Billy Nice
Software Product Owner
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Rickmansworth, Three Rivers, HertfordshireMember since September 18, 2023
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l'm looking for a permanent Product Owner role working with one or more Product Managers. It would therefore be an inward facing role, working with one or more agile teams day-to-day. The focus would be on creating user stories based on what the Product Manager has defined on the product road-map.
Experience
Career Break
June 2022 - Present
Took time out for health reasons.Deltatre \ Product Owner
November 2021 - May 2022, LONDON
Deltatre provides a VOD platform.- Worked with a distributed agile team of 10.
- Web app and native mobile apps (iOS & Android).
- Collaborated with UX Designers to define user journeys.
- Ran refinement and sprint planning meetings.
- Prioritised BAU issues.
Insight Software \ Product Owner
JUNE 2018 - FEBRUARY 2021, LONDON
Insight Software provides a b2b financial reporting suite.- Product Owner for two agile teams (Web & Desktop).
- Just-in-time user story elaboration with agile teams.
- Collaborated with the Web team to produce a new web client.
- Reviewed roadmap with Product Managers.
- Introduced ‘3 Amigos’ meeting to streamline user story refinement.
- Ran company wide Product Owner guild.
Insight Software \ Agile Business Analyst
OCTOBER 2016 - JUNE 2018, LONDON
- Agile Business Analyst for 4 agile teams, one being offshore (Belarus).
- Worked in tandem with Product Managers.
- Focused on user story creation.
- Collaborated with UX Researcher to prioritise roadmap features.
- Documented non-functional requirements, UX patterns and internal business analysis processes.
NotOnTheHighStreet.com \ Product Owner (Contractor)
OCTOBER 2015 - JUNE 2016, LONDON
NotOnTheHighStreet provides a b2c platform for retailers.- Acted as Interim Product Owner for Payments team.
- Delivered Payment service provider migration.
- Delivered PayPal Express Checkout integration.
- Managed business and third party stakeholders.
- Prioritised BAU issues.
Maxymiser Inc \ Agile Business Analyst
MAY 2012 - JUNE 2015, LONDON
Maxymiser provides a web site optimization platform via SaaS.- Produced user stories for features from the roadmap.
- Created and maintained the product backlog.
- Worked with UX Designers to produce detailed user journeys.
- Involved stakeholders to verify and prioritise features.
- Worked with a remote Engineering team based in Ukraine.
Metastorm Inc \ Lead Business Analyst
JANUARY 2007 - FEBRUARY 2012, LONDON
Metastorm offers Business Process Management software.- Led BA team with the gap analysis between the old and new versions of the product.
- Collaborated with the product manager for product backlog prioritisation.
- Established and oversaw the requirements gathering process.
Metastorm Inc \ Business Analyst
OCTOBER 2003 - DECEMBER 2006, LONDON
- Produced functional specifications from marketing requirements.
- Created proof of concepts UIs for validation with product management.
Education
- Pragmatic Marketing \ Product Management Certification MAY 2013, NEW YORK
- Newcastle University \ M.Sc. Software & Systems Design 1993 - 1994, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
- De Montfort University \ B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science 1989 - 1993, LEICESTER
