Rene Rusconi

As part of Koh'ls Technology, I lead high-impact product initiatives that drive measurable business value and operational efficiency across the Merchandise organization.

• Balance Team Leadership: Partnered with engineering, design, and SRE on a balanced team, bringing structure, stability, and clear direction to accelerate delivery and reduce waste.
• Product Delivery: Guided the successful rollout of a key pilot release, setting the foundation for scaled adoption, and enterprise-wide impact.
• Strategic Cost Savings: Spearheaded a product initiative projected to save 45,000+ man-hours annually, and $1.1M in payroll costs, delivering a pilot phase milestone on time and within its outcome scope.
• Enterprise Efficiency: Defined and scoped a new initiative projected to save $1.2M in subscription costs, and align with the portfolio's vision of simplifying the technology ecosystem.
• Practice Excellence: Established frameworks and processes that improved team collaboration, stakeholder alignment, and execution.
• Tech Investment Prioritization: Supported the team in prioritizing technology investments and reducing tech debt, enabling faster, more reliable releases.

As part of the Tanzu service team, I partner with clients to empower teams to build valuable things quickly - via promoting balanced team, agile, and lean practices.

• Define and drive product strategy, identify key outcomes & success metrics
• Discover customer problems and create valuable, desirable, and feasible solutions
• Work with developers and designers to define and prioritize a backlog that continuously delivers measurable value towards our vision
• Identify critical assumptions, define experiments, measure success, and use data to inform product and organizational level decisions
• Help key client and internal leaders innovate and iterate on lean/agile product management processes and build a healthy practice
• Coach my clients on how to do all these things themselves

• Same as above
• In December 2019, Pivotal Labs was acquired by VMware and renamed VMware Tanzu Labs

Nov 2017 - Aug 2018

• Paired with designers to help understand and prioritize user

personas, problems, needs, behaviors and wants

• Worked with key business stakeholders to help understand their top goals and problems
• Worked with designers and engineers to help define our

outcome-oriented product roadmap

• Partnered with engineering teams to write, scope, and prioritize

a backlog of engineering stories

• Leveraged both qualitative and quantitative information to help

understand our users needs and inform future builds

Mar 2015 - Nov 2017

• Coached leaders and teams across IT on product practices, and empowered them to imagine ways their operational teams could transform into agile product teams
• Facilitated groups across IT, up and down the org hierarchy, to define vision, goals, strategy, scope and risks for high priority efforts
• Collaborated with internal and external engineering teams to deliver against roadmaps for a variety of customer problem areas
• Made time sensitive and data-driven decisions for a product that was used 200+ times since MVP release
• Ensured that 130 service desk agents and their custom workflow functionality landed safely for a platform migration