Alexandra McCormack
Philadelphia,PA
Summary
People focused leader who has found success in bridging the gap between product and architecture to help align technical capabilities with market demand and business goals. Skilled in thinking strategically and adapting to new situations and challenges to help define the client's product vision and best understand evolving customer needs. Project experience includes large scale cloud transformation, product roadmap development, and event driven architecture implementation for various Fortune 500 hospitality and travel companies. Passionate about creating innovative solutions that meet the needs of customers and helping our clients deliver next generation business outcomes. Professional aspirations include product strategy & vision, large scale cloud transformation, and domain driven design.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Management Consultant
Accenture
12.2022 - Current
- Managed team of 5+ developers and conduct daily stand ups and other sprint ceremonies to track progress, identify risks or dependencies and ensure that the product development is on track while also regularly refining the team’s backlog to prioritize work based on the project timeline and expectations from the client
- Regularly met with business and technology stakeholders from the client on a weekly basis to understand the business objectives, goals, and vision for the product and convert feedback into actionable backlog items for the team to work on and prioritize
- Translated high-level business requirements into detailed technical requirements that engineers and architects can understand and ensure that the technical solution aligns with the product's overall product strategy
- Regularly communicated and collaborated with architects and technology leaders to help define the optimal solutions for our initiatives and ensure they are aligned with the business objectives requirements
- Help to identify and address any blockers or dependencies that prevent backlog items from moving forward and collaborate with other development teams to seek help and resolve issues in a timely manner so that we remain on track
Technology Architecture Analyst
Accenture
03.2020 - 12.2022
- Coordinated, prepared, and co-facilitated workshops across all domain teams to refine cross-functional requirements in collaboration with Business and Technology SVPs and VPs.
- Assisted in shaping and managing the solution roadmap by aligning 1100+ cross-functional requirements to higher level business objectives for 27+ delivery teams and 3 vendors for a multi-billion-dollar program
- Advised Product Engineers, VPs, and Architecture Leads on how to refine and structure their product backlog in Jira to enable delivery teams to execute according to SAFe methodologies
- Ensured domain teams were consistently aligned to business requirements and delivering according to the solution roadmap
- Supported Architecture and Engineering leads in ensuring the technology roadmap was aligned to high-level business objectives
- Implemented processes to improve program visibility into the technology decisions being made at the delivery team level
- Upskilled new delivery team members by providing background on the solution roadmap and functional capabilities during monthly onboarding orientation sessions
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computational Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA12.2019
High School Diploma -
Springfield High School
Springfield, PA06.2015
Skills
- Product Strategy & Vision
- Functional Requirement Gathering & Definition
- Product Backlog Management and Roadmapping (Epics/Stories)
- Workshop Facilitation and Design Thinking
- Domain Driven Design
- Event Driven Architecture & Integration Patterns
- Agile Methodologies (Agile & SAFe)
- Power BI/Power Apps
- Jira/Confluence/SmartSheet
- Data Visualization/Analytics Tools (Python, R, SQL)
- Test Automation tools (Postman/Selenium)
Industry Experience
- Hospitality and Travel
- Aviation
- Communications, Media and Technology
Timeline
Product Management Consultant
Accenture
12.2022 - Current
Technology Architecture Analyst
Accenture
03.2020 - 12.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computational Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
High School Diploma -
Springfield High School