Rita Mathiason

Key member of a complex software development project who performed many roles. Continually broadened abilities that fulfilled project needs, and met challenging business deliverables. Became subject-matter expert for digital assets, content, and functionality.

• Received Shutterfly's “Own It” award for outstanding commitment and dedication.

Project Management - Built strong relations and collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams, including contractors and developers. Provided direction, conducted demonstrations, and shared in-depth product knowledge.

• Efficient in Agile, Scrum methodologies, Atlassian, JIRA, Confluence, and Kanban.
• Outlined features, created epics, wrote user stories, acceptance criteria. Built reference materials, tracked progress, managed backlog, monitored resources.

Technical Product Owner - Defined requirements for customer-facing and internal applications, including precise technical specifications for intricate functionality. Worked directly with developers to incorporate into code. Verified results to assure accuracy.

• Acted as UI/UX designer as needed. Created mockups or wireframe diagrams. Introduced features or enhancements based on expertise as designer, and end-user. Focused on consistency and best possible user experience.
• Performed comprehensive QA/UAT testing in many applications. Evaluated functionality, identified issues, defined improvements, and communicated findings.
• Defined requirements for custom APIs that improved quality and productivity. Implemented duplication scripts which saved 1000+ hours.
• Defined solutions to improve functionality, scalability, and performance.

CMS Manager/Lead/Content Manager - Appointed as manager/lead of the content management system after 1.5 years experience.

• Created JIRAs, assigned tasks, tracked code changes, oversaw progress, gave direction/feedback, approved pull requests, and assured smooth deployments.
• Organized structures, performed import/export functions, created document types, and ran queries.
• Proposed automated analysis that verified consistency between environments.
• Managed and processed thousands of data entries; imported and linked images to corresponding content.
• Defined requirements to concurrently support three levels of content.
• Implemented custom APIs to fetch documents. Ran scripts that automated data upload. Reduced time by 100+ hours and assured 100% accuracy.

Digital Asset Manager – Solely responsible for managing the application’s vast collection of digital assets and layout templates, and their periodic releases.

• Created framework and strict standards for metadata, taxonomy, vocabularies.
• Coordinated efforts between sales, marketing, creative, production, and dev teams. Provided definition or direction, assured compliance with data/design requirements.
• Organized and managed image libraries, files, and multiple databases. Retrieved archived files and performed revisions.
• Compiled specifications and procedures into comprehensive reference guides.
• Owned, maintained, and published Master Data for company-wide reference.
• Conducted in-depth usage analysis to support decision-making.
• Performed substantial testing and quality control steps. Analyzed metadata and validated input to assure absolute accuracy.
• Worked with developers to build standalone Python apps that analyzed files and generated results in seconds versus 100+ hours of visual inspection.

Production/Technical Support - Managed/processed jobs that required developer intervention. Identified roadblocks, diagnosed root causes, and expedited solutions.

• Engaged specialists to identify/correct content to improve printed products.

Enjoyed a fast-paced career in product development. Started at the onset of digital imaging, then progressed with advancing technologies in the software, photographic, and printing industries. Participated in executive-level strategic planning. Focused on generating revenue through increased sales, decreased costs, and improved efficiencies.

• One of three engineers who developed a digital imaging patent that revolutionized the business and gave the company significant competitive advantages.
• Contributed results that drove revenue into the billion-dollar range, escalating the company to Fortune 500 status and national market leader.
• Acknowledged by leadership at company-wide events for outstanding contributions and excellence.
• Introduced digital products, increased sales by millions in the first season.
• Progressively increased division sales to $100 million/year.

Developed and managed the pre-production needs of digital products. Designed, configured, set up, and managed thousands of product templates for multiple divisions and product lines following different requirements per processing lab. Defined technical product specifications and created blueprints for each product. Provided engineers with requirements. Implemented unique numbering systems and managed the master database of product codes.

• Successfully implemented methods that produced high-quality products, drove company growth, improved company profits, increased market shares, and strengthened customer satisfaction.
• Performed quick turnaround of concepts into production-ready templates. Prepared files for E-commerce. Met rigid deadlines with 100% accuracy.
• Customized designs for center-based customers which strengthened partnerships, secured competitive edge, and increased market share.