Lori Blake Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, Ga

As a Senior Manager of Technology, I lead the collaboration between business stakeholders and agile development teams to deliver innovative, high-impact solutions aligned with business goals. My role focused on translating business objectives, user needs, and industry trends into actionable product requirements that drove measurable outcomes.Key Responsibilities & Achievements:Strategic Product Management: Collaborated closely with business users to define and prioritize product requirements, features, and customer needs, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and driving business value.End-to-End Product Development: Oversaw the full product lifecycle from planning to execution, including new product rollouts and continuous enhancements to existing software solutions, ensuring high-quality, scalable outcomes.Business Case Development: Identified opportunities for software solutions that drove revenue growth, improved productivity, and reduced operational costs, ensuring a high ROI for technology investments.Agile Collaboration: Facilitated agile development processes, leading cross-functional teams in delivering on-time, high-quality product releases that met user needs and business objectives.Prototyping & Wireframing: Utilized Figma to design and iterate wireframes and prototypes, ensuring seamless user experiences and validating design concepts before development.Market & Trend Analysis: Monitored industry trends and competitor activities to keep solutions innovative, competitive, and forward-thinking.Key Achievement:Led a successful, on-time transition from Lawson Financials to NetSuite within 9 months, driving significant improvements in financial operations and positioning the company for future scalability.In my role, I ensured that business goals were met through thoughtful, data-driven technology solutions that delivered tangible results for the organization and its customers

Alpharetta,Ga

March 2010-August 2012Solutions Architect /Technical Product ManagerKey Responsibilities:Led solution architecture, design, and development decisions for large-scale business initiatives.Directed the design and implementation of technical solutions to meet complex business needs.Supervised a team of database and system architects, fostering collaboration and ensuring the highest quality of technical output.Acted as a key liaison between functional and technical teams, ensuring alignment of business requirements with technical capabilities.Researched, documented, and communicated technical requirements, as well as existing and proposed system architectures, to various stakeholders.Key Achievements:Designed and developed a cutting-edge software product that streamlined the billing and delivery process for medical records, reducing processing time from hours to minutes.Enabled the system to process over 500 records per minute, greatly improving operational efficiency and speed.Enhanced cross-team communication by creating clear and accessible technical documentation, bridging the gap between business and technical teams.Optimized system architecture to improve scalability, performance, and reliability, ensuring the solution could handle growing business needs.

•Coached and mentored a team which consisted of 13 employees. This team was made up of Quality Assurance Analysts, Business Analysts, a Project Manager and a Technical Writer. •Established criteria for each milestone within the product roadmap as a means to measure developmental progress.•Managed test case development and execution using Mercury TestDirector and later Quality Center.•Responsible for the successful execution of well over 150 software releases each year.•Ensured that key performance indicators were met on a monthly basis.

Alpharetta, Ga

•Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.•Documented business processes and analyzed procedures to see that they would meet changing business needs.•Responsible for researching business needs and developing functional requirements package for many projects during this period. Key projects included: Implementing a tax calculation process, implementing an automated cash application process, check viewing system and custom sales application.•Oracle PL/SQL report writer.

Alpharetta, Ga

•Mapped current processes and offered recommendations for improvement.*Created custom automated billing system and customer invoicing module.•Developed business solutions and documented functional and technical requirements for several software projects during this period. •Oracle PL/SQL report writer.•Managed software development projects from analysis to implementation.

•Managed 45 employees.•Diagnosed the financial reports thoroughly to understand the exact nature and causes of the reflecting profit / loss. •Planning marketing activities and promotional events and guiding the subordinates for its implementation. •Recruitment and training of staff.•Scheduling