Ryan N. Bennett

About Ryan N. Bennett

As a dynamic and growth-focused Product Development Leader, I have 10+ years of experience across the technology and product development industry delivering business growth, customer satisfaction, and cutting-edge solutions through strategic planning, agile methodologies, and cross-functional team leadership.With a customer-centric approach, I leverage market research, analytics, and strong stakeholder relationship management to drive impactful outcomes across diverse industries. I am known for steering organizational culture transformation, aligning business objectives, and optimizing operational efficiency.As a compassionate and motivational leader, I certify team success by nurturing a culture of accountability and inspiring performance improvement. Seeing a project from beginning to end, overcoming obstacles, and working with people’s strengths is what get me out of bed in the morning.A few of my career highlights include: • Retained 100% of clients and grew client base 3x at from 20••••22 by launching new product features based on client feedback.• Secured an 80% sales close rate through presales proof of concept demonstrations and client trials, resulting in signed contracts.• Executed customer engagement program for AppointmentPlus, gaining insights from 20+ diverse industry clients, leading to a strategic shift from enterprise sales to small business expansion, and contributing to growth in revenue and profitability.\"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.\"- Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft.

Experience

1. Managing Partner and Co-founder

   Adnova Group

   Mar 2020 — Present · Alpharetta, GA, US

   Facilitated the business strategy, product management, and agile transformation coaching for post-acquisition organizations in partnership with Cuesta Partners, ensuring seamless integration with new business ownership, resulting in a significant improvement in integration efficiency. Fostered a cohesive organizational culture following the acquisition of AppointmentPlus, restructuring the team, promoting key employees, and ensuring a smooth transformation within a one-year timeframeHighlights of accomplishments in this role include:• Mentored AppointmentPlus product management and technology team through agile project management transformation, eliminating siloed development workstreams and implementing Scrum organization-wide, resulting in a 50-75% increase in engagement.• Executed customer engagement program for AppointmentPlus, gaining insights from 20+ diverse industry clients, leading to a strategic shift from enterprise sales to small business expansion, and contributing to growth in revenue and profitability.• Championed agile product strategy transformation for AppointmentPlus, a DaySmart-acquired enterprise SaaS provider, driving strategy definition, client engagement, user experience research, client journey mapping, data-driven feature prioritization, and iterative product design, leading to an increase in client satisfaction.• Orchestrated AppointmentPlus product operations integration with DaySmart revenue operations, covering product, sales, marketing, finance, and customer success, including Salesforce migration, pricing model refinement, market data analysis, and operational process optimization. • Achieved integration targets and goals for AppointmentPlus and DaySmart, including high Salesforce adoption and on-time new product feature launch, improving project team velocity and integration process efficiency, resulting in an increase in project delivery speed.

Education

• Troy University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

• LSU Shreveport

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

• University of Florida

  Computer Engineering

• Palm Beach State College

  Associate of Arts - AA, Business Administration

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Software Engineering
• Software Design
• Enterprise Architecture
• Iphone
• Technical Management
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Ext Js
• Sencha
• Team Leadership
• Quality Assurance
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Software Project Management
• Asp.net Mvc
• Crm
• Phonegap
• Integration
• Css
• .net
• Mobile Devices
• Testing
• Soa
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Business Process
• Certified Scrum Master Csm
• Html5
• Ios
• Microsoft Sql Server
• User Experience
• Web Applications
• Process Development
• Mongodb
• Application Architecture
• Node.js
• Mysql
• Sencha Touch