Steven Browning
Kirkwood,United States
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Product Owner (IT Business Analyst)
Express Scripts/ Evernorth (Cigna)
St Louis, MO
04.2016 - 03.2024
- Gathered business requirements for client-requested functionality and supervised team of developers and QA analysts, to implement successful product.
- Developed product roadmaps, strategies and timelines for new products.
- Created presentations outlining product features and benefits to internal stakeholders.
- Collaborated with engineering team to ensure successful product launches.
- Coordinated the day-to-day activities of a cross-functional product development team.
- Provided technical guidance on product design, usability, scalability, performance and security.
- Identified opportunities for improvement in existing products through user testing and analysis.
- Communicated regularly with customers to understand their needs and develop solutions that meet them.
- Led collaboration between teams from different departments to ensure successful delivery of projects.
- Maintained accurate records of all product changes and updates.
- Defined success criteria for each project milestone.
- Oversaw quality assurance processes throughout the entire product lifecycle.
- Evaluated feedback from customers regarding functionality issues or requests for enhancements.
- Documented system specifications, use cases, business rules, process flows and other technical details associated with the product launch.
- Participated in regular meetings with senior management to provide progress updates on initiatives.
- Partnered with business customers to clearly develop and communicate strategic vision and product roadmap.
- Demonstrated expertise in resourcing, scheduling, budgeting, risk management and overall project leadership.
- Translated epics into stories to enable development teams to understand scope and prepared user stories to support iterative delivery of product.
- Collaborated with development engineering and marketing to translate features into consumable user stories.
- Conducted customer and stakeholder interviews to identify needs and requirements.
- Directed stakeholder communication and reported status, issues and changes to technical and business leadership.
- Managed product and project risks, scope changes and other non-standard events throughout product planning and development.
- Maintained close connection with project personnel to quickly identify and resolve problems.
- Kept project teams on-task with proactive control of budgets, schedules and scopes.
- Monitored milestones and deliverables to stay ahead of schedules and proactively spot potential roadblocks.
- Updated project plans based on changing objectives, specifications and staff availability.
- Maintained project schedules by managing deadlines and adjusting workflow.
- Identified, addressed and either resolved or escalated project issues.
- Defined scopes, managed resources and oversaw schedules in line with stakeholder and project owner specifications.
- Assigned specific tasks to personnel, balancing scheduling demands, available resources and personal skill sets to achieve best possible project outcomes.
- Oversaw team of up to 5 software engineers, project milestone completion and quality of work performed.
Programmer Analyst/Software Engineer
Express Scripts Inc
St. Louis, MO
03.1999 - 04.2016
- Developed and implemented software solutions to improve the efficiency of existing systems.
- Analyzed user requirements, developed detailed system design specifications and wrote program code for applications.
- Tested, debugged and corrected errors in programs to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Maintained existing software systems by identifying and correcting software defects.
- Collaborated with other programmers to create optimized programming solutions.
- Created automated scripts to streamline processes and reduce manual labor time.
- Prepared technical documentation including flowcharts, diagrams, manuals, reports. related to programming projects.
- Performed data analysis on large datasets using SQL queries and stored procedures.
- Identified areas of improvement in current systems architecture and suggested suitable changes.
- Resolved issues reported by users in a timely manner while adhering to SLAs.
- Participated in regular meetings with stakeholders to discuss project progress.
- Reviewed code written by peers for quality assurance before releasing it into production.
- Implemented and tested enhancement feature requests to improve product functionality and extend performance.
- Tackled development tasks based on system requirements and documented approaches.
- Participated in team-oriented environments, working cohesively and successfully on multiple projects.
- Reviewed project documentation and made important changes to match updates to project scope.
- Responded to escalated issues and implemented successful resolutions to resolve conflicts and restore project trajectory.
- Drafted design objectives and system design documents.
- Oversaw each project's technical requirements and completed every milestone on time.
- Performed regression and performance tests for updated systems.
- Oversaw deployment, configuration and documentation procedures for COBOL, JCL.
- Met with and collaborated with clients in discussion sessions to make parties aware of project specifications pertaining to applications, databases and systems.
- Met with stakeholders, product teams and customers throughout system development lifecycle.
Manager of Mainframe Development Team
Bi-State Development Agency (Metro)
St. Louis, MO
03.1998 - 02.1999
- Managed mainframe development team across multiple applications.
Programmer Analyst
Bi-State Development Agency (Metro)
St. Louis, MO
02.1994 - 02.1998
Programmer Analyst
OAO Corp.
St. Louis, MO
02.1988 - 01.1994
Timeline
Technical Product Owner (IT Business Analyst)
Express Scripts/ Evernorth (Cigna)
04.2016 - 03.2024
Programmer Analyst/Software Engineer
Express Scripts Inc
03.1999 - 04.2016
Manager of Mainframe Development Team
Bi-State Development Agency (Metro)
03.1998 - 02.1999
Programmer Analyst
Bi-State Development Agency (Metro)
02.1994 - 02.1998
Programmer Analyst
OAO Corp.
02.1988 - 01.1994
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