Rick Wells
Director | Product Owner | Business Solution Architect
- Role
- Senior Business Analyst & Product Owner at HealthTrust Performance Group
- Location
- Nashville, TN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rick Wells
Innovative and results-driven Senior Product Manager and Leader with experience establishing and enhancing Business Analysis and Quality Assurance performance, improving operating procedures, and exceeding client expectations and organizational growth metrics. Specializing in driving, adapting, and executing best practices for B2B and SaaS technology clients and teams. Expertise lies in defining and translating requirements, communicating across teams to provide creative, immediate, and long-term solutions, and strategically aligning resources to projects and teams to provide a high level of quality assurance. Strong, decisive leader, with proven ability to promote agile methodologies to effectively solve business inefficiencies. Proven record of translating product roadmap into sustainable growth and financial viability; leading the product vision and new product development opportunities by influencing product design, architecture, and feature enhancements. Leverage data, customer insights, and market trends to solve challenging problems and build consensus across teams. Product Management | Business Analytics | Quality Assurance | B2B and SaaS Solutions | Process Analysis & MVP | UX UI Jira | P&L Responsibility | Requirements Gathering | Regression Testing | Project Management User Story Development | User Acceptance Testing | SOW & Budgeting | Stakeholder Engagement | Defect & Backlog Management | Data Transformation
Experience
Senior Business Analyst & Product Owner
Mar 2023 — Present · Nashville, TN, US
Liaison between multiple cross functional teams of devs / QA / PM and Business Stakeholder\'s implementation of SMART Procurement supply chain technology and SMART Security. Translate business requirements into SAFE agile User Stories for implementation by teams of technical resources. Maintain, implement and support stated priorities of business stakeholders utilizing SCRUM methodology. Lead weekly working groups in support of stakeholder initiatives on behalf of HCA Supply Chain executives, including new module development, UAT, pilot and enterprise wide rollout with ~ users.Recent Project: Created end-to-end framework for AI-assisted software development targeting product owners, including 5-phase methodology (Foundation, Build, Align, Harden, Document), prompt orchestration tool, and enterprise compliance documentation. Validated approach through proof-of-concept generating functional Vue.js application with mock API layer, test infrastructure, and workflow documentation from natural language input and UI screenshots.Skills: Product Management, Rollout, and Competitive Gap Analysis. User and Training Documentation. UAT and Quarterly Planning.
Education
University of Florida - Warrington College of Business
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General
1982 — 1984
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