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Doug Melvin

Senior Manager, Data Platform Orchestration Services at Charter Communications

Engineering manager and experienced agilist, passionate about working with stakeholders to deliver what they need, when they need it, and working with engineering teams to ensure psychological safety and that they have all the resources they need to deliver their best work.

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Requirement Gathering
Business Analysis
Project/Program Management
Stakeholder Management

Experiences

1

Greenwood Village, CO

Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading broadband connectivity company and cable operator serving more than 32 million customers in 41 states through its Spectrum brand. Over an advanced communications network, the company offers a full range of state-of-the-art residential and business services including Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice.

Senior Manager, Data Platforms Orchestration

Sep 2022 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • I make certain my team’s workload and priorities are appropriately distributed, and that the team has a full understanding of the business and architecture vision
  • I act as the representative for the product vision when working with my team, and I advocate for the best engineering solution when working with the product team, always striving to accomplish what product needs in line with engineering best practices and the recommendations of my principal, lead, and senior engineer
Lead Software Delivery Manager

Nov 2021 - Sep 2022

Responsibilities:
  • I converted from contractor to full time in 2021, continuing my existing role, after working with Charter as a contractor starting in the fall of 2013

Denver, CO

Sourced provides “customer-centric” consulting services to migrate and govern large-scale enterprise IT systems to the cloud. With over a decade of delivering successful large scale cloud transformation programs, our client list is filled with household names in the worlds of finance, media, transport, healthcare and telecommunications.

Senior Agile Solutions Professional

May 2015 - Nov 2021

Responsibilities:
  • As a Senior ASP, I acted as the scrum master, project and program manager, agile coach, and business analyst for my team to manage our planning through the product and software life cycles from new project setup through deployment and production operations support
Agile Solutions Professional

May 2013 - May 2015

Responsibilities:
  • I maintained development roadmaps, release plans, and sprint plans down to the epic and story level, ensuring that my team remained on time, on spec, and on budget while maximizing value to our clients
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Projects

EBB/ACP Program Development
EBB/ACP Program Development
Senior Manager, Development Team 2021 - Present

I led the team responsible for integrating and adapting Charter Communications’ form-submission platform to the requirements of the EBB, and later ACP, program.

Push Notifications for The My Spectrum App
Push Notifications for The My Spectrum App
Senior Manager, Development Team 2020 - Present

My team owns the platform that orchestrates data from across the entire company and translates those messages into push notifications sent to customer devices to keep them informed on their billing, technician service appointments, service disruptions, and changes to their home networks

Outage Status Information
Outage Status Information
Senior Manager, Development Team 2020 - Present

My team owns the integration point where status information is shared with customer portal users on how their services might be impacted, and when those impacts will be mitigated, so that they can feel confident in their ability to use their Spectrum services, and request credits or automated call-back notifications when eligible.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Senior Agile Solutions Professional 2018 - 2020

I acted as the project manager, program manager, and delivery manager for the team responsible for building the API integrations necessary for customers to generate a request pertaining to their personal data in compliance with CCPA.

Flexible, Cloud-Based, Application Platform
Flexible, Cloud-Based, Application Platform
Senior Agile Solutions Professional 2015 - 2017

I acted as the project manager, program manager, and delivery manager for the team responsible for architecting, building, testing, and deploying a cloud-based platform designed to provide infrastructure for deployment and hosting of microservices, customer-facing web portals, and the databases and other near-infrastructure components needed to keep those services running and available to customers.

Content Management System for User Portals
Content Management System for User Portals
Senior Manager, Development Team 2013 - Present

In my tenure with Charter Communications, I have spent the majority of my time working on the content management system serving our customer portals supporting every aspect from deployment and production operations, to content creation, content management user experience, and complex software integrations to both enrich, and use the content for enrichment, to enhance the Spectrum customer experience.

Drone with ML-Powered Object Recognition
Drone with ML-Powered Object Recognition
Student 2012 - 2013

Project ARIES is a remotely operated drone with object-recognizing visual search software designed to work with the commercially available Parrot AR.Drone.

Thai Red Curry Filetto
Recipe Developer Fall 2023

This is my first original charcuterie recipe - though I really let the Thai culture do all the work. I used my favorite curry paste (Mae Ploy red curry) and simply thinned it out with a bit of hoisin sauce. I put that all over my cured pork tenderloins, and let them dry to a 50% weight loss.

Skills

Publications

How to Become a Master of Time

Working between multiple internal and client teams, our PM/BA’s plan, consult, organize, communicate and manage a vast amount of resources and information each day. To make sure projects are meeting deadlines and teams are communicating effectively, time management and prioritization are key.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science
GPA: 2.8 out of 4