Elaine Bombal

About Elaine Bombal

Collaborative IT Product Manager, Certified Scrum Product Owner and Application Designer with extensive experience in successfully capturing and analyzing complex business needs within HR, talent development, information security domains and translating into simple functional and software design strategies, user experiences and solutions using agile scrum methodology. I am passionate about designing and delivering digital application products and services that meet their full potential in enhancing the way people work. I thrive on new challenges and opportunities to learn that accompany every initiative I am a part of.I enjoy listening to customers and stakeholders about their business needs, designing solutions and collaborating with the technology teams that bring the vision to life. Utilizing an analytical mindset, I look at the best approach to solving a problem from multiple angles, using agile methodologies to quickly deliver value with an application product in the short term while keeping the long term technology vision in sight. I\'ve got the details covered to ensure no functional gaps. My comprehensive IT background provides a unique perspective and expertise in negotiating demands between the business and software engineering worlds during the solutioning and design process. I provide innovative, effective and efficient value driven solutions through excellent communication, team orientation (global, virtual), critical thinking and problem solving. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Led roadmap, collaborative design initiative tools, dashboards to secure client data using agile methodology, resulting in reducing misdirected data incidents by 50%, mitigating legal risks and a patent-pending accuracy optimization method. • Defined release plans, managed application operations run for high customized, sophisticated Learning Management System (LMS) on SumTotal platform with 450K users and Learning Analytics Reporting of near 1M monthly completions meeting 99.5% up time SLA.STRENGTHS: Requirements definition and analysis, stakeholder management, product owner, agile scrum methodology, agile software (Azure DevOps, Jira), product management, team leadership and dynamics (virtual and global), process improvement, user experience design, technology planning and implementation, application development management, software functional architecting, data integrations, data center rationalization, vendor integrations, technology application operations management, HR IT, Learning Management System (LMS), SumTotal LMS.

Experience

1. Global Training Business Application Architect & E-commerce Lms Product Owner

   Red Hat

   Jun 2021 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  BS

Skills

• Organizational Design
• Management Consulting
• Change Management
• Instructional Design
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Software Development
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Business Analysis
• Product Management
• Business Transformation
• Business Process Improvement