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Detroit, MI, US

Detroit, Michigan, United States

• Leading the Business Analyst team in working with the Product Owner for business requirements discovery and gathering. Driving the technical requirements and system design work to enable the software engineering team.
• Restructured business and development teams working model to achieve increased throughput and efficiencies.
• Identified system requirement gaps, aligned stakeholders, gained approval for non-functional requirement implementation.
• Introduced use of business intelligence reporting to make strategic decisions on work management.
• Created a communication pipeline between the business and software engineer units to maximize productivity.
• Owner of strategic roadmap planning and execution.

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

• Manager of 14 direct reports responsible for deploying software to retail and commercial vehicles Owned services responsible for mass discovery of 14 million OTA capable vehicles and integration with each vehicle to.
• Built team to support cloud services responsible for consuming data from retail/commercial vehicles.
• Established team working model for day-to-day development and production support.
• Redefined team production support model for OTA mass discovery to improve system availability up-time.
• Led cloud migration effort for Vehicle Software Updates organization by establishing project execution plan to deliver 116 microservices, 20 databases, and 35 messaging queues to the Google Cloud Platform.

• Led the strategic planning for cloud components to support transition to utilizing Google Automotive Services in-vehicle.
• Defined and prioritized planning of EV suite of products (Utility Grid/EV Charge Points/Trip Planner/Intelligent Range/Charge Angels) for retail and commercial vehicles.
• Cross-team collaboration with embedded software engineering team, UI/UX designers, and Google engineers/stakeholders.
• Responsible for senior executive status reporting, roadmap planning, and delivery engagement for implementation teams.

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

• Direct Manager of 16 direct reports responsible for providing EV charge locations and customer charging profile functionality (User defined/Plug and Charge/Utility Tariffs (Cost efficiency), $20M annual budget.
• Owned the day-to-day operations of cloud services to ensure 24/7 availability for real-time electric vehicle services.
• Streamlined team efficiency by introducing strategy to collaborate with business stakeholder on a bi-weekly cadence to improve synergies.
• Increased team productivity metrics by 20% with focus on improving user story throughput.

Dearborn, MI

• Led team of 6 Software Engineers, 1 Anchor Engineer, and 1 Product Designer to develop a cloud-based service providing charge locations to the customer from scratch.
• Successfully launched the largest charging network (12,000 charge points and 35,000 charge plugs) in 2019.
• Led team to integrate cloud services with 3rd party (Electrify America, ChargePoint, EVgo, FLO, Ionity, BP) charge location OEM’s in North America and Europe.
• Designed architecture for aggregating 3rd party OEM data with PlugShare data to enrich real-time charge location data for best-in-class customer experience.

Allen Park, Michigan

• Analyze business requirements and create user stories that deliver customer\business product value fast and efficiently. Collaborate with Product Manager and Product Owner on requirement definition. Work closely with.
• Creation of product team design documentation based on analysis of business requirements.
• Work with core product team on creation of user stories based on functional and non-functional requirements.
• Engage product team members on progression for user story execution, facilitate dialogue, and remove impediments on development efforts.
• Participate and provide input in core team discussion to drive the direction of the product teams Agile methodologies and the creation of team operational standards.
• Creation of UX design using MS Visio and UX Pin applications.

3501 W. Hamlin Auburn Hill, MI

Provided technical support for both the data warehouse and data integration environments. Responsibilities also included the coordination and execution of system upgrades, administration of environments, and monitor data warehouse environments and production jobs. Evaluation of code, reviewing scripts, and either making suggestions or modifying, in an.

3501 W. Hamlin Auburn Hills, MI

Responsible for small and mid -scale projects fulfilling the business analyst role to define scope and drive project initiatives. Experienced ETL developer utilizing Informatica for the purpose of extracting, transforming, and loading data to specified target location. Dual roles allowed me to manage the project execution from the beginning stages to end.

39200 W. Six Mile Livonia, MI

• Code and technical support for check processing business unit.
• Designed user interfaces for check processing workers.
• Developed code to extract data from Unysis check processing machines and transform data.
• Created reports for customer and client reporting.