Business Analyst Product Management

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

High-energy, self-driven product and technology professional with exceptional communication skills and an extensive background in the following broad-based competencies:

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

INTERNATIONAL TEAM BUILDING

TECHNOLOGY MGMT

REQUIREMENTS MGMT

TEAM INTEGRATION

TECH PROJECT MGMT

PROCESS INTEGRATION

AGILE DEVELOPMENT

An experienced leader in the integration of multi-site and multi-cultural teams with dissimilar processes

Proven ability to cultivate business relationships with key decision makers and lead projects on a global basis to achieve corporate goals

Experienced in strategic planning with comprehensive knowledge of management, team building, technology and project execution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Aristocrat Gaming Technologies Feb 2023 - May 2024

Sr. Director Product Portfolio Planning Las Vegas, Nevada

Responsible for the high level pre-project, pre-business case product specifications and market analysis for new product opportunities.

This required working closely with the product management, development and commercial teams as well as with operators within the industry to build a high-level definition of the product opportunity and to obtain estimates related to its development and deployment.

The role additionally required working with the Commercial and Finance teams to build a preliminary value statement for each opportunity.

IGT (GTech/Spielo International/Atronic) 2002 – Jan 2023

Global Sr. Director Technical Requirements Management Las Vegas, Nevada

Direct the development and management of Technical Requirements, Player UI and Protocols (SAS & G2S) for much of the IGT product portfolio with a multi-site team of Business Systems Analysts

Supported Products:

Aurora Lottery System and POS terminals

INTELLIGEN Video Lottery System

Gaming Platforms and Cabinets (Casino, AWP and Video Lottery markets)

Bank Controllers

Responsibilities:

Management of global department spanning 10 countries and 90 team members

Development and management of all departmental budgets

Mentoring of new members of the department

Work across departments, to develop and manage strategic plans, strategies, and processes

Work with the development and business partners to ensure fulfillment of all technical and jurisdictional requirements for R&D and Client Delivery projects

Work as part of IGT’s RFP response team, defining the functional gap between the customers requirements and IGT’s base products

During customer delivery projects, work directly with the customer and the development teams to scope out and fully define all customer driven changes and enhancements to the systems and gaming machines that are in scope for the delivery

Work with customers to define the As-Is and To-Be business processes that are needed to ensure successful project deliveries

Management of the INTELLIGEN Player UI during customer delivery projects based on the customer requirements and product in scope for each delivery

Global Product Line Manager – Server-Assisted Gaming

Manage the development of the global Server-Assisted gaming product line within an international multi-site, matrix organization

Department Manager/Lead Engineer – Technical Product Requirements

Manage a multi-site (Graz Austria and Scottsdale Arizona), multi-team department consisting of engineers and specialists in order to define and manage the jurisdictional and technical product requirements and solution descriptions for all gaming machines and casino bank controllers

Game Machine Solution Architect

Specified architectural solutions and requirements for casino gaming machines

Enea Teksci 1994 - 2002

Enea Teksci is an international engineering consulting company that specializes in the development of high-availability embedded systems. The list below illustrates a few responsibilities and projects over the course of my time at Enea

Enea OSE Systems – Technical Product Manager

Position entailed managing team of engineers in Sweden, France and Russia that operated outside of the standardized development organization at OSE Systems. These teams primarily developed and supported board support packages that were OSE compliant as well as developed architecture ports for the OSE Delta RTOS. The primary work location was in Sweden.

Boeing/NASA - Sr. Software Engineer

The project was to provide a real-time simulation of the Russian supplied Command and Control elements for the International Space Station. This simulation was then used to test against the US Command and Control units. The work location was split between Moscow, Russia and Houston, Texas

Motorola – Sr. Software Engineer

Designed and developed real-time embedded and workstation-based software for the Iridium Satellite that implemented hardware tests covering the system level requirements for the Iridium Communications Satellite computers.

EDUCATION

BS Western Washington University (ABET Accredited)

Pragmatic Marketing Product Management Training

GTech Global Leadership Development Management Training

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