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Mead D'Amore

Kansas City

Summary

Results-driven Product Manager with expertise in data product management and agile methodology. Skilled in stakeholder engagement and cloud migration strategies, driving impactful data initiatives for organizational success.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Product Manager II

Principal Financial Services
Des Moines
07.2024 - Current
  • Serving as the Product lead for a team of 5 Product Managers across the Retirement Advisory Services Data Enablement department
  • Identifying and building data product roadmaps for support of multi-departmental initiatives, small one-off requests to large multi-phase implementations
  • Established Books and Records Product Platform for regulatory compliance of investment products, shifting stakeholder involvement from hands-on management to advisory roles
  • Implemented planning processes that clarified intake ownership and streamlined work request management
  • Coordinating and organizing data migration initiatives from on-prem to cloud based services (data prep & storage)

Senior Product Owner

American Century Investments
Kansas City
08.2020 - 07.2024
  • Designed and launched a sustainable investing product suite (3 products) to support ESG-driven investment decision-making
  • Owned and maintained product roadmap strategy, while providing agile coaching to stakeholders and internal teams
  • Led solution planning and technical design sessions for investment operations initiatives within a 1,400+ employee organization, focused on the investment management domain
  • Directed iteration planning and cross-functional coordination for a 17-member development team supporting eight business units
  • Established and operationalized release management processes, including deployment cadence, governance, and team-level execution strategy
  • Streamlined release management processes by implementing standardized cadence, governance structures, and cross-team coordination mechanisms
  • Authored and maintained comprehensive business and technical documentation (BIMs) for enterprise initiatives, including:Organization-wide AWS Data Lake architecture and access policy frameworks
    ESG data vendor integration strategies
    Hybrid investment tooling workflows (technical + operational)
  • Authored and maintained comprehensive business and technical documentation (BIMs) for enterprise initiatives, including:Organization-wide AWS Data Lake architecture and access policy frameworksESG data vendor integration strategiesHybrid investment tooling workflows (technical + operational)

Co-PMO /Senior Scrum Master

FanThreeSixty
Kansas City
05.2018 - 05.2020
  • Led agile delivery and workflow optimization for three core product lines (Scrum/Kanban), including coaching teams and implementing scalable process improvements
  • Co-designed and executed an organization-wide agile transformation, including planning process redesign and operating model alignment
  • Reported directly to the COO, driving operational efficiency and removing constraints across a 150+ employee, fully funded startup
  • Conducted organizational meeting audit, reducing meeting overhead and costs by 30%

Technical Product Management Experience

  • Resolved complex client issues across 27+ accounts using Postman and SQL-based database investigation
  • Led mobile product deployment processes, including hands-on release management for iOS and Android applications

Education

BBA - Entrepreneurship, Real Estate

University of Missouri - Kansas City
Kansas City
12-2016

Skills

  • Data product management
  • Agile methodology
  • Release management
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Solution design
  • Cloud migration strategies

Languages

Portuguese
Limited

Certification

SAFe Agilist 5

Affiliations

On the board of directors for a small logistics start up

Timeline

Product Manager II

Principal Financial Services
07.2024 - Current

Senior Product Owner

American Century Investments
08.2020 - 07.2024

Co-PMO /Senior Scrum Master

FanThreeSixty
05.2018 - 05.2020

BBA - Entrepreneurship, Real Estate

University of Missouri - Kansas City
Mead D'Amore