Anna Gor

About Anna Gor

Senior Product Owner and Product Manager with over 20 years of experience in software development. Lead product managers and coordinate with engineering, marketing, and other business teams. Incorporate feedback and input from customers, partners, and in-house teams on product strategy and finding ways to expand product market penetration. Develop and implement product strategies that are aligned with the company vision. Collect and analyze data and feedback from customers, stakeholders, and teams to formulaterequirements, features, and products and create product plans and roadmaps. Coordinate cross-functional teams and gain consensus on product direction. Apply Agile development methods, QA testing, UAT and Performance to release products on time and schedule. Work with cross-functional teams to deliver features and products. Deep understanding of the technology stack and its impact on final product development. Own the release, sprint backlogs, and short-term roadmap for MBPs and quarterly releases. Continually order and prioritize backlog, ensuring sprints and iteration of backlogs are ready. Translate unstructured and ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories.

Experience

1. Sr IT Product Owner

   Cambridge Investment Research, Inc.

   Jun 2023 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

   Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. is an internally controlled financial solutions firm dedicated to serving independent financial advisors and their clients. Communicated with a variety of the stakeholders, business managers, and the development team to makes sure the goals are clear, and the vision is aligned with business objectives. Managed/prioritized the product backlog items. Collaborated with the team and managed all the Scrum events, including sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and product backlog refinement. Evaluated stakeholders’ feedback. Developed product roadmap, mapped customer view with customer journey and helped stakeholders drive business decisions for the Salesforce product.Highlights: Successfully led three development Scrum teams to plan sprints and ensured objectives were met within stakeholders’ deadlines. Involved in several application modernization of legacy software by shifting them to the cloud platform.

Education

• University of Phoenix

  Bachelor, BS in Criminal Justice Administration

  2003 — 2005

• Amerinfo Technical College

  Non-degree program, Oracle DBA Training

  2001 — 2001

• ASA College

  Certification, Computer Science

  1997 — 1998