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Andrew Bredin
Ladson,South Carolina
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Overview
19
years of professional experience
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Ontellus
Senior Product Manager
01.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Currently leading delivery of several product solutions across Ontellus teams
- Managed team of developers from concept to conception of the latest product offering at Ontellus
- I am responsible for maintaining product roadmaps that align with the product vision and company goals
- Work with stakeholders, SMEs and customers to gather business requirements for development projects
- Responsible for coordinating with cross functional teams, leadership, operations, design, and technology teams to plan and design complex solutions and workflows
- I determine project scope, timeline, and understand and identify minimum viable product requirements and prioritize accordingly
- This also includes prioritizing backlog and customer feature requests
Jackrabbit Online Class Management Software
Product Manager
10.2019 - 01.2022
Job overview
- Work closely with customers to understand their business, needs, pain points and workflows.
- Collaborate with customer support, sales, marketing, UI/UX, developers and QA to design, develop, test and deliver high-value product solutions for clients with an emphasis on usability and user experience in an agile environment.
- Own specific features in the Product Backlog and drive them from inception to delivery: vet, prioritize, groom, document the vision, user stories and acceptance criteria in preparation for development.
- Create appropriate, effective artifacts for communicating all feature requirements and UX/UI designs including low-fi UI mockups, wireframes or process flows.
- Analyze tradeoffs between usability, performance and development effort, make recommendations for how to proceed.
- Collaborate with QA Analysts in the test planning and execution, regression, and acceptance testing. Perform the role of a QA Analyst on projects as needed.
- Facilitate Alpha and Beta testing by leveraging data to identify the right clients to provide feedback on new features, gather and prioritize feedback and incorporate into future sprints.
- Own UAT, engaging customers and internal stakeholders to review and provide feedback for new features prior to release.
- Collaborate with Developers to ideate, develop, and deploy innovative and high-value product solutions for clients with an emphasis on throughput, usability, quality, and predictability.
- Rapidly develop an expert-level understanding of the end-to-end User Experience, understanding the nuances of the verticals we serve.
- Perform and integrate competitor & market analysis, usability studies, industry research, client surveys, and best practices into the right product improvements that will maximize revenue, minimize churn, and sustain our market leadership.
Blue Acorn iCiCharleston, South Carolina
Ecommerce Product Manager
03.2019 - 10.2019
Job overview
- Worked with both clients and internal teams to understand business goals and constraints in order to deliver solutions that achieve strategic business outcomes.
- Evaluate existing digital commerce applications to identify areas of improvement, enhancements, and modifications that provide strategic, operational, and/or other business benefits.
- Leads the planning and shaping of new initiatives to deliver digital commerce solutions, interfacing with clients, third parties, and internal technical teams.
- Leads client kickoff and discovery for new engagements, including management of functional, data, and systems discovery checklist.
- Accountable for both development and quality of project business requirements documents (BRDs).
- Facilitates demos, training, User Acceptance Testing, Go Live preparation, and other project milestones for clients and other key stakeholders.
Booz Allen HamiltonCharleston, South Carolina
Senior Product Owner
04.2015 - 02.2019
Job overview
- Worked as a Requirements Analyst for two development teams that create software for VA offices across the nation. Co-located with roughly 25 development staff (approximately 12 per team) and coordinate with Technical Leadership on scoping and delivering functional work using the Scrum/SAFE/Agile framework.
- Work day to day with stakeholders and Subject matter experts to ensure scope clarity, and acceptable functional/non-functional requirements and business goals.
- Conduct research, interviewing clients, business stakeholders, and end users to understand and identify challenges and opportunities.
- Successfully run sprint objectives such as Backlog Grooming, sprint planning, storyboards, retrospectives and sprint reviews.
- Act as a Product Owner/Manager of product features for several products.
- Create and own backlog of Epics/Features/User stories for each scrum team.
- Lead product demonstrations for clients and stakeholders.
- Lead User acceptance testing with end users, triaging of defects, reporting and remediation.
TWO MEN AND A TRUCKLansing, Michigan
Business Analyst / Project Manager
07.2013 - 01.2015
Job overview
- Working with business leaders, and development teams to create and design application software.
- Coordinate with technical & functional areas and appropriate vendors during escalated problem resolution, upgrades, etc.
- Provide tier 2 or 3 application support and services for internal and external software customers, including providing answers to questions, resolutions to problems and general assistance for the day-to-day operations of the customer's application using strong analytical & problem solving skills, and functional/technical expertise.
- Able to analyze business requirements and document design specifications for new requirements.
- Provides the necessary information for new business processes and recommend changes.
- Keeps abreast of all functional changes and inform the business units.
- Supports the business users implementing new or amended functionality or business process.
- Provides business process redesign analysis to support business changes and technology opportunities.
- Resolve any issues that cross multiple systems or areas which may affect the business process.
- Works under the direction of the project manager with regards to all application enhancements and upgrades.
- Supports the feasibility and initiation phases of project with respect to requirements definition.
- Formulates and define systems scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of business systems and industry requirements or enhancement.
- Provides business knowledge and analytical skills to project teams in support of system implementation improvement with an emphasis on automation and efficiency and enterprise cost savings.
VertaforeEast Lansing
Product Owner
08.2007 - 07.2013
Job overview
- Worked as a Product Owner, managing a development team of 8-12 members. Consistently challenged to deliver new products at high levels of sophistication.
- Worked day to day with local teams and a greater scale of up to 20-30 members involved in particular software releases.
- Took on both Product Management tasks including requirements gathering, planning, and design.
- Constantly learning new practices and incorporating them daily. Taken classes in Product Management, Product Ownership and Scrum Team Management.
- Lead a team of some of the most senior developers at our company, working on an all new product for a new market.
- Gather requirements and build use cases in order to provide marketable software.
- Work with stakeholders to ensure software being developed fully delivers on the customer's needs.
Summary
Senior Product Manager with 15 years taking software products from concept to market. Skilled at navigating complex web of suppliers, manufacturing collaborators and supply chain partners needed to bring production plans to fruition. Specializing in digital market products with willingness to learn and adapt to any field.
Education
Western Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI
Bachelor of Arts from Computer Information Systems
06.2001 - 12.2005
Skills
- Partnership building
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Project roadmap development
- Product enhancement strategy
- Pricing strategy
- Product marketing
- Product roadmaps
- Stakeholder management
- Product positioning
- Digital product management
- Technical acumen
- Product development
- Strategic planning
Certification
- Certified Product Manager
- Certified Product Owner
- Certified Scrum Master
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Software
Agile
Microsoft Project
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
Ontellus
01.2022 - Current
Product Manager
Jackrabbit Online Class Management Software
10.2019 - 01.2022
Ecommerce Product Manager
Blue Acorn iCi
03.2019 - 10.2019
Senior Product Owner
Booz Allen Hamilton
04.2015 - 02.2019
Business Analyst / Project Manager
TWO MEN AND A TRUCK
07.2013 - 01.2015
Product Owner
Vertafore
08.2007 - 07.2013
Western Michigan University
Bachelor of Arts from Computer Information Systems
06.2001 - 12.2005