{"id":13,"date":"2022-01-28T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:44:05","slug":"experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Director of Product Management<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Enghouse Video, a division of Enghouse Systems<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><small>February 2024 &#8211; Present<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensure software accessibility compliance with Section 508, ADA, AODA, and EN 301 549 through testing, development guidelines, and internal auditing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coordinate regular independent audits of product accessibility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintain VPAT accessibility conformance documentation to the latest WCAG standards, as well as monitor and contribute to the draft versions of new standards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Act as accessibility champion, providing guidance internally, and responding to customer questions and request externally<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manage product roadmap for greatest value, aligning deliverables with revenue opportunities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set and deliver quarterly product commitments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prioritize new features, tasks, discovery, and bug fixes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Serve as Product Owner on SCRUM team(s)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manage SaaS releases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gather and assess customer and employee input, integrating valuable ideas into development backlog<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Act as a product champion, providing insights and support to internal and external stakeholders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manage a team of product managers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create quarterly strategic summaries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Communicate business needs, requirements, and customer feedback to executives, business stakeholders, and technical teams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lead and present all company software demonstrations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mentor junior level product employees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"product-manager-promoted-from-product-designer-december-2021\">Lead Product Manager | Accessibility Champion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"promoted-from-product-designer-december-2021\">Promoted from Product Manager, October 2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"promoted-from-product-designer-december-2021\">Promoted from Product Designer, December 2021<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sonic Foundry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><small>June 2020 &#8211; February 2024<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maintain unified product roadmap for Mediasite, with new deliverables prioritized and tied to revenues and opportunities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintain prioritized backlog of new features, tasks, discovery, and bugs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intake ideas from customers and employees, considering whether they should be added to the backlog, immediately prioritized, or set aside<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintain customer contact through directed customer visits, communication with field employees, and competitive analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Write capabilities abstracts for significant new features<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Write release brief documents for major releases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Act as the product champion, answering internal and external questions about the product<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manage and mentor product managers within the product team<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Communicate and coordinate roadmap priorities across scrum teams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Serve as an accessibility resource for engineering, customer success, and customer questions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintain compliance with all US and EU accessibility regulations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintain the VPAT accessibility conformance documents as current<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ux-senior-web-designer\">UX, Senior Web Designer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"promoted-from-web-designer-march-2020\">Promoted from Web Designer, March 2020<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wisconsin Housing &amp; Economic Development Authority<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><small>June 2015 &#8211; June 2020<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Identify, engage, and coordinate with key stakeholders across all business units to coordinate content, develop new features, create intra\/inter-connections, and reduce redundancy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Originate and edit web content related to business information and communications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintain WHEDA.com, WHEDAnet, and Transform Milwaukee.com\u2019s architecture, including site map, information hierarchy, data connections, and file directory structure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interface across all business units to recommend hardware\/software, functionality, and technical upgrades<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conceive strategies and solutions, build consensus, and sell\/execute solutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guide visual development with creation of graphics and other treatments to enhance WHEDA\u2019s brand standards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop, modify, and have oversight of WHEDA brand styles, standards, and processes for professional quality presentation, continuity, and editorial integrity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Demonstrate ability to work individually, pursuing new projects independently, as well as a team member\/team leader<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Educate, guide, or train employees\/users on new features and products in a comprehensive, easy to understand manner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improve web performance, optimize loading times, and lower expenses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coordinate data driven analytics, analyze and evaluate, form business cases based on data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manage information, data, and user flow through website and web application experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coordinate and lead technical &amp; 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