Tim Wiegert

Rochester, NY 585-***-**** adrxiv@r.postjobfree.com WWW.Linkedin.com/in/Tim-Wiegert

Product Owner

An accomplished and business savvy Product Owner with robust experience acquired over the years in delivering optimal results & business value in high-growth environments and establishing key relationships with business segments globally. Adept at communicating with customers and synchronizing stakeholders during the various stages of the product life cycle. Proficient in multi-tasking assignments and pursuing solutions independently to deliver outstanding results. Articulate communicator with exceptional mentoring skills in transforming low-performance teams into a high-caliber workforce, recognized as a product polymath. Proven ability to understand people-psychology and backed by the confidence to interact with individuals at all levels. Exceptional communication, presentation & interpersonal skills. Excellent ability to grasp new concepts quickly and utilize the same in productive manner. Accomplished with SWOT Analysis & Monte Carlo Risk Mitigation in new product design and product launch.

PRODUCT OWNER SPECIALIZED SKILLS:

Ensuring projects align with corporate goals while maximizing benefits and minimizing risks by:

Works with market and development teams to analyze market trends, understand customer value chain, competitive offerings and potential partners.

Leverage agile development methodologies to conduct market research and continuous exploration to understand customer and market needs.

Responsible for managing the cost, revenue, cash and schedule requirements for large international programs and support major international pursuits. International travel has been required to uncover new business opportunities.

Recommend research and development strategies to realize product roadmap and prioritize product backlog.

Lead product lifecycle management from new product introductions to product end-of-life (EOL) through formalized development phases based on approved business cases (SDLC).

Manage profit and loss of Command-and-Control products working collaboratively with Finance and Supply Management teams.

Ensure the goals of customer satisfaction, safety, quality and team member performance are exceeded.

Develop & report on project status (milestones) to stakeholders and customer C-Suite members.

Ability to manage complex projects inclusive of vendors and strategic international partnerships.

Expert interpretation of RFI and RFP (RFx) with articulations underlying User Experience (UX) feedback for product road mapping.

Proficient at establishing KPI’s and OKR’s, aligning the product team with senior leadership.

Highly Skilled in SWOT Analysis methodologies

Employs Monte Carlo Risk Mitigation strategies to quickly communicate issues and mitigation strategy

CORE EXPERTISE

Highly motivated self-starter working alone or team environment

Strong presentation & communication skills, Functioned as key note speaker and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for IBM to: FASNY, IAFF, NYSFC for 9-1-1 center design and implementation

Proficient with Microsoft Office Applications

Exceptional communication skills (verbal & written), simplifies messaging & narratives to audience level of knowledge

Outstanding problem-solving, decision-making skills

Excellent interpersonal skills with multiple corporate organizations (e.g., Sales, Marketing & Engineering)

Working knowledge of Software-as-a Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and business models

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hardwood Floor Solutions Pittsford, New York, 14534 February 2013 - Present

Company Owner/ Product Owner

Respond to RFx’s with evaluations and articulations supporting work estimates of time and cost.

Created an environment of productivity and accountability that reduced overhead by 10 % in second year.

Reduced overhead by 20 % while growing revenue 25% (years 2 through current) by using my personal/ professional axioms of EXCELLENCE-continuously strive for perfection, ECONOMY-seek simplicity and elegance in planning and execution, ETHICS-demonstrate personal integrity in all endeavors. This imprint is on ALL Project/ Program management ventures.

Hardwood Floor Specialists Rochester, New York 14625 January 2000 – March 2014 Engineer/ Proposal & Project Manager

Assisted ownership with job quotations and process efficiency, establishing superior management/ labor relationships. Resulting “harmony” reduced average job time by 13% in first year. Each year this improved by over 2% as new talent acquired understood process prior to employment.

Restructured networking of vendor and finance company relationships to maximize customer value. Implementation of these steps added, on average (for 12 years) 10% higher net value as well as 5 % more jobs annually.

Designed new marketing templates enabling estimators to deliver more effective messages resulting in double digit growth annually for successfully placed estimates.

Blue Lobster Software Inc. Rochester, New York February 1997 – December 1999

Product Owner/ Product Manager

Led cross-functional teams to explore new market opportunities to develop campaigns that will drive profitable growth. Develop product roadmap and product backlog. Worked with Scrum Master to develop sprints.

Using SDLC, Agile/ Scrum methodologies, established flowcharts for the coding of new products (birth to grave).

Led 30-member team of software engineers in the development of a previously unavailable web-based aid (legacy-to-Web, Web-to-host technology). Create reports for management and stakeholders verifying milestone attainment.

Resulting products (StingRay and Mako)TM became flagship products with over $1M in first year sales.

As Subject Matter Expert (SME), supported IPO with branding elements including printed and digital material distributed to stakeholders, resulting in the sale of Blue Lobster Software Inc. for $10M.

EDUCATION

BS Computer Science(M)/ Psychology(m) St. John Fisher College, Pittsford, New York AAS Computer Science/ AAA Liberal Arts Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York Certification: Marketing/ Business Administration IBM Corporation, Atlanta, Ga

VOLUNTEER AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Pittsford Fire Department Pittsford, New York Over 20 years

Lead training officer for ladder and engine company operations with over 100 students passing state training guidelines.

Created multi-media learning/ training aids, improving user success rates and user satisfaction polls by 82%

IT Project Coordinator/ Consultant to area EMT/ firefighting providers for the purpose of streamlining technical operations, specific to Program Management. Paramount examples are conflict resolution and risk mitigation. The hardware utilized may be mainframe/ computer networking in origin.

HOW COLLEAGUES AND CLIENTS HAVE DESCRIBED ME: (Names for verification are available upon request)

Dedicated and dynamic. A resilient leader, who interprets Product Ownership as a balance of process while getting the job delivered. A strong influencer & negotiator with a terrier instinct! A passionate program leader who is fun to work with. He engages all to enjoy the dynamics of a healthy team working, underpinning the values of a positive work ethic.

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