As the owner of Helios Solutions Group, my focus is on working with our clients to understand the biggest ROI that our support services can provide and managing those resource allocations. We also provide expert-level consulting for organizations who are looking to implement Agile methodologies for their development teams, improve the efficiency of their product development, more accurately visualize and communicate project timelines and successes to their organizations, and develop more accurate scope and project documentation despite constantly-changing project needs. We specialize in the following services:• Product Management• Business Analysis• Quality Assurance• UI/UX Design• Project Management• Dev Team Leadershiphttp://go-helios.com

• Communicated all updates to the product roadmap to executive team, including product launch timelines, development budgets, and resource allocations.• Conducted market analysis and lead internal discussions with product team to identify product gaps and largest opportunities for sustainable growth.• Implemented best practices for validated learning through the build-measure-learn cycle to continuously drive product improvements and informed decision-making.• Led the implementation of new and re-designed products through full product development life cycle from initial concept through market analysis and all stages of development, to marketing and monetization strategies.• Captured product needs through direct engagement with customers and sales representatives to understand opportunities for product features and improvements.

● Worked with stakeholders and other Product Owners to define vision, scope, and implementation roadmap for company's flagship digital products.● Collaborated with Manager of Software Engineering and development team to define architecture and technical specifications from functional and UX requirements.● Managed the product backlog for several concurrent projects to prioritize tasks, evaluate trade-offs, and provide detailed analysis and acceptance criteria for dev team.● Established processes to optimize efficiency for the software engineering team and other groups throughout the organization, including JIRA & Confluence best practices and customizations, streamlined software development workflow, and a new digital product development process.● Led the implementation of new and re-designed products through PDLC from initial concept through market analysis and all stages of development, to marketing and monetization strategies.

● Developed a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) based on Telerik’s C# .NET Sitefinity platform for the creation, organization, and delivery of the Lincoln Interactive 3rd & 4th grade online curriculum.● Maintained and improved the MVC Gradebook system, including new features for the 3rd and 4th grade assessments and improvements based on client feedback.● Managed all aspects of a complex migration effort to move elementary course content and student records out of a legacy web application and into the new LCMS platform.● Worked directly with key stakeholders internally and externally for the company's largest clients to gather requirements, establish communication plans, develop project plans, and effectively communicate progress.● Created and maintained all technical project documentation including: software design and requirements specifications, product roadmaps, design mockups, process guidelines for the course development team, and QA testing procedures.● Established processes to ensure engineering requests aligned with product management strategy and market demands.● Conducted all technical training for our custom web applications and acted as the primary support contact for our clients’ executive staff.● Managed production of over 15 engaging, standards-based mini games aimed at enriching and reinforcing our Little Lincoln and Lincoln Interactive 3rd & 4th grade curriculum content.● Managed production of HTML5-based Interactive Learning Modules to supplement our online coursework.● Implemented advanced workflow designs using Atlassian JIRA task-tracking software in order to manage progress of assigned tasks, visualize project release milestones, and streamline development.● Provided strong leadership and organized innovative group events in order to motivate team members to their optimum performance levels, and conducted regular performance reviews for guidance and feedback.

● Managed development of the elementary-based Little Lincoln Online web application including: requirements gathering, project outlines, task assignments, client training, technical support, and all internal and external communication.● Outlined production schedule for each year of development in order to adhere to deadlines and effectively communicate expectations, resource needs, and progress to upper management.● Administrated multiple projects in TRAC to establish deadlines and assign all production tasks to team of programmers, graphic artists, writers and QA testers.● Handled all aspects of internal employee management including scheduling, employee evaluations and improvement plans, project roles, and hiring.● Designed and led the development of an MVC-based custom Gradebook web application to improve end-user experience and teacher satisfaction with the elementary curriculum.● Led production of Interactive Content Team of 2-3 programmers, 6 graphic artists, 1-2 audio technicians, 1-2 QA testers, and 1 writer to develop over two dozen Flash-based mini games for elementary curriculum.● Managed full development life cycle and all project milestones including: working with curriculum development team to gather requirements and understand educational objectives, brainstorm game design options, prototype gameplay elements, develop game assets and programming, test for quality assurance and usability both internally and with elementary-aged focus groups, and implement games online.● Managed additional off-shore developers with strict timelines and directions as needed.● Wrote all on-screen text and audio scripts for mini-game development, and ensured accurate presentation of curriculum-based objectives in the games.● Continued to help with high-level decisions for overall Little Lincoln development goals and direction.

● Helped to brainstorm and formulate the vision for Little Lincoln, NNDS's online elementary curriculum.● Developed scope & sequence documentation for Little Lincoln grades K-4.● Developed video planning documents, production schedules, and curriculum mapping materials for the development of 720 five-minute direct instruction videos for each grade, K-2.● Worked closely with mini-game development team in the production of reinforcement-based mini games for the initial Kindergarten Little Lincoln curriculum.● Customized Microsoft Sharepoint for internal use with various development teams and public-facing access for teachers, parents, and students including development of course gradebooks.● Developed requirements for first iteration of Little Lincoln Online .NET web application and developed project timelines and milestones.