Starr Corbin
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Austin, TX, United States
Toptal member since May 12, 2020
Starr is an innovative project manager and Jira administrator with hands-on experience managing cross-functional projects for large digital innovation efforts. She has a successful track record of bringing clarity and direction to complicated, high-value digital transformation initiatives. Starr has led technology modernization efforts with a demonstrated effectiveness for aligning transformation and innovation with business value to enable future, profitable growth.
Project Highlights
Education Highlights
Certification Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Project Management
- Agile Software Development
- Agile Transformation
- App Development
- Jira Administrator
- Machine Learning
- Management Consulting
- Technical Project Management
Work Experience
Founder
Corbin Solutions
- Led the divestiture of technology procurement operations between iHeartMedia and Clear Channel Outdoor—overseeing the negotiation and contract management of 120+ new technology agreements between Clear Channel Outdoor and their tech vendors.
- Served as the product owner for the transformation of the Clear Channel Outdoor ServiceNow platform—leading the implementation of agile project management, kanban and scrum delivery principals for the ServiceNow transformation roadmap.
- Advised Citizen's CEO on agile strategy and frameworks for digital innovation. Coached, mentored, and taught executive leadership on agile manifesto principals and agile delivery cycles.
- Led the creation of Citizen’s “sprint team” to develop an agile intake and approval process for digital innovation ideas that aligned with Citizen’s, Inc. 2020 strategy.
Vice President
iHeartMedia
- Established the iHeartTech-Austin office and grew the Austin office from zero to 45 employees.
- Built the programming and playout software delivery organization from the ground up. Standardized best practices for team agility and iHeartTech’s management of product lifecycles.
- Hired, led, and coached the software engineering teams that overhauled three major legacy software applications that were migrated to the AWS cloud and a microservices architecture.
Principal Managed Services Consultant
Capgemini
- Led the successful development and implementation of a multimillion-dollar hybrid-cloud marketplace that introduced the ability to price compare multiple public and private cloud options for over 30 state agencies.
- Orchestrated process improvement initiatives that resulted in streamlining IT implementation processes from six months to thirty-five days for the State of Texas Data Center Services program.
- Overhauled the Georgia Technology Authority's Request for Solutions Program. Incorporated ITIL service request and project management tools and reports that provided Georgia state agencies actionable insight to over 1,500 state IT projects.
Project History
Digital Transformation | Media and Entertainment Industry | Radio Broadcast Transcription
Led the development of the first broadcast audio to transcription/text services for iHeartRadio.
I hired, led, and managed software development team to build out this new value stream. I also managed over ten developers and software testers. The application utilized MongoDB and AWS Elasticsearch.
Toyota Entune | Agile Transformation
Migrated the on-premise legacy application to the AWS cloud and led the restructuring of the monolithic app to AWS microservices.
I managed over ten software developers, testers, and analysts. I also created the enterprise project plan that synchronized dependencies across the Toyota and iHeartMedia development teams. The cloud technologies that were incorporated included AWS EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, and Step Functions.
Technology Contract and Legal Reorganization Project
Led the legal separation and contract management of over 120 technology contracts between two national media companies.
I was responsible for the negotiation and contract management of over 120+ new technology agreements between two national media companies and their technology vendors. I also advised the chief technology office and procurement group on best practices for establishing technology vendor due diligence and delivery accountability.
Anthem AI | Agile Project Manager and Jira Administrator
Led the Jira administration for engineering teams responsible for the delivery of AI health apps.
• Managed the Jira administration for an entire engineering organization that was part of a large healthcare company focusing on AI.
• Led scrum ceremonies to plan technical and cross-function work throughout the organization.
• Implemented new automated workflows.
• Stood up new team boards.
• Consolidated project boards into a single roadmap view and release board.
Jira Administrator | Project Manager
Consolidated 15 software development boards into a single project board. Built out a roadmap that provided actionable insight to development milestones across these cross-functional teams.
Hands-on Jira administrator responsible for consolidating software planning across multiple boards into a consolidated Jira roadmap and portfolio. Provided project management integration and direction to cross-functional teams built AI applications for a large healthcare company.
Education
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Southern Methodist University - Dallas, TX, United States
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree in Business Administration
The University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX, United States
Certifications
Certified Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Slack, Trello, R, Zoom, Google Docs
Paradigms
Agile Project Management, Agile Leadership, Change Management, Servant Leadership, Agile, Agile Software Development, Scrum
Industry Expertise
Technology
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Linux
Other
Business Advisory, Executive Presentations, IT Projects, Vendor Management, Agile Transformation, Microsoft 365, Management Consulting, Agile Program Management, Communication, Technical Program Management, Team Management, Product Owner, Project Consultancy, Client Management, Technical Project Management, App Development, Rapid Development, Software Development Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Cloud, Agile Coaching, Machine Learning, Jira Administrator, Python, HTML, MySQL, ServiceNow
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