Responsive Website Build
Simone worked with design, front-end UI, and back-end development to prioritize and groom stories to build a responsive website. Participated as product owner and scrum master in the scrum to drive the project forward to its final deployment.
Lists
Researched market and competitive analysis, worked with UX to define user journey, and conduct customer analysis. Built MVP acting as product owner to define user requirementsfor APIs and UI needs. Worked with marketing and other required teams for the go-to-market strategy for both soft and hard launch.
Baby Registry Creation
Researched the Canadian and International baby market and looked at Stats Canada on how many babies are born each year. Worked with finance to build a compelling business case to show target market share and break-even analysis. Worked with UX to define the end-user journey. Conducted focus groups and quantitative surveys with the business insights team to understand the user and build out user personas and empathy maps.Worked with UX, engineering team lead, and stakeholders to define blue skies product.Drilled down to create a minimal viable product (MVP) and present it to stakeholders for sign-off.Prepared the statement of work (SOW) to engage a third-party vendor to facilitate front-end development and QA.Helped build Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) for a baby registry.Acted as the product owner, participating in Scrum (grooming, planning, stand-up, demo, and retrospective).Worked with regional store managers, marketing, PR team, social media team, content management team, knowledge base, compliance and legal, customer support, and external marketing vendors to prepare the soft and hard launch.
General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR)
Simone worked with internal stakeholders to define and capture requirements needed in the domain lifecycle to treat end-user and B2B client data. She worked with international clients across the globe.
Search Improvements
Grocery Gateway uses internal Solr search on Hybris version 2011 to allow shoppers to find the products to add to the cart. The original team had hardcoded the search boost rules, and it was not functioning correctly. Simone was able to remove these barriers to allow for a more free-flowing search capability.
eCommerce App
Simone participated as product lead that is building an app that utilizes Android and iOS technologies, which will allow clients using the platform to build robust, inexpensive eretail mobile apps through one application, lowering the need for large and expensive mobile development teams to publish and launch to end-users.
eRetail in Hardware industry
Stanley Black and Decker is a leading hardware company in the US markets but also has a strong global presence across the globe. In a world of digitization, Stanley Black and Decker have undertaken to build on their existing digital capabilities.