Nina S. M. Crane, Founder & Principal Consultant
Nina is a Senior Technical Program Manager with extensive experience planning and executing all phases of product development and systems implementations, primarily for customer service and media industry applications. Since founding Kinetic Project Solutions (KPS) in 2008, she has been assisting leading media and software companies with a variety of technology-related projects to meet their business goals. She has:
Excellent enterprise-level project and systems planning, joint business & technology team leadership, and program execution skills.
Proven strength in building relationships with C-level executives and with developing high-performance project teams.
Adaptable to fast-evolving business goals and working closely with cross-divisional teams on technology solutions to deliver products and achieve results on time and within budget.
Expertise in digital product development and implementations of cloud-based systems for customer relationship management, royalties & rights licensing and management, e-commerce, digital asset management, brand identity management, publishing workflow, digital photography editing, video streaming, and web content management.
Experience with multiple project management methodologies from Waterfall to Agile and related software tools, primarily Jira and Confluence. Focused on applying hybrid methods with lean processes. Provides coaching to PMOs.
Excels working as a core member of software development teams taking on multiple roles as Scrum Master, Business Analyst and QA Tester.
Prior to founding KPS, Nina worked for the National Geographic Society, American Management Systems (now CGI), and Southern California Gas Company. She also served as a Volunteer, U.S. Peace Corps (Malawi 1990-1991) and has traveled to over 30 countries.
Education
MBA, S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University (focus on Marketing & Information Technology)
BS, Engineering (Minor in Economics), Harvey Mudd College
Certifications
Managing Jira Projects for Cloud (ACP-MJPC), May 2023
Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Aug 2019
Project Management Professional (PMP), Mar 2011
Software & Technical Skills
Jira, Confluence
Trello, Asana, Wrike, Basecamp
Miro, Figma, OmiGraffle, Visio, Gliffy
Smartsheet, MS Project, OmniPlan, Merlin
Postman, BrowserStack, XML/Oxygen XML Editor, SQL
Familiar with censhare, MediaValet, Evolphin, Salesforce