Solutions Architect

• 2022 - Present

Senior Manager, Product Management, Product Owner Digital Science

• Jan 2018 - Aug 2019

Manager of newly formed Product Owner team. Collaborated in the implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (Safe). Mentored and coached Product Owners through Agile values and principles. Guided team to develop best practices for generating high quality User Stories. Participated in Agile Release Train activities. Led Product Owner synchronization discussions to ensure alignment of Program Increment goals. Served as Product Owner of multiple Scrum teams. Collaborated with Product Manager on Program Backlog strategy. Motivated teams by encouraging entrepreneurial spirit and communicating the positive impact of their work. Developed User Stories and prioritized backlog to maximize value creation from each Sprint. Initiatives included enhancements to data model, building RESTful API (CRUD and Query), building UI component library and UX design system for global branding of web properties. Show less

Technical Product Owner

• Jan 2015 - Jan 2018

Served as Technical Product Owner for several Agile teams. Acted as voice of the customer. Collaborated with business leaders, marketing, IT and Architecture colleagues to understand both vision and technical capabilities. Articulated goals and negotiated minimum viable product (MVP) with team. Created supporting technical documents to translate and communicate complex requirements into well-defined User Stories with acceptance criteria. Maintained and prioritized backlog. Partnered with product managers and stakeholders to manage release goals and interdependencies. Maintained transparency at all levels to ensure alignment on strategy within the team and the organization. Initiatives included developing microservice ci/cd pipeline, creating core internal microservice and OData RESTful API service for external data access. Show less

Director Software Engineering

• Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

Developed product plans and technical designs for several initiatives. Created plan for breaking apart large monolithic web application into vertical functional domain services. Architected framework for RESTful API and Query service. Designed several enhancements to database and service API to improve stability and performance. Evolved SDLC to incorporate Agile frameworks Kanban and Scrum. Configured process workflows in JIRA and Confluence to ensure traceability. Authored SOP of new process.

Software Engineer

• Nov 2007 - Jan 2012

First employee hired at startup. Architect of Platform for Science (SaaS,PaaS). Worked with project teams to design, develop, and deploy laboratory management systems (LIMS, SDMS and ELN). Gathered requirements from end users and created functional specification documents. Supported and maintained existing client installations.

Software Developer

• Aug 2005 - Nov 2007

Designed, developed and maintained data management web applications. Used process mapping to provide solutions that increased efficiency. Provided custom solutions enabling scientists to easily capture and view data. Designed, developed and maintained data management web applications. Used process mapping to provide solutions that increased efficiency. Provided custom solutions enabling scientists to easily capture and view data.

Research Scientist

• Jul 1999 - Aug 2005

Instrumental in establishing a discovery Pharmaceutics presence at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Acted as the liaison between drug discovery and drug development to ensure information learned in clinical development was fed back into discovery. Applied Lean Thinking concepts and value stream mapping to develop new process for assessing drug candidates in animal studies. Instrumental in establishing a discovery Pharmaceutics presence at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Acted as the liaison between drug discovery and drug development to ensure information learned in clinical development was fed back into discovery. Applied Lean Thinking concepts and value stream mapping to develop new process for assessing drug candidates in animal studies.