Jade McVay Busbee
San Diego,CA
Summary
Bioinformatics-trained product owner with a Master's in Bioinformatics and hands-on experience leading instrumentation-software workflows for large-scale genomics. Skilled at translating scientific and operational requirements into Agile backlogs, driving cross-functional alignment, and delivering end-to-end solutions in regulated, high-throughput environments.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
Exact Sciences
08.2025 - Current
- Served as the core product owner for the LIMS system supporting cancer genomics analytics workflows.
- Defined and maintained the product backlog: created epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization aligned with strategic goals.
- Collaborated with laboratory scientists, bioinformaticians, and operations stakeholders to refine workflows.
Software Technical Product Manager
Illumina
10.2021 - 08.2025
- Acted as Software End-to-End TPM Lead for the MiSeq i100 Series development and launch.
- Managed global cross-platform features, verification, and documentation release of Illumina Run Manager.
- Oversaw the software development for the Illumina 5-base solution by maintaining collaboration with key customers.
- Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation and customer-facing guides.
- Implemented best planning practices to drive design and implementation timelines.
- Collaborated with Marketing, Regulatory, UX, UI, Systems Integration, Application, Instrument Software, and Quality teams to deliver FDA-compliant products.
- Participated as Scrum Master and trained new team members.
- Served as a key member on multiple interview panels.
Software Test Engineer
Illumina
09.2020 - 10.2021
- Acted as a manual Software Test Engineer for an Orchestration service and Copy Service system living on the NextSeq 2k and the NovaSeq 6000Dx.
- Served as Test Lead for the team and drove multiple verification and release cycles.
- Collaborated closely with QA to provide the proper documentation required for a diagnostic product.
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
Education
Master of Science - Bioinformatics
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD08-2024
Bachelor of Science - Bioengineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA06-2020
Skills
- Technical expertise
- Problem identification
- Problem resolutions
- Product lifecycle management
- Key relationship development
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Agile methodology
- Release planning
- Story planning
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Databases and SQL for Data Science
Timeline
Product Owner
Exact Sciences
08.2025 - Current
Software Technical Product Manager
Illumina
10.2021 - 08.2025
Software Test Engineer
Illumina
09.2020 - 10.2021
Master of Science - Bioinformatics
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Science - Bioengineering
University of California, Los Angeles