Amanda Bianco
Staunton,IL
Summary
Director of Engineering with 20+ years in delivering complex software solutions. Expertise in strategic planning, talent development, and bridging technology with product management. Skilled in Agile methodologies and data-driven decision-making to meet business objectives. Seeking senior leadership role to drive strategic vision and empower teams.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Technical Product Leader / Director of Technology
Equifax
01.2015 - Current
- Drove product strategy and revenue growth by maintaining and executing product roadmaps that directly aligned with business and organizational strategies, while being accountable for $420M in annual revenue with double-digit growth year-over-year.
- Led a $2M Education Verification product redesign, streamlining user experience to increase verification rates, delivering greater client value, and maintaining cost efficiency.
- Patented and launched new products that drove a double-digit vitality index for three consecutive years.
- Secured capital investment for new product innovation through yearly business cases, partnering with Product Management to define and ensure the financial viability of new products and enhancements.
- Collaborated with business partners and cross-functional teams to gain deep insights into market landscapes and competitive advantages, ensuring product strategy remained aligned with organizational goals.
- Oversaw all development efforts, ensuring product development strictly adhered to industry standards, robust security protocols, and the EWS Engineering Handbook.
- Managed the critical balance between fostering new product innovation, implementing vital security initiatives, and deploying automated capabilities to streamline processes throughout the development lifecycle.
- Provided technical leadership to business partners, guiding the development of scalable, operationally efficient, and client-centric products.
- Led a high-performing team of 20 team members, responsible for recruiting, onboarding, and providing mentorship to drive skill development and career progression.
- Successfully led the team through a significant organizational transformation, implementing a new continuous planning operating model and executing a seamless transition from Microsoft .NET to Google Cloud technologies.
- Pitched strategic product development and innovation concept focusing on validating new product ideas and dedicating resources to rapidly innovate on high reward high risk opportunities.
Client Relationship Manager / Project Manager / Software Engineer
Aspect Software
12.2007 - 01.2015
- Talent & resource management responsibilities included managing the full employee lifecycle, including performance evaluations, career progression, recruitment, onboarding, and termination.
- Client relationship manager responsibilities included strategically managing resource allocation across client opportunities within the St. Louis geographical area.
- Project managed multiple Windows 8 design and development blocks in collaboration with Microsoft.
- Led a full stack cross-functional team in the successful upgrade of a classic ASP application to a .NET MVC framework, significantly enhancing reporting capabilities with SSRS enabling data encryption.
- Managed a database modernization effort migrating a SQL Server 2000 to 2008R2, meticulously removing deprecated features and executing multiple cycles of regression testing while successfully mitigating impact on parallel development efforts.
- Developed features and provided critical support for the Air Carrier Analysis System, enhancing safety oversight and integrated trend analysis capabilities for air carriers in the Department of Defense Air Transportation Program.
- Served as Interim Lead Tester, responsible for the quality assurance of incremental releases and coordinating overall testing initiatives for a critical tax form distribution and management application.
Software Engineer
AT&T
05.2002 - 12.2007
- Expertly extracted business requirements from internal stakeholders to develop detailed application designs and system flows, ensuring alignment with corporate standards, strategies, and application portfolio directions.
- Designed and successfully implemented a web-based application that provided dynamic reporting capabilities, significantly enhancing leadership's ability to analyze and interpret data efficiently.
- Streamlined application processing flows to ensure ongoing operational excellence. Identified and prioritized gaps through risk analysis, incorporating robust control mechanisms to increase data integrity and prevent anomalies.
- Optimized data ingestion processes by reengineering a key module, eliminating redundant processing and dependency on flat files by redesigning the application to transform data within the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
- Automated revenue reporting capability by developing COBOL program that automated the generation of monthly usage and aggregated product-level revenue data, feeding data directly into the central billing system.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL, USA01.2003
Skills
- Jira
- Atlassian tools
- Aha! product roadmapping software
- Google product suite
- Scaled agile
- Scrum
- Iterative development
- Release and branch management
- Software development lifecycle
- Google Cloud Platform
- Apigee Developer Portal
- Product life cycle
- Rest APIs
- Product strategy
- Product management
- Cloud technologies
- Product innovation
- Client relationship management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- User experience design
- Team leadership
- Performance evaluation
- Problem solving
- Project management
- Data-driven decision making
- Partnership development
- Product launch
- Design thinking
- Roadmap planning
- Strategic thinking
- Go-to-market strategy
- Stakeholder management
- Product vision
- Product lifecycle management
- Competitive intelligence
- Product differentiation
- Organizational skills
- Key performance indicators
- Excellent communication
- Process improvement
- Analytical thinking
Leadership Experience
- Led strategic client partnerships to resolve complex business and technical challenges while cultivating strong relationships with top strategic clients that resulted in defined value-driven solutions.
- Collaborated and maintained relationships with third-party data providers to optimize client experience through seamless API integrations.
- Skilled in fostering synergy across sales, product, implementation, go-to-market and engineering teams, as well as with executive leadership to achieve unified objectives. These relationships enabled alignment on the competitive landscape and opportunities to gain organic revenue and differentiate our product offerings in the market.
- Championed the adoption of AI tools and automation to drive transformative innovation within development teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Certified #IAmRemarkable Facilitator & Ambassador and Women in Technology Together (WATT) STL Chapter Leader, actively promoting self-advocacy, women in technology and fostering strong professional networks.
Certification
Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification
Accomplishments
2025 Best Supporting Actor Sales Kickoff Award
Timeline
Technical Product Leader / Director of Technology
Equifax
01.2015 - Current
Client Relationship Manager / Project Manager / Software Engineer
Aspect Software
12.2007 - 01.2015
Software Engineer
AT&T
05.2002 - 12.2007
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville