Amanda C. Bogard
Senoia,GA
Summary
Professional with strong background in managing product lifecycles and driving project success. Skilled in agile methodologies, stakeholder management, and roadmap development. Focused on team collaboration, adapting to changing needs, and delivering tangible results. Known for clear communication, strategic planning, and problem-solving abilities.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner II
SMC3
Peachtree City, GA
07.2022 - Current
- Earned Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification.
- Define product vision and provide strategic direction to an Agile development team and stakeholders for an API-based product.
- Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog by ensuring the team has well-defined, ready-to-build user stories ahead of each sprint.
- Elicit, document, and communicate high-level functional and non-functional requirements to align business needs with technical delivery.
- Serve as the business proxy by managing competing priorities and guiding trade-off decisions throughout the SDLC.
- Create business analysis artifacts (process flows, business rules, prototypes) to clarify requirements and support shared understanding.
- Prioritize and sequence epics, features, and user stories based on business value across release and sprint planning cycles.
- Own scope and delivery outcomes by partnering with engineering to define milestones, manage expectations, and ensure successful releases.
- Collaborate with senior leaders and stakeholders to shape product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities.
- Promote continuous improvement by refining team practices, improving cross-functional collaboration, and reinforcing Agile discipline.
- Deliver client-facing product demonstrations, capture early feedback, and translate insights into actionable requirements for the development team.
- Partner with clients and engineering to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex challenges and integration issues.
- Develop integration documentation and user guides to streamline onboarding and support successful implementations.
Scrum Master III (ACSM)
SMC3
Peachtree City
03.2021 - 07.2022
- Earned Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) certification.
- Served as Scrum Master for two Agile Scrum teams.
- Coached teams and Product Owners on Scrum practices and reinforced consistent ceremony execution.
- Removed impediments to increase team focus, flow, and productivity.
- Identified opportunities for improvement and facilitated experiments to strengthen team performance.
- Maintained team working agreements and drove adherence to the Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD).
- Created and presented sprint metrics (burndown and planned vs. actual) during Sprint Reviews to support transparent status reporting.
- Partnered with Product Owners on story writing and backlog refinement; facilitated workshops, refinements, and retrospectives.
- Provided Product Owner coverage when needed to maintain momentum and ensure clear priorities.
- Trained and mentored new Scrum Masters to accelerate onboarding and improve consistency across teams.
- Supported team adherence to the Change Management Policy and reinforced change controls across releases.
- Co-authored the Change Management Policy.
SR QA Testing Engineer
Southern Motor Carriers (SMC)
Peachtree City, GA
07.2019 - 03.2021
- Led testing efforts for an Agile team delivering a complex API application.
- Designed, implemented, and executed automated integration tests using Java (RestAssured) and Postman.
- Analyzed, documented, and reported defects and functional discrepancies with clear reproduction steps and impact.
- Interviewed QA candidates in partnership with the QA Manager.
- Developed and reviewed QA applicant competency assessments.
- Onboarded, trained, and mentored new QA hires; reinforced testing standards and best practices.
QA Test Analyst (CSM)
Southern Motor Carriers (SMC)
Peachtree City, GA
04.2013 - 07.2019
- Executed manual testing and developed automated UI tests (Selenium WebDriver) and API tests (Java/RestAssured); supported Java coding tasks as needed.
- Led UI testing efforts across multiple web-based products.
- Validated UI functionality and identified defects in web-enabled systems.
- Performed web service testing using SOAP UI.
- Reviewed wireframes, requirements, and technical specifications to develop test cases and keep test plans current throughout the SDLC.
- Analyzed and validated rating data contained in flat files.
- Analyzed system requirements and specifications for comprehensive test coverage.
- Developed and executed detailed test plans to ensure software quality and functionality.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify, document, and resolve defects.
Software Developer/Tester
EMS Consultants
LaGrange, GA
03.2012 - 04.2013
- Developed enhancements for existing MVC3 and WPF applications.
- Troubleshot and resolved defects in production and in-progress application builds.
- Delivered full-stack updates using C#, Razor, JavaScript, and SQL.
- Executed end-to-end testing to validate new functionality and ensure release readiness.
Jr. Web Developer
CTA
Colorado Springs, CO
12.2008 - 03.2011
- Maintained a Secret security clearance (obtained June 2009).
- Enhanced an existing web-based application by delivering new functionality.
- Diagnosed and fixed application defects to improve stability and usability.
- Updated and maintained reports in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
- Developed and maintained solutions using Visual Basic, HTML, and SQL.
- Authored test cases to validate new functionality prior to each release.
- Executed end-to-end testing to verify release readiness.
Education
Master of Applied Computer Science -
State University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA01-2008
Bachelor of Science - Music Industry Management
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA01-2006
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- SQL
- RestAssured
- Lucid
- Product backlog management
- Roadmap development
- Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Feature prioritization
- Technical expertise
- Cross-departmental alignment
- Training and onboarding
- Fast learner
- Dedicated
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of 5 in the development of a new product for providing linehaul and accessorial charges for shipping clients and bringing it to market.
- Supervised team of 2 staff members.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner, SMC3 - 2023-Current
- Certified Advanced Scrum Master, SMC3 - 2021- Current
- SMC3 Certified Less Than Truckload, SMC3 - 2023
Timeline
Product Owner II
SMC3
07.2022 - Current
Scrum Master III (ACSM)
SMC3
03.2021 - 07.2022
SR QA Testing Engineer
Southern Motor Carriers (SMC)
07.2019 - 03.2021
QA Test Analyst (CSM)
Southern Motor Carriers (SMC)
04.2013 - 07.2019
Software Developer/Tester
EMS Consultants
03.2012 - 04.2013
Jr. Web Developer
CTA
12.2008 - 03.2011
Master of Applied Computer Science -
State University of West Georgia
Bachelor of Science - Music Industry Management
Georgia State University