Daniel C.

Daniel C.

Product Owner

Baltimore, United States of America
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About Me

Daniel is a Product Owner with years of industry experience that focuses on the tactical execution of projects for clients. He provides continuous business guidance, executes successful web experimentation for clients and shepherds A/B tests from concept through launch - responding to client requests and keeping team members and clients accountable for follow-ups and action items. He works within multiple evolving development methodologies - serving as a business requirements expert, managing activities for completion and proper documentation.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Product Owner
2021 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • Prioritizing the needs in terms of product features and align them with the stakeholders' feedback.

  • Overseeing product development and permanently communicating with the development team for planning, reviewing and refining the requirements.

  • Acting like a primary communicator and link between stakeholders.

Octo Consulting Group
Octo Consulting Group
Product Owner
2020 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Worked on the product strategy and roadmap for the CMS Acquisition Lifecycle Modernization (CALM) programming and handled digital transformation tasks for data storage and reporting.

  • Coordinated the launch of new dashboards and reports, led program increment planning sessions and drove alignments across releases by leveraging product syncs.

  • Oversaw engagements with CALM user community and executives and reviewed technology stack to confirm product fit and adherence to customer policy guidelines.

Maximus
Maximus
Product Owner / QIP Data Analytics
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
United States of America
  • Worked with multiple teams on behalf of Maximus - managing product vision, objectives and business goals and developing road maps and strategies to accomplish customer objectives.

  • Drove the adoption of cloud services and infrastructure and partnered with dev teams to design and execute early, iterative testing of sprint deliverables.

  • Handled requirements and technical design reviews to ensure clarity and usability and managed root cause analysis tasks for discrepancies between the ADO and 3rd party solution.

KPMG USA
KPMG USA
Product Owner / Business Intelligence Analyst
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
United States of America
  • Liaised with the BI team to create 200+ canned and ad hoc reports and worked on design sessions for interactive dashboards, dossiers, and mobile apps using Microstrategy.

  • Produced user stories, wireframes, and other UX artefacts that are “ready” a couple of sprints ahead of when we plan to develop them.

  • Worked with the clients on a day-to-day basis for swift dissemination of information - prioritizing stories within and across sprints for the timely delivery of solutions.

BellEse Systems
BellEse Systems
Senior Business Analyst
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Baltimore, United States of America
  • Led a team of data analysts and ETL developers to build identity management solutions for the CMS quality improvement applications.

  • Managed the agile team on the successful integration of 4 different applications to the Enterprise Identity Management (EIDM) solution - facilitating stand up meetings, retrospective, review, and estimation meetings.

  • Performed peer reviews on requirements and test case documentation and conducted tests on EQRS organization & user role staging.

BellEse System
BellEse System
Product Owner / Business Analyst
2015 - 2018 (3 years)
Baltimore, United States of America
  • Acted as lead BA in delivering a business rules engine, UI and 20 reports for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Quality Improvement application.

  • Liaised with the scrum team to maintain the highest team velocity across the release train and delivered high-quality solutions to production with zero defects.

  • Elicited requirements for the CMS QIP application using process modelling, prototyping, document analysis, and use cases.

Portfolio

Product Owner - CMS Acquisition Lifecycle Management (CALM)
Product Owner - CMS Acquisition Lifecycle Management (CALM)

Worked as the product owner on the reporting and analytics CALM product. which aims to modernize all of the internal acquisition processes and systems in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), seeking to improve, streamline, consolidate, simplify and standardize across numerous programs.

Product Owner - CMS End Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System
Product Owner - CMS End Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System

Acted as the product owner to deliver multiple data products that indicated the quality of healthcare provided in dialysis facilities across the US. The EQRS solution was created to allow all dialysis facilities in the United States and U.S. territories to comply with the Conditions for Coverage.

Product Owner - CURAM
Product Owner - CURAM

Participated in the delivery of Cúram Income Support for Medical Assistance supports health care and health-related services to certain low-income individuals and families, including families with dependent children, pregnant women, children to age 21, adults, individuals age 65 and older, individuals determined blind or disabled, or individuals needing long term care.

Education

Certified SAFe® 5 Release Train Engineer RTE
Certified SAFe® 5 Release Train Engineer RTE
Scaled Agile Inc
2021 - 2021
Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
Scaled Agile Inc
2020 - 2020
Certified SAFe® 4 DevOps Practitioner
Certified SAFe® 4 DevOps Practitioner
Scaled Agile Inc
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS
2018 - Present (6 years)
MBA Finance and Accounting
MBA Finance and Accounting
Pittsburg State University
2011 - 2013 (2 years)
BSc. Accounting
BSc. Accounting
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
2000 - 2005 (5 years)
SCRUM MASTER CERTIFICATION
SCRUM MASTER CERTIFICATION
Scrum Alliance
SAFe® 4.5 Advanced Scrum Master
SAFe® 4.5 Advanced Scrum Master
Scaled Agile Inc