Rebecca Fandino
Clarkesville,GA
Summary
20+ years of product management, product owner and project management experience with the last 10 years in digital media and previous years in the healthcare IT spaces.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Manager
Cox Enterprises - AJC
07.2022 - Current
- Serve as Product Manager for AJC digital products, primarily the AJC.com website.
- Collect requirements from internal and external teams including leadership, advertising, marketing, digital programming, video, newsroom, ux, mobile app, architecture, and vendors.
- Translate requirements into user stories.
- Hold technical elaborations to understand feasibility, dependencies, challenges, and to plan work breakdown for various efforts.
- Lead grooming sessions to size user stories.
- Prioritize backlog.
- Work with analytics and market research to inform product needs and priorities.
- Work with UX team on user workflows and to obtain designs and visual assets.
- Communicate effectively with leadership to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines.
- Provide release notes and documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
- Completed business analysis for launching AJC.com on a headless CMS (coming this Fall). Reviewed full inventory of 1000s of website pages to templatize 80% of pages.
Product Owner & Release Coordinator for Cox Digital Newspapers
Brooksource
04.2021 - 06.2022
- Facilitated communication between development teams, QA, product managers and stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of requirements and expectations.
- Translated product managers' roadmap into user stories.
- Co-owned and prioritized product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
- Collaborated with engineering teams on technical feasibility assessments, resulting in realistic scope.
- Proactively identified risks associated with deliverables, implementing mitigation strategies when necessary.
- Acted as a Product expert, supporting AJC Programming, the Newsroom, Sales, and Advertising
- Developed a process and dashboard to manage and track releases across four scrum teams.
Product Owner for Digital Newspapers
Cox
12.2019 - 03.2021
- Product Owner duties as described in Brooksource position above
- Solely owned and prioritized product backlog worked by team of 10+ developers
- Was a key resource in moving AJC and Cox Ohio Newspapers to a new CMS and in rebuilding our digital newspaper products from the ground up
- Created training documentation and trained Newsroom on new CMS
- Acted as Jira Administrator for and was a key contributor in Jira migration and setup
- Mentored junior team members in Agile methodologies and best practices for effective Product Owner role execution.
Sr Business Analyst Digital Newspapers, Radio
Cox Media Group
12.2013 - 12.2019
- Was a key contributor in successful product delivery including redesigned Newspaper and Radio sites, migration from an old CMS to a new CMS, and a home-grown tool to provide real-time election results to our readers to name a few.
- Worked with product stakeholders, project managers, architects and developers to break down web development, application interface and data migration projects into detailed user stories, leading to successful product launches.
- Prioritized product backlog based on a product roadmap, business needs and ad hoc requirements.
- Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
Business Analyst (CMG) Digital Newspapers
Contractor for Cox Media Group
04.2013 - 12.2013
- Collaborated with stakeholders, project managers and scrum team to deliver products and services according to the product roadmap.
- Translated requirements for redesign of websites and newspaper apps into user stories.
- Primarly worked on redesign of newspaper websites and news apps.
Project Manager, Analyst
General Dynamics
09.2005 - 12.2012
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Specifically, managed healthcare IT projects for Indian Health Services (HIS) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). For IHS, managed projects to assist clinics in meeting government reporting requirements. For CDC, managed projects to centralize 70+ CDC programs into one call center operation, enhance call center software and reports, and to develop a dashboard for CDC leaders to monitor outbreaks and threats reported from agencies and callers.
Education
Business Administration - Marketing
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA01.1993
Skills
- Various CMS
- Atlassian products (such as Jira)
- BrowserStack
- SQL queries
- Cross functional collab
- Release planning
- Product backlog management
- Agile, Scrum
- Requirements elicitation
- User story creation
- Project management
Accomplishments
- Achieved three successful CMS migrations.
- Led multiple website redesigns.
- Successfully delivered all AJC elections-related product roadmap items for 2024 elections, contributing to new, out of state subscription opportunities and thousands of new visitors to the AJC site.
- Was integral in launching a new AJC black culture site on a new headless CMS.
- Played key role in launching a new AJC mobile app.
- Developed a process and dashboard to manage and track cross-scrum team releases.
- Led efforts to develop a home grown elections reporting tool that is still used by Cox Media Group and Atlanta-Journal Constitution today
- Managed projects to centralize 70+ CDC programs into one call center operation.
Certification
- 2019 Scrum Alliance - Agile Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification
- 2000 Project Management Leadership Group - PMP certification
Timeline
Product Manager
Cox Enterprises - AJC
07.2022 - Current
Product Owner & Release Coordinator for Cox Digital Newspapers
Brooksource
04.2021 - 06.2022
Product Owner for Digital Newspapers
Cox
12.2019 - 03.2021
Sr Business Analyst Digital Newspapers, Radio
Cox Media Group
12.2013 - 12.2019
Business Analyst (CMG) Digital Newspapers
Contractor for Cox Media Group
04.2013 - 12.2013
Project Manager, Analyst
General Dynamics
09.2005 - 12.2012
Business Administration - Marketing
Georgia State University
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