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Ryan Howard

Ryan Howard

Systems Specialist II, Product Owner
Tacoma,WA

Summary

Diligent Product Owner and Systems Specialist offering 6 years of industry success, including product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize efficiency and reduce touch points. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior internal systems deliveries.

Overview

4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Systems Specialist II, Product Owner

Tableau Software Inc
Seattle, WA
11.2018 - Current
  • Lead implementation on new customer community forum, internal search machine learning platform, and foreign language ticket platform. Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog, reducing tickets by 46%.
  • Designed roadmap for product team, year long and quarterly.
  • Trained employees in use of Git, overseeing on-boarding process and verifying trainee competence. Reduced system administrator overhead by 30 person hours per sprint.
  • Analyzed support specialist data to discover factors negatively impacting operational efficiency in Support systems, designing remedial methods of correction. Reduced average foreign language ticket resolution time by 48 hours.
  • Improved overall user experience through support, training, troubleshooting, improvements and communication of system changes.

IT Application Analyst II

Amazon
Seattle, WA
08.2016 - 11.2018
  • Performed troubleshooting, maintenance and optimization of CRM and ATS applications.
  • Provided international training to end users of new ATS systems built on CRM platform.
  • Assisted in identifying gaps between business requirements and application capabilities and recommend action steps.
  • Identified $12MM dollar cost saving opportunity with small touch configuration updates.
  • Managed customers' expectations of support and technology functionality in order to provide positive user experience.

Salesforce Systems Administrator

Transact Communications LLC
Lynnwood, WA
11.2015 - 08.2016
  • Listened to customer needs and desires to identify and recommend optimal system upgrades. Increased employee dials by 85% per day through digital phone implementation.
  • Coordinated with company president on external systems development timelines and project scope. Implemented 3 external products for internal use in 4 months.
  • Set up and controlled user profiles and access levels for each department.
  • Removed legacy programs and implemented new customer contact solutions. Reduced duplicate records by 100%.

Education

Professional Certification - Software Product Management

University of Washington
Seattle
04.2021 - Current

Professional Certification - Fintech, Machine Learning

University of Washington
Seattle
11.2020 - 05.2021

Bachelor of Arts - Finance

Seattle Pacific University
Seattle
09.2011 - 06.2015

Skills

Technical product development

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Timeline

Professional Certification - Software Product Management

University of Washington
04.2021 - Current

Professional Certification - Fintech, Machine Learning

University of Washington
11.2020 - 05.2021

Systems Specialist II, Product Owner

Tableau Software Inc
11.2018 - Current

IT Application Analyst II

Amazon
08.2016 - 11.2018

Salesforce Systems Administrator

Transact Communications LLC
11.2015 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Arts - Finance

Seattle Pacific University
09.2011 - 06.2015
Ryan HowardSystems Specialist II, Product Owner