Gregory Collins

Efficiency-driven Certified Scrum Product Owner with extensive data management, analytical, and quality-assurance skills. Experienced in process improvement, agile software development, and creation of operating procedures, and communicating data with a wide range of professionals. Currently overseeing development on four high-profile home-grown applications.

Well-versed in all stages of the SDLC. Strong work ethic, integrity, customer skills, and technical expertise have resulted in universally successful outcomes, and additional tasks of increasing scope. Consistently strong performance reviews and a track record of rapid development into new areas of responsibility.

Product Manager, Financial Digital Transformation at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Clinical Research Group) (2022-11 – Present)

• Drove stakeholder alignment securing funding for three development projects which created an estimated 5,000 repeatable work hour savings in 2024. On pace for delivery of 21,800 hours' savings in 2025.
• Currently oversee all major vendor documentation including Statements of Work, Master Service Agreements, and other partnership documentation for accuracy and ensuring the documents meet the Financial Digital Transformation group's needs and standards.
• Lead fully remote globally distributed cross-functional teams in the management of the entire SDLC for several proprietary applications.
• Represented Financial Digital Transformation for several external Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audits of internal financial systems without incident.
• Currently leading discovery for implementation of a revenue recognition system for Thermofisher's Analytical Services (Labs) division.
• Successfully implemented a monthly support release cadence in 2023 for each system under our purview, drastically reducing long-standing bugs and user tickets.
• Assisted with our legacy company's technology migration to Thermofisher environment by reviewing systems, tools, and integrations for possible changes needed to successfully transition.
• Trained and promoted a direct report who received highest possible review marks within a 9-month timeframe.

Product Owner II, Financial Digital Transformation (Systems) at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Clinical Research Group) (2021-06 – 2022-11)

• Became the primary product owner for two large scale applications 6 months faster than expected.
• Prioritized, developed, and implemented a $500k system upgrade cycle as a junior resource with minimal oversight.
• Implemented a user feedback system for both quality assurance and product backlog ideas.
• Successfully delivered functionality for critical forecasting functionality despite high developer turnover in a period of rapid org change. Functionality was on-time and at budget despite these challenges.
• Provided training and functional oversight of one partial FTE colleague.
• Created group resources such as training videos and outlines to aid future training efforts.
• Performed all day-to-day operations for the systems side of Financial Innovations with minimal oversight, including tasks typically assigned to senior level resources.

Product Owner I, Financial Digital Transformation (Systems) at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Clinical Research Group) (2020-07 – 2021-06)

• Promoted ahead of cycle (11 months at Product Owner I) for demonstrated ability to take on more responsibility.
• Learned and took over development and support of a primary revenue recognition system in 6 months.
• Became the primary point of contact for our revenue recognition system up to the Senior Director level within 3 months.
• Managed development, testing, and releases for revrec system successfully with minimal assistance.
• Began learning a second product and led development for it in under 6 months. (Typical timeframe >1 year)
• Successfully contributed to highly regulated SOX audit processes without incident.

Bachelor of Science in IT Management - Western Governors University (In Progress)

Associate of Arts in General Studies – Piedmont Community College