nicole barnett, SASM, SPOC, LSSYB, RCC
Fairfield, IA, USA
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www.linkedin.com/in/k-nicole-barnett
SUMMARY
High motivation Product Owner/Manager with over a decade of technical leadership. Skilled in aligning teams with organizational goals utilizing can-do attitude, acute organizational skills, and dogged determination. Life-long learner keen to implement and adapt new technologies and methods to meet any challenge. Holding the product vision, easily map out Epics, Features, and User Stories. Utilizes analytics and WSJF to aid in decision making.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ANALYTICS PRODUCT OWNER
CAPITAL STAFFING (FLORIDA BLUE)
2023 – 2024; REMOTE
Florida Blue is the Florida branch of Blue Cross Blue Shield, and one of the top health insurance providers in Florida offering group, individual, and Medicare health insurance plans.
Drove high visibility deliverable with communication at many organizational levels
Delivered enterprise level initiative to provide dynamic analytics of web site and application users’ behavior.
Coordinated inter-ART and intra-ART teams to resolve risks and dependencies
Product Road Map, Epic Feature Story writing, Scrum Ceremonies, Stakeholder interfacing and management, Requirements elicitation and mapping
SR TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER
BROOKSOURCE (HUMANA)
2021 – 2023; REMOTE
Humana is the 5th largest health insurance provider in the United States offering group, individual, Medicare, and TRICARE health insurance plans.
Lead Security Engineering teams to configure and create Policies (proactive controls) and Guardrails (reactive controls) for Cloud Platforms taking direction from Cloud Security Engineering Director.
Triage Service Now ticketing queue to ensure SLA compliant resolution of issues
Epic Feature Story writing, Scrum Ceremonies, Stakeholder interfacing and management, Requirements elicitation and mapping
Lead initiative to reduce operating costs averaging $750k monthly
PRODUCT OWNER
CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH
2018 – 2021; FAIRFIELD, IA, USA
Cambridge Investment Research is a financial investment oversight organization providing a full suite of investment and oversight solutions supporting Financial Advisors and direct investors.
Interfaced with all levels of organization, from CTO to Dev team, to drive understanding of complex financial oversight legalities and translation into requirements for development
Productivity maximally utilized to lead four team accounting for 19 products.
Product Road Map, Epic Feature Story writing, Scrum Ceremonies, Stakeholder interfacing and management, Requirements elicitation and mapping
KEY ACHEIVEMENTS
COST SAVINGS $750K/MONTH
Through drawn down of reporting on low-impact resources pushed to Azure Data Lake, saved average of $750k in monthly operating costs.
CONTRACT SALVAGE
Drove, defined, and developed new analytics product ensuring customer
satisfaction and preserving company contract worth $17M.
ADMIN OVERHEAD REDUCTION
Track record of streamlining processes and reducing meetings to maximize development time for dev team.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Agile
SAFe
SDLC
SAS
R
JIRA
Rally
TFS
ADO
Product Mgmt
Road Mapping
Stakeholder Mgmt
Elicitation
Req.s Mapping
Prioritization
EDUCATION
BS MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES - STATISTICS
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
FAYETTEVILLE, AR
BS PHYSICS
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
FAYETTEVILLE, AR
AAS NETWORK ADMIN
CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE
KILLEEN, TX