Barbara Ogrey Jessel is a senior engineering program manager with over 20 years of experience managing multi-million dollar programs at major technology companies. She excels at defining strategies, requirements, and schedules and ensuring cross-functional teams deliver industry-leading technologies on time and on budget. Her background includes managing hardware, software, and infrastructure programs from concept through production at companies such as Amazon, AMD, Apple, and Microsoft.

1. BARBARA OGREY JESSEL
408-335-9679 | www.linkedin.com/in/barbarajessel | ogrey@comcast.net
SENIOR ENGINEERING PROGRAM MANAGER
A proven program leader offers a track record of success with engineering programs at major corporations
such as Lab126 (Amazon), AMD, and Apple. Delivers program planning and execution, ensuring that cross-
functional product development teams deliver industry-leading technologies over multiple product generations.
Excels at working with executive leadership and product management stakeholders to define strategy, product
features, and requirements.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Project Management – Cross-Functional Team Leadership – Process Improvement/Development –
Presentations
Vendor Management & Integration – Strategic Planning – Budget Oversight – Risk Mitigation –
Client/Stakeholder Relations – Meeting Planning & Leadership – Executive-Level Reporting – MS Office – MS
Project
SELECT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Collaborated with program team from concept to final drop of ASIC; responsibilities included
establishing program schedule and dependencies, risk management and mitigation plans, and driving
action items to closure. Drove weekly meetings to ensure adherence to plan. Worked with team and
developed ASIC development process with clear exit criteria at each phase gate exit.
• Provided program management for the creation of $1B hardware infrastructure for AMD’s Athlon
product line; met with teams and stakeholders to ensure project scope was well defined and assignment
was delivered within 18 months once plan established.
• Managed business aspects of 575 cores organizations and $74M budget, working with finance to
model headcount and operational costs while reporting monthly on adherence to plan.
• Collaborated with Microsoft and the Open Source community to establish the broad range 64-bit
software infrastructure for a seamless migration path from 32-bit to 64-bit computing.
PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW
LAB 126 (AMAZON), Cupertino, CA 2013-2015
Senior Program Manager - Silicon Division
• Program managed development of new ASIC within startup division of Lab126. Established program
schedule, led weekly cross-functional core team meetings to ensure adherence to program plan, and drove
actions items to closure. Managed and communicated program risks and mitigation plans.
• Worked with external partners to establish program deliverables, schedule and adherence to budget. Drove
weekly vendor program meetings.
• Responsible for managing $13M program budget to plan.
• Standardized ASIC team development process, defined milestones and dependencies with clear exit
criteria at each phase gate.
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (AMD), Sunnyvale, CA 1997-2013
Senior Program Manager - Microprocessor Cores Division (2008-2013)
• Program managed the development of four microprocessor cores used in multiple products.
• Worked with architects and all business units to communicate preliminary core performance, power,
frequency, and die size to ensure alignment with long-term roadmap.

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• Collaborate with senior management from concept phase to final drop of core; disciplines include RTL,
physical design, methodology, performance modeling and verification.
• Ensured adherence to engineering development process, establishing program schedule, dependencies,
risk management, and mitigation plans while aligning headcount to budget and driving action items to
closure.
• Created and maintained top-level operational view of program for monthly reviews with Core’s VP.
• Provided monthly updates on Core to SOC teams. Ensured alignment to schedules, reported on Core
execution to plan and reported on program risks and established mitigation plans
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (AMD) continued…
Engineering Business Manager - Microprocessor Cores Division (2010-2013)
• Established headcount profile in support of cores roadmap, updated business systems to establish budget
requirements, and communicated to Corporate VP R&D funding and requirements for additional funding.
• Worked with finance to create budget models and update business systems on final budget numbers.
• Drove monthly cores operational reviews to prepare monthly operations deck for communicating status and
progress to executive management.
• Facilitated face-to-face quarterly meetings with cores staff/fellows from five sites to strengthen relationships
and discuss areas for organizational improvement; collected input and worked with executive to set
agenda.
Senior Program Manager - Software Process Development (2007-2008)
• Identified the need to establish a standardized and scalable process for the software alliance team;
documented the process, including 30 milestones with clear exit criteria, in eight months.
• Assembled cross-functional team to define milestones, dependencies, and deliverables to ensure software
compatibility and support of new microprocessor features.
• Defined milestones to capture customer and market requirements and identify performance optimizations
and business opportunities based on new software visible features.
• Created partner engagement plans and defined requirements for partner software compatibility for
validation team.
Senior Program Manager - Platform and Infrastructure Division Development (1997- 2007)
• Managed 11 program coordinators across multiple business segments to ensure achievement of program
goals for desktop and server business units.
• Coordinated development of platform solution, including chip-set development, board design, product
engineering, component enablement, thermal and mechanical design, cards and drivers, BIOS and driver
development, diagnostics, and infrastructure.
• Led plan execution, ensuring functional teams achieved commitments to planned product feature launch
dates.
• Managed internal chipset design, three external chipsets vendors, more than 20 motherboard companies,
and BIOS development, ensuring guidelines and documentation were created in the US.
• Coordinated with AMD’s Taiwan office to ensure motherboards were developed to meet end-goal launch
for various customers such as Micron, Hewlett Packard, and several system builders.
• Created and deployed an OEM support model in the department and personally managed program for tier-
1 OEMs.
*Career Note: Prior experience includes Project Manager, High End Desktop Macintosh Engineering for Apple
Computer.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
General Education Courses – WEST VALLEY COLLEGE, SAN JOSE, CA