$95

Hourly Consulting Rate

Eric DeVries

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Automotive

Aviation/Aerospace

Biotechnology/Greentech

Computer Software/Engineering

Education Management

Executive Office

Government Relations

Information Services

Information Technology/IT

Law Enforcement

Management Consulting

Marketing/Advertising/Sales

+ 8 More

Location Supported

United States

Languages Supported

English

Skills

  • Technical consultant
  • Application development
  • Security/compliance governance
  • Business intelligence
  • IOT
  • Blockchain
  • ERP
  • CRM
  • +4 more

Product Specialization

  • Salesforce CRM
  • Zoho CRM
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • IBM Cognos Analytics
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Cisco Webex
  • Zoom
  • DocuSign
  • ServiceNow Now Platform
  • Google Virtual Private Cloud
  • Azure Virtual Machines
  • Splunk Enterprise
  • +9 more

About

Proven, Senior-level Product Manager with 24 years managing and delivering software solutions.
• Full Product Lifecycle leader, successfully bringing innovative software products from inception to rollout with efficiency and speed.
• Complex Puzzle Solver, Strategic Planner and Customer Advocate.
• Expert negotiator with the C-Suite, Partners and Stakeholders.
• Natural, cross-functional influencer between Engineering, Design, Sales, Cybersecurity, Marketing and Customer Success
• Garners feedback from key people to capture/document full requirements and ensure launched product meets user needs

Top Project Highlights

Auto Dealership CRM

Employment

Director of Product and Engineering

2020 - 2020
    • Managed product design/launch for COVID essential businesses, negotiated change in partner’s API to meet deadline
    • Groomed JIRA backlog for 500+ features in both Agile Sprint cycles and Kanban Boards for bi-weekly product releases from 18 developers
    • Defined/documented 12-month roadmap to develop & launch B2B customer-facing CRM, CMS and inventory management system
    • Conducted startup’s market research to gain competitive advantage with first-to-market, mobile-first digital strategies
    • Authored onboarding process flow of new customers, including pre-launch product tours and custom definition of success metrics

Director of BI, IT and Application Development

2019 - 2020
    • Responsible for business alignment of over 400 software services and engineering efforts, as well as enterprise information technology systems, across HQ and 4 subsidiary companies for 800+ employees in healthcare industry
    • Streamlined launch and integration of single sign-on for 30 internal apps - shortened original schedule by 25%
    • Analyzed 75 software existing products for alignment to business requirements - identified & retired 2 unused products
    • Identified and retired 2 unused products, of 75 analyzed against business needs and systems engineering requirements
    • Designed consolidated PaaS network design for 200+ SaaS, reduced # of VM’s by 55%, saved $157K/month.
    • Saved $1.9M/year and doubled HIPPA data security measures by designing consolidated SaaS hosting environment.
       

Principal Product Manager

2017 - 2019
    • Defined 5-year, $5 million Enterprise portfolio product roadmap and validated functional requirements to efficiently modernize suite of 18, large-scale client/server apps into a centralized Azure SaaS product, for 80,000 global users in the training industry
    • Collected post-delivery feedback - interviewed 125 end-users across 8 personas to discover product viability and change requests
    • Saved $1.5M by re-prioritizing feature development and optimizing roadmap to shorten plan from 6 to 5 years
    • Slashed data modal 60% and removed manual downloads by creating new API interface to partner HRM system
    • Innovated new ML / AI product to analyze training trends and identify students that can graduate days, weeks, or months early
    • Prioritized sprint backlog against fluid business needs, balancing planned updates, new features, bugs and tech debt
    • Developed high-level System Topology and Software Architecture diagrams, along with critical system test plans
    • Saved 30 min per day, per student by prototyping offline mode to document training events when away from network
    • Roadmapped design of secure Cloud IaaS to reduce annual equipment costs by $850K
    • Engaged with key stakeholders to drive launch of first-ever mobile services for Air Force and Army aircrew training
    • Gathered & defined requirements to design the architectural specifications of a moderately complex software application with a user base of 80,000 global users in over 100 locations.
    • Advised and Assisted with design, coding, benchmark testing, debugging, and documentation of multi-million dollar software programs that scheduled, monitored and reported on the training status of students.
    • Guided PMO SDLC from using Waterfall to CI/CD Devops process
    • Managed gains and losses of localized human capital
    • Technical lead on team that supported business process analysis, requirements decomposition, software system design, transition planning and implementation oversight to manage flying training for the entire US Air Force
    • Key participant in pre-development configuration boards and post-development software acceptance testing processes
    • Interviewed users/stakeholders to collect best practices, define business processes and direct system development
    • Evaluated inefficiencies in legacy app to identify improvement areas during modernization, beyond simple code migration
    • Facilitated meetings and workshops for stakeholder updates, prototype designs, and cross-functional team collaboration

Chief Software Architect and Agile Product Owner

2015 - 2016
  • Designed & delivered on-time & budget a $1.3M SaaS prototype for next-generation cyber security monitoring tool
    Created 275 functional requirements for minimum viable product; prioritized features for eight Sprints with 12 Engineers
    Created/groomed 275 functional requirements for minimum viable product; prioritized features through software development lifecycle over eight Sprints with 12 Engineers
    Wireframed four UI’s, diagramed process flow between 31 SOA services and 14 data sources
    Gathered and documented system requirements and training guides, modeled process and data flow charts, authored test plan, designed data warehouse structure, and wireframed user interface 
    Performed feasibility study & gap analysis; proposed future roadmap to fulfill Strategic/Operational vision and objectives.
    Served as Agile/Scrum Product Owner as a Subcontractor to Northrop Grumman's
    Consulted continually with customer's PMO, C-Level Executives and end users to identify/validate requirements
    Engineered and integrated Java/Oracle based solutions for cloud-based SOA environment
    Designed, developed, enhanced, debugged, and implemented software solutions
    Created UML model for new SOA environment, leveraging XML/WSDL services and Oracle Fusion Middleware
    Wireframed full UI for both automated and interactive modes, to include error handling & customer's expansion plans
    Designed user stories, database structure, task/data flow, system requirements, service interfaces, and test plan
    Correlated data schemas of structured and unstructured data from multiple systems to scalable Enterprise design
    Conducted troubleshooting for production problems related to software applications
    Addressed problems of systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms.
    Assisted in the evaluation and recommendation of application software packages, application integration and testing tools.
     

Education

Graduate Certificate - Strategic Leadership
2018-2019

B.S. - Computer Information Systems
1998-2002

Certification

Product Management
2020-Present
Six Sigma - Yellow Belt
2019-2019
ITIL v3 Foundations
2014-2014

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