Steven Lazar

Product Manager @Vertafore

Coconut Creek, FL, US

Manage product development process including Daily Stand-ups, Product Backlog, Product Design, Product Backlog Estimation, Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Defect Tracking, Defect Suites, Sprint Retrospectives, QA Testing & Automation, Hot fixes, Sprint Releases, and Major Releases. Maintain transparency through the development process to Internal Stakeholders. Work with customers, key partners, and colleagues to define a product vision and strategy. Create the Product Roadmap and present it to Internal Stakeholders, Partners, and Clients. Meet with Directors and Implementation Managers monthly to review their Implementation Roadmaps and align them with the Product Roadmap. Gather requirements from Implementation teams to be used for Product Backlog and Designs. Present Product Risks and Risk Mitigation to Executive Management on a weekly basis. Facilitate Product Training to employees, including client case studies. Maintain Product Management SharePoint site for employee reference and training. Present at sales opportunities and events. Provide detailed requirements including researching options, defining use cases, workflows, and doing screen mock ups. Work with User Experience / Design resources to help visualize requirements into prototype Support development of marketing collateral materials to include product sheets, whitepapers, blogs, pamphlets, videos, and presentations.

Florida International University

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Rutgers University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science