Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS & EXPERTISE
Timeline
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HEATHER P

HEATHER P

PM Product | PMP | Lean Six Sigma | Executive

Summary

Experienced Senior Product Manager skilled in leading product design teams and driving the development of innovative products that meet market needs and surpass user expectations. Proficient in design thinking and adept at fostering cross-functional collaboration for project success. Recognized for identifying revenue-maximizing opportunities, driving market growth, and executing successful product marketing strategies.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
Certification

Work History

Product Design Manager

SVPM Silicon Valley Project Management
01.2022 - 01.2025

Driving Steady Customer Base Growth:

  • Boosted market share by 33% and increased product content by 35%, directly enhancing customer acquisition and meeting evolving customer demands.
  • Accelerated MVP content and product development by 56% and expedited go-to-market timelines, ensuring rapid delivery of high-value offerings to customer base.
  • Managed product teams to exceed objectives, resulting in a 31.9% increase in user engagement and heightened subscriber adoption across social media platforms.
  • Leveraged AI machine learning to craft high-impact marketing campaigns and social media content, significantly expanding market reach and customer interaction.
  • Applied PMO methodologies and lean startup methods to align strategic roadmaps, securing sustained business market growth and customer success.

Expanding Business Service Lines:

  • Defining design, scope, market research, and product requirements for initiatives like a new training video series, which successfully secured funding and launched on time and within budget.
  • Spearheaded first product roadmap that improved operational efficiency by 30% and increased ROI on product delivery cycles by 25%.
  • Collaborated with executive leadership to align startup initiatives with strategic vision, ensuring customer expansion to define business strategic plan with KPI's and OKR's outcomes.

Enhancing Offerings for Incoming Students:

  • Increased training program participation by 40% and boosted return program student rate by 50%, critically reducing program dropouts and strengthening educational offerings.
  • Improved workforce retention on Learning Management Systems (LMS) by 22%, directly contributing to a reduction in recruitment costs and fostering a stable, high-performing learning environment.
  • Facilitated 29 cohorts through virtual sprint ceremonies, strategically utilizing burn down charts and JIRA data metric reports to motivate and empower intern teams. Oversaw training, onboarding programs, and exit user surveys for simple technology integration and automation.
  • Conducted user surveys, user research, market competitor analysis, wrote PRDs, created Figma prototypes, designed, wrote SQL queries, performed A/B testing, and data analysis.

Supply Chain Management Fulfillment Specialist

Curative Health
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Avoided CMS audit fines of $335,000 by ensuring medical staff were well-trained in EMR Massive Transfusion, Bloodless Medicine, Hospice order set, and Language Line use, complying with CMS requirements.
  • Led and facilitated clinical workflow for medical staff training on EMR, resulting in receiving Mayo Clinic AHA accreditation, plus OR - ED - Psych ward re-designs to elevate Leapfrog scores.
  • Managed Supply Chain Inventory Workflow, Hospital Administration, and Construction Management.
  • Ensured HIPAA compliance, managed Clinical Laboratory Medical operations, Claims Processing, and IT UKG Payroll Implementation.
  • Oversaw Data Migration / Workday SaaS and SOP document creation, and conducted Lab Compliance Audits and Covid Testing operations.
  • Managed Patient Case Management and Insurance Claims and Coding.
  • Performance Process Improvement Project Manager | MedStar Hospital Healthcare | 2017-2021

Program Manager

FAA Contract PPG
01.2016 - 01.2017
  • Managed Budget, Payroll, and Financial Forecasts for federal contracts.
  • Led Change Management Contracts and Enterprise-wide Change Management.
  • Ensured Data Security, Governance, Policies, and Regulations compliance.
  • Utilized Power BI, Tableau, Vizient, EPIC, and Salesforce for data management and reporting.
  • Fostered Cross-functional Collaboration and Problem Solving.

Project Manager/Facility Supervisor/Business Analyst

DoD Pentagon Contractor
01.2009 - 01.2015

CLR / Alion Science Technology

  • Achieved A3 strategic KPI metric development and cost savings of $46.4 million through leading Kaizen events to eliminate process errors, duplicates, and system gaps across enterprise-wide federal software programs.
  • Managed Program Management across FAA, DoD, Joint Forces, and led Change and Process Improvement Projects.
  • Supervised Finance, Payroll, and Budget Contracts.
  • Led Employee Training, Scheduling, and learning models.
  • Managed Facility, Security, and Property Management.
  • Utilized Lean Six Sigma Black Belt expertise for project execution.
  • Conducted Dataset, Data Analysis, and Data Analytics.
  • Corporate Account Executive; Regional Manufacturing Quality Manager; Sales Account Representative; Leadership Management Trainee | Fortune 500 Companies (Various)
  • Managed clients and 15 vendors across Biotech, Consumer Goods, Retail, Food, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive, Insurance, Transportation, and Finance Industries.
  • Ensured higher quality products, services, business efficiencies, and raising customer satisfaction through adherence to ISO 9000 best practices.

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Entrepreneurship

Florida State University

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Chemistry and Business Administration

University of Florida

Biochemistry (Studies)

University of Texas at Austin

Skills

  • Technology and Tools: Office (MS 365, Excel, Microsoft CoPilot), Google Workspace (Google Analytics, Google Gemini), Slack, Smartsheet, Epic EMR, Notion, Miro, GitHub, Etsy, Shopify, Discord, Adobe Cloud, SAS, Salesforce, Workday, CRM, Asana, Trello, JIRA, UKG, NetSuite, Figma, Power BI, Tableau, Vizient, WordPress, Microsoft Azure, Maven, Terraform, EMR, EHR, SQL
  • Product Management & Strategy: Product Design, Product Road Mapping, Product Strategies, Product Development, Product-Led Growth, Product Market Expansion, MVP Development, Innovation, Go-to-Market Strategy, User Research, Market Analysis, Market Competitors, Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), Prototypes (Figma), Design, A/B Testing, Pricing Strategy, User Surveys, Category Engineering, Strategic Thinking, Strategic Management, Executive Decision Making, Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Project & Program Management: Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Project Planning, Program Management, PMO Methodologies, Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Change Management, Process Improvement, Budgeting, Financial Forecasting, Contract Management, Risk Analysis and Management, Facilitation, Supply Chain Management, Procurement Contracts
  • Data & Analytics: Data Analysis (Excel, SAS), Data-Driven Decision Making, Quantitative Research, JIRA Data Metric Reports, Burn Down Charts, SQL Queries, A/B Testing, Datasets, Business Analytics, KPI Metric Development, AI Machine Learning
  • Marketing & Customer Growth: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Marketing, Website Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Service, Market Trends, Market Competition Analysis, Online Business Optimization, Positioning (Marketing), Customer Success Growth, AI machine learning for marketing campaigns and content
  • Leadership & Operations: Executive Management, Executive Leadership, Team Management, Employee Onboarding, Employee Training, Training & Development, Mentoring, Coaching, Workforce Retention, Human Capital Management (HCM), Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Organizational Transformation, Operational Efficiency
  • Health Care Performance Management, Healthcare Compliance, Telehealth, EHR/EMR Informatics, Clinical Laboratory Medical, Patient Case Management, Claims Processing, Hospital Administration, HIPAA, OSHA, HACCP, GMPs, ISO 9000, Biotech, Consumer Goods, Retail, Food, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive, Insurance, Transportation, Finance Industries
  • Mobile app design
  • Digital product design
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Product vision and strategy
  • Attention to detail
  • Critical thinking
  • Prioritization and execution
  • Roadmap development
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Cross functional leadership
  • Staff management
  • Jira, atlassian, rally
  • User and UX research
  • Project management
  • End to end feature delivery
  • KPI tracking
  • Brand building
  • Data analytics
  • Research and trend analysis
  • Financial management
  • Stakeholder relations
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Product positioning
  • ROI analysis
  • Agile software development
  • Technology and Tools: Office (MS 365, Excel, Microsoft CoPilot), Google Workspace (Google Analytics, Google Gemini), Slack, Smartsheet, Epic EMR, Notion, Miro, GitHub, Etsy, Shopify, Discord, Adobe Cloud, SAS, Salesforce, Workday, CRM, Asana, Trello, JIRA, UKG, NetSuite, Figma, Power BI, Tableau, Vizient, WordPress, Microsoft Azure, Maven, Terraform, EMR, EHR, SQL
  • Product development
  • Vendor management
  • Competitive analysis
  • Category growth
  • Google workspace
  • Search engine optimization
  • A/B testing
  • Scrum framework
  • Stakeholder management
  • Customer segmentation
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Requirements gathering
  • Wireframe design
  • Business administration
  • Product roadmaps
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Digital marketing
  • User testing
  • Content strategy
  • Design leadership
  • Sketching and ideation
  • Design thinking
  • Visual design
  • Team management
  • Product strategy
  • Strategic thinking

Certification

  • Certified Lead Facilitator
  • Agile Project Management
  • Sustainability Project Manager Specialization
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate
  • Prosci Change Practitioner/Transformation Coach
  • Lean Six Sigma / Kaizen Train the Trainer
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • Boosted market share by 33% and increased product content by 35%, directly enhancing customer acquisition and meeting evolving customer demands.
  • Accelerated MVP content and product development by 56% and expedited go-to-market timelines, ensuring rapid delivery of high-value offerings.
  • Increased training program participation by 40% and boosted return program student rate by 50%, critically reducing program dropouts and strengthening educational offerings.
  • Managed product teams to exceed objectives, resulting in a 31.9% increase in user engagement and heightened subscriber adoption across social media platforms.
  • Improved workforce retention on Learning Management Systems (LMS) by 22%, directly contributing to a reduction in recruitment costs.
  • Delivered product roadmaps that improved operational efficiency by 30% and increased ROI on product delivery cycles by 25%.
  • Achieved $46.4 million in cost savings through leading Kaizen events to eliminate process errors, duplicates, and system gaps across enterprise-wide federal software programs.
  • Avoided CMS audit fines of $335,000 by ensuring medical staff were well-trained in EMR systems and compliance.

ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS & EXPERTISE

  • 15 years of Project Management experience
  • 10 years of Executive Leadership experience
  • 5 years of Product Design / Strategy experience
  • 4 years of Digital Marketing experience
  • Proven expertise in Negotiation and Vendor Procurement
  • Strong background in Critical Thinking and Process Improvement
  • Extensive experience with Customer/Client Growth Service

Timeline

Product Design Manager

SVPM Silicon Valley Project Management
01.2022 - 01.2025

Supply Chain Management Fulfillment Specialist

Curative Health
01.2021 - 01.2022

Program Manager

FAA Contract PPG
01.2016 - 01.2017

Project Manager/Facility Supervisor/Business Analyst

DoD Pentagon Contractor
01.2009 - 01.2015

Biochemistry (Studies)

University of Texas at Austin

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Entrepreneurship

Florida State University

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Chemistry and Business Administration

University of Florida
HEATHER P PM Product | PMP | Lean Six Sigma | Executive