Barbara Berry Email & Phone Number

Carmel, Indiana, US

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Responsibilities include:
• Analyzing market trends to identify strategic offerings to include in the product portfolio;
• Defining the product roadmap;
• Functioning as the Product Owner by communicating the product vision, prioritizing the product backlog, creating business requirements, and defining detailed product specifications;
• Providing daily direction to the product and engineering teams; and,
• Assisting with Go-To-Market functions by coordinating with Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Client Success, and Engineering.

• Responsibilities include:
• Analyzing customer requirements, market trends, and competitive gaps to identify strategic offerings to include in the company’s software product portfolio;
• Guiding internal teams to ensure product functionality and delivery are aligned with the overall corporate strategies and goals;
• Interacting with customers, prospects, support, and sales to ensure customer feedback is properly considered within the product vision;
• Defining the product road map and creating detailed product specifications;
• Providing daily direction to the design, development, and quality assurance teams to ensure on time, quality releases; and,

• As the acting Director of Development, successfully managed and implemented Kaplan’s new licensing and compliance product, branded as CMS G2. Responsible for providing administrative and technical direction to the.
• Introduced and trained staff on numerous best practices, including the use of design/development standards, reusable processes, and detailed systems documentation;
• Participated in developing twelve (12) to eighteen (18) month road maps for all CMS G2 products and services;
• Defined reusable implementation processes and procedures, and migrated several customers from the legacy systems to the new, CMS G2 product;
• Defined and managed release content, with new releases occurring every 6 – 8 weeks; and,
• Identified and implemented several process improvements to streamline the activities related to design, development, implementation, and deployment.

• As a Senior Business Analyst, performed a variety of duties in support of Kaplan’s new licensing and compliance product, branded as CMS G2. My duties included:
• Defining business requirements;
• Creating the logical data model;
• Developing systems documentation for use by the development, quality assurance, training, and implementation teams;
• Analyzing source data and creating specifications for data conversion software; and,
• Participated in key, strategic meetings with external and internal customers.

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• Successfully managed and implemented a major hosted multi-board regulatory database application branded as the Promissor Uniform Licensing Solution for E-government (PULSE).
• System was concurrently developed and implemented for the first state regulatory client on time and below budget; and,
• Performed a variety of tasks on the project including:a) Developing the logical data model;b) Defining business requirements;c) Developing technical specifications for use by the developers and other project documents.

• Sircon provides:
• Internet services (SIRCON, www.sircon.com) that allow the insurance industry to electronically submit transactions to all state insurance regulatory agencies; and,
• Browser based database products that allow the management and tracking of individuals, agencies, brokers, and broker/dealers.Technologies used include Oracle DBMS, WebLogic 8.1, J2EE, Java 1.4.1, JDO, Struts 1.1, JSP.
• Regularly participated in developing twelve (12) to eighteen (18) month road maps for all major products and services;
• Provided technical direction to approximately twenty (20) IT staff who designed, developed, implemented, and supported: a) SIRCON for States, a hosted browser-based database application utilized by the state insurance.
• Directed and guided the re-design, re-development, and continued functional enhancement and technological refreshment of SIRCON to significantly expand the types of insurance regulatory transactions available to both.

• Technical Manager (September 1997 – February 1999)
• Responsible for the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of: a) COSMOS, a client/server database application utilized by the state insurance regulators to manage all licensed individuals and.
• Identified and defined general and detailed business requirements:
• Performed logical data modeling;
• Developed software program specifications; and,
• Constructed, unit tested, and systems tested PowerBuilder software.

• Defined, developed, tested, and implemented enhancements for the Administrative Services Division.
• Defined, developed, tested, and implemented enhancements for the Forest Management Division.