Cynthia Stoner

About Cynthia Stoner

Product Owner with 15+ years of experience working across a wide variety of business areas, products, and systems—meeting goals and objectives through full cycle project management. Build and maintain productive partnerships that bridge the gap between technical and business teams, ensuring alignment on requirements. Product Owner | Senior Business Analyst Maximize output within an Agile and Scrum framework, maintaining product focus and vision during and after roll-out. Analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs clearly and effectively to ensure project scope, objectives, and requirements are understood and achieved. Define solutions and improvements, coordinating new processes across interdepartmental teams and stakeholders. SDLC proficiency, with background that includes feature and user story creation, requirements gathering, backlog grooming and prioritization, and team leadership. CORE COMPETENCIES: • Product Owner • Business Analyst • Project Management • Strategic Partnerships • Stakeholder Relations • Agile & Scrum Methodologies • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) • Continuous Improvement • Requirements Gathering • User Stories • Backlog Grooming & Prioritization • Team Leadership ACCOMPLISHMENTS:~Reduced software system support tickets by more than 50% within 6 months of joining the team by focusing the team on root cause analysis and resolution.~Led multiple Agile project teams through all phases of the lifecycle, meetings and ceremonies.~Launched a new system in less than 4 months as part of a team to support a critical company merger.~Supported 60+ software systems for 400+ end users single handedly, triaging, prioritizing and resolving all issues for end users.

Experience

1. Senior Product Owner

   Rocket Homes

   Jul 2021 — Present

Education

• University of Michigan

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science