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Winnie Messa

Winnie Messa

Portland,Oregon

Summary

Systematic Product Owner with a detail-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers. Excellent planner and problem-solver with in-depth understanding of customer-facing products. Ready to offer 4 years of experience and take on a dynamic new position.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Software Product Owner

Daimler Trucks North America
Portland, Oregon
02.2021 - Current


  • Led a team of 1 scrum master , 1 solutions architect and 5 developers.
  • Spearheaded entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery, and met 96% of all feature deadlines by identifying and mitigating any engineering roadblocks.
  • Created user stories acceptance criteria to get buy-in from stakeholders and refined those stories with Scrum teams.
  • Owned the planning and scheduling of two-week agile sprints and articulated the product vision to stakeholders, resulting in hitting 98% of the product goals defined at the beginning of the year in 2021.
  • Managed and re-prioritized the product backlog for safety and fuel analytics resulting in coming under budget by an average of $15,000 on projects.
  • Developed a data-driven project management culture by building KPI dashboards for executives around feature development and product life-cycles. Average safety event records: 1.1K per hour, 26.4K/day 803K/month.
  • Worked cross-functionally with product strategy, channel and marketing teams to understand customer pain-points and translate them into actionable user stories.
  • Created and improved 33% of systems and protocols to share work and information related to metrics measurement, business operations, and operations management.
  • Fostered open communication between executive stakeholders, engineering, and marketing, understand customer demand for new features and prioritize the product roadmap, resulting in a speed improvement of the feature development life-cycle by 22% year over year.
  • Generated actionable insights to help solve customers related issues using Alteryx and KQL, improving time to resolution by 10%.


Safety Systems Engineer

Daimler Trucks North America
Portland, Oregon
01.2019 - 02.2021
  • Led systems and software requirement reviews to collaboratively develop hardware and connectivity profiles as the Technical SME for the side guard assist feature as part of the Detroit assurance package, a radar and camera system that provides optimum on-road safety.
  • Managed projects to develop the Active Side Guard Assist 2.0 features for steering intervention on driver and passenger sides (vehicle speed > 37 mph) with visual and acoustic warnings using 4 sensors, boosting Daimler Truck sales by 15%.
  • Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical components.
  • Developed strategic initiatives in collaboration with chassis, manufacturing and product packaging teams for the wiring layout design, wiring diagrams, and installation of components.
  • Handled scripting tasks for debugging and automation using Python.
  • Provided system acceptance reviews for installed radars, verifying compliance with applicable performance metrics and compatibility expectations.
  • Led strategic meetings with stakeholders in Germany,Mexico, India and Japan on project deadlines and timelines for software release cycles.
  • Optimized goals with the Continuous Cost Improvement team to reduce costs on overall product components and on-site engineering operations for electrical system design, improving the plant’s productivity by 20% and saving $30 per truck.
  • Provided day-to-day support to manufacturing plants, educating employees on troubleshooting and problem-solving protocols..
  • Collaborated with Product validation engineering to test and validate sensors functionality.
  • Completed technical reviews of existing systems and suggested updates or changes.
  • Crafted and updated system-level test plans to verify performance metrics during long-term studies.
  • Performed integration readiness analyses of systems designed for installation onto existing vehicles.
  • Conducted Safety Analyses and documented results (Preliminary Hazards List/Analysis, System Hazard Analysis, Functional Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Safety Assessment Report)

Education

Master of Science - Data Analytics

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
12.2023

Bachelor of Science - Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oregon State University
06.2018

Skills

  • SQL/KQL
  • Atlassian JIRA/Confluence
  • Python
  • Tableau
  • Strategic Vision
  • Product management
  • Business KPI
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Alteryx
  • Developing Software Applications
  • Requirements Specifications
  • System Integration Testing

Certification

  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Amazon Web Services, 2021
  • Certificate in Women’s entrepreneurship, Cornell University, 2022
  • Google project management certificate, Coursera, 2021
  • Google data analytics certificate, Coursera, 2021

Timeline

Technical Software Product Owner

Daimler Trucks North America
02.2021 - Current

Safety Systems Engineer

Daimler Trucks North America
01.2019 - 02.2021

Master of Science - Data Analytics

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oregon State University

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