Product Development Leader Resume Bellevue, WA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Progressive professional with a formidable history of success in product management, program management, and product development leadership.
Expert presenter, negotiator, and facilitator, adept at wearing multiple hats and leading multifaceted Agile software development teams.
Skilled at creating and standardizing development processes, developing and managing product requirements, and making tough decisions in a timely manner.
Exceptional communicator, with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to identify customer requirements through direct interface and translate them into detailed user stories and innovative products.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Bellevue, WA

Product Development Leader

Responsibilities:

Introduced processes to bring software development under control, reducing defects by over 50%.
Championed Scrum into development and coached team members to effectively use it. Mentored Scrum Master and Product Owner on responsibilities and how to develop clear, actionable user stories.
Coached Scrum team to implement release planning and sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
Mentored Scrum team as they self-organized, and assisted the Scrum Master to shield team members from external influences. Assisted with team communications to other organizational areas.
Saved a multi-million-dollar medication dispensing project and brought it back on schedule. Achieved objectives and delivered project on time with limited budget. Increased reliability from 10% to 99%.
Generated design and release of cost-effective secure medication storage, creating a family of in-demand products with 40% margin.
Resourceful engineering team leader that prototyped a medication kiosk, creating a functional unit in 3 months. Modified TI ARM robotic control software, providing a key element to meet project schedule.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Led Scrum team to exceed software commitments and improve performance within 3 months. Significantly improved requirements and reduced Scrum team dependencies.
Performed integral and key role as primary technical contact for a third-party software company. Delivered code and vendor hosted pages for stock research functionality.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Consultant Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Generated canister UX testing to highlight design improvements, challenging designers to reduce part count and build time (achieving 22% and 75% reductions, respectively).
Contributed a Failure Modes & Effects Analyses, identifying and preventing system faults.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

Optimized user experience and efficiency by merging personal and business banking sites and creating small business accounts online. Exceeded $7 million funded business accounts in the first 9 months.
Created the first delivery of Agile software requirements and stories for the originations team at wamu.com. Produced guidance for project management on Agile transformation.
Managed the moving components involved in maintaining high retention rates while transferring customers from wamu.com to chase.com.

Confidential

Senior Software Product Manager

Responsibilities:

Defined, groomed, and prioritized a detailed backlog of user stories to create innovative software that:
Slashed parts costs by 20 - 30% and manufacturing time by 50 - 60%.
Improved cost accuracy by developing algorithms that computed part cost to within 5%.
Controlled supply chain and maximized quality by creating an innovative process-mapping engine that compared machined parts against a supplier database to rank qualified suppliers.
Generated inventive rule-based cutting tool selection software using SOA.
Delivered key artifacts for the Scrum team such as architecture diagrams, algorithms, state diagrams, WSDL documents, and a HTML help system.