Adam Miller

AGILE Product

Owner/Product Manager

Personal Info

Phone

516-***-****

E-mail

ac4f76@r.postjobfree.com

Scaled Agile/SAFe (4.5) certified Product Owner/Product Manager with expertise in product development, planning, execution and delivery across multiple levels and areas of business, utilizing AGILE methodology. I am an outgoing, analytical thinker with the ability to quickly pivot in ever-changing environments and situations. I have been involved in numerous large-scale deployments with focus on time management and open communication with particular focus on being a courteous team player while effectively expressing concerns, addressing roadblocks and suggesting alternative solutions. Ability to apply and translate service concepts to development in order improve user experiences and output for clients, employees and administration. Looking for new challenges to help businesses thrive and reach their goals while expanding my own working knowledge and experience.

Skills

Being Nice

Experience

Scaled Agile/SAFe certified in product ownership and product management

2015/02 -

present

AGILE Product Owner

Nielsen

Team management

Program and scrum backlog prioritization

Program and scrum planning

Feature and story grooming

Client/customer facing feedback

Requirement gathering/BA

Requirement documentation

Big data analysis & validation Dev cycle and sprint planning

Process improvement

Epic and feature management via JIRA, Agile Craft and Confluence tools

• Product Owner of Netezza SQL and Oracle based content servers for processing Mobile and Desktop Panel Data for Nielsen which in turn, deliver all of Nielsen's Panel based products, as well as downstream feeds to panel dependent products, globally.

• Program Manager for multiple initiatives within the Core Digital scope including: new product development and launch, existing product enhancement, augmentation and integration across other areas of the business including Engineering, Measurement Science, Appdev and Operations.

• Responsible for the successful kick-off, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure projects that effect Core digital both from internal and external applications for local and global clients.

• Requirement gathering and translating desires of the business on all levels to the Scrum development teams.

• Organizing Epic, feature and story grooming via JIRA system dashboard and

AgileCraft to implement prioritized work against time bound deadlines.

• Worked with Product Leadership and Portfolio Management to maintain and prioritize work backlogs and priority based on high level business demands.

• Responsible for mapping out “Planning Increments” which maps out exactly what the scrum teams will work on for 10 weeks at a time.

• Define acceptance criteria for completed development work.

2015/09 -

2016/03

Transformation Leader

Nielsen

• Promoted and tasked with overseeing the overall process and delivery methods of all digital products within Nielsen Digital Ops (8 products in total)

• Continuously identify where processes can be improved and what current processes can be suspended in a constantly evolving business environment

• Worked with technology teams in providing operational requirements for all new incoming products, tools, DQC’s and UI’s.

• Responsible for implementing Operational Processes, procedures and knowledge transfer to Operations teams inheriting new product delivery, tools

and Quality checks.

2013/06 -

2015/08

Delivery Leader

Nielsen

• Promoted in May 2013 with the growth of the Digital Media product to lead and manage a team of 12 (5 onshore/ 7 offshore)

• Charged with responsibility overseeing complete data quality analysis before high level (365 day a year) delivery to clients that include, but not limited to NBC, ABC, Pepsi, P&G, Kraft, Unilever, Experian, Samsung, Facebook, CW, Microsoft, and Google.

• Responsible for over 5,000 (and growing) individual deliveries across OCR and

XCR products on consecutive daily and weekly delivery schedules

• Point person of escalation when a delivery or quality of data is in question.

• POC for severity issues when quality delivery is in question. Responsible for getting multiple areas of the business on the phone at a moment’s notice at any time of day or week.

• Operational Lead for incident tracking that includes agenda setting and expectations of work for business segments as well as root cause analysis and future prevention of occurring incidents.

• Identifying new metrics needed to show high level management the overall efficiency of the product as well as areas that are lacking.

• Metrics and deck creation include work across many areas of the business (both operational and technical) to reflect current trends, forecasting business influx, measurements of standard deviations was well as setting target medians of expectations.

• Troubleshoot data discrepancies as seen and reported by clients

• Responsible for overnight monitoring and job processing of data.

• Manage scheduling and product coverage for all analyst resources on and off shore

2011/08 -

2013/05

Analyst

Nielsen

• Hired at the launch of Nielsen’s DAR initiative (formerly Online Campaign Ratings/OCR)

• Worked on a team of 3 onshore and 5 offshore resources performing daily QA against 250 different DQC’s and KPI’s which served as final signoff before publishing data to Nielsen clients.

• Recommended escalation of risks to the data quality of the product to senior Analysts and delivery leads; assist in all required investigations to ensure prompt and accurate resolution of potential issues.

• Assist Product leadership and Client services to Investigate and answer data related client questions.

• Involved in ground up maintenance as well as evolution of process of brand new product implementation

• Actively and regularly work to set new rules with help of multiple teams across multiple platforms (Production support, Census collection, Measurement Science, Tagging and engineering both on and off-shore) to aid quality and haste in which data is delivered to client.

• Assisted Production efforts on all projects and roadmap initiatives.

2009/08 -

2011/08

Relationship Manager/Procurement Coordinator

CitiGroup

• Onboarding and maintaining the status of agents, contractors and consultants endorsed by Citi through direct and 3rd party vendors and agencies.

• Utilized Configuration of Citi Hires using PeopleSoft system: NEMS (non- employee management system).

• Requisition/Job creation across all areas of business and management chains within Citi in identifying Scope of work, requirements and job descriptions.

• Req sourcing from Citi management to a list of preferred vendors.

• Regular interaction with client vendors concerning specific target skills and resume review.

• Once a consultant is decided on, I am contacted by management to discuss

issues involving, but not limited to: proposed pay rates, headcount, budget, location, term of contact.

• Negotiation with client vendor’s and exercise of best business practices to procure lowest pay rate, fixed costs and vendor markups to achieve Citi budget goals

• Execution of on boarding with collaborative approval of Citi multiple levels of

Citi management.

• Increased interaction with Citi management to organize and execute Re- organizations, rate increases, contract extensions, SOW’s (statements of work), and terminations.

Education:

BA: Communications

University of South Florida - 2006

AA: Nassau Community College: 2003

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