As the Product Team Lead for Third Party Integration, I lead our Product Development efforts to create new and improved integrations between our DMS and our third party vendor partners. I also work to ensure that our API maintains its place as the leading DMS API in the automotive space.• Manages a team of product managers and business analysts to build integrations with third party vendor partners.• Solicits feedback from industry to identify growth and optimization opportunities that support our dealers and our vendor partners.• Develops business cases that rationalize development of new integrations that will support dealers and vendor partners.• Helps create and maintain the product roadmap.• Takes ownership of the product backlog through prioritization and collaboration.• Constantly strives to be a product expert and lead initiatives to improve our products and processes that surround it to deliver business value.

As Product Owner I am responsible for setting, prioritizing, and evaluating the work generated by a software Scrum team to ensure impeccable features and functionality of the product. Main Job Duties and Responsibilities• Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement.• Support Director of Software Development on vision and direction to the development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements. • Work in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.• Partner with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.• Develop, own, and execute product roadmap.• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product.• Collaborate with IT leadership to define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities.• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.• Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner.• Lead the product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities.• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.• Responsible for coordinating with training department to ensure successful feature launches.• Responsible for tracking and reporting on the success of each sprint as well as code-quality based on number of defects and bugs per release.• Responsible for tracking and reporting on overall projects as it relates to overall product roadmap.• Prepare and present monthly KPI’s.• Inform management of recurring problems.

As a Product Development Business Analyst, I participate in the design, development, and support of the Workplace Giving Platform and Marketing Automation and Business Intelligence product suites in StratusLIVE for Fundraisers. Responsibilities include:- Acting as a liaison between the customer community (internal and external) and the software development team through which requirements flow. - Defining requirements using interviews, data and business analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, task and workflow analysis. - Proactively communicating and collaborating with customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: * Functional requirements * Epics * User Stories * Use Cases * User Experience (UX) designs and other documentation suitable for managing product requirements and communicating with software engineers, UX designers, quality assurance, release management and implementation services.- Actively managing current and backlogged stories to keep agile development process performing at peak efficiency- Collaborating with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. - Being the liaison between the business units, technology teams, and support teams.

Responsible for the Product Development of the ForRent.com family of Targeted Sites.Responsibilities:- Manage offshore development resources and product development via Agile Methodologies- Successfully guide several Web and other digital products simultaneously from concept to testing, evaluation, and release- Brainstorm ideas and identify opportunities for new products, and enhancements to existing products- Define business and technical requirements and specifications, wireframes, and other documentation as necessary for each project- Work with Business Stakeholders, Product Developers, Software Engineers, Web Developers, Database Administrators, and IT Managers on product implementations- Use Web analytics to study trends, make recommendations, and review performance in regard to our products

Responsible for the Product Development of the Employment Guide family of web sites.- Overall site and product development via Agile Methodologies- Direct product requests, research emerging product within employment and recruiting industries - Plan, organize, monitor and oversee multiple projects simultaneously to meet defined requirements or business opportunities- Manage the work of Product Developers and QA staff as required- Liase with Product Support, Marketing and Business Development to ensure business goals are met

Research, design and plan the development of the HireFuel SaaS product line.- Research customer needs and identify problems- Generate user profiles and scenarios to define problem solutions- Create user stories of product prototypes and wire frames to address customer problems- Iterate development to create new products that continue to make our products relevant to our users and clients- Work with marketing sales and business development to continue product evolution

Research, develop and plan all aspects of new product launches and upgrades for strategic areas of development for the Recreation Group at TraderOnline.com This group includes BoatTrader.com and RVTraderOnline.com- Develop new products that continue to make our services relevant to our users and clients- Interaction design and user process engineering for web-based product solutions- Apply user-centered design methods to translate user needs, business objectives and technology capabilities into top-notch experiences- Conduct user research and testing- Generate user profiles and scenarios where needed- Define information architecture as well as generate task and process flow diagrams- Design product prototypes and wireframes- Write product specifications- Leverage the print product as a viable counterpart to online- Provide design guidance and mentor co-workers where needed

Responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with technology, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. Also ensured that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals.

Responsible for the Product Development of AutoMart.com and AutoExtra.com web sites.- Overall site and product development, user interface configuration, the management of product/project execution and delivery, on time and within budget, and with quality results. - Direct product requests, research emerging product within automotive and new media industries - Plan, organize, monitor and oversee multiple projects simultaneously to meet defined requirements or business opportunities across both Automart.com and Autoextra.com

- Worked with business leaders to define product strategy- Interacted with customers to determine needs that would ensure satisfaction and contract renewal- Developed Needs Assessments and Requirements documents for new and updated product development- Work with development staff to define requirements, priorities and schedules- Manage software development projects to ensure timely and high quality results- Coordinate with Marketing, Customer Service and Sales staff on new product rollout efforts

- Managed the development of CDROM and Web-based training software as well as overseeing the development of other applications such as a DRM solution for Coastal’s large video library.- Developed high level specifications and project plans for new applications and updates for existing applications.- Managed scheduling and resource allocation for a staff of fifteen, including an offshore development office in Chennai, India.- Liased with sales staff and customers to formulate road map for future development.