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Bloomington, Il, Us

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Gathered, and synthesized client, market, and business data related to enterprise innovation andgrowth efforts in order to make decisions about whether to continue, pivot, or sunset various productinitiativesDeveloped strong relationships and trust with members of senior leadership through collaborationefforts, and successfully influenced enterprise innovation strategy, growth initiatives, funding, andalignmentThought leader on digital transformation and culture change in the organization through workshopfacilitation, formal mentorship program, internal blog posts, presentations, and roadshowsPartnered with Enterprise Strategy to ensure alignment of innovation work to corporate strategy, andadvise on emerging trends, best-in-class competitors, and developing technologies that may impactthe industry and adjacent industriesFacilitated collaboration with business areas to find solutions to challenges through new processes,partnerships, and toolsLed efforts across multiple business areas to explore new business

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Developed and implemented agile framework and product management tools to support Lean Startup methodologies in the lab, and support, track, and manage experimental (machine learning, computer vision) and production-level workLead design thinking, product solutioning, and agile workshops for Syngenta business areas across North America to promote new agile ways of working within the organizationManaged highly technical, distributed teams, vendors, and global business partners to develop appropriate digital products through rapid feedback, continuous improvement, and adaptation while tracking budget and managing stakeholder communications to support key business objectivesLead 1-week design sprints with business leaders, executives, and product teams to brainstorm, prototype, and test product approach; used empathic research methods with real users in order to validate new concepts and ideas through lean experimentation prior to commitment to developCreated mentor program for 20+ highly skilled undergrad, graduate, and PhD candidate interns to help them reach career goals; many credited the lab in helping them secure jobs with Facebook, Google, and a variety of Silicon Valley startupsWas given product roadmap for new product to bring to market. Using only 10% of provided budget and time, managed team which successfully built and deployed a product MVP which invalidated product approach. With these results and data from real customer interviews, was able to successfully pivot to create a product in line with customer needs

Bloomington, Illinois

Lead SAFe Agile teams in multiple locations to set product goals, lead program increment planning sessions, manage stakeholders, track daily work, and achieve product vision; coordinated with release train to ensure proper product alignmentWhile a part of the mobile telematics product team, utilized user feedback and data analytics to inform and propose a new product vision set to save $1 million+ in development costsBuilt relationships with upper leadership to influence and gather support for new direction, ultimately resulting in a pivot, and acceptance of the new product roadmapEffectiveness with the mobile telematics effort lead directly to being tapped by upper leadership to form a team and develop a new customer benefit programSelected initial product team, developed agile processes, lead research, and developed product vision for new customer benefits product; presented roadmap to VPs and gained their supportCoordinated with machine learning specialists, IT, UI/UX designers, native mobile developers, and business stakeholders to oversee the work of 3 product development teams to ultimately bring customer benefit program to market

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Design user-centric desktop, mobile, and responsive interfaces for customer-facing web properties; once improved online auto quote completion rate by 40%+ through redesign Design and maintain web interfaces, applications, and develop information architecture while developing standards, guidelines, and technical documentationConduct usability reviews and develop enhancements based on user feedback