Sam Bennett Email & Phone Number

Columbia, Maryland, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Proudly led a wonderful team of Product Managers, Scrum Product Owners, Product Specialists and User Experience professionals to conceive of, define, design, develop and deliver new innovations to the Consent Based Marketing space. Oversaw period of double-digit year-over-year revenue growth for three different product lines. • Implemented product operations-minded toolset, providing a central point to collect new product ideas, build a shared understanding, prioritize, elicit input from stakeholders and communicate feature roadmap internally.• Worked with User Experience manager to put in place a design process that made it easy for Product and Engineering teams to interface with UX to iteratively work through designs to come up with the best solution.• Worked with UX team to craft new set of User Personas, backed by user research, to build empathy for the users of our systems. These were used across the organization to focus efforts on solving real problems.• Worked with Founders to articulate strategic vision across multiple products and their roadmaps, while weighing ideas against changing market realities.• Product Manager for the LeadConduit product, including at times acting as Scrum Product Owner writing user stories, managing backlog, running ceremonies, etc.• Coached team members to grow in their respective roles and collaborate with the rest of the company as well as possible - including holding together team during difficult acquisition

Florham Park, New Jersey, Us

As the Senior Product Manager for BenefitWallet® mobile app, led the complete re-design of a failing app. Had full product development lifecycle ownership from concept to development/testing to successful launch.• Served as the “acting” director over 3 Product Managers (HR & Learning; Government Payments; Transportation), setting standard for new model of Product Management within Conduent.Led 14-month complete re-design of BenefitWallet® Mobile App, working closely with UX Design team and developers using Scrum methodology. • Worked on internal Conduent app to help associates assess their exposure to Covid-19, so they can more safely return to work - developed with 7-day turnaround from conception to code completion. Introduced new Product Management approach for the Mobility Practice, founded in well-established User Centered Design and Agile principles.• Directly managed three Scrum Teams covering two Products in the Human Resources sector, playing role of Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile Coach

New York, Ny, Us

Managed six different products within the Ipreo suite of Corporate and Capital Markets FinTech applications. Helped transform organization to an Agile and UX-driven mindset, delivering continuous value and solutions that satisfy real user’s needs.• Formed one of the first high-performance Scrum-based development teams, coaching entire team on proper Agile practice• Introduced key user experience principles to organization, helping stakeholders to think from the user’s standpoint, instead of their own• Led two completely greenfield projects, bringing completely new solutions to market while overseeing entire product lifecycle from product discovery to delivery• Created new opportunities, generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue• Led three redesigns of four key products, honing in on simplified solutions to reduce maintenance costs while enhancing the overall user experience• Led three teams through complete overhaul of next-generation mobile framework based on latest hybrid mobile technologies• Played hands on role in nearly all aspects of user experience of our products from research and discovery, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping and visual design

Oversaw a period of incredible growth through the technical product management of Altus’ vSearch, vPresenter and vSearch Cloud products, facilitating their definition, design and development with teams in North Carolina, California and Bangalore.• Acted as Product Owner in Scrum process, representing the “Voice of the Customer” to facilitate movement of requirements into the development process• Managed User Experience Design process by reinforcing good GUI design guidelines to translate requirements into workflow diagrams, wireframes, mockups and in some cases High-Fidelity Prototypes as needed• Acted as Lead User Experience Designer on various projects, as needed• Enhanced usability by modernizing interface and overhauling major portions of the UI to provide greater consistency, familiarity and structure to help users achieve their goals, while providing sales with better “wow” factor• Increased revenue through a new SaaS self-publication-focused product strategy, enabling users to publish media directly into the portal and manage it effectively• Saved a key account by introducing the capability to embed individual presentations or presentation listings within third party applications • Revitalized outbound marketing strategy by introducing mobile support for Smartphones and a tablet experience that has set the benchmark in the enterprise video market• Introduced an Agile and collaborative definition process where PM, UX, Engineering and QA could plan in an iterative, incremental fashion

Focused on all aspects of defining, designing and developing the user experience of applications while leading engineering team in developing many of the key technologies that spurred Altus’ success• Applied common Human-Computer Interaction concepts to design and develop vSearch into an award winning social media-enabled video portal through a close collaboration with visionaries within Cisco• Developed Altus JavaScript Framework and other key technologies within vSearch and vPresenter products to allow seamless interaction between the two applications, even on low bandwidth connections• Enhanced customizability with fourth generation video player platform which included a vastly improved skinning model and Flash Video support

Worked with the CEO as both a sales engineer and a developer to craft a number of cutting-edge, custom video solutions for companies such as Cisco and Sun Microsystems.

Served as the sole web application developer tasked with everything from automating the production of our web-based video presentation assets to the creation of custom solutions for key customers.

Combined my skills as a visual artist and newly learned HTML skills to create websites for various local businesses, eventually progressing into fully-fledged web-applications.

Goose Creek, Sc, Us