As a Product Owner at GiddyUp, I played a crucial role in the development and success of their new eCommerce platform. My experience in this role has given me a deep understanding of the market, customer needs, and industry trends, and I used this knowledge to guide our cross-functional, diverse, driven, and capable team towards the creation of high-quality platform functionalities that delighted our customers and drove business growth.Accelerated platform time to market by ~33% by:Strategically scoping, grooming, and prioritizing the product roadmap and product backlog. This included internal product features as well as all third party API integrations.Effectively communicating the product vision to stakeholders, software engineers, and product designers to ensure transparency and alignment are maintained.Serving as Scrum Master to assist the team with impediment resolution, process improvement, and agile best practices. Acting as both the Product Owner and Scrum Master, planning and facilitating product intake, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo, daily standup and sprint retrospective meetings.

Consolidated all clients onto a single version of the product suite. The completion of this initiativeaccelerated both development and client support timelines by ~75%. Multiple strategic projectssucceeded during implementation of this program; mainly consisting of barrier removal and approvalcampaigns targeting total client adoption and subsequent migration.Reduced client issue cycle time by ~50% by implementing a triage process for inbound supportrequests.Improved velocity by ~25% by improving, streamlining, and standardizing processes and implementingintelligent board adjustments that work with the team processes while providing enhancements to workitem visibility, clarity, and transparency.Increased team value delivery by ~20% by planning the product roadmap and managing the backlogwhile taking estimated effort, business value, return on investment, and velocity into account.Reduced overall cycle times across all teams by ~15% by implementing single point of contact andbreaking down team silos. This made internal and external communication more efficient and expeditedcross-team impediment resolution.Improved roadmap transparency by ~100% by developing and explicitly communicating the ProductGoal.Reduced work item delivery time by ~25% by creating and clearly communicating Product BacklogItems to the team in a complete but easily understandable manner.Improved Scrum Team value delivery by ~25% by coaching improved methods for product backlogmanagement, refinement, grooming, and estimating.Reduced scrum meeting times by ~50% by improving meeting preparedness, coaching the value andpurpose of each individual meeting, and driving concise and specific communication methods.Accelerated impediment resolution time by ~25% by developing a scheme to more effectively identify,track, communicate, and resolve them.

Conducted in-depth data analysis of prospective vendors including financial, operational, data security, regulatory, and reputational risk to determine the possible impact of business relations.Accelerated cycle time by ~150% by finding only the necessary data based on vendor type and relation.Reduced manpower needs by ~50% by streamlining the process and reducing documentation requirements.Improved vendor selection process by ~25% by condensing all collected data into a highly visible summary document.Improved data by ~50% by adjusting the process to include more avenues for data collection resulting in a larger quantity of data and more accurate findings.

Responsible for the operation of a ship's electrical power generation systems, lighting systems, electrical equipment and electrical appliances. Installed, operated, adjusted, maintained, inspected, tested and repaired electrical equipment. Also performed maintenance and repair of related electronic equipment. Responsible for troubleshooting the electric breakers and circuits aboard nuclear-powered ships like aircraft carriers and submarines.