Grant Janeshak Email & Phone Number

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Cancer Guidance Program | SAFe• 1 of 7 Product Owners responsible to gather customer needs at a program level• Created and managed a backlog for 3 development teams• Managed critical product escalations to the development organization• Worked closely with key customer accounts, third party integrated vendors and internal stakeholders to form a product roadmap• Participated in product design sessions with the UX team to create mockups in AzureElectronic Medical Records (EMR)| SAFe• Ramped up an Agile development team of 8• Provided guidance on how to construct proper solution capabilities, features and user stories• Prepared the team for a bi-weekly product sales pitch to gain stakeholder buy in/direction• Maintained the product backlog and adjusted direction appropriately• Received an overall rating of 5 (Outstanding) for management performance• Placed 3rd out of 8 teams for delivering a MVPQuality Analytics Engine | SAFe• Elicited and managed all platform/technical requirements from a micro-service perspective• Enhanced the file intake process by eliciting detailed file structure/validation requirements• Mentored a team of 3 Product Consultants on feature/user story best practice documentation• Received a continuous rating of 5/5 on User Story/Acceptance criteria clarity by the dev. teamConsolidated Reporting Service | SAFe• Increased user story acceptance rate by initiating daily demo sessions with the Dev./QA team• Created a business workflow to align with the service process• Prepared and led sprint demo sessions for the project key stakeholders • Facilitated feature prioritization meetings utilizing MoSCoW • Collaborated with the Product Manager to align technical and product roadmaps to reach key milestones• Elicited business requirements through process analysis workshops and UX sessions• Coordinated and drove backlog grooming sessions based on benefit realization milestones

Gothenburg, Sweden

Group Trucks Operations – Production Critical - Supply Material release projects Responsible for the business specification, validation (UAT test cases /execution) and improving requirements management for the Global Inbound Logistics Management application. -Utilized the fishbone technique to identify pain areas in the Business Feature Development Process that reduced the quality in the IS concept/ IT solution analysis phases -Reduced rework, improved product quality and improved delivery on-time by driving process and quality metrics to monitor the Business Features during releases and sprints-Improved project communication and reduced change requests by driving a SMART requirement evaluation before creating the IT specification

Gothenburg, Sweden

Group Trucks Sales – Master Data Management - Legacy Decommissioning and Retail Network Harmonization Pre-study. Responsible for conducting As-Is /To-Be scope virtual workshops and driving global end user studies focusing on dealer MDG, dealer creation process and defining a unique dealer data referential.-Within the As-Is and To-Be virtual workshops I used the objective modeling technique and priority matrix to provide a clear scope alignment to the business needs for stakeholder buy-in -Improved process efficiency by conducting problem analysis workshops with global key users-Supported the reduction of data management costs by proposing and developing a standard global template to secure quality of dealer core content in the new MD solution

Gothenburg, Sweden

Volvo Group Telematics – WirelessCar Infrastructure - Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) elicitation mission. Responsible for setting up, coordinating and driving workshops to capture the requirements input from various stakeholders within the Service Operation Infrastructure & Architecture team.-Streamlined VGT’s market offerings by creating an efficient process and solution to provide a holistic way of working on standardizing the NFR’s suitable for production -Motivated 30 developers and SME’s to join eight infrastructure component workshops by promoting a clear methodology that supported deployment success rate-Elicited existing and new requirements by using the requirements breakdown technique

Gothenburg, Sweden

Volvo Buses - Master Data Management Product WorkshopPrepared the workshop contract and interviewed 18 stakeholders to capture the AS-IS situation of the product creation process at a business and system level.-Reached all workshop objectives by validating the methodology with the key stakeholders-Guided 18 stakeholders to extract all constraints and problems on the process and systems -Proposed new processes, rules and system changes during the executive summary debrief

Gothenburg, Sweden

IT Shared Services - ITSM Program Supported the development of the business case, benefit realization roadmap, and metric anchoring across all ITSM projects and stakeholders. Served as a liaison between the Value Stream and Service Reporting project to capture the requirements that have tool impact in relation to the reports linked with KPI/PI/CI monitoring.-Increased awareness by creating a visualization model to inform executive management how ITSM will give the Volvo Group up to 60% First Call Resolution Rate, Reduction in the Number of Incidents, Reduction in Major Incidents, and up to 75% Reduction in MTTR -Produced a benefits register to forecast ROI by monitoring the performance framework per release and aligning it with the transformation and value roadmap-Supported the top business KPI’s by developing proactive reports focusing on new trend analysis, target preventive actions, and how to identify/fix the problems before the incidents occur.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Group Trucks Operations – Production Critical - Core Management System Vendor project-Elicited requirements utilizing UML to conduct Use Case and User Story workshops-Analyzed business requirements to create functional requirement specifications-Clarified issues between developers and the business by implementing a traceability matrix

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

As a Content and Collaboration Business Analyst my main focus was to manage the consulting services network as part of the global delivery team to spread the use of our global resources.Responsibilities include: Gather SharePoint requirements, redesign customer SharePoint sites, educate project teams or departments on how to design their own SharePoint site by leading trainings, providing support for the SurveyGizmo survey software and developed resources in Brazil to support customer in the areas of SharePoint and InfoPath. On the collaboration side, I supported the tools such as Microsoft LiveMeeting, Microsoft communicator and roundtable for large virtual meetings.

Greensboro, North Carolina And Gothenburg, Sweden

Application and Development Techniques coach and contributor, I spent 4 months at Volvo IT in Gothenburg, Sweden developing my skills within the different business analysis techniques and methods that are currently used in the industry today. Responsibilities include: Conducting requirement management seminars focusing on functional/nonfunctional requirements, use cases, user stories and change methods for pre-studies.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

As an SAP FICO Consultant I worked on various global projects and assignments ranging from: Plant Maintenance Gobal implementations, Chart of Accounts change due to new Peruvian legislation demands, month-end closing activities and global support cases.Gathered business requirements, business processes and wrote business blueprints. Facilitated GAP analysis workshops and participated in SAP global demos. Configured SAP from change requests to full lifecycle implementations and performed unit, integration and acceptance tests with key users. -FICO lead for two full lifecycle SAP Plant Maintenance solution implementations for Volvo Trucks in Sweden and Russia -Developed a process using SAP and ERP VARNET and managed/coordinated the project team between Prevost Car and Nova Bus to work towards satisfying the new 1099 rules for 2011-Took part in SAP and (IFS) Industrial and Financial Systems demos to support solution decisions-Performed global month-end closing activities, such as reconciling AR/AP, GL and internal orders -Led the Peruvian legal account change project and delivered on time to meet year end closing

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area