Mary L. Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

Craft product vision and drive product roadmaps. Create use cases and detailed requirements based on stakeholder feedback and market research. Manage roadmaps by making decisive adjustments and factoring architectural/engineering input into customer needs. Organize and prioritize Product Backlog prioritization, weighing client satisfaction, business value, logical implementation, and interdependencies. Team with engineers, stakeholders, and business leaders to define a value-based strategy for continuous delivery. Sustain milestone delivery, support technology backlog maintenance, and champion innovation. Align the product path with corporate vision and values. Research and develop new opportunities within the market, defining short and long term business values. Represent stakeholder voices in product development process. Align stakeholders with product vision, providing context and business direction. Translate requests into process management system, track progress, and provide updates. Measure and communicate product progress, identifying current and future states, and achieved deliverables. Provide domain expertise, market knowledge, and business trends. Facilitate meetings and participate in SAFe Agile events, promoting transparent development delivery.

Portland, Oregon Area

Manage a team of technical professionals that create custom-built installed applications for Workers Compensation specialty bill review products. Responsible for product delivery, work planning via Agile project management, and requirements elicitation. Core tasks include stakeholder management, work prioritization, people management, and impediment removal.

Portland, Oregon Area

Researched requirements for software product development, planned Sprints, facilitated Scrum, managed cross-functional project teams, and managed releases. Assigned work, set scope, and managed change.Managed multi-year project to convert multiple Delphi applications to C# and WPF. Other technical projects included EDI bridge development and updates, cross-functional analysis team projects, research projects, and prototype development.

Portland, Oregon Area

Managed a variety of projects focused on software development and product implementation. Our team uses Agile methodologies and tools to plan our Sprints, including Team Foundation Server.The project portfolio that I manage includes a variety of technical products, including: EDI bridges, installed software, APIs, prototype creation, and more. Other projects that I direct focus on service implementation, business process improvement, workflow integration, feasibility studies, data analysis, system analysis, system-related research, and compliance updates.My responsibilities afford me the opportunity to work on products from concept to release. During all stages, I review business needs, determine core requirements, manage change, and modify timelines, inclusions or resources to get the work done.

Portland, Oregon

Throughout my life, my passion for language and grammar has led me back to the role of editor and writer. My experience spans subjects including business, science, auto-biography, self-help, history, real estate, and wellness. A few projects in my writing and editing portfolio include:-Website content -Software demo scripts-Marketing and outreach materials -User guides-Release NotesI have experience writing and editing business-specific documentation, such as:-Requests for Proposal (RFPs)-Requests for Information (RFIs)-Due Diligence-Risk assessment documents-Scope management documents-Risk management reports-Feasibility studies-Savings analyses-Workflow evaluation-Business process analyses-Product evaluations-Business proposals-Software requirements-White papers

Remote

Edited postings per company guidelines.

Remote

Provided ghost-writing services. Researched and compiled information in article format for companies seeking web-content for their site.

Tempe, Arizona

Gathered requirements for forms, managed stakeholder needs, and communicated form modifications to design team.

Lexington, Massachusetts

Conceptualized and designed booth graphics for medical conferences. Designed new and edited existing marketing literature.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, German Studies

German, Deutsch

Studied various subjects instructed in the German language, including German literature and history.

Bachelor Of Arts, German, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Golden Key Honor Society, Co-Manager of Student-Run Business, Women of Color Leadership Conference, ALANA Honor.