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Tanzania Crew

Collierville,TN

Summary

Diligent Senior Product Manager offering 10 years of success in product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Manager/Product Designer

Braintrust (Contractor)
04.2022 - Current
  • Leads complex digital initiatives involving multiple organizations and companies to define project scope, product requirements, wireframes, features and benefits, and content needed to achieve objectives
  • Uses web analytics as well as sales and customer feedback to identify enhancement and optimization opportunities as well as drive strategic decisions for programs and products
  • Serve as liaison and Single Point of Contact (SPOC) between technical and business partners/stakeholders
  • Partner with stakeholders to translate the product vision into a product strategy
  • Own and manage the product roadmap (including prioritization from sessions with stakeholders)
  • Translates the product roadmap into manageable product features in the backlog
  • Write compelling product requirements and user stories
  • Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
  • Set success metrics and measures impact of product, features, and iterations post-release to guide next iterations/product releases
  • Proactively identify, manage, and communicate risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs
  • Proactively communicate status, priorities, risks, and mitigation strategies and ensure operational support for product delivery
  • Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies
  • Plan and coordinate user acceptance testing of new application features
  • Support our architects, data analysts and data scientists on data initiatives to ensure efficient and consistent data delivery throughout ongoing projects
  • Utilized sketches, wireframes, user and workflow diagrams, research, usability testing, and UI design systems to successfully build and deploy user-centered internal applications and customer facing products
  • Customer journey mapping
  • UX research and analytics
  • Customer experience analytics & reporting, which includes primary research on customers and service providers.

IT Group Product Manager

Williams Sonoma
04.2018 - 04.2022

• Independently initiates, identifies, researches, analyzes, defines, and documents business requirements to support company objectives.
• Uses detailed knowledge of application features and functions to assess scope and impact of business needs.
• Identifies, communicates, and coordinates with all affected stakeholders
• Identifies and documents cross-functional and cross-divisional, functional requirements, workflow, information resources and distribution paths, and system specifications.
• Conducts and participates in analysis of business processes and functional requirements and in preparation of appropriate documentation to communicate and validate information.
• Produces workflow, process diagrams and gap analysis reports.
• Identifies overlaps on related processes.
• Designs and write specifications for interface and conversion needs for data
• Analyzes and defines efficient, cost-effective solutions that support business processes and functional requirements.
• Evaluates existing application products that could address requirements and develops recommendations where appropriate.
• Evaluates alternative operational efficiencies.
• Documents and refines system modifications.
• Coordinates installation and first use of new applications.
• Resolves issues related to an application involving team members, vendors, business members, etc. and escalates as needed.
• Assists in planning, developing, and executing test plans.
• Assists in development of project plans, work plans, schedules, milestones, critical paths, detailed tasks, and deliverables.
• Provides product expertise to business groups, delivers presentations, demonstrations, and training for application systems.
• Assists with design and implementation of training programs for new and enhanced application.
• Maintains issue logs, tracks/follows up on problems.
• Acts as resource in understanding how IT systems carry out business functions.

Product Manager & UI/UX Designer

ServiceMaster
11.2015 - 04.2018
  • Requirements gathering and analysis for multiple projects simultaneously
  • Serves as a liaison and facilitator between business units to assist in addressing and resolving IT software issues
  • Defines application problems by conferring with clients and evaluating procedures and processes
  • Leads and conduct the investigation, analysis and documentation of business and functional requirement specifications
  • Manage JIRA tickets through the Agile SDLC
  • Create Business Requirement Documents, User Stories, UAT Plan, UAT Scenarios, Change Enablement Plan, Use Cases, Business Domain Models, Production Support Plan, and Error Logs
  • Train end users to use newly implemented software
  • Perform QA via manual testing and automated testing
  • Writing automated test scripts using the Perfecto Mobile Automation Tool and Eclipse Java
  • Utilized sketches, wireframes, user and workflow diagrams, research, usability testing, and UI design systems to successfully build and deploy user-centered internal applications and customer facing products
  • Customer journey mapping
  • UX research and analytics
  • Customer experience analytics & reporting, which includes primary research on customers and service providers.

Senior Business Systems Analyst (Contractor)

ALSAC/ St. Jude
07.2014 - 11.2015
  • Requirements gathering and analysis for multiple projects simultaneously
  • Serves as a liaison and facilitator between National Direct Marketing and IT to assist in addressing and resolving IT software issues
  • Defines application problems by conferring with clients and evaluating procedures and processes
  • Leads and conduct the investigation, analysis and documentation of business and functional requirement specifications
  • Troubleshoot technical issues and identify modifications needed in existing applications to meet user requirements
  • Create use cases and participate in user acceptance testing
  • Provide SQL administration in live and test environments
  • Write technical procedures and documentation for the applications including user guide, training manuals, etc
  • Verify database and data integrity
  • Create Business Requirement Documents, User Stories, UAT Plan, UAT Scenarios, Change Enablement Plan, Use Cases, Business Domain Models, Production Support Plan, and Error Logs
  • Train end users to use newly implemented software
  • Perform QA
  • Track software related metrics in terms of schedules, efforts, defects, etc..

Digital Project Manager & UI/UX Designer

American Home Shield
03.2013 - 02.2014
  • Managing enterprise wide ERP/CRM implementation project
  • Managing vendor relationships, project teams, and schedule
  • Managing 5 or more projects simultaneously for five different Directors
  • Supporting projects throughout the solution development life cycle, from establishing vision and scope to validating requirements in the testing phase
  • Communicating day-to-day decisions, priorities and relevant project information to senior leaders
  • Obtaining and defining requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis
  • Proactively communicating and collaborating with project team and external clients to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs
  • Creating test steps of the marketing processes for the Infosys team
  • Performing Usability Testing
  • Creating wireframes using Axure, site maps, process maps and feature lists to reflect the intended user experiences
  • Completed UI/UX design for AHS appointment scheduling tool which included creating customer personas, customer journey mapping, usability testing, analyzing usability feedback, and creating wireframes.

Software Developer/Product Designer

First Tennessee Bank
04.2010 - 04.2013
  • Responsible for designing and developing web forms and applications for the Credit Operations division
  • Developed applications and forms using Classic ASP, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, CSS, and AJAX
  • Enhanced and supported reports, websites, and programs using SQL queries, SQL stored procedures, VBScript, Oracle Forms, and Crystal Reports
  • Wrote specialized SQL queries to extract information from SQL Servers
  • Fine tuned SQL statements and procedures to enhance the load performance in various schemas across databases
  • Created custom reports using Crystal Reports 10 and SQL
  • Managed a SQL database using SQL Server Manager
  • Gathered business requirements to determine ways to make Credit Operations more efficient
  • Performed User Acceptance Testing of the Functional Requirements of the systems and business processes
  • Communicated project status on a regular basis as it relates to project schedule
  • Involved in the development of technical specifications
  • Coded, tested, debugged, documented, and maintained web forms, applications, and reports
  • Worked as a Sharepoint Administrator to manage and monitor the team's tickets and requests
  • Supported for applications, online forms, and users within the Credit Operations division.

Systems Analyst

International Paper
09.2007 - 04.2010
  • Developed, tested and documented operations for the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) using Oracle 10g SQL, Crystal Reports, JavaScript and Apriso FlexNet
  • Created custom reports using Crystal Reports 10 and SQL
  • Managed an Oracle 9i database using Toad and SQL
  • Coded, tested, debugged, documented, and maintained programs
  • Managed and Monitored SAP R/3 Data
  • Worked as a TPR (Test Problem Report) Administrator to manage and monitor the team's TPR and assign TPRs to resources when necessary
  • Involved in the development of functional specifications for internal MES support transactions
  • Provided technical support to IP Container plants
  • Maintained testing landscape SQL servers
  • Supported a custom warehouse inventory tracking application (FlexNet)
  • Troubleshoot network connectivity between clients and servers
  • Wrote and updated documentation as needed
  • Resolved technical issues with end users.

Education

Master of Science - Communications Management

Webster University
St Louis, MO
08.2012

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Information Systems

University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
08.2005

Skills

  • SAP, Salesforce, Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, Postman, JIRA, Confluence, DevOps, Mural
  • JavaScript, SQL, HTML, XHTML, AJAX, ASP, CSS
  • Adobe Creative Suites
  • Software Implementation
  • Agile
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Product Development
  • Project Management
  • Competitive Market Analysis
  • Product Metrics
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Cross Functional Leadership
  • Design thinking
  • Customer research
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Product Strategy
  • Product Documentation
  • Go-to-Market Strategies
  • Product Training
  • Product Team Leadership
  • Product Enhancement
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Data Analytics
  • Strategic Planning and Alignment
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Training and Onboarding
  • Strategic Planning
  • Product Roadmaps
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Product Launches

Timeline

Senior Product Manager/Product Designer

Braintrust (Contractor)
04.2022 - Current

IT Group Product Manager

Williams Sonoma
04.2018 - 04.2022

Product Manager & UI/UX Designer

ServiceMaster
11.2015 - 04.2018

Senior Business Systems Analyst (Contractor)

ALSAC/ St. Jude
07.2014 - 11.2015

Digital Project Manager & UI/UX Designer

American Home Shield
03.2013 - 02.2014

Software Developer/Product Designer

First Tennessee Bank
04.2010 - 04.2013

Systems Analyst

International Paper
09.2007 - 04.2010

Master of Science - Communications Management

Webster University

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Information Systems

University of Memphis
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