Brandon Dempsey
Houston,TX
Summary
Experienced Product Owner with a significant background in managing cross-functional teams and overseeing product development from conception to market launch. Strengths include adeptness in Agile methodologies, strategic planning, backlog grooming and stakeholder management. Demonstrated ability to drive product vision, achieve team cohesion, and accomplish sprint goals, while ensuring alignment with product roadmap resulting in multiple successful development cycles.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Product Owner
The Office of Personnel Management
Houston, United States
08.2024 - Current
- Promotes teamwork and increased rapport using effective team-building tools in order to meet sprint goals
- Utilized project management techniques to coordinate, communicate, and track feature changes
- Managed backlog priorities based on dependencies and product roadmap timeline
- Informed leadership of key product changes and roadmap shifts
- Coordinated change requests from internal and external customers
- Created high-level processes and standards to increase efficiency in an agile framework
- Identified bottlenecks and dependencies across the development cycle and provided solutions for those dependencies
- Directed team efforts to meet goals and deadlines based on established roadmap and business requirements
- Work with the Data Analytics team to identify trends and create solutions
- Responded to complex help desk inquiries and provided remedies/solutions
- Created numerous product maps, processes, and user flows to aid in the creation of business rules for features and epics
- Experience with Agile DevOps, Azure, and various Kanban tools
- Led Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews
- Conducted oversight of the product development lifecycle – build, test, launch
- Coordinated and led UAT testing efforts
- Partnered with key stakeholders – Design, Policy, Business management, to understand key features and functionalities of a product developed
- Created detailed mapping of API actions across multiple platforms to illustrate functionality with development teams and leadership
- Led internal team of developers, designers, content strategists, engagement specialists, testers, and business analysts in multiple PI planning sessions
- United States Government – Houston, TX (Remote)
Business Analyst
The Office of Personnel Management
Houston, United States
09.2021 - 08.2024
- Served as a liaison between customers, product owners, design/content team, and development team
- Worked with customers to ensure product development met user needs
- Coordinated discovery and collaboration sessions with the development team
- Promoted teamwork using effective team-building tools
- Provided product demos to key stakeholders
- Stayed current on federal policies affecting product features
- Developed logic maps illustrating product functionality
- Monitored and resolved help desk inquiries
- Identified trends through customer feedback and regression testing
- Prepared reports by manipulating backend data and documentation around specific product features
- Conducted requirements gathering from customers and accurately provided solutions
- Responsible for decoding data analysis to determine user throughput
- United States Government – Houston, TX (Remote)
Manufacturing Manager
Halliburton Energy Services
Houston, United States
05.2019 - 09.2021
- Managed production scheduling, Quality Control, Warehouse and logistics departments (30 direct and indirect reports)
- SAP Super User: Monitored P&L for profitability using SAP metrics, ran reporting metrics from SAP for inventory reconciliation, personnel data, and cost accounting functions
- Performed long-term strategic planning for product development
- Reviewed business management policies for process improvement
- Developed training metrics for various departmental groups
- Managed budget on a Profit and Loss basis
- Led correction, prevention, and intervention activities
- Oversaw payroll functions and approvals
- Approved procurement card transactions
- Improved departmental processes for better information flow
- Led and mentored managers, counseling employees on performance metrics
- Developed Continuous Improvement plans and standard business practices
- Led leadership discussions and developed organizational processes
- Managed personnel issues per company policy
- Managed supply chain planning for over 10,000 unique SKUs
- Provided briefings, reports, and developed work methods
- Monitored P&L for profitability using SAP metrics
- Analyzed projects for cost savings and process efficiencies
- Estimated costs for large-scale technical projects
- Led high-level management of change exercises
- Developed customer surveys to gauge performance
- Supervised cross-functional teams for productivity and efficiency
Production Controller/Manager
Halliburton Energy Services
Houston, United States
08.2013 - 05.2019
- Strong ERP skills in regards to product costing, maintenance, and MRP schedules
- Directly responsible for material costing data for the plant and MRP planning schedules
- Worked with accounting group to align material and labor cost for greater profit margin in relation to COGS to meet department goals
- Effectively manages a group of 15 (direct reports) manufacturing assemblers, controllers, schedulers, and Electro-mechanical technicians through daily operations long term development programs, and all administrative functions
- Dynamic participant in Kaizen events and Lean development projects
- A major contributor to new product development through collaborative R&D and concurrent engineering projects
- Responsible for the Plant Planning program and daily Material Requirements planning for inventory in excess of $14,000,000
- Expanded knowledge by acquiring many roles in SAP outside of the scope of the typical production manager capacity, to include planning elements
- Managed the scheduling of 4,000+ labor hours every month during peak activity periods
- Responsible for Safety program administration and employee trainee development
- Managed all costs related to the manufacturing process
- Interfaced with vendors and engineering team members to develop engineered solutions
- Created numerous standards that outline manufacturing and business processes within the organization using Microsoft Visio
- Experience in product costing, from fix/variable labor costs to direct product costs
- Ability to adjust production cycles for maximization of PPV and MV so as not to run a negative P&L
- Ensured correct staffing levels to meet set productivity and output goals
- Lead the production group in building one of the most high-profile projects for the Halliburton Baroid Group – the Baralogix real-time data system
- Halliburton MVP award recipient for identifying cost savings concerning in-house production (labor cost) vs vendor sourced material and product
- Served as the IPC certified training instructor for the organization
- Assisted in the coordinating and vetting procurement of items required in the production cycle
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration
University of Houston - Downtown
Houston, TX, United States05-2017
Skills
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Scaled agile certified
- Azure DevOPs
- GitHub Release control
- User acceptance testing
- Scrum framework
- Story planning
- Feature prioritization
- Roadmap development
- Agile methodology
- Software development fundamentals
- Business analysis
- Release planning
- Product backlog management
- IPC 610 training instructor
- Product management
- SAP
- Workflow optimization
- Forecasting and planning
- Business process modeling
Certification
- SAFe Certified
- CSPO Certification
Awards
- DOD – Patriotic Employer - ESGR
- Air Force Achievement Medal - 317th Airlift Group
- Halliburton MVP award recipient
- OPM Star Award Recipient
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Agile Product Owner
The Office of Personnel Management
08.2024 - Current
Business Analyst
The Office of Personnel Management
09.2021 - 08.2024
Manufacturing Manager
Halliburton Energy Services
05.2019 - 09.2021
Production Controller/Manager
Halliburton Energy Services
08.2013 - 05.2019
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration
University of Houston - Downtown
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