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Katie Kereama

Petone,WGN

Summary

Experienced product management professional well-versed in Agile and Scrum methodology, and principles of product development. Comfortable making key decisions for team to move changes efficiently through pre-production and production timelines. Expertise in development tools such as Salesforce, Eos and Case Management systems.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Owner

ACC
01.2022 - Current
  • Collaborates with wider team, customers and business owners to understand user needs and business objectives
  • Manages product backlog, with reference to key business objectives
  • Oversees entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery, including monitoring workflow through Jira board
  • Works alongside business owners to share changes to project scope and timelines
  • Focused on building critical features up front to identify constraints and technical challenges early
  • Suggests enhancements to product design that would improve user experience
  • Brainstorms with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features
  • Managed multiple releases effectively in demanding environment with tight deadlines
  • Maintains and provides forward view of product roadmap that anticipates client needs

Lead Business Analyst

ACC
01.2020 - 01.2022
  • Facilitated workshops with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements
  • Analysed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarised into presentations
  • Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyse and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement
  • Improved business direction by prioritising customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback
  • Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis and outlined sensible solutions
  • Assessed impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders and evaluated potential areas for improvement

Subject Matter Expert, NGCM Transformation

ACC
06.2018 - 12.2019

Product Solution - Eos and Salesforce

  • Represented priorities and ensured interests of business area was met through change delivery plans
  • Provided detailed view of requirements and specifications of business area to project to support successful transition plans to be developed.
  • Ensured coverage of business is considered in all testing and readiness assessments
  • Ensured appropriate level of Business Representative spread was included in project to test products before implementation.
  • Raised areas of concern to project to ensure these are considered prior to implementation
  • Was proactively involved in project of work to support successful development, assessment, implementation and realisation of benefits

Branch Support Manager

ACC
11.2017 - 06.2018
  • Analysed data and claims across frontline teams to understand areas of improvement
  • Assessed employee performance and developed improvement plans
  • Met deadlines by proactively managing individual and team tasks and streamlining processes
  • Worked alongside Centre Manager to implement change across teams
  • Developed clear action plans to meet business KPIs

Case Management Mentor

ACC
08.2016 - 11.2017
  • Facilitated training and learning huddles
  • Onboarded new staff
  • Provided practical and tactical advice on client recovery support approaches and interactions to drive quality assessments, recovery planning and client outcomes
  • Monitored and evaluated recovery practice to ensure consistent and effective decision making and practice to continuously improve customer experience and client outcomes
  • Supported leaders to develop capability in their teams

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Education And Māori Studies

Massey University
Palmerston North, NZ

Conjoint Bachelor of Science And Commerce - Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics

Victoria University
Wellington

Skills

  • Effective communication
  • Decision making
  • Leadership skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Product roadmap set-up and management
  • Product backlog set-up, prioritisation and management
  • User-centred design process
  • User validation
  • Requirements elicitation and engineering
  • Agile Methodology
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Time management
  • Large data migration

Timeline

Product Owner

ACC
01.2022 - Current

Lead Business Analyst

ACC
01.2020 - 01.2022

Subject Matter Expert, NGCM Transformation

ACC
06.2018 - 12.2019

Branch Support Manager

ACC
11.2017 - 06.2018

Case Management Mentor

ACC
08.2016 - 11.2017

Bachelor of Arts - Education And Māori Studies

Massey University

Conjoint Bachelor of Science And Commerce - Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics

Victoria University
Katie Kereama