Jim Dumont

As part of Engineering's Tools Team, responsibilities include supporting the Performance Team in project planning, and cross-team Performance Team product evangelism and adoption. Key goals of these ongoing efforts included improved website performance and efficiency, improved member experience, and lower operational costs. Managed/coached Agile-based development efforts.

Specially selected to manage the project establishing LinkedIn's San Francisco office – the company's first major Engineering center outside Mountain View.

“This move, and the bootstrapping of a San Francisco office … is a critical component to scaling our team and hiring. Thank you for the huge part you played in all this … and absolutely crushing the execution.”
— Mohak Shroff, VP Consumer Engineering

Reporting to the Vice President of Mobile Audience Products, responsibilities included project coordination and oversight for new Yahoo! Mobile website and social networking products.

• Led new Yahoo! Mobile homepage development which after launch became the #1 iPhone news application, surpassing the NY Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.

Reporting to the Vice President & GM, Search Advertising, responsibilities included product roadmap creation, executive and cross-functional project reporting, budget and staff planning, and managing mission-critical projects from pre-launch planning to post-launch support.

• Responsible for coordinating all Yahoo! Sponsored Search product and program launches.
• Led the U.S. Marketplace launch war room for the new Yahoo! ‘Panama’ ad system.

Reporting to Tony Fadell, Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, responsibilities included oversight of iPod Division Engineering programs, product roadmap creation, executive and cross-functional project reporting, and managing all divisional administrative issues.

• Helped build iPod team from 7 people with no sales or revenue to a staff of 150, with quarterly sales of 8.1M units and $1.7B revenue.
• Served as Chief of Staff and drove all iPod project review presentations to iPod staff.
• Served as Software Engineering Program Manager for the original iPod, all early-generation iPods, and the iSight camera.

Reporting to the Vice President of iPod Engineering as a key member of the small management team that developed the iPod.

• Managed iPod Engineering process development, roles and responsibilities definition, and intranet activities.
• Led software program management for the first 3 generations of iPods and the iSight webcam.
• Developed and managed software project schedules, and communicated schedule progress and issues to all levels of management.

• Directed two key operational teams for this former leading Open Source application server company. Led the development and deployment of new classroom and online courseware, certification, and licensed training partner programs.
• Managed the internal training function, which provided new hire training, continuing employee education, and management of an online data repository of training materials.

First hire within the newly formed Customer Services group; participated in key start-up activities, including foundational hiring and analyzing and choosing new customer support systems.

Served as the product manager for the Walt Disney Company and Infoseek's joint venture Go Network Personal Homepage products. Represented the Go.com community team in the final definition and development of new COPPA-compliant access and family control policies.

As the product manager for all volume licensing issues, presided over the definition and design of a new online multi-publisher volume licensing system. Responsible for the successful implementation of new pricing and order rewrite systems supporting the Corporate and Government business unit.

Organized project team developing Windows CE platform products. Responsibilities included the scheduling and tracking of multiple hardware projects. Managed cross-functional project team, assuring all critical tasks were tracked, key milestones met, and project information promptly communicated.

Reporting directly to Tony Fadell, directed Project Managers, Project Coordinators, Component Engineering, Lab Services, User Documentation, and Engineering Documentation teams.

• Led Project Service activities for all new products within multiple product lines.
• Identified, measured, and communicated all Engineering deliverables.
• Served as Marketing ‘Tiger Team’ leader, researching and presenting competitive analysis and strategic and tactical objectives for in-store and print/radio media promotion campaigns.

Coordinated Marketing, Operations, Hardware and Software Engineering on all aspects of product development for Velo and Nino Windows CE-based handheld computing devices. Managed project scope, schedule, resources, issues and actions lists, and program communication.

• Successfully delivered to market the first French, German, and Italian localized versions of the Velo and Nino product lines.
• Directed the definition, creation, implementation, and documentation of PMC's first product development process, which detailed the activities and deliverables from cross-functional teams during all phases of product development, from product inception to post-shipment support.
• Created and presented project updates to executive management at all key project milestones. Created and managed project and process development intranet sites.
• Co-authored an analysis of PMC's organizational effectiveness, including recommendations for improvement.

Directed a team of software and quality assurance engineers responsible for the development of MacOS Language Kit and Language Kit update products.

• Planned and presented product proposals to senior management, resulting in the approval of development budgets in excess of $5M.
• Led successful development of Korean, Indian, and MacOS Language Kit products.
• Managed the definition and delivery of Language Kit component deliverables from cross-functional teams and third-party partners in Europe and Asia.
• Created and updated the Apple Language Kit team intranet site containing all team, project, and product information.

Responsible for team management, project scheduling, issue resolution, and status communication.

• Led development of Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Cyrillic, and Hebrew MacOS Language Kits.
• Supervised the successful integration of all localization and text components into next-generation MacOS.

Managed team responsible for strategically distributing Apple pre-released hardware and software technology to third-party developers to promote compatibility and application development.

• Seeded Macintosh and Newton hardware and software products to more than three thousand worldwide strategic partners.
• Expanded global seeding via FTP distribution of prototype software.
• Utilized survey techniques and workflow analysis to achieve continuous improvements in customer support.
• Doubled productivity with no additional headcount by continually refining logistical seeding tactics and systems.

Directly supported Apple Hardware Engineering project leaders on early Macintosh hardware projects, including the Macintosh Plus and Macintosh SE.

• Pioneered the Project Coordinator role within Apple's hardware development group.
• Chaired cross-functional meetings defining and driving the creation of all in-box materials for multiple worldwide SKUs.