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Austin Warren
Technical Program Manager with experience in technical programs, dependencies, risk, alignment, and delivery. Practical work includes Dependency mapping, Release planning, Risk registers, Acceptance criteria.
Experience
OpenAI
Remote · United States
Technical Program Manager
Mar 2022 - now
- Mapped technical dependencies across service teams and agreed delivery checkpoints with stakeholders; used interface readiness and test evidence to identify the critical path rather than collecting status colors.
- Aligned Agile and Scrum planning across teams for a shared launch, separating sprint commitments from external dependencies; escalated a blocked approval with options and a clear decision deadline.
- Turned a multi-team technical milestone into interface owners and integration gates; tested the handoff between teams and escalated unresolved dependencies with explicit impact on the launch date.
- Owned a technical dependency register using integration readiness tests, resolved mismatched API delivery dates and completed the release decision packet for stakeholders.
- Designed risk-management checkpoints using explicit requirements and rollback evidence, reduced late dependency escalations from 13 to 5 across two delivery cycles.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · United States
Technical Program Manager
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
- Sequenced a 28-service protocol migration with compatibility checkpoints. Held the reliability gain through the next operating review.
- 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
Technical Program Manager — independent case study
Project owner
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
- Created a weekly architecture decision log with unresolved tradeoffs and deadlines
- 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
Dependency mapping · Release planning · Risk registers · Acceptance criteria
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master I
Scrum.org
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.


