Drew Noble

Product Manager, Developer

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drew.noble@gmail.com

Summary: Flexible Customer-Focused Product Owner with Specialization in E-commerce Marketplaces

Experience

Toyota Motor Company

Senior Project Manager (Contract)

2018-2019

Directed cost planning in North America for hybrid mid-size transmission, ensuring cost reduction progress using PFEP and Toyota Business System thinking- potential reduction of $38 per unit

Broke down complex problems using root-cause analysis and provided insights to leadership, resulting in clearer current/future state information, driving NA hybrid manufacturing direction.

Orchestrated benchmarking events with suppliers and engineers to generate improved design ideas, ensuring successful movement toward cost competitiveness

General Motors​

Project Manager/Product Owner (Contract)- E-commerce global payment rail

2017-2018

Prioritized use cases to design program roadmap, resulting in effective use of contracting, developer, and vendor resources and on-time launch of Ariv Electric Bike payment system and Cadillac XT5 pre-order site.

Designed payment solutions for diverse internal customers- 16 projects

Advised leadership of product direction on API integrations, card brand guidelines, and information privacy regulations

Gathered feedback from a group of diverse stakeholders to ensure groomed backlog included bugs, tech debt, and new features

Designed, developed, and implemented user acceptance testing protocols for payment system to ensure system met functional requirements

Airbnb, Inc​

Project Manager/Product Owner - Enterprise

2013-2017

Agent Re-booking Platform: Projected usage trends of existing product features to predict the need for enhancements ($1m potential savings in first year and reduction of developer time)

Reacted to response time and Net Promoter Score underperformance by making enhancements to machine learning predictive routing model, resulting in NPS score improvement of 35 points

Standardized multiple national vendor sites’ performance using PFEP process to isolate and resolve KPI issues - $15.6m annual impact

Improved alignment with company mission and values in NYC market through product changes that reduced number of illegal hotels by 85%

Airbnb, Inc

Community Manager

2011-2013

Converted more than 3,500 potential users to hosts

Generated new customer base through securing brand partnership with Chicago Marathon

Built brand loyalty by addressing legal issues, and product feedback through event and webinar programming (over 100 events)

Skills

Gathering Voice of the Customer

  • Thousands of hours of customer interviews
  • Focus Group experience

Data Analysis

  • Dashboard creation
  • Delivering data insights
  • Providing KPI transparency

Project Frameworks

  • Agile/Scrum
  • DMAIC
  • 7-Step

Technical

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Tableau
  • PowerBI
  • Excel
  • Javascript

Education

Security+, In Progress (March 2021), CompTIA
CSS/Javascript/HTML Bootcamp, August 2020-June 2021
ITIL v4 Service Management, 2020-Present, ITIL Foundation
Project Management Professional, 2016-Present, Project Management Institute
BFA, 2011, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL