Jacob Engel

CEO, Umicas. Helping people find work

Jacob Engel, PMP

Core Competencies and skills

1. Safe Agile (Scaled Agile Framework methodology)
2. Project management: experience leading and executing SaaS \ B2B, B2C project roadmaps, reviewing and monitoring project progress, leading with technical and non technical teams, managing project documentation, and identifying and managing risks.
3. Cross-functional team collaboration: experience working with cross-functional teams such as engineering and business teams, to bring new products and services to market, and to improve data centers, network infrastructure, and employee engagement and support.
4. Technical expertise: experience working with various technologies including DevOps/SecOps/DevSecOps, ITSM, IoT, mobility, .Net, Java Stack, Adtech (Natural language text processing), CVML embedded systems, and Cloud Infrastructure (AWS EC2), has a good understanding of the technical skills and qualifications required for different roles.
5. Product development: experience leading product development, including conducting market and user research, and leading the delivery of new features and services.
6. Marketing, Sales and user research, Go-to-market: experience conducting market and user research, and leading the development of marketing and user research strategies to identify customer needs and pain points.
7. Communication and stakeholder management: experience communicating with stakeholders, providing updates on project progress, and addressing any concerns or issues that stakeholders may have. Managed Milestones, Development timeline, Testing timeline, Release dates, Release notes, Rollout plan
8. Budget and schedule management: experience managing project budgets and schedules, and ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget.
9. Agile,Waterfall, Scrum Development 
10. Experience scaling global software, SaaS Products, Go-to-Market Protocol 

Technologies

Jira, Asana, GitHub, G-Suite, AirTable, Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, Toggl, harvest, Quickbooks, Freshbooks, ServiceNow, Javascript,  Hootsuite, Semrush, Ahrefs

Work Experience

Portfolio Project Manager at Bank of New York Mellon Identity and Access Management. Information Security Division (ISD) 

New York,  NY (July 2023-February 2024) 

Service Design:

Product Technical Program Manager, Meta Platforms Audience Network Product Menlo Park (Dec 2021-Jan 2023) - Contract

Service Design:

• Led design efforts for Global Audience Network's invalid traffic filtering technology, focusing on real-time detection and mitigation of fraudulent activities to ensure high-quality traffic.
• Translated business requirements into technical specifications to ensure alignment with project goals and objectives, particularly around improving traffic validity.

Service Transition:

• Managed the transition from design to implementation of invalid traffic filtering features, ensuring seamless collaboration between engineering and product teams to achieve project outcomes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams to develop comprehensive product documentation and ensure that new filtering mechanisms were effectively integrated.
• Led the development of user interfaces for Audience Network's analytics tools, managing feature development, bug tracking, and product launches with a focus on traffic quality.
• Partnered with external collaborators to introduce new advertising experiences and technologies to the Audience Network, ensuring compliance with traffic quality standards.

Service Operations:

• Oversaw day-to-day operations of the Audience Network project, tracking team progress, ensuring timely completion, and keeping stakeholders informed of the project budget, timeline, and progress.
• Worked with the marketing team to develop go-to-market strategies and collaborated with popular influencers on Instagram to promote new features of the Audience Network.
• Stayed up-to-date on the latest advances in digital advertising, user engagement analytics, and invalid traffic detection technology, incorporating relevant developments.

Service Continued Improvement:

• Directed the development of advanced analytics features for the Audience Network, utilizing ModelOps to enhance real-time detection and reporting of invalid traffic.
• Collaborated with marketing and user research teams to identify advertiser needs and pain points, improving the user experience by ensuring high-quality traffic.
• Managed risk, stakeholders, budget resource allocation, schedule, quality, change, strategic, and communications management across a multi-100 contributor program of 10 projects.

ITIL Certified Practitioner

BS Temple University, Computer Information Systems, Minor Business Administration

2015-2017