SUMMARY:

Strategic and forward - thinking Senior Product Leader with the ability to transform business strategy into impactful solutions and products that capture market potential, grow intellectual property and drive revenue. Deliver highly-visible and complex solutions focused on solving customer problems. Skilled in guiding the entire product lifecycle and balancing resources in highly matrix run environments. Offer a history of uncovering and capitalizing on cost saving opportunities.

EXPERTISE AREA:

Business Development, Product Marketing, Sales Cycle Management, New Product Sales, Market AnalysisVendor Management, Program Management, Project Management, Software Development, Process ImprovementQA/Testing, Data Center Implementation, Application Development & Integration, Financial Monitoring & Business Planning

TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO:

Software: UNIX Shell Scripting, Oracle, PL / SQL, PL/SQL Developer, LECCO SQL Expert, SQL Plus, TOAD, Crystal Reports 9, 11, Seagate Analysis 7, Visual Source Safe, MS-DOS, Front Page Express, Visio 2010, Professional EA, Pep+, Real World Accounting Software for (SCO UNIX), Demand Deposit Accounting Systems (DDA), FOX Pro 2.5 for SCO, Visual Studio.Net, HTML, Java, ADO, PC Anywhere, Reflections Terminal Emulation Software, Access 2010, Plainview, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Clarity, MKS, JIRA - Hardware HP, IBM Methodologies CMMI, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate business systems analysts and project managers in maintenance of existing products, as well as development of incremental enhancements to drive recurring revenue streams and or champion innovation.
• Collaborate and communicate within a highly matrix run business unit encompassing: business analysis, project management, quality assurance, operations, vendors, vendor management, enterprise sourcing solutions, documentation, sales, finance and accounting.
• Develop and implement pricing models and business cases involving product analysis, resource estimating, cross company collaboration and product revenue forecasting utilizing corporate data sources.
• Represented the team at daily scrum of scrums as a subject matter expert.
• Participated on Pan Confidential EMV council involving all aspects of coordinating and driving EMV program adoption
• Attend EMVCo meetings on Confidential ’s behalf regarding EMV, Tokenization, NFC and alternative payment methodologies.
• EMF white paper contributor on EMV, Tokenization, Host Card Emulation (HCE) and BLE.
• Write business plans, business cases, user stories and other documentation with the end goal of driving revenue and solving client and or internal business problems. Utilize SharePoint site(s) for archival / content management.
• Present and educate sales, clients, software delivery, and account managers on emerging products and services.

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Senior Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the organizations scrum team for evaluating and implementing Visa / MasterCard issuer mandates and ensuring conformity with 20 supported switch networks across 250 financial institutions.
• Acted as EFT Scrum Master of 5 +/- resources in a matrix structured organization to execute on product backlog.
• Created themes, epics, and user stories to drive product development, reduce backlog and gain acceptance.
• Utilized Confidential level 3 defined SDLC process and auditing criteria and tracked progress utilizing Clarity, MKS, JIRA.
• Consistently drove year over year growth and penetrated new markets for 5 products.
• Implemented Agile/Scrum methodologies with daily scrums, sprint planning and tracked product burn down.
• Maintained competitive edge by rapidly determining product backlog with leadership and external stakeholders.
• Thoroughly communicated through detailed business plans, business cases, user stories and burn down charts.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Determined business requirements to facilitate Confidential Level 3 software development methodology and created supporting functional documentation utilizing UML modeling, Use Cases, System Diagrams, and deployment flow charts.
• Coordinated strategy and development processes to meet with Visa and MasterCard regulations.
• Presented and demonstrated product development initiatives at national and local user conferences.
• Collaborated in development of supplier agreement model and implemented company-wide to achieve compliance with Confidential II audit and conformance with ongoing SDLC process development.
• Enhanced modeling and data illustration capabilities for business analysts by introducing use of Visio and Snag It.
• Represented business unit during business segment initiatives and formulated strategies to implement functionality to achieve corporate objectives.
• Reduced the departments full time employee count by 3 Confidential ’s by stream lining product development back log and introducing agile methodologies and scrum concepts.

Confidential, Newtown, PA

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Drove full product lifecycle; consisting of business requirements, project management, quality assurance and operations.
• Led local and offshore development teams and recommended card processing proposals to stimulate new business initiatives.
• Migrated legacy systems to new technology to retain competitive edge.
• Designed architecture and operating system processes that enabled better ETL reporting utilizing UNIX and Oracle.
• Implemented statistics systems using ETL concepts combined with UNIX shell scripting, Oracle packages and procedures, Perl, and Linux.
• Reduced overhead costs by 30% for call center systems upgrades by streamlining UNIX shell scripting and Oracle.

Confidential, Newcastle, DE

Database and Report Developer

Responsibilities:

• Administered Seagate Server and developed SQL stored procedures and PL/SQL packages and procedures to support Web Development and Client Management departments.
• Converted SQL 7 data sources to Oracle and managed vendor selection process for Enterprise Reporting / Data Warehousing software.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Deployed to Confidential engagement that encompassed internal audit, DDA, and ARP projects.
• Designed and implemented tracking database.
• Audited and reconciled 3 accounts containing 33 different categories.
• Lead a team of 5 reconcilers and implemented a tracking strategy for 1200+ corporate checking accounts.