SUMMARY:

• 15+ years of software and IT product management experience.
• 12+ years of Project Management experience utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid software development methodologies and leading cross - functional teams.
• 12+ years experience in soliciting, consolidating, and prioritizing requirements.
• 10+ years of direct software development related expertise using both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• 8+ years managing multiple project related interdependencies and roadmaps.
• 7+ years of Product Management experience.
• 4+ years creating and managing innovation programs and teams and handling intellectual property.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Word
• Excel
• Project
• Visio
• PowerPoint .
• OneNote
• Access
• SharePoint
• MindManager
• SmartDraw
• JIRA
• TestTrack
• Quality Center
• BrightWorks
• InnovationEngineeringLabs.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Negotiating for and securing project personnel and resources.
• Authoring project charters after gathering high level objectives, risks, and constraints from line of business.
• Creating detailed project plans utilizing both past experience and advice and buy-in from team members in creating task estimates.
• Creating the agenda for, and leading, weekly status team meetings.
• Driving bi-weekly project reviews with executive leadership.
• Creating weekly status dashboards for executive leadership.
• Reviewing and managing project financials on a weekly basis.
• Performing rebaselining of project schedule and budget after design phase.
• Utilization of HP’s Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software to log and manage project risks, issues, budget, change requests, personnel assignments, high level project plan, status reporting, financials, and creation of IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management (IT GRC) scores.

Independent Contractor

Confidential, Maineville, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Provided independent consulting consistent with past experiences in project management, software development life cycle processes and tools, innovation, product management, and competitive intelligence.
• Created check-list and overall project plan of post-merger IT policies, procedures, and systems reconciliations and consolidations.
• Provided gap analysis on existing software product portfolios.
• Drafted an innovation management process and worked with senior level executives from across corporate silos in its rollout across the organization.
• Created a governance model with KPI’s for corporate board of directors to use in evaluating the success of their innovation program.

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain multiple product roadmaps based on competitive or technological developments.
• Author requirements for major new products and features.
• Create and manage cross-functional product launch project plans.
• Lead the Controls Innovation Promotion Team in the agile development of new product ideas.
• Manage Agile and Waterfall software development projects.
• Provide regular project status and risk reporting to C-level executives and vice presidents.
• Investigate new software and controls technologies for inclusion into future product plans.
• Oversee the sunset process for product line.
• Perform regular intellectual property reviews at various stages of the software development process.

Confidential - Mason, Ohio

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reached out to senior level vice-presidents to provide an overview of Confidential ’s IP program, its purpose and goals, and the process being used to catalog and safeguard IP within the organization as well as to obtain additional lower-level contacts to identify various IP repositories and information and process flows.
• Contacted various employees at different levels throughout the organization in order to determine design, engineering, testing, and QA processes and workflows in order to ascertain who needed access to various IP, when it was needed, and to determine the appropriate means of controlling that information flow through the organization.
• Created and maintained a master list of corporate file shares for subsequent investigation into their purpose and intent. Documented any IP contained within for either later removal or inclusion within GE’s IP management program.
• Created and defined rules, roles, and processes related to certain types of digital IP as well as mechanisms in which IP may be transmitted or copied, electronically, between media (USB drives, CD/DVD/HD drives, etc.) or internal and external systems.

Confidential - Milford, Ohio

Competitive Intelligence Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created and updated competitive battle cards with key financial, merger, acquisition, partnership, and positioning detail.
• Created business overviews on competitors, their products, and key positioning relative to Siemens PLM offerings.
• Authored technical overviews for senior level non-technical managers and sales.
• Provided weekly updates of relevant market activity to senior level executives as well as monthly selling point articles for the sales force.
• By starting a new company this way, it would have allowed for a very short time-to-market and subsequent source of revenue to build a completely separate solution that could be patented.
• While efforts to secure the rights or a temporary license to the source code failed, this effort proved to be a valuable learning experience in terms of outlining the metrics, various workflow models, metadata, user roles, and other functionality required for an innovation management solution.
• Subsequent to this effort, a number of commercial solutions were brought to market and a few were issued patents.

Confidential - Dayton, Ohio

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 4 technical engineering leads and 12+ software developers both in Dayton, Ohio and Chennai, India.
• Work with account managers in outlining scope of new project efforts and personally creating work breakdown structures, detailed project plans, and determining project costs.
• Collaborated with client engineering managers and internal project managers for coordinating and scheduling outsourced engineering resources for new projects while ensuring adequate coverage for ongoing maintenance and support.
• Transparent communication of project status and risks with LexisNexis directors and senior managers.

Confidential, Dayton, Ohio

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with senior level product management and directors of engineering and QA in ranking and prioritizing new feature requests and defect fixes for upcoming releases.
• Identified and documented user and functional requirements; worked with engineering and quality assurance in creating project plans and deliverables; negotiated and obtained buy-in from all affected groups; tracked projects through completion.
• Led project review meetings for upper management, engineering, quality assurance, business analysts, and SME’s.
• Handled day-to-day management of over 20 US and Philippine development personnel.
• Assisted in creation of the project budget management plans.
• Collaborated with the leads of interdependent engineering groups in formalizing and enforcing the process for notifying, planning, executing, and roll out of common component changes.
• Assisted in setting the strategic and tactical direction of Advanced Store to take advantage of and complement both current and future Confidential software technologies.
• Researched new technologies and analyzed the risk and impact that supplier technology roadmaps would have on the Advanced Store Server product and coordinate a planned response.
• Developed and delivered both high-level and technical training for internal personnel.
• Assisted editorial and marketing staff in product documentation and advertisement efforts.

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Product Manager / Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the ranking and prioritization of new product features and fixes.
• Solicited, gathered, and documented requirements for new features from customers, senior management, sales, and support personnel.
• Authored functional, architectural, and technical design documentation.
• Created work breakdown structures and detailed project plans.
• Managed the consolidated product plan and backlog (depending on development methodology).
• Provided regular status updates and reporting to internal stakeholders.
• Reviewed junior team members designs and estimates.
• Contributed to various coding and process standards.
• Designed and implemented new features and defect fixes.
• Assisted editorial and marketing staff in product documentation and advertisement efforts.
• Provided training on new product features and competitive advantages for sales, QA, support, and marketing personnel.