# James (Jake) Truckle Mars, PA · 301.408.8142 · truckle12@gmail.com · [linkedin.com/in/jamestruckle](https://linkedin.com/in/jamestruckle) · [truckle.me](https://truckle.me) --- ## Summary Staff Technical Program Manager with 10+ years shipping complex, safety-critical software at Waymo, Uber ATG, and Microsoft. I lead large cross-functional programs (140+ engineers, 10+ departments) through ambiguous, long-tail technical problems — pairing deep CS fundamentals with product judgment, data analytics, and a human-centered systems lens. Patent-holding engineer, MBA in data analytics, and current Georgia Tech M.S. CS student specializing in HCI, ML, and Robotics. --- ## Experience ### Waymo — Pittsburgh, PA · Nov 2020 – Present **Staff Technical Program Manager — Developer Experience (DevX) & DevAI Platform** - **Helped scale Waymo's DevAI adoption program** — partnered with SWE teams to evaluate AI coding tools, improve onboarding, and identify practical workflows where AI assistance could reduce engineering toil. - **Managed DevX Critical Journeys workstreams** focused on simulation and evaluation workflows, using developer feedback and workflow data to prioritize improvements in usability, reliability, and compute efficiency. - **Designed and launched "Waymo Clusters"** — a centralized platform for tracking long-running engineering problem areas, replacing fragmented legacy tracking processes with a shared workflow for ownership, status, and reporting. - **Built the underlying schema, SQL logic, and dashboards** for Waymo Clusters, giving cluster leads and cross-functional stakeholders clearer visibility into active problem areas and triage progress. - **Created the Continuous Triage Strategy and PDRM framework** to standardize how critical events are reviewed, routed, and followed up across engineering teams. - **Supported migration of critical-event triage workflows** away from manual spreadsheets toward structured dashboards and automated routing, reducing coordination overhead for engineering triagers. **Senior Technical Program Manager — Vulnerable Road User (VRU) Safety Portfolio** - **96% reduction in VRU Incidents Per Billion Miles** — program-managed the safety-feature roadmap that surpassed human safety benchmarks and unlocked commercial mileage and geographic expansion. - Orchestrated the VRU portfolio across **7 vertical/horizontal engineering teams** (Planner Reasoning, Perception Semantics, Behavior Prediction) and **140+ engineers across 10+ departments**, defining standard execution practices. - **Founded the Escalated Issues Working Group**, retiring 13 long-tail show-stoppers (prone pedestrians, kids, steam/dust particulates) and coordinating data collection campaigns that eliminated driverless Disengage Zones in San Francisco. - Led operational readiness and real-time safety tracking for high-visibility driverless rollouts (e.g., SF Halloween), coordinating across Engineering, Operations, Safety, Product, and Legal. ### Uber ATG — Pittsburgh, PA · Feb 2019 – Nov 2020 **Technical Program Manager II — Autonomy Features & Safety Validation** - Directed cross-functional research programs in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Motion Planning to accelerate next-generation autonomy stacks. - Program-managed vehicle software release cycles — track validation, closed-loop simulation, and safety driver testing — to guarantee regression-free releases. - Defined system requirements, roadmap, and verification criteria for the "No Vehicle Operator" fully driverless passenger-carrying pilot program. - Orchestrated end-to-end operational readiness and live software performance for high-profile investor and partner demonstrations in Pittsburgh and San Francisco. ### Microsoft — Redmond, WA · June 2016 – Feb 2019 **Product Manager II — Windows Energy & System Performance** - Led the Windows Energy Efficiency Team, shipping core power management features (Modern Standby, Adaptive Hibernate, Software-Defined Battery, Power UX) across millions of Windows devices. - Designed and deployed OS-level diagnostics, real-time telemetry pipelines, and optimization metrics to monitor and improve system health at scale. - Co-engineered driver- and silicon-level energy optimizations through partnerships with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. - **Issued patent — US 10,394,301:** Real-time hardware energy attribution model for per-screen and per-session power consumption profiling (Aug 2019). - Earlier: Program Manager Intern (2015) prototyping user-prediction–based hibernate features. --- ## Education - **M.S. in Computer Science** — Georgia Institute of Technology · *Expected 2027* *Specialization: Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Robotics* - **M.B.A., Data Analytics** — University of Maryland, Smith School of Business · 2018 - **B.S. in Computer Science** — University of Maryland · 2015 - **B.S. in Psychology** — University of Maryland · 2015 --- ## Certifications - **Human-Computer Interaction for UX Design** — MIT · 2020 - **Leadership & Culture** — Harvard Business School Executive Education · 2019 --- ## Skills - **Program & Product Leadership:** Cross-functional roadmapping, OKR design, executive communication, ambiguous-problem decomposition, operational readiness, launch management. - **Autonomy & Robotics:** AV architecture, motion planning, perception/sensor fusion, simulation & validation pipelines, closed-loop testing, ODD, safety-case design. - **Developer Platforms & Systems:** DevX tooling, telemetry & data pipelines, internal platform design, Taskflow, Jira/Buganizer, Git/Piper, Agile/Scrum, AI-assisted developer workflows. - **Data & Analytics:** SQL, PLX (GoogleSQL/BigQuery), dashboarding, telemetry analysis, A/B and metric design. - **Programming:** C/C++, C#, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, R. - **Patents:** US 10,394,301 — Per-Screen/Session Power Consumption Profiling (2019).