WILLEM WIJMA

**** ****** ***** **., **********, GA 30005 ad039q@r.postjobfree.com 770-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-wijma-b946291/

Professional Summary

Senior Product Manager with experience analyzing and building products in FinTech, Telco/Telematics, ERP disciplines and Data Governance. Excel at data gathering and entry, defining specifications, testing, troubleshooting, and SaaS/system to system integrations. Accomplished in managing highly complex projects, guiding, supporting teams, and serving as strategic liaison. Well-rounded in Agile and Scrum

Skills

Product management and Strategy

Business Process design and redesign

Agile change management

Off-shore development support

Scrum

Data Governance

Data Quality and Harmonization

Data analysis

SaaS integration/API’s/IoT

Program/Project Management

Work History

Product Owner 08/2023 to current

Nissan Motors (contractor) Remote and Franklin, TN

Role of PO was introduced to streamline all processes and manage off-shore Dev team.

Improved intake process, Feature/Epic and story refinement and ensure a a clean healthy and prioritized Backlog.

Working with Business stakeholders to build a solid roadmap.

Consultant role on improving data quality and reliability with Data Steward.

Introduced Office Hours to get more involvement from the Business.

Sr Product Manager 06/22/2022 to 04/23/2023

McKinsey and Company Atlanta, GA

Data Governance: Sr Product Manager for a team that was tooling Data Quality, Data Masking and Data Profiling in the AWS Cloud. Defined quarterly OKR’s and defined the roadmap for the products.

Tools used were AWS EMR, EC2, Glue, Lambda, Snowflake, Dynatrace, WIZ, Splunk, Jira.

Due to great sprint planning and story grooming we consistently accomplished a say do ratio of 1:1.

Participated in all Scrum ceremonies and was the backup for the Agile Coach.

Sr IT Project Manager 09/20/2022 to 05/22/2022

First Advantage Corporation Atlanta, GA

Program/Project managing enterprise level initiatives around Covid related issues and the challenges around that in the context of return to office workspace challenges.

Introduced/implemented SAFe agile methodologies for the Data team using Jira.

Conducted a custom Restful integration with a large Chinese client.

Conducted integration kick-offs with eight large clients in India using SOAP and SaaS interfaces.

Senior Product Manager – AWS Data Platform 03/2018 to 08/20/2022

Cox Automotive Atlanta, GA

Teamed with Senior Product Director on product roadmap, feature refinement, and prioritization.

Lead two scrum teams in decomposing features into user stories, sprint planning, and story backlog refinement using Rally.

Coordinated migration of 30 critical data sets into AWS S3/AWS Athena and Snowflake. It included transforming source data into Parquet using Splunk and Airflow.

Served as Product Owner for UI, CLI, and AWS Gateway Restful APIs. Used Swagger and Postman.

Brought learning curve to onboard new data sets down from several days to 2 – 3 hours.

Senior Business Systems Analyst/Scrum and Safe Product Owner 11/2015 to 03/2018

Equifax Alpharetta, GA

Established RESTful/OAuth SaaS API integration with 3 direct partners.

Wrote clear and concise user stories, including Gherkins and other acceptance criteria in Jira.

Built Canonical Model for success and failure response for enrollment and fulfillment for Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian systems resulting in about 30% less consumer calls around trying to enroll in Credit information products.

Senior Technical Business Analyst NPI, (Contractor) 08/2015 to 10/2015

ATT Alpharetta, GA

Wrote technical backend user stories using rally in agile environment with two weeks sprints.

Wrote technical user stories for complex Hadoop Big Data environment fed through ingestion pipelines. The data ingested nightly was many terabytes of data collected by ATT.

Product Manager IoT 12/2011 to 08/2015

VERIZON TELEMATICS Atlanta, GA

Teamed with VW Europe, VW US, VW China, and State Farm with SaaS web services around telematics and connected vehicles via web portals and mobile apps.

Localized mobile app for VW Europe, enabling rollout in 30 countries and 22 languages.

Gave input on building an MDM catalogue and had a consulting role on MDM data governance.

Several roles with LexisNexis (Business Analyst/Product Manager/Program Manager) 09/2006 to 12/2011

Alpharetta, GA

Orchestrated building a Data Warehouse using OBIEE.

Ensured successful roll out of 12 quarterly releases.

Served as lead business analyst and hybrid function product manager for internationalization project.

International employment verification portal was successfully rolled out to fulfillment partners in 6 global geographies.

Described and formalized integration between LexisNexis and 5 third-party ATS providers such as Taleo/Workday and Kronos. These were all SaaS based integrations.

Improved badge fulfillment process for The Home Depot service providers. Turnaround went from two weeks to three business days,

Education/Certifications

Master of Business Administration (MBA): Accounting (The Netherlands)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)/SAFe PM/PO

Pragmatic Institute Foundations certification

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