Jon Harcey

Experience

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  Iowa Air National Guard

  Apr 1998 - Nov 2009

  Integrated Electronic Systems Technician

  Maintained aging electronic warfare pods and related test equipment with a 100 percent Mission Test rate.Managed a multi-million dollar equipment account to ensure equipment requirements were fulfilled.Recommended methods to improve equipment performance, technical data, and maintenance procedures. Trained personnel in maintenance practices, database management, safety standards, and security regulations.Trained personnel in the use of secure communication methods including secure telephones and computer connections.Led a Cargo Aircraft Loading Team to achieve the highest score possible in an Operational Readiness Inspection. Show less

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  Principal Financial Group

  Jan 2007 - Jun 2015

  IT Business Analyst II / Product Owner

  • Collaborated with multiple Agile teams including Business Analysts, Application Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, Architects, Business Leaders, and Business System Matter Experts on a multi-year project to build a highly complex system to replace legacy systems utilized to calculate and pay marketer commissions, fees and bonuses for 400,000+ Financial Professionals• Identified stakeholder needs using impact maps to determine the vision and scope of projects• Negotiated the scope that will be automated with business and technical leaders• Created and managed product backlog for multiple teams by interviewing users and technical resources to write user stories• Planned releases and sprints using story maps, backlog grooming, and sprint planning• Facilitated requirements gathering sessions to elicit and analyze business and technical needs for new business or system processes• Designed User Interfaces by interacting with business users and Usability Experts• Redesigned and recommended new business and system processes to increase efficiency• Documented requirements and business rules in User Stories utilizing Acceptance Criteria, Prototypes, Use Case Models, Process Maps, Entity Relationship Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams• Coordinated project efforts with application developers and quality assurance testers in Pune, India• Defined business data requirements utilizing data modeling and data mapping• Developed and trained other business analysts and product owners in writing user stories and maintaining a product backlog Show less

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  Principal Global Investors

  Jun 2015 - Mar 2017

  IT Business Analyst / ScrumMaster

  • Planned releases and sprints using story maps, backlog grooming and spring planning• Coordinated and facilitated Scrum ceremonies including: daily standups, backlog refinement sessions, spring planning sessions, sprint reviews, sprint demos and sprint retrospectives• Coached teammates and business users on Agile practices• Coached team on adopting change and implementing better solutions and advocated for unit testing, automated testing and quality assurance• Coordinated project efforts with off shore application developers and quality assurance testers• Organized a Scrum Master Community of Practice group• Worked with business and IT to identify, design, and deliver integration points between a vendor cloud based real estate investment management and accounting system to internal and external data consumers• Led the conversion from an overly customized legacy system to a disparate vendor solution Show less

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  Visiont

  Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

  Requirements Analyst (DuPont Pioneer)

  • Collaborate with the eBusiness and Marketing Product Owner to identify the business needs and priority• Write requirements in the form of user stories with acceptance criteria• Collaborate with the development team to ensure they understand the business needs• Coordinated and facilitated Scrum ceremonies including: daily standups, backlog refinement sessions, spring planning sessions, sprint reviews, sprint demos and sprint retrospectives • Tracked and reported development team metrics including velocity, burndown, burnup, and cumulative flow• Identify dependencies on other teams and collaborate with them to ensure business needs are being met with the best solution• Collaborate with the development team in testing Show less

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  TEKsystems

  Sept 2017 - May 2018

  Product Owner (John Deere)
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  John Deere

  May 2018 - Dec 2020

  Product Manager

  • Interviewed external customers and connected software companies to gain a deep understanding of the problems they face and identified potential opportunities for the team to pursue• Partnered with the Group Product Manager to establish the vision and roadmap of the Analyze tools• Tracked and analyzed product feature usage metrics to ensure that my team was working on the most impactful opportunities• Engaged the Product Marketing Manager and Customer Support Representative to identify additional customer needs and ensure alignment on user interface design, solution design, and requirements for creative solutions for go to market activities• Empowered product teams to deliver innovative solutions by providing them with the vision of the product and collaborated closely with them to identify and develop solutions that meet objectives of the company and the customer needs. • Worked with User Experience designers and researchers to design and validate highly usable and accessible interfaces• Coordinated with Product Managers and Engineering Leads across teams to define solutions that were innovative, cost effective, and met the customer needs in a timely manner• Prioritized new feature work against defect, technical debt, and continuous improvement• Facilitated planning events to ensure the development team understands the customer’s needs and how the team will deliver the solution• Provided status updates to the leadership team to ensure alignment and awareness of all stakeholders Show less

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  Source Allies Inc.

  Jan 2021 - Feb 2022

  Delivery Lead

  • Collaborate with the Product Owner and end users to define the features of a seed pricing and hedging application and a seed production/supply chain application to ensure that the business is effectively managing their supply chain and expenses• Lead a team of engineers and testers to define solutions that met the customer needs and were innovative, and cost effective• Prioritize new feature work against defects, technical debt, and continuous improvements to deliver on the most important work in a timely manner• Facilitate quarterly planning, user story refinement, daily standups, retrospectives, sprint planning, sprint reviews• Provide status updates to the leadership team to ensure alignment and awareness of all stakeholders Show less

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  Flexion Inc.

  May 2022 - now

  Product Manager