgrade to support editorial content; transformed content pipeline; ingested 2000+ hours of video
• Screen, onboard, coach, and train new staff (Scrum Masters, Program Managers)
• Strategically partner with Product Managers, Sales, and Engineers to formulate backlog strategy, to speed up delivery time
• Ensure projects adhere to PMO governance, so that all projects have clean reporting data and clear KPIs / OKRs
• Automate reporting dashboards and templates for portfolio-level updates
• Recommended QA staffing model for more accurate resource planning and improved testing quality
• Manage relationship with brand stakeholders (inception to completion and training on new products) to ensure alignment with Product Managers about scope, risks, delivery timeline.
• Optimized management and processes for scaling features across lines of business — reduced Product Management overhead and redundant test management tasks
• Excellent presentation skills and at meeting facilitation
• Adept at spotting risks and dependencies on projects (RAID analysis), by interpreting data as well as via critical thinking
• Foster excellent relationships on cross-functional teams; run team-building retrospectives to continually improve on KPIs and get teams to collaborate
• Wrote and maintain a Run Book of best practices for product migrations and launches
• Facilitate Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) PI Planning (100+ team members) as needed.
• fficiency and accountability for deadlines

EDUCATION

Masters of Information Systems Management

Carnegie Mellon University

•Pittsburgh, PA

Bachelors of Arts in English Literature and Rhetoric

University Of Illinois

•Urbana-Champaign, IL

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

•09/2008 - Present

PMP

PMI.org

•12/2006 - Present