Russell Devore - Mba, Pspo, Psm Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Fl, Us

Lake Oswego, Oregon, Us

Responsible for driving product capabilities specific to Vesta’s machine learning decision engine in order to improve fraud prevention capabilities.Rapidly became subject matter expert on the decision layer of Vesta’s product platform. Partnered with the SVP of Decision Science and team to build a product roadmap for decision improvements, improved decision insight presentation to customers. Created product backlog from roadmap to improve decision-making capabilities in models, rules and policies. Helped the VP of Machine Learning create a highly capable data science team, then partnered with that team and engineering to execute our product roadmap to roll out modeling capabilities to support the travel and virtual goods industries on a global scale.Helped prepare platform for product launch by implementing several critical features including an alerts process and graph database feature to improve fraud finding capabilities, improved dashboards based on customer and user feedback, and aligning data and calculations across operations and sales teams within the application.Drove new product development to scale Vesta’s capabilities based on competitive analysis, market research, and company strategy to partner with large issuer. Product made successful beta launch, where a feedback loop was established with sales and customer success teams to develop a roadmap to mature the product further. Features delivered during this process saved customer success teams time in the onboarding process, increased flexibility with API integrations, and provided aggregated reporting capabilities for large merchants. Developed codeless product guides, tool tips, and release notes within the application. This greatly improved the customer and user experience in the application and reduced time product team members spent answering questions. The tool also enabled product team members to make data-based decisions based on user behavior patterns within the application.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Led IT project management efforts for client within energy/utility industry from the federal government. Projects were focused on wildfire risk mitigation/ geospatial analysis and customer and client facing site.• Influenced large group of stakeholders on multiple projects to refine scope and backlog into a project plan that was translated into leading a cross functional team of technologists and business resources to execute on. Tracked success on plan via KPI and other traditional metrics and provided regular communication to stakeholders on updates. • Coached project sponsors on Business case and success metric development• Partnered with federal contracting officers on RFP and contract package needs• Led cost/benefit analysis for CIO strategic planning• Product Owner on training initiatives for new graduates joining North Highland

San Francisco, California, Us

Led OKR development, Agile best practice and key success metrics development supporting early stages of Agile Transformation to align with strategic initiatives. • Program manager for Agile Transformation OKRs, partnering with Home Lending CIO on training program for technology leaders to drive process and technology alignment leading to approximately $600,000 per month in business value.• Coordinated and aligned agile transformation teams across Home Lending Technology that will lead to $5 million in business value annually.• Created OKRs driving consistency across product groups to align with the organizational strategy. Approximately $100K per month in business value with greater ROI to be realized over time through process alignment.• Clarified ongoing gaps in SDLC and change management policy to enable scrum and Kanban teams to operate more effectively while maintaining compliance to policy. • Drove Enterprise JIRA migration efforts across partner groups ahead of corporate timelines.• Created process to track companywide production defect related OKRs in order to establish quality standards for software engineering. Improved quality management led to approximately $1MM in business value.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led a large team of 40 plus, multi-national, cross-functional team supporting product development, data management and QA testing in Agile scrum, Kanban and waterfall.• Enabled data engineering and multinational vendor teams to develop automation, data, process and tool solutions driving $3.9MM plus annually in business value. • Owned mobile testing and cloud contract with vendor support required testing efforts saving $1MM per year in equipment overhead.• Improved test case management and regression testing practices as Chairman of the QA and Testing Community of Practice Approximately $250K per year in process related improvements.• Accelerated maturity of test data management following enterprise and regulatory guidance while maintaining data integrity required to adequately mirror production data.• Delivered change management solutions for multiple loan origination system conversions from customer intake, decisioning, documents, closure through servicing. • Aligned automation frameworks to scaled corporate standards and introduced CI/CD and DevOps tools and ideas to the broader QA testing community.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led multi-national, cross-functional team supporting a multi-domain testing group via product development, technical best practices, requirements, design and root cause analysis.• Developed automated testing training plan for team of 400.• Enabled multinational vendor teams to develop automation and testing solutions driving $3 MM plus annually in business value. • Improved and expanded defect quality and root cause analysis tools and processes within Consumer Lending to drive consistency across product groups and improve test planning.• Developed forecasting and planning tool to supplement gaps in vendor-based tools. Owned ideation and requirements through deployment. Maintained product backlog for on-going improvements driving $1.4MM plus in business value. • Built personas, roadmap and user stories to ensure product success. • Developed automated test data tools, and production data management tools where none existed to support data remediation efforts driving $300K in business value. • Developed stakeholder feedback loop for ongoing product improvement. • Improved customer experience by establishing agreed upon acceptance criteria saving approximately $400K annually.• Established consistency in change delivery standards and practices with a primary focus on risk mitigation and dependency identification strategies in a complex environment by driving process and documentation improvements.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led software requirements, testing, implementation and training efforts in Home Lending, Personal Lines and Loans, and Credit Card.• Delivered change on multiple decision engines within loan origination systems including rollout of Customer Identification Program and OFAC/AML initiatives• Influenced initiatives related to improve and align metrics, terminology, learning paths and tools within QA and Testing.• Participated in migration of legacy systems to web-based applications enabling a scalable increase in business users and transactions.• Performed traceability and gap analysis on business requirements and software design.• Led regression update efforts to align with business processes.• Developed automated testing.• Developed SQL queries to prepare test data

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