Product Owner Business Partners

Matthew Sprague

Tempe, Arizona, United States

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Summary

I am an experienced Application Analyst with a decade of expertise in supporting high-usage applications in both production and non-production environments. My experience encompasses the IBM Rational Suite (RTC, RQM, DNG, etc.), Jira, and Jira Align. I have performed environment setups, installations, upgrades, and created documentation for both business partners and IT use. Additionally, I have served as a Subject Matter Expert

(SME) for the applications I supported and have taken on the role of Product Owner within a SAFe team of business partners.

Experience

Developer

General Motors

Jan 2014 - Present (10 years 4 months)

Responsibilities:

• Planned and deployed installations and upgrades of applications (middleware, databases) for a 10,000-strong engineering user base. Applications include IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Management (RTC, RQM, DNG, Reporting) with 8 years of experience, and Atlassian Jira and Jira Align with 2 years of experience.

• Communicated with vendors, business partners, development teams, and the user base to ensure continuous improvement and resolution of a range of issues, including user, security, and performance issues.

• Worked as a Product Owner for IT within business partner’s SAFe team, participating in PI planning, Sprint planning and daily standups. Along with participating in the IT SAFe team.

• Ensured applications adhered to industry standards and best practices, leading to successful audits with no findings of non-compliance.

Education

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science May 2013 - 2017

Skills

Application Support • IT Operations • Linux • Bash • Middleware • Agile Methodologies • Systems Planning • Communication • Technical Requirements • Business Requirements Matthew Sprague - page 1

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