Elizabeth Pearson

Experience

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  MassMutual Financial Group

  May 2012 - Mar 2013

  Business Coordinator

  Manage and maintain the workload of three top producers (2 Financial Advisors and 1 Financial Planner)Manage all calendaring and client follow upsProcess all new business-completing applications, checking for accuracy, coordinate between the processing department and the client until an approvalMaintain revenue tracking system for all pending cases through ExcelAssist training new hires-Provide contact information for various key departments, what procedures need to be followed for different types of products (investments to life insurance), provide knowledge of how to process new business, what forms are needed and how to find them Show less

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  Stanford University

  Mar 2013 - May 2014

  Program Administrator

  Planned and executed a 400 person, three day conference on Stanford campus within my first 6 months of employment for the American Society of Mechanical EngineersManage all purchases from the lab ranging from $5 to $60,000 for testing trips and research use.Assist 1 professor and 25 graduate and PhD students with handling all calendaring, media requests, travel arrangements for speaking engagements and making Professor Gerdes accessible to his PhD studentsProcess all incoming gift money through the Stanford financial system from various organizations that sponsor the Dynamic Design Lab’s research Show less

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  MTN Satellite Communications

  May 2014 - Oct 2015

  Project Coordinator/ Certified ScrumMaster

  ScrumMaster for Network Development Team: Facilitate 4 person development team from project beginnings, establishing timelines to deliver products on time. Utilize Atlassian JIRA to create stories and backlog to track progress. Assist with project management for TBN project TBN: Utilize Smartsheets to keep tasks organized and progressing, ordering of parts through proprietary systems, review and pay all circuit related invoices, maintain relationships with TBN vendors, developed a document database for all contracts and separate outlook calendar for specific contract end dates from the ground up) Show less

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  Fresh Consulting

  Oct 2015 - Nov 2016

  Project Manager Scrum Master

  Have successfully managed thousands of hours in budgets ranging over 15 projects from small to large since start dateManaged a diversity of projects from full website redesigns, web applications, branding and messaging as well as complete website creation from design to deployment Managing the company’s largest client to date in an agile environment with bi weekly sprints for front-end and back-end to track velocity of teams.Direct communication with all clients on scoped work and upcoming deliverables Analysis of all SOW’s to mitigate risk, scope creep and ensure project successForecasting all team members needed for project completion and facilitate communication amongst the team Show less

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  Williams Helde Marketing Communications

  Nov 2016 - Jul 2017

  Project Manager

  Manage all media placements for US and Canada Philips Sonicare Creation of SOW’s, estimations and management of all client communication from project launch to completion. Manage variety of projects from website redesign, rebranding and updated messaging, marketing collateral creation, strategy creation for customer loyalty

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  McGraw Hill

  Aug 2017 - now

  -Managed a complete rebuild of McGraw Hill's highest daily used product with 8 different product integrations. This included complete data migration from our existing database to a new internally developed API and database.-Manage the ReadAnywhere app for both Android and iOS. -Developed a new app geared at K-12 students to allow studying offline while at home. This included the full development lifecycle from wireframes, business requirement gathering, technical solutioning and coordinating marketing efforts for launch.-Responsible for all release coordination efforts and clear communication with all 8 integrations, customer service reps and relevant stakeholders-Crafted and conducted a user research plan to kick off business requirements for a new initiative. Show less Manage two development teams that span 3 different products (800k+ users) Manage a full product life cycle from story boarding to a full roll out to production facing customers Manage all customer and internally reported production issues with QA team Manage all production releases for web and mobile platforms across both teams Prioritize the backlog with the TPM. Write stories and acceptance criteria as well as run all agile ceremonies (sprint planning, standup, retro, sprint review and demo) Work with TPM to plan commitments over a 4 month cycle for development capacity and deliverables to the stakeholders Report all statuses and project health on a weekly basis to senior leadership Show less

  • Senior Technical Product Manager

    Dec 2022 - now

  • Technical Product Manager

    Jun 2020 - Jan 2023

  • Project Manager

    Aug 2017 - Jun 2020