Sarah Stevens

About

Talented and tenaciously organized technical product manager with an ability to consistently take initiative and drive execution. Committed to delivering thoughtful customer-focused solutions using my diverse technical background and exceptionally strong soft skills.

Experience

• Product Manager - Data Enablement, Intelligent Solutions Group · John Deere06-01-2023

  Product Manager responsible for data enablement within the Intelligent Solutions Group. Likely contributions include aligning data strategies with business goals, managing data projects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive data-driven solutions.

• Technical Product Manager, Machine Learning Analytics Cloud Product · Alteryx07-01-2022 – 05-01-2023

  Alteryx Machine Learning delivers predictions and forecasts by automating the construction and application of machine learning models. Technical Product Manager on the Machine Learning Analytics Cloud product for the Quality and Front-end Foundations teams. Aligned engineers with customer priorities and delivered on-time and quality features. Led vision work-streams, contributed to a customer-first push, and supported GTM enablement. Led a cross-functional team to develop and execute a common framework aimed at improving the explainability, actionability, and usability of the product for the business analyst target persona. Integrated the Quality Hub-and-Spoke modeled team with the broader organization. Defined how the team is involved in the early planning process of epics and product roadmaps, and created a process for a standardized approach to reporting and planning Quality Hub work across the Spoke teams. Managed backlogs with 300+ tickets; cleaned and refined into an organized, actionable, and prioritized backlog ready for development and focused on customer value. Provided welcoming and inclusive team environments where new ideas and feedback are embraced. Built relationships with the engineers and engineering managers to gain buy-in on customer-requested initiatives. Collaborated with Engineering to plan a major architectural upgrade aimed at writing and implementing a new underlying API. Wrote stories, defined dependencies, estimated timelines, and coordinated across engineering teams to assign ownership. Introduced and implemented many process improvements to the broader organization, for things such as tracking release blockers, test plans, bug triage and management, telemetry implementation and best practices, engineering epic kickoffs as development baselines, and common tools to track WIP and status updates.

• Senior Data Analyst & Product Manager, Advanced Analytics · Lockheed Martin06-01-2021 – 07-01-2022

  Senior data analyst and project lead for cross-functional analytics solutions throughout the LM Aeronautics LOBs. Expert in leading analytics projects with high levels of strategic considerations, complex cross-functional stakeholder management, long-term road mapping, executive involvement, and alignment with vision, missions, and other strategic imperatives. Responsible for the complete product lifecycle, including: defining user requirements, design thinking, data quality and collection, change management, back-end development and testing, data science integration, front-end development and testing, training and communications, and project management. Projects use Agile Methodology and focus on delivering quantitative business value results. Passionate about inserting principles of change management and design thinking into projects to establish a user-centered approach and maximize realized business value through increased adoption, awareness, and communication.

• Data Analyst, Advanced Analytics · Lockheed Martin10-01-2019 – 06-01-2021

  Data analyst and project lead within Enterprise Integration Advanced Analytics for the F-35 platform. Lead large-scale analytics projects in both the production and sustainment environments through identifying, scoping, and implementation phases. Applied Design Thinking methodology and Change Management (CM) practices in order to maximize user adoption and tool impact. Mentored teammates as a certified Prosci Change Management (CM) Practitioner on applying CM principles to the project lifecycle and standard work. Used Agile methodologies to coordinate and lead tool development and deliver consistent project milestones. Automated data collection and visualization with Tableau.

• Asc. Data Analyst, Advanced Analytics · Lockheed Martin03-01-2019 – 10-01-2019

  Associate data analyst within Enterprise Integration Advanced Analytics for the F-35 platform. Collaborated with teammates and production leadership to test a scheduling tool aimed at reducing build cost and span times. Extensive data cleansing and investigation was performed alongside UAT testing. Contributing member of the Advanced Analytics Metrics Team, which has allowed increased visibility on project portfolio allocation and upcoming project deliverables in our standard work (customer satisfaction surveys, ROI, schedule). Automated data collection and visualization with Tableau.

Education

• Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science in Analytics
• Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Concentration
• Georgia Institute of TechnologyStudy Abroad, Pacific Program
• University of OxfordStudy Abroad, Worcester College
• Southeast High SchoolValedictorian, International Baccalaureate Diploma Recipient

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