Adam Patton Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States

● Customer Needs & Vision: Translated customer needs and product vision into clear epics and user stories.● Backlog Management: Built, prioritized, and maintained product and team backlogs.● Roadmap Planning: Planned and executed product roadmaps in partnership with Product leadership, aligning with organizational goals.● Product Launches: Led and assisted with successful product launches, collaborating with various departments.● Team Leadership: Coordinated 3+ product development teams focusing on new features, platform maintenance, and DMS integrations.● UI/UX Collaboration: Worked closely with UI/UX teams to enhance customer experiences.● Effective Communication: Ensured effective communication and teamwork within a diverse environment. I am familiar with the challenges of a remote environment and working with teams across various time zones.● Agile Coaching: Coached new Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and others on Agile practices.● DMS Integrations: Oversaw the development of next-generation Dealer Management System (DMS) integrations for thousands of dealerships and numerous DMS providers to deliver products across multiple platforms.● Migration Efforts: Guided migration from legacy systems to modern platforms, focusing on DMS integrations.● Legacy Platform: Managed the legacy platform while transitioning to a new system, consistently delivering business value and enhancements to thousands of dealership websites for existing customers.Directed the integration of internal and third-party products and led the development and launch of new features for the legacy platform.Product and Feature Highlights (see Projects)Products:● Next-Generation DMS Integrations● Internal Platform ToolsProduct Integrations:● Manufacturer Promotions and Promoted Inventory● Payment Genie● Price Drop Alerts● Inventory Alerts● OEM Branded ZonesProduct Features:● Inventory Unit Status● DMS Field Updates● Digital Showrooms and Slideshows

Wilsonville, Oregon, United States

● Key member of the leadership team.● Mentored and coached new Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and others on Agile.● Acted as interim Product Owner for teams as needed.● Scheduled and facilitated Scrum events and activities (product backlog refinement, sprint planning and estimation, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/demos, and retrospectives).● Guided teams in creating epics, user stories, and tasks.● Captured team metrics to drive improvements.● Maintained dashboards and reports for transparency.● Acted as a liaison between departments.● Administered Azure DevOps and Jira systems.● Collaborated on process improvements within the department.

Portland, Oregon Area

● Led development of cross-browser compatible interactive UIs for enterprise web applications.● Partnered with product development teams to establish web service APIs.● Coordinated and collaborated with diverse internal Scrum teams (on-site and international engineers, designers, QA staff).● Generated views into team velocity and sprint progress.● Developed UIs for enterprise cloud network management application for configuring and monitoring Dell switches.● Documented existing web service APIs for UI development.

Portland, Oregon Area

● Facilitated product backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/demos, and retrospectives.● Assisted Product Owners with backlog creation, refinement, and maintenance.● Created user stories and acceptance criteria for deliverables.● Guided systems design, functional specifications, and technical vision for test question development and delivery.● Participated in the Change Control Board (CCB) for technical and business decisions on test questions.● Mentored team members on test question development and delivery.● Served as subject-matter expert and liaison with contract staff, vendors, and internal management.● Developed new enterprise web applications, including a test question rendering engine, test-taking application, and test question editor.

Portland, Oregon Area

● Prototyped and prepared three new test question designs for mass-production when previously there was only one.

Portland, Oregon Area

● Provided metrics and reporting of production activities to increase transparency and efficiency of production over the course of a year.

Portland, Oregon Area

● Produced hundreds of HTML / Flash test questions and their associated media assets for assessments.● Improved company visual design of test questions to increase readability, quality, and appearance.