Ed McCandless

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About Ed McCandless

Accomplished executive with proven expertise in providing technical program direction and oversight, development and tracking of roadmaps, capacity planning, adherence to overall program and deliverable timelines, and partnership building across global geographies. Develops new business cases, prioritizing workloads and new requests.* Significant career achievement across software product conception and development including resource management, financial budgeting and analysis, and business process mapping. Exceptional data management, analysis, and modeling skills; possesses deep understanding of data at the table/source level, and effectively communicates highly complex data information and insights to disparate audiences at all organizational levels.* Builds, motivates, and empowers global teams while fostering cultures of support, collaboration, high morale, and continuous process improvement. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; builds sustainable relationships with diverse groups of key stakeholders, executives, vendors, and peers. Expertly negotiates and influences with impact, eloquence, and enthusiasm. Areas of Expertise:* Technical Program Management * Data Analytics & Visualization * Financial Management & Analysis * Resource Capacity Management * Global Talent Acquisition * Software Engineering * Established dynamic business case for multi-year $1B+ effort to transition products from 41 distinct programs—and from a global-based infrastructure to a domestic distributed environment—aligned with budget and delivery requirements, and in compliance with governmental regulations.* Developed talent pool hiring model to enable onboarding of resources across three regions in just five months; cut average resource procurement time from 75 to 14 days. Email me at ed.mccandless@gmail.com or call me at (636) 399-6143.