Thomas Poirier

Experience

1. Senior Technical Product Owner

   Liberty Mutual Insurance

   Jun 2020 — Present · Dover, NH, US

   Assisted with the merger of 2 teams into a surviving entity, poised to serve the needs of our redefined population of customers • Set ambitious and clear strategy, develop comprehensive portfolio vision, and translate into specific feature strategies and roadmaps. Communicate strategy effectively to key stakeholders and team members. • Knowledge of product offerings, business processes, Distribution and Product applications and services, underwriting rules, pricing plans and databases. • Own alignment of development and business resources on goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and team to remove roadblocks to execution. • Responsible and accountable for assigned portfolio-level key performance indicators (KPI’s) and manages product and/or service with a medium-to-high degree of strategy, KPI, scope, complexity, etc. • Ensure the proper controls, processes and business procedures are maintained for the shared services owned by the portfolio. • Manage backlog influenced by Imperative teams and directly within their own platform • Own portfolio backlog (grooming, prioritization and refinement) within a highly matrixed organization with strong guidance from Imperative leadership • Manage effectively across priorities and roadmaps. • Partner with IT and Business leaders to both understand the benefit of and drive technology modernization alongside business delivery • Lead the analysis of feasibility, cost ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential programs.

Education

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  MBA, Marketing and Finance

  1987 — 1989

• CSM Training

  Big Visible, Certified Scrum Master

• Project Management Institute

  Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management

  2011 — 2011

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  BS, Applied Mathematics

  1983 — 1987