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• Lead the Product Excellence initiative, creating a center of excellence for Product Managers and Product Owners, communicating with business and IT teams, conducting sessions on Product Management activities and processes• Manage a high-performing team of Program Manager and Product Owners• Oversee multiple product management processes, prioritize initiatives, and collaborate with teams to establish schedules and product roadmaps throughout the product life cycle• Hire, develop, and evaluate team members, ensuring they are aligned with the organization's goals and values• Mentor and motivate junior team members, fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment• Conduct regular performance reviews, report on performance metrics, and create plans to improve team and individual performance• Prioritize team health and performance by proactively addressing people issues and fostering a positive and productive work culture• Encourage a culture that values and prioritizes research-backed and customer-focused data, driving continuous improvement in product development processes• Monitor product development progress and evaluate results, ensuring that products are delivered to a high standard• Provide visibility on the program to executive leadership, tracking Agile maturity across teams, and driving adoption of best practices• Partner with preferred recruiting agencies to hire top talent for programs within the organization, ensuring that the team is staffed with skilled and motivated individuals who are aligned with the company's goals and values.

• Successfully led and managed three high-priority projects, elevating the standards of the Enterprise Health and Safety organization at Georgia Pacific• Established a clear vision for the PE program and coached management teams on best product practices• Implemented a robust product excellence program, improving overall product quality and driving business success• Facilitated design and discovery sessions to drive project planning and strategy, resulting in improved cross-functional collaboration• Coached and mentored multiple teams on PM, PO, and Scrum Master roles, strengthening project delivery capabilities• Piloted and executed a GP-wide digital work instructions platform, which will lead to significant cost savings and streamlined processes

• Successfully led two of GP’s top five priority projects in EHS.• Created and managed product strategies, roadmaps, project plans, and specifications.• Served as the product owner for all SAAS product lines (Web, Mobile).• Oversaw product strategy and planning for three key products: SML (Electronic Work Permitting), Immersive 360, Training VR.• Led the product steering committee monthly to align stakeholders with the product roadmap.• Managed cross-functional teams from product conception to launch.• Guided app UX, design, and direction to improve user acquisition and engagement.• Streamlined cross-functional agile product development model for the program.• Coached engineering and business teams on agile adaptation and compliance.• Conducted full lifecycle business analysis, gathering and defining requirements, coordinating testing and user training, and researching system defects.• Established best-in-class business discipline by developing KPI reporting metrics and visualization tools to track product success.• Created customer experience journey mapping for new product releases and addressed gaps in existing products.• Gathered user feedback, performed market analysis, set product feature priorities, and authored user stories and product requirements.

• Aligned stakeholders within the company to set a clear roadmap for all three products for the next two years.• Successfully sunsetted a legacy application and moved to a .Net core platform with better UI/UX design, resulting in accelerated sales.• Created a Product Steering Committee within the company.• Formed a Customer Advisory board with some of the company's long-standing clients to gather constant feedback on improvements and opportunities in the revenue management space in the Hospitality industry.• Overseen product strategy and planning for three products: GuestRev, GroupRev, RevIntel, and integration layer between PMS systems.• Led the monthly product steering committee to align all stakeholders with the product roadmap.• Guided the app UX, design, and direction to improve user acquisition and engagement.• Streamlined the cross-functional agile product development model for the program and coached engineering and business teams on agile adaptation and compliance.• Managed multiple, concurrent infrastructure, implementation, and process analysis projects.

• Lead the development of a large-scale mobile (ClubNow) and website application (Connect) as Product Manager, including all mobile/website projects that delivered development, and enhancements to various applications on iOS, Android platforms, and the mobile web.• Constructed high level project schedules for resource management, budget forecasting, and required work execution timelines for proper department and enterprise release deployments.• Facilitated communications between project coordinators, project leads, technical leads, architects, analysts, and team members.• Coordinated strategic planning to define project requirements, resources, risk and time tables.• Partnered with team managers to identify and secure resources based on skills, availability, scope, and budget.• Facilitated extensive meetings which resulted in the build of comprehensive schedules to track scope, services, resources, effort, and timelines.• Performed in-depth budget analysis including resource forecasting and allocations, assessed burn rates, calculated earned value, and estimated task completion.• Engaged in identifying and maintaining standard core project documents, which included scope,risk, functional and technical requirements.• Guided project teams in reporting, monitoring, and mitigating project risks, issues, and dependencies.• Scheduled and led weekly project team meetings to gather status and manage timely completion of team member tasks.• Produced detailed weekly and ad hoc reports on all project schedule, resource, and budgetary concerns.• Served as a liaison between Business and Systems to ensure that scope, dates, and cost are all agreed upon and within reasonable parameters.• Ensured timely communication and implantation of all Off-Shore resources and teams.• Successfully implemented over 200+ websites in the course of 3 years and over 150+ App in two years’ time

• Identify task lists for each projects and ensure completion of each by coordinating with the responsible individuals. • Create implementation plans for each project in order to notify everyone involved of deadlines. • Perform Scope Analysis of each project to make sure proper implementation of the projects is conducted • Document completion of tasks and communicate with all the parties involved. • Conduct web trainings and web demos of the Northstar application modules as well as the integrated website solutions. • Perform in depth research by exploring off the shelf software as well as interviewing clients for their day to day needs in order to introduce new features in the application • Assist website clients in figuring out new template designs as well as effective site maps for a great user experience