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Simon O'Neill
Project Manager with experience in scope, schedule, risk, stakeholders, and delivery. Practical work includes Project planning, Risk management, Budget tracking, Stakeholder communication.
Experience
Broadcom
Remote, Alabama · United States
Project Manager
Mar 2022 - now
- Built a project management baseline covering scope, budget, dependencies, and acceptance decisions; used planning reviews to resolve a vendor handoff before it moved the delivery date.
- Adapted Agile delivery to a fixed customer milestone by separating committed scope from change requests; showed the budget and schedule impact before asking the sponsor to approve a trade-off.
- Maintained a dependency-linked delivery schedule, compared actual spend with the approved budget, and negotiated scope changes before they affected the critical path.
- Owned a delivery workstream using a dependency register and budget baseline, resolving approval conflicts that had left three milestones without an accountable owner.
- Built an Agile planning checklist with explicit acceptance evidence, reducing reopened delivery items from 12 to 4 over the next two review cycles.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · United States
Project Manager
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
- Tracked forecast, committed spend, and change requests against a $3.4 million budget. Kept the lower-effort process in place after handoff.
- Reviewed a delivered feature against acceptance criteria with design and engineering, documented the unresolved usability issue, and agreed whether it should block release or enter the next iteration.
- Traced a late scope request to the underlying user need, compared it with the agreed release goal, and worked with delivery partners to split required behavior from a follow-up enhancement. Updated acceptance criteria before development continued.
Selected project
Project Manager — independent case study
Project owner
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
- Consolidated 5 vendor plans into one acceptance and handoff schedule
- Used a public product workflow to map the user problem, decision points and acceptance criteria; marked assumptions separately from observed behavior and prioritized an experiment before specifying a complete redesign.
- Prepared a decision log showing alternatives, dependencies and the metric that would reverse the recommendation; walked through an exception path and updated the acceptance criteria when ownership was unclear.
- Owned the independent prototype review using task-based acceptance criteria, resolved an ambiguous exception path and completed a test plan with an explicit stopping rule.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Business Administration
Sep 2013 - Jun 2017
Relevant coursework: Financial accounting, statistics, operations management, organizational behavior
Skills
Role expertise
Project planning · Risk management · Budget tracking · Stakeholder communication · Dependency management · Delivery governance
Certifications
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
Project Management Institute
Jun 2024
Publications
- Published a personal product case study using the project decision log, explaining rejected alternatives, testable assumptions and the evidence needed before a production launch.


