Peter Fields

Experience

1. Principal Requirements Engineer

   BD

   Mar 2018 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   As a requirements engineer in the Technology Solutions Division at BD, I work on hosted analytical cloud solutions in a Software as a Service (SaaS) environment. I bring strong leadership and organizational skills to bear to maintain a steady release plan for the solution. I create, order and manage the backlog of user stories and product defects to ensure that the work defined for the team is meaningful to the customer, yet realistic and attainable for the development teams. I manage the requirements engineering process throughout the development life cycle, eliciting, documenting, analyzing and harmonizing functional and non-functional software requirements. I support sprint planning and reviews, development estimation, and incremental feature delivery in tight collaboration with Customers, Product Managers, Engineering and Quality. I lead requirements workshops and reviews in a cross-functional setting to support verification activities, traceability, and assessment/analysis of risk. I facilitate scoping of product requirements and setting of business priorities to align product roadmaps and deliverables. I serve as gate-keeper to ensure that software implementation complies with User Experience design (UXD) guidelines and standards for harmonized user interface/interaction, and that designs meet end-user expectations. I support SW Quality in test planning by identifying testability requirements and supporting review of test cases and defects, as needed. I assist in internal and end-user education, training and evaluation of feedback to support initial product rollout, as needed. I independently elicit user and business needs, translating these into product requirements through a variety of best-practice techniques, including user research, interviews and surveys, functionality analysis, and rationalization of Voice of Customer (VOC). I demonstrate capacity to develop and manage product requirements, agile user stories, and user needs.

Education

• Alan D’Morias and Associates

  City & Guilds Certificate in Computer Programming, Systems Analysis and Computer Programming

  1982 — 1982

• University College London, University of London

  BS with Honors, Geology

  1976 — 1979