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These are some modest yet illuminating examples illustrating Ethan's works in action, over the last 20 years, as he honed his strategic and tactical skills in IT leadership (~2003 - Present). Ethan also wrote this entire website himself in HTML. No front ends, No Installers. Identities in the following images blurred to respect privacy, but these are all real people and real results that benefitted from Ethan's works. All images taken by, and property of, Ethan Turon.
My Personal Portfolio and Product Management Content Library. I have been updating this library since at least 2012 when I started authoring my own Portfolio Management content. It contains my templates, graphs, charts, formulas and business philosophies. It will all be turned into a handbook within the next 5 years.
One of Many Program Boards for a Portfolio Release Train in FinTech. It's a little "in progress-heavy" because the train just launched. This board represents 11 teams with over 100 team members that I organized.
IT Product Planning in Action for Health Care. Here, I have the team draft IT solutions. This is just one team within the overall Program Release Train.
Auditing a Program Release Train's Feature Content in Big Data. Lots of missing bits. I hang them up for the teams to grab and fix. I perform daily and weekly audits.
One of my many Program Release Trains in Action for FinTech. Here, each team presents it's payload delivery plan. This is about 4 teams.
A typical Ethan Turon IT "War Room" and Portfolio Management Classroom before a kickoff. All of this content is generated from my Library in the first image. The strategies and skills to Executing this room as a mobilized IT solution for nearly any product is what I have honed over the last 20+ years.
Teaching Team Members Paired Programming. This significantly increases the quality of code, especially when we have multiple hands on keyboards. Swarming is another technique I utilize, which is similar but provides a different specific solution.
One of my many Retrospectives in Action. Note, here I broke everyone off in groups of 2. I skillfully guide everyone to explore the overall health of the program.
Some Database Code I wrote for a national Health Care Schedule of Charges. I created this database to make my job easier so I could work on other things, and it became a company standard database. Some form of my code is very likely still in use today.
Snippet of an old regression checklist I wrote for a national IVR system. This was still early waterfall days. Today, I would fully automate a 3-flavor, 88-scenario regression such as this.
Another IT Program team in action under my leadership. Note the organized chaos and smiles. This is a Card Marketing team in FinTech.
A bit of in-house Fun to keep the morale up. Despite all the blurred faces, I attempt to preserve the smiles in every image. I organized and hosted many extra-curricular activities such as this, from hackathons to teaching spanish class over several months. This is an Infrastructure team wrapping mummies for a halloween contest.
Another automation software I created in FinTech for provisioning mass-test accounts as default or preconfigured test sets. All information is ficticious. I won an award for creating this software to increase efficiencies and decrease manual cycles on made-to-order account test sets. Some form of this automation is almost certainly still in use today. Press play to watch.
Displaying cultural competence is important to me. Here, I participate in a heritage event at work. I don't know the steps but that's ok. Press play to watch the whole thing. VOLUME WARNING. I added a volume button for you. I'm the one in back middle.
So, after 20 years of working in offices and remotely for an average of 2,034 hours a year (national average was 1,920 hours a year), how have Ethan's experiences, both positive and negative, shaped his human life? Discover More.
Fun Facts: There are ~8,760 hours in a year and people spend about 2,848 hours a year sleeping. After work time, this left Ethan with about 4,000 hours of life time a year. Around 960 hours a year, from those 4,000 hours, Ethan spent commuting to work by train, plane, and automobile in a pre-covid world.
If you would like to contact me, you can drop me a line at hello@ethanturon.com