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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I am a program manager in the Training Solutions organization after being promoted from a technical product manager role. My main responsibilities are:- Track and report overall program progress, future milestones, risks and help needed items to senior management. - Track forecasts and actual spend of the various projects in the program, and review regularly with management.- Create business cases to request budget from leadership and finance.- Write Statements of Work prior to supplier engagement, get information from the team on functional and non-functional requirements, KPls that need to be tracked, risks & dependencies. Review and get approval from Supplier Management and provide support until signing.- Review supplier invoices prior to payment to ensure accuracy. - Work with various teams to capture and validate costs & benefits for process improvement projects. I report these numbers as well as status for each project to senior leadership.- Administer tools used by the teams such as Azure Dev Ops, SharePoint sites, Outlook mailing lists, etc. - Administer external supplier user access to the enterprise network, and tools needed to perform their statement of work.- I step in to provide project management support to individual projects in the program, if needed.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I was a technical product manager for new innovation products developed at the rapid development and advanced analytics lab in Vancouver.My main responsibilities were:- I focused on building new products from the prototype phase to MVP with strong and continuous input from the market.- I gathered requirements directly from external and internal stakeholders.- I updated stakeholders of the progress of the product with recurring demos.- I worked with vendors and internal groups to understand how their offerings could help achieve the product goals, and manage their integration.- I owned the product backlog, wrote user stories, run the backlog grooming sessions, and accepted stories.- I product managed smaller products with a single scrum team and bigger products practicing the SAFe methodology.- I produced resource loaded schedules and managed my product's budget.Both products that I worked on were recognized by senior leadership.

Vancouver, Canada Area

I was the product manager for products offered in the Absolute reporting platform.- Responsible for two products with distinct roadmaps, stakeholders, requirements and expectations.- I worked in an agile software development environment, I participated in daily scrum, the sprint planning meeting, sprint demo and retrospective.- I run the backlog grooming sessions.- I supported the transition to JIRA as an expert. I helped create workflows for the software development and support team processes, and I trained the teams to use JIRA.

Vancouver, Canada Area

I got promoted to this position after acting as a product manager for close to a year in my previous role.- Product managed two distinct products, owned their roadmaps and prioritized feature development.- Gathered and prioritized ideas and requests for new features and products from clients and internal stakeholders.- I was closely involved to the agile software development process. I prioritized stories in sprints in JIRA, owned the backlog grooming sessions, and participated in the daily scrum and sprint retrospective.- Reviewed stories written by a business analyst and gave direction for new features.- Accepted completed stories.- Wrote marketing content for quarterly releases.- Owned two change management initiatives that improved the software release management processes and created a new product feature idea submission and review process.

Vancouver, Canada Area

I got promoted to this position to act as product specialist and support the product managers by gathering requirements for the engineering team. My responsibilities gradually moved towards product management.- Wrote requirements, use cases and user stories in JIRA for new product features.- Gathered requirements directly from customers and internal stakeholders as required.- I represented the product team to the scrum team and helped estimate stories and refine acceptance criteria.- Created mock-ups to support the user stories.- Worked closely with project managers to schedule the work and owned all communication to stakeholders.- Reviewed test cases and plans.- Documented new feature functionality for the users.- Wrote content for marketing quarterly releases.- Owned the tier 3 support backlog and communicated directly with users for questions and progress updates.

Vancouver, Canada Area

I started in this position as a configuration engineer but my responsibilities shifted towards project management overtime.- Project managed the delivery of client configurations of the ResponseTek platform for a team of local and overseas engineers. I was responsible for the configuration roll-out and user on-boarding of the company’s largest customer at the time.- Coordinated with account managers overseas to capture requirements and translate them to technical specifications for implementation by other engineers.- Supported, guided and trained other configuration engineers on how to configure the product.- Acted as the build master. I created branches for the configuration team, and reviewed the code before merging back into the master using SVN.- Acted as tier 1 support for the company and communicated directly with users for questions and progress updates.- Configured software solutions as requested by clients using Spring.NET and SQL Server.- Developed internal tools in Visual Studio.NET using C# and VB to support and automate internal administration, configuration and implementation processes.

London, United Kingdom

I was part of the XBRL team at the IASC Foundation and I was involved in the development of XBRL taxonomies of accounting standards.Some key responsibilities:- Converted financial reporting standards (IFRSs) to the XBRL format, an XML language for exchanging business information.- Participated in the diverse team that developed the very first extensions of the IFRS Taxonomy 2008 to demonstrate its extensibility. The extensions were used by the IASC Foundation and the European Central Bank.- Modernized and maintained the XBRL website using Dreamweaver CS3.

Ostrava, Czech Republic

I developed software in .NET for OTIS Austria, the biggest customer.Some key projects:- Developed a web application module that invoked SQL stored procedures from a Microsoft SQL 2000 server through a web service in ASP.NET, C# and AJAX.- Developed a simple to use UI for non-expert users that retrieved data and committed transactions to a SQL database using ASP and VBScript.

Athens, Greece

I participated in the research group of a nationwide research among Greek companies and industries about their use of IT, modern organisational practices and innovation as part of my university internship.My responsibilities were:- Collected data by phone from 350 small, medium and large Greek companies that participated in the research.- Prepared the data in a format that could be used by the researchers for analysis.