Ian Cowie

Experience

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  DFDS

  Jul 2007 - Feb 2020

  • Involved in all layers of the DFDS network, dealing with company-wide legal demands, 19 different country preferences and looking for the small things that bring instant value whilst always working towards my own vision and the company’s strategy. • Working closely with the development team on an everyday basis to empower and encourage the team to maximise productivity to find and deliver the best solutions. • Stakeholder management and actively participating in daily meetings and workshops through a variety of methods with colleagues from all over Europe.• Using an Agile approach with Scrum methodology to ensure adequate planning and delivering of features through iterative releases. • Remote Stakeholder Reviews presented to an International audience. • Project Involvement on huge business impacting changes, including Brexit. Show less

  • Product Owner

    Aug 2018 - Feb 2020

  • Systems coordinator

    Nov 2017 - Jul 2018

  • Shipping Coordinator

    Jul 2007 - Nov 2017
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  Nisa Retail

  Apr 2020 - Oct 2021

  Information Technology Business Analyst

  • Serving as the conduit between internal and external customers and the software development team.• Working with a multitude of Stakeholders to define scope of a project. • Eliciting business requirements using appropriate techniques to establish prioritised requirements. • Evaluating high-level information gathered and deconstructing in low-level detail to distinguish user requests. • Working closely with key stakeholders to build successful business cases for multitude of projects. • Ensuring project change is documented, evaluated and implemented in the correct manner within a project. • Develop requirements specifications to standard templates, using natural language. • Collaborating with developers and SME to establish technical vision and analyse trade offs between usability and performance needs.• Acting as the go to contact for any questions and queries which arise from stakeholders throughout the project life cycle. Show less

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  Cox Automotive Europe

  Nov 2021 - Feb 2023

  Product Owner

  • Contributing to Vision and Backlog of Enterprise Automotive Platform.• Owning team backlog and implementation. • Defining iterations and user stories• Accepting iteration increments• Drive iteration goals iteration content via prioritized stories • Establish story acceptance criteria• Remain solution / technology / team facing

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  Eagle Eye

  Feb 2023 - now

  Product Owner

  · Collaboration with engineers, projects, and sales/marketing teams to translate business requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria· Developing and maintaining an appropriately prioritised backlog of user stories for implementation· Working with stakeholders to help determine priorities· Contributing to the mid/longer term product vision and direction· Acting as an ambassador for the product internally and externally· Ensuring successful, timely product releases· Supporting the Sales effort on properly qualified prospect Show less