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Detroit, Michigan, United States

• Led product development stages for 2 separate development teams (Combined engineering head count of 12) supporting different business units.• Supervised a Product Owner direct report with an assigned development team.• Designed and launched a new product vision for a prototype workflow to establish a digital footprint for a product line with ~$100MM in written premiums. • Release of this prototype reduced time of task completion for a user from 3 days to as little as 4 minutes… Show more • Led product development stages for 2 separate development teams (Combined engineering head count of 12) supporting different business units.• Supervised a Product Owner direct report with an assigned development team.• Designed and launched a new product vision for a prototype workflow to establish a digital footprint for a product line with ~$100MM in written premiums. • Release of this prototype reduced time of task completion for a user from 3 days to as little as 4 minutes. • Guided and nurtured an inexperienced and brand-new development team of 5 from scratch into a group capable of delivering value on a regular release cycle. • Demonstrated skill with “influencing up” cross-functionally across 3 departments and take on initiatives with complete autonomy. Show less

Detroit, Michigan, United States

• Managed digital purchase actions for an online marketplace which increased sales transactions by over 100% year-over-year. • Prioritize product strategy needs for a development team, manage the backlog, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the team delivers business value for an enterprise software application with ~$100MM annual revenue.• Maintain a standard of 3 sprints of pointed and ready development user stories (Jira), 3 months’ worth of outlined user stories, and… Show more • Managed digital purchase actions for an online marketplace which increased sales transactions by over 100% year-over-year. • Prioritize product strategy needs for a development team, manage the backlog, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the team delivers business value for an enterprise software application with ~$100MM annual revenue.• Maintain a standard of 3 sprints of pointed and ready development user stories (Jira), 3 months’ worth of outlined user stories, and identify 3 quarters of road-map initiatives to deliver within an Agile framework.• Orchestrated from ideation to implementation 2 contractually critical features for a Fortune 200 customer.• Plotted the multi-quarter velocity allocation down to the user story level for 2 development teams on a vital feature for a customer with ~$30 billion in annual revenue. • Facilitate design discussions with 8 different UX designers (InVision, Figma)and provide desired direction input when building new functionality & tool-sets.• Completed regular product demonstrations at the closing of each Sprint with business leadership to showcase the infusion of requested business requirements and successful User Acceptance Testing.• Owned the Software Development Life-Cycle for my development team and strategically sequenced development tasks in order to align with our Go-To-Market Strategy. Show less

Chicago, Illinois

• Prioritize the product backlog (Jira) related to development including new API product features and enhancements to existing product components based on customer needs and product vision.• Collaborate with Engineering and QA team during sprints to deliver solutions using Agile Methodologies.• Drove product strategy and road-maps, develop product opportunity assessments, conduct competitive analysis, help define user and buyer personas for a company with $20MM ARR.• Facilitate all… Show more • Prioritize the product backlog (Jira) related to development including new API product features and enhancements to existing product components based on customer needs and product vision.• Collaborate with Engineering and QA team during sprints to deliver solutions using Agile Methodologies.• Drove product strategy and road-maps, develop product opportunity assessments, conduct competitive analysis, help define user and buyer personas for a company with $20MM ARR.• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies for a dedicated development team.• Define, gather, and report to internal stakeholders on metrics related to ongoing product development. Show less

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Evaluate opportunities for software development based on customer and operation manager feedback with the goal in mind of removing operational bottlenecks, increasing supply chain visibility and transparency, and enhancing reporting.• Facilitate product definition process and requirements gathering for SaaS and managed solutions. • Conducted market analysis and defined a 5 year Product Road-Map with specific deliverables.• Operate as a Product Owner throughout the SDLC within a… Show more • Evaluate opportunities for software development based on customer and operation manager feedback with the goal in mind of removing operational bottlenecks, increasing supply chain visibility and transparency, and enhancing reporting.• Facilitate product definition process and requirements gathering for SaaS and managed solutions. • Conducted market analysis and defined a 5 year Product Road-Map with specific deliverables.• Operate as a Product Owner throughout the SDLC within a hybrid Agile-Waterfall framework. • Defined, designed, and implemented a suite of transportation procurement tools for a Fortune 50 company as well existing customers within the department. • Leverage working knowledge of Google Analytics and SQL to make informed decisions. • Provide UI/UX design direction and input for products.• Educate strategic sellers and operations teams on how to implement our product offering through product demos in order to bring in new business and service existing accounts. (Department gross margin of $43MM 2018)• Validated product implementation to make sure it meets specifications. Show less

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Faciliate the execution of all managed tasks including optimization, routing, tracking and tracing all managed carriers, supervision of spot market.• Monitor and execute load planning for $40MM in freight spend.• Mentor and provide guidance to an operations team of 3.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Five weeks on-site facilitating a drop trailer program with a daily revenue of $2MM. • Own the execution of all brokered shipments totaling $10 MM in freight spend.• Manage the routing guide for multiple customers and collaborate with buyers to find the optimal product makeup of truckloads.• Optimize the network of carriers in order to improve service and profitability.• Analyze lane pricing in order to profitably transport products by first negotiating lane rates and then… Show more • Five weeks on-site facilitating a drop trailer program with a daily revenue of $2MM. • Own the execution of all brokered shipments totaling $10 MM in freight spend.• Manage the routing guide for multiple customers and collaborate with buyers to find the optimal product makeup of truckloads.• Optimize the network of carriers in order to improve service and profitability.• Analyze lane pricing in order to profitably transport products by first negotiating lane rates and then sourcing the most cost effective transportation solutions for all accounts. Show less

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Digital/Business Analytics, Management

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Logistics Management & Marketing