Senior Technical Program Manager

Edwin T. Dunson

I lead complex, high-stakes technical programs — cloud infrastructure, security & AI/ML — from executive strategy to shipped results.

13+ years across Amazon Web Services, healthcare tech, and full-stack engineering: 46 service teams aligned, programs covering 5 million hosts, and compliance coverage up 1,680% — without slowing a single builder.

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Bethesda, MD PMP · CSM · MBA
Career highlights

The numbers behind the work

Years leading technical programs
13+
Cloud infrastructure, data centers, security, AI/ML, and enterprise software
AWS hosts on platforms my programs covered
5M
Legacy configuration-management replacement across 30+ regions
Fleet-wide compliance achieved
99.1%
Coverage up 1,680% — SOX, SOC, and FedRAMP — with zero builder impact
Functional test coverage
90%
Up from 40% — driven by program operating mechanisms at AWS Security
Release defects reduced
88%
From 1,172 to 135 through automated end-to-end testing — virtually eliminating regressions
Employees adopting AI tools I delivered
25,000+
Internal AI tooling shipped by my cross-functional engineering team
Developer hours returned each year
61,000+
≈ 29.5 developer-years of annual efficiency gains
Annual revenue secured
$58.9M
Closed a seven-year security control gap; FedRAMP compliance for 189 customers
Where I've built
Amazon Web ServicesDrFirstCydev
The resume

Experience

Staff-level technical program leadership and a hands-on engineering foundation — translating executive strategy into technical roadmaps, tactical schedules, and risk-based decisions across 40+ engineering teams and global deployments.

Senior Technical Program Manager — AWS Security 2022 – 2026
Amazon Web Services · Arlington, VA
  • Directed a high-stakes, multi-year security transformation across 46 AWS service teams, translating executive objectives into workstreams, milestones, risk controls, and go/no-go decisions.
  • Increased compliance coverage by 1,680% to 99.1% fleet-wide — Sarbanes-Oxley, SOC, and FedRAMP — without disrupting builder productivity.
  • Closed a seven-year security control gap, securing $58.9M in annual revenue and FedRAMP compliance for 189 customers in regulated markets.
  • Led delivery of internal AI tools adopted by 25,000+ employees, producing 61,000+ developer hours in annual efficiency gains.
  • Owned the end-to-end roadmap replacing a legacy configuration-management platform supporting ~5 million hosts across 30+ regions.
Technical Program Manager — EC2 Core Platform 2020 – 2022
Amazon Web Services · Arlington, VA
  • Led the end-to-end hardware deployment lifecycle for electrical-equipment retrofit programs across 200+ AWS data centers worldwide.
  • Designed a global supplier and engineering operating model that cut hardware-remediation delivery time by 70%.
  • Aligned 40+ customer-facing service teams, resolving technical dependencies and improving customer satisfaction by 58%.
Technical Program Manager — Region Build 2019 – 2020
Amazon Web Services · Herndon, VA
  • Led multi-domain systems integration for new AWS regions — including India — across compute capacity, network buildout, colocation, security, and launch readiness.
  • Improved delivery timelines by 19% through critical-path analysis with engineering and operations leaders, without compromising production readiness.
  • Developed region-build playbooks and stakeholder communication systems adopted across global expansion teams.
Program Manager / Engineering Leader 2015 – 2019
DrFirst Inc. · Rockville, MD
  • Led distributed engineering teams delivering EHR software integrations and APIs in regulated healthcare environments (HIPAA, HITECH, DEA).
  • Introduced automated end-to-end functional testing, reducing defects from 1,172 to 135 and virtually eliminating regressions.
  • Coached developers on SDLC best practices, reducing year-over-year engineer attrition from 51% to 4%.
Senior Software Development Engineer — Full Stack 2012 – 2015
Cydev Inc. · Bethesda, MD
  • Translated customer and product needs into technical designs, roadmaps, and integration strategies balancing scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Coordinated development, QA, and product teams to deliver complex software integrations against aggressive deadlines.
  • Supported solution design, customer presentations, and contract development — helping scale from 10 test customers to 300 paid licenses.

Education

MBA, Information Technology
American University · 2009
B.S., Marketing
University of Tennessee · 2000

Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP)
PMI · 2018
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance · 2018
Management Accelerator Program
McKinsey · 2025

Core skills

Technical Program Management Complex Cross-Functional Program Leadership Multi-Domain Technical Systems Integration Technical Roadmaps & Tactical Scheduling Agile Software & Waterfall Hardware Lifecycles Dependency, Risk & Critical-Path Management Technical & Resource Trade-Off Analysis Executive Decision Support & Communication Jira Program Management & Workshop Facilitation Engineering Process Design & Optimization
The blog

Articles & LinkedIn posts

New writing lands here as it's published — read it on the site, or follow along on LinkedIn and Substack.

ArticleSeptember 2026

What TPMs Should Know About Cloud Security

Cloud security isn't something to leave entirely to the security team. Six foundational areas — from shared responsibility to threat modeling — every program leader should be able to discuss.

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InfographicAugust 2026

AI in Technical Program Management

Practical ways TPMs can use AI to move faster, communicate clearly, and execute better — across planning, execution, reporting, and knowledge work.

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LinkedIn postJune 2026

The TPM Framework for Solving Complex Problems

The visible problem is rarely the real problem. Five moves — understand the problem, build a coalition, test assumptions, make the invisible visible, execute — that make complexity executable.

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