Bryan Palas Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Fl, Us

Northbrook, Il, Us

• Provide prioritized scope at both Solution and ART levels with defined acceptance criteria working in full SAFe• Experience leading, managing, and mentoring a team of top tier Product Owners globally• Deliver product solutions/features for the consumer direct channel• Provide officer/executive level presentations on corporate technology solutions being delivered to market

Northbrook, Il, Us

• Define product visions, strategic goals, and success criteria • Translate corporate strategies to create product roadmaps informed by consumer research, market and competitive research and cross functional stakeholders• Define and analyze key metrics to inform decision making on product initiatives• Foster/lead/collaborate with cross organizational teams globally using outstanding influencing skills and strong senior level communication abilities to drive decisions• Ability to synthesize sophisticated topics to identify key business problem statements• Generated the highest Net Promotor score in the company creating national advisory board to provide instant feedback• Delivered product solutions/features for Allstate agencies• Proven track record delivering valuable product experiences, consistently, rapidly, and effectively by releasing enhancements/new features monthly if not every two weeks to market• Ensured product stability by guiding teams to maintain a backlog with less than 3% technical debt/bugs • Deliver national presentations at conferences providing future strategic product technology solutions

Northbrook, Il, Us

Tampa, Fl, Us

• Define/prioritize sprint tasks as a Product Owner for various functional areas in the ConnectWise application• Lead software development project initiatives through an Agile methodology with the use of Kanbanize• Monitor enhancement boards, provide business cases/objectives for future enhancements to stay ahead of industry competitors• Collaborate with Executives and stakeholders to define requirements and design for the ConnectWise application• Drive suggested enhancements with our Design Team to enhance the ConnectWise application• Define/deliver software requirements to our UI/UX, Development, and Quality Assurance teams• Define/deliver User Interface requirements & User Interface flows for the ConnectWise application• Maintain communication between team members throughout projects • Mentor and train Business Analysts on our team on various Business Analysis tools, industry standards, and best practices (how to write use cases, functional requirements, and business process flows, etc.)• Assist in establishing/formalize industry standard processes and procedures for our Business Analyst department• Implement requirements repository/structure for Business Analyst department

Clearwater, Florida, Us

* Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with stakeholders* Work with business users to document current work flow processes and collaborate with users in identifying, defining, and document process improvement options and alternatives* Elicit, document, and validate requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, and workflow analysis* Provide business use case models, context diagrams, user cases, business rules, data definitions as requirements* Deliver and maintain SDLC and Project Management Lifecycle analysis artifacts as needed* Conduct analysis, design, configured automation of critical business processes* Utilize Agile Methodology within various sprints* Participate in and support testing, acceptance testing, and user training.* Provide user support during application software implementations

St. Petersburg, Florida, Us

• Consulted for various software engineering teams for several business units (Equity Capital Markets, Compliance, Human Resources, Group Insurance, Purchase & Sales, Reorganization)• Managed project activities with a comprehensive understanding of software development life cycles• Conduct stakeholder requirement workshops• Define and analyze current business activities, map current business processes, identify best practices, and recommended improvements• Implement solutions on multiple environments developed on HP Non-Stop, ASP.NET, SQL Server VB, C#, and PeopleSoft• Established quality relationships with business units and served as a liaison between them and various software development teams• Effectively organize and prioritize all tasks and responsibilities to meet all deadlines• Communicate timely and through proper channels to keep customer and upper management informed of the progress of the project and/or issues• Create use cases, use case models, functional specifications, work flow diagrams, Rough Order of Magnitudes (ROM), and work packages.• Actively communicate technical and business aspects of work efforts to team members• Educated new hires on Enscribe files and file layouts through a new hire class. Illustrate what Enscribe files are, how they are used, viewing file layouts through various tools, and how Enscribe files are associated with RJ Back Office system

St. Petersburg, Florida, Us

St. Petersburg, Florida, Us