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Matt O'Brien

Project & Product Leadership—On Demand

PocketPM is helmed by Matt O'Brien, a Senior Technical Project Manager with 11+ years' experience steering high‑impact technology initiatives for NASA, AWS, nonprofits, and ambitious startups.

11+

Years Experience

$10M+

Budget Managed

0

Late Deliverables

Scrum • Scaled Agile • Cloud

Professional Scrum Master, SAFe PO/PM, AWS Cloud Practitioner

Career Highlights

2023 – Present

Senior Technical Project Manager – Element 84 (NASA ESDIS)

Own project planning & delivery for NASA ESDIS's largest Earth‑science software development team, stewarding >120 PB+ of satellite data from the cloudto end users, while driving critical performance KPIs.

2018 – 2023

Technical Project Manager – Element 84

Managed seven concurrent projects (including NASA, AWS, Pure Flix, Seizure Tracker, U.S. Census Bureau, etc.) and spearheaded E84 Labs—resulting in the firm's first-eversubscription product.

2014 – 2018

PM / Business Analyst – Entrepreneurs' Organization, NAFSA & SOSi

Delivered digital transformation initiatives that upgraded internal and external customer experiences and cut operational waste.

Core Competencies

  • End‑to‑end Project & Product Lifecycle
  • Risk & Issue Mitigation (ROAM)
  • Stakeholder Alignment & Exec Comms
  • Process Improvement & SOP Development
  • Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe
  • AWS Cloud (Certified Practitioner)
  • Atlassian Suite (Jira + Confluence), Google Suite (Docs + Sheets), Asana, Trello, MS Project
  • Coaching & Mentoring Junior PMs

Signature Wins

  • Saved NASA satellite launch timeline: Organized an award‑winning Tiger Team that met a critical launch deadline, safeguarding mission milestones.

  • Zero late deliverables: Maintained perfect on‑time record across five years of contract deliverables, earning "excellent" ratings from NASA.

  • Launched first BI tool for NASA ESDIS: Delivered near‑real‑time performance dashboard adopted agency‑wide.

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