Indiana Nikel
Angestellt, Product Owner I, Teck Resources Limited, RACE
Abschluss: Master, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Kanada
Über mich
Teamwork really does make the dream work. Whether that’s developing digital applications, bringing products to market, or implementing process improvements, going far means going together. This is the area where I excel: bringing cross-functional teams and stakeholders together to achieve a common goal while delivering on key outcomes and quickly adapting to new learnings. I follow a design-thinking process to build out visions, roadmaps, and backlogs; iterate on solutions; and deliver incremental value. My teams and my customers are at the center of what I do. I'm passionate about impacting our local and global communities. With good design, sound science, diligent engineering, clever development, strong collaboration, and modern technology we can build products and strategies that increase efficiencies, improve well-being, reduce waste, prevent sickness, and achieve business – and people – targets.
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Berufserfahrung von Indiana Nikel
Bis heute 2 Jahre und 2 Monate, seit Aug. 2022
Product Owner I
Teck Resources Limited, RACE
* Developed a technical scalability framework for our current products and applications to roadmap how to scale up in maturity and scale out across multiple mine sites. * Refined current agile development practices including daily scrums, sprint planning, sprint refinements, sprint retrospectives, backlog management, and program increment (PI) planning. * Negotiated trade-offs for machine learning solutions in mineral processing across dimensions such as value, cost, timeliness, and risk.
Bis heute 2 Jahre und 2 Monate, seit Aug. 2022
Sub-Committee Member, DEI
Vancouver Analytics Board
* Formalized the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) sub-committee’s vision by defining the committee’s goals, identifying the target groups, exploring their needs, and ideating solutions. * Translated the committee’s vision into a roadmap, highlighting the features critical to the vision, the key performance indicators (KPI’s) that would inform what success looks like, and the timeline to action against. * Prioritized features into a backlog to be actioned upon by the executive board or refined further.
2 Jahre und 2 Monate, Juli 2020 - Aug. 2022
Data Scientist II
Teck Resources Limited, RACE
* Optimized metal production through machine learning solutions; utilizing real-time IoT sensor information to increase throughput and recovery, reduce waste, and stabilize operations. * Owned a COVID-19 application used to track cases, trace close contacts, and prevent outbreaks across multiple mining sites and ports in Canada, the US, and Chile. * Delivered a historical matching application to Red Dog Operations (RDO), one of the world’s largest zinc mines, valued at $3.5M in annualized mill improvements.
* Delivered predictive modeling, demand forecasting, applied statistics, and business analysis to improve the efficiency of the Sales organization. * Directed vendor relationships with the analytics team, developing new customer segmentation approaches and improving targeting and marketing efficiencies. * Directed user experience research by shadowing stakeholders in-market and conducting interviews, impacting new feature development and refining product design.
4 Monate, Apr. 2018 - Juli 2018
Data Scientist, Graduate Capstone Project
Unbounce
* Determined key factors in customer retention and churn utilizing statistical models on customer behavior. * Facilitated communication between our stakeholders, our advisor, and our development team, providing updates on product capabilities, success stories, pain points, roadblocks, bottlenecks, and future paths forward. * Delivered a final product demo to the whole of the Unbounce office including senior leadership. The delivered solution has been iterated upon and is still currently in use.
4 Monate, Jan. 2017 - Apr. 2017
Data Analyst, Undergraduate Capstone Project
Valard Construction LP
* Developed a cost-benefit analysis application for coordinating and scheduling airline travel on aggregate, reducing transportation costs by $10,000 annually. * Facilitated communication between our stakeholders and our development team, refining future product features and translating user requirements into product backlog items.
Ausbildung von Indiana Nikel
10 Monate, Sep. 2017 - Juni 2018
Data Science
University of British Columbia
3 Jahre und 8 Monate, Sep. 2013 - Apr. 2017
Commerce, Operations Research
University of Alberta
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