Tom Willett Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

At Nextworld as a Product Owner II, my journey has involved assessing the product suite's evolution and strategically leading the product development process. I took pride in mentoring SMEs, facilitating their transition into the software environment. My efforts in understanding client needs and market dynamics played a crucial role in enhancing our product features, attracting and retaining a loyal customer base. I have been instrumental in guiding our product towards MVP status, accelerating market introduction and gathering valuable user feedback for future iterations. My role also encompassed supporting fellow product owners and fostering effective collaboration across various business units.

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

As a Product Owner I at Nextworld, my role was integral in shaping product vision and ensuring alignment with development goals. I led the development of product requirement documents (PRD), guiding the development teams to achieve seamless feature development and implementation. My leadership extended to conducting Agile ceremonies, enhancing products iteratively, and incorporating customer feedback to deliver optimal user experiences. I was committed to fostering cross-departmental communication and teamwork, ensuring consistency in user experience across products. A key part of my role involved collaborating with training, sales, and marketing teams to create accurate and compelling product materials. I also conducted in-depth market research to inform our product strategy, managing across multiple development teams to optimize project efficiency and resource utilization.

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

In my role as Associate Product Owner at Nextworld, I managed across various ERP functional domains including Procurement, Inventory, Sales, and Master Data. I focused on delivering system enhancements tailored to B2B customer needs across diverse industries such as Manufacturing, Finance, Real Estate, and Construction Management. A significant part of my role involved leading the refactoring initiative for Role-Based Access Control, enhancing security across our distribution product suite. I was responsible for translating stakeholder business needs into comprehensive user stories and functional requirements. My approach balanced short-term stakeholder expectations with the long-term product vision, steering our products towards scalable solutions.

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

As an Application Developer at Nextworld, I led the end-to-end development of functional ERP solutions within our SaaS Supply Chain product suite. My role involved engaging directly with stakeholders to deeply understand business objectives and needs. I played a key role in analyzing use cases and business processes, identifying improvement areas to drive impactful results. Leading daily scrum meetings, I fostered team collaboration and open communication, ensuring high-quality code and promoting knowledge-sharing among peers. My technical expertise was instrumental in guiding platform enhancements and leading technical documentation efforts.

New York, Ny, Us

At Two Sigma Investments, my role as a Consultant - Data Analyst allowed me to delve deep into Data Discovery, where I played a pivotal role in research, review, extraction, and collection efforts. My work was crucial in enabling the client to perform both historical and predictive simulations, laying the foundation for developing advanced trading strategies. I specialized in researching and reviewing relevant data sets, including stock market trends and social sentiments, providing insights that were key to understanding market dynamics. My responsibility also included delivering weekly progress and transparency reports to the Senior Data Scientist project lead, ensuring clarity and alignment in our project objectives.

During my internship as a Procurement Analyst at Chain IQ, I engaged in extensive research for indirect procurement spend, leveraging a network of professionals and market research. My collaboration with the marketing team on business development campaigns was multifaceted, involving client research, promotion, and planning. I played a significant role in event planning, particularly for the 'AI in Strategic Sourcing' B2B event. My contributions extended to generating detailed post-mortem reports for B2B events, focusing on data interpretation and summarization. A notable accomplishment was presenting a global resource consolidation plan, which outlined the revenue potential of contracts worth approximately $2 billion across 11 IT categories.

In my role as a Strategic Sourcing Analyst Intern at Chain IQ, I supported category management for ITO/BPO/IT Contractors and IT Consulting. My duties included summarizing outsourcing contracts and populating pipeline reports and project management tools with contract metadata. I was instrumental in consolidating deal financials and supporting documentation for approximately 100 live outsourcing contracts. Applying best practices in contract management, I contributed to the senior sourcer's live executed deals. A key part of my role was reporting on the deal lifecycle progress of the entire ITO/BPO/IT Consulting pipeline, which encompassed a spend of $500 million, to the ONO Team.

Bachelor’S Degree, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Business Administration