Neal Saunders, Mba, A-Cspo, Popm Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

Elon, NC, US

As an educator, I lead the "Gateway to Business" course, a fundamental introduction to the business world for students. I instruct freshmen and sophomores on essential topics like Accounting, Marketing, and Investing, equipping them with foundational knowledge in business studies. My role involves crafting the semester syllabus, developing engaging.

Led cross-functional collaboration efforts between development and business teams to identify project requirements, prioritize backlog items, and foster innovative solutions. Implemented a structured roadmap to steer project execution, ensuring sprint teams consistently achieved a 95-105% say/do ratio, showcasing dedication to delivery excellence. Acted as.

Glen Allen, VA, US

• Product Manager working on the corporate-wide integration of SharePoint Online. Successfully defined a comprehensive six-quarter roadmap, prioritized features, sized sprints, and releases. Consolidated diverse.
• Proactively identified and addressed impediments hindering team progress, cultivating a productive and innovative environment while maintaining project momentum.
• Led weekly discussions with teams and management to clarify priorities and discuss roadblocks.
• Served as the key liaison between stakeholders and the project team, facilitating open communication channels to understand, prioritize, and clarify stakeholder needs and objectives. By fostering collaborative.
• Engineered a user-friendly portal empowering business partner to submit new requirements, fostering transparency, and deepening understanding of their transition needs. Translated gathered insights into actionable.
• Facilitated close collaboration with cross-functional team managers to craft comprehensive action plans, fostering a deep understanding of existing challenges, risks, and anticipated obstacles prior to project.

San Diego, CA, US

• Product Owner at LPL Financial, working with the eCommunications and Risk Management teams. Led numerous interconnected projects, including the implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act. These initiatives.
• Led team meetings to develop a roadmap, devise an organized backlog, generate ideas on best ways to implement the California Consumer Privacy Act.
• Implemented a structured approach to streamline the setup, execution, and control of programs and initiatives. Clarified scopes, identified minimal viable products, and detailed backlog items such as epics, features.
• Led UI/UX meetings to resolve issues, design layout and behaviors.
• Led the successful execution of the California Consumer Privacy Act portal by defining timelines, analyzing documents, and evaluating workflow using Waterfall and Agile processes.
• Played a key role in defining sprint scope, testing, and release planning as an engaged participant in daily team SCRUM meetings. Initiated constructive discussions with business units and vendors to assess product.

Launched innovative marketing campaigns to attract potential buyers of new/used cars in the Charlotte/Monroe area using multiple modes of communication including phone, email, text, and video link. Assessed buyers’ needs and selected various car models to meet customers’ specific requirements. Explained and defined characteristics and functions of cars to.

New York, NY, US

• Led team working to create a minimal viable product for online financial planning tool for employees.
• Collaborated with diverse business groups to propose recommendations solutions, and create detailed change requests.
• Led Scrum team meetings to develop a roadmap, devise an organized backlog, and generate ideas on best ways to create a dashboard for employees to track their investment goals.
• Worked closely with product managers to understand the product vision, current challenges, and issues then translated them into clear features and user stories.
• Participated in daily SCRM meetings with development teams and business leaders.

Charlotte, NC, US

Designed new marketing campaigns for clients interested in buying/selling homes in the Charlotte area. Conducted vigorous marketing for sellers to enhance product reach towards potential buyers. Assessed client’s requirements and financial health and accordingly proposed appropriate options. Offered expert opinion and guidance to buyers during visits and.

New York, NY, US

• Led the successful execution of projects by defining timelines, analyzing documents, utilizing interviews, release planning sessions, and evaluating workflow using Waterfall and Agile processes.
• Coordinated with product owners to devise a plan of action and ensured a complete understanding of product vision, current challenges, and expected hurdles before the start of the execution process.
• Participated in evolution to Agile processes including roadmap planning, converting past requirements into user stories, and creating backlogs.
• Defined sprint scope, testing, and release planning as an active participant in daily international/domestic team SCRUM meetings.
• Facilitated design sessions to determine product capabilities and limitations.
• Resolved escalated issues and highlighted underlying causes by providing third-level support and conducting root cause analysis.

• In this role I acted as an advisor for multiple companies researching and crafting process flow diagrams, identifying process loopholes, performing gap analysis, and suggesting areas of improvements.
• Established clear working guidelines for the seamless, timely execution of ongoing projects.
• Organized and defined requirements and presented the business requirement documents to management teams for status and approval.

San Francisco, California, US

Managed multiple projects from inception to completion, including a business continuity implementation project while ensuring on-time completion of all projects. Reviewed and renegotiated contracts with vendors to verify costs and ensure accurate distribution of funds using the database. Adhered to online accessibility guidelines of all Market Data.

Charlotte, NC, US

Meet with customers to gather and understand their housing requirements.Gather data from listing service database meeting customer's requirements.Schedule showings for customers and present any benefits/drawbacks of the property.Handle all negotiations with other agent to help customer get a price all parties are comfortable with.Create and maintain.

Charlotte, NC, US

Responsible for managing the overall SIT testing for Basel II initiative involving multiple applications.Developed project plan defining responsibilities, timelines, and the tracking percent complete for the project.Created master system integration test plan detailing scope of testing for all the applications involved in the project. This was created.

San Francisco, California, US

Developed functional requirements document based on the business requirements for the development, support, and testing teams.Worked with the line of business to clarify any questions concerning the business requirements from Quality Assurance and Development teams.Created data dictionary, screen mockups and workflow diagrams for application for the Wealth.

New York, NY, US

Organized and led a new team responsible for testing web-based software used by colleges for employee salary deductions.Assigned tasks to team members to ensure thorough testing while meeting designated time lines.Reviewed BRDs, FDDs, and other documentation to provide testing estimates.Wrote CIT and SIT test plans and test scripts, as well as reviewed.

Charlotte, NC, US

Led project teams responsible for upgrade and implementation of software to national call centers, which included managing the software distribution to call centers and communicating with the line of business to ensure minimal impact to production. Monitored progress of networking, development and testing teams through daily and weekly meetings in order to.

Charlotte, NC, US

Documented all business requirements, testing issues, potential support problems, and provided training for support personnel. Responsible for working with vendors to gather requests for proposals and evaluate software.Tested and implemented the nationwide release of numerous brokerage and trading system software packages and upgrades, including both.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Systems And Operations Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Marketing Management

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