I am a Staff Technical Program Manager
I also host a podcast, TPM Ridge, author of numerous books, and sit on various boards.
I write stories about people, products, and services.
Based in Kirkland, Washington, as an agile scrum certified technical program manager, I provide custom management solutions to my employers and consulting services to external companies.
I started my career as a web developer, in Sydney, at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, after graduating with a bachelor of Internet Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Australia.
My Career
My career then took me in 2009 towards mobile development, starting with Objective-C, working for various organizations, before moving to the Bay Area in the US, to embark on a few startups. I transitioned into a program management role, working for prominent organizations such as Apple (consulting) and TCL, before working for Samba.tv. In 2020, I moved to Seattle, to embark on a role with Amazon’s Prime Video.
I am currently working at Walmart within the PeopleTech SRE domain.