Jennifer Y. Lee, PMP, CSM

“Jen is an efficient and resourceful project manager. She works closely with her engineering teams to set up processes that works best for them. She is great with communication and keeps her stakeholders up to date of any risks/issues that may inadvertently affect a project's delivery. It's been great working with her.”

“Working at The Walt Disney Co. on their Disney/ABC streaming apps platforms is a mountain of a task, yet Jennifer is one of the few PMs out there that has the prioritization skills that makes conquering that mountain possible. Unlike many companies out there, Disney absolutely requires you to work at and expand your potential in order to possibly get a handle on your daily responsibilities. As an QA Engineer, you accomplish this by utilizing automation tools, contract teams, and attempting to establish process. Far too often though, there is a disconnect between the QA and PM staff to effectively prioritize deliverables. As a result, communication between the two teams usually dissolves into a verbal check if everything is running smoothly, and a verbal reply of affirmation without either side knowing full well what exactly the other teams expectation or interpretation was in the first place. Like a piecing spotlight through a storm cloud to assist a plane landing, Jennifer expertly guided QA facilitating the what and the why of QA coverage on her projects. Jennifer always made it her responsibility to understand exactly the amount and type of QA resources she would have on her project for any given Sprint. With this, she would refer to the QA staff to estimate what type of coverage would be possible with the allotted time. Depending on the situation, she would establish priority of needed, versus nice to have, versus placed in backlog. She was extremely practical, always evolving, and very humanistic. Rather than pushing the team to exhaustion based on misguided promises, she was more interested in continuously improving process within every team apart of her project. Lines of communications that were stop gaps before iteratively flowed smoother as Sprints begat Sprints. Working relationships between QA and SW streamlined. Basically, everyone without question knew exactly what their responsibilities were, why, and what they were committing to during every iteration of a project ran by Jennifer. It is this commitment to truly owning a project and getting the best out of the teams involved that makes Jennifer a truly excellent PM. I would not hesitate to work on her projects again and again in the future. ”