Jessica Brim, Project Manager in Oakland, CA, United States
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Jessica Brim

Verified Expert  in Project Management

Project Manager

Location
Oakland, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
December 4, 2018

Jessica is an experienced project and product leader with more than 15 years of experience at startups and significant organizations. She is intuitive and thoughtful and engages individuals at all levels to build collaborative teams that deliver exceptional work. Jessica works with stakeholders from the C-level down to drive alignment and unified vision. She has extensive experience solving complicated problems and creating products directly supporting the new business.

Project Highlights

Proprietary Appointment Management Platform
Led the design, build, development, and implementation of a mobile-first booking platform for visiting nurse services.

Expertise

Work Experience

Senior Product/Ideation Consultant

2021 - PRESENT
Endeavor
  • Worked as a head of product–mobile for digital growth. Built the mobile team from the ground up. Oversaw hiring and management of the product, development, and design teams and mentored junior peers.
  • Developed and managed a multi-year strategy for multiple digital touch points across web, mobile, data, and eCommerce.
  • Led the first mobile initiative for a UK yearly amusement park event with five million attendees. The app had a 30% adoption rate, resulting in a 40% increase in ARPU and a 20% increase in attendee NPS.
  • Spearheaded the 0-1 pitch, design, and build of the integrated mobile event experience for Professional Bull Riding (PBR), including mobile app, hiring, and interactive gaming components. The engagement was five times that of comparable experiences.
  • Headed the design and build of multiple additional mobile apps for Barrett-Jackson, the world's biggest car auction, including live-streaming video and an online auction prototype.

Head of Digital Products

2019 - 2021
Medneo
  • Owned the product roadmap, vision, and long-term strategy for Medneo Digital, a new, highly successful radiology and telemedicine company in Germany.
  • Worked as a head of digital products and chief of staff to the CTO for the design and build of a B2B and B2C platform for medical imaging consultations and a radiology practice and image management system.
  • Developed a 5-year plan as head of the digital platform for an end-to-end telehealth system. Defined organizational OKRs and collaborated with sales and customers on future priorities.
  • Spearheaded the build-out of all products and services to support expanding into the UK market.
  • Headed the Agile transformation of the Medneo development organization, utilizing program planning increments and SAFe to create a unified release train, increasing productivity by 60%.
  • Led the planning, timelines, and product roadmap for the organization's transition to a new digital platform.
  • Led the digital portion of the successful Series C funding round.
  • Worked on additional portfolio products that include AR/VR training tools, specialty applications for AI analysis of medical images, and a peer-to-peer image management system for emerging markets.

Senior Director of Health Products

2017 - 2018
Anthem
  • Defined the initial and long-term roadmap for implementing and expanding an Anthem product for both direct-to-consumer and joint venture opportunities.
  • Led the development and rollout of a new B2B health management product, incorporating native web and mobile services and extensive third-party partnerships.
  • Launched the B2B product with an initial user base of 200,000 physician practices and 30 million patients and joint venture and growth opportunities.
  • Designed and maintained the change management plan. Details included standard operating procedures, implementation, staffing, budgets, and ongoing program maintenance.
  • Led end-to-end creation of a comprehensive health management system, including risk management, shared savings, consumer targeting, broker/physician platforms, external partners, web and mobile services, EMR integration, and 3rd-party partnerships.
  • Managed five teams and created internal processes and procedures that reduced staff needed and shortened timelines.
  • Identified key partners and translated data into actionable product requirements and projects. Details included business case, impact, change plans, consumer targeting, focus groups, UX, RACI, KPIs, staffing, budgets, compliance, and future growth.
  • Defined the long-term roadmap for implementing and expanding the overall program in collaboration with executive leadership.
  • Created development schedules, daily standups, and other Agile ceremonies.

Director of Product Operations

2016 - 2017
Clover Health
  • Led clinical operations projects at a VC-funded Medicare and Care Management startup.
  • Supervised all work to build teams, systems, and technical tools to support clinical operations, including data-driven targeting, dashboards, native apps, data integrations, scheduling systems, and telephonic outreach and logging systems.
  • Managed all projects pertaining to in-person services. Utilization increased from 40% to 90% in six months as a direct result.
  • Implemented custom Zendesk instance for field support services, including end-to-end project management, protocols, staff training, and SLAs. Support response times improved by 200%.
  • Supervised four people and mentored ten junior staff in a flat organization.
  • Oversaw operations growth roadmap, with an increase in staff by 70% and member demand by 120%.
  • Built proprietary appointment scheduling system to support field services.

National Director

2013 - 2016
Optum
  • Served as the national lead for developing and launching an innovative, integrated consumer nutrition and wellness service with new mobile, web, telephonic, and in-person services.
  • Led initial design, development, and product lifecycle management, including A/B tests, dashboards, budgets, P&L, month-to-month market targeting, marketing design, member satisfaction, member engagement, data analytics, and new product proposals.
  • Played a key role in end-to-end product design, needs analysis, consumer analysis, location targeting, communications plans, program development, impact projections, platforms, and continuing re-evaluation and process improvement.
  • Oversaw the initial pilot and seven additional implementations in five states. The work included area-specific design, test, and learn iterations.
  • Headed the selection process and implementation of a Cvent events portal for nationwide events scheduling in the US. The project included integration with the Siebel Call Center.
  • Initiated the first Agile development project within a traditional Waterfall project management organization. Initiated internal team members, senior leadership, and key external stakeholders to the methodology.

Head of Product

2012 - 2014
Healthy Turtle
  • Worked as a head of product for an innovative web and mobile health coaching solution that combined a mobile front end, web back end, and SMS-based communication. Created and supervised execution product roadmap.
  • Contracted and managed technology resources for the development of web and mobile platforms.
  • Defined customer acquisition and retention plan. The model was twice as successful as comparable ones.
  • Managed all day to day operations for the coaching staff.

COVID-19 Return to Work Application | via Toptal

Designed and implemented a COVID-19 mobile questionnaire.

I led the discovery of product requirements, operational processes, and technical requirements for a COVID-19 return to work application for a major global entertainment brand. The application allows the management of COVID-19 symptom compliance and checks in alignment with local regulations, HIPAA and GDPR compliance, and emergency management of exposures.

Additional work at the enterprise level included vendor selection, processes for integration with HR management systems, integration to badge management systems, data privacy, mobile communications, push notifications within the mobile app, and emergency management protocols.

Proprietary Appointment Management Platform

Led the design, build, development, and implementation of a mobile-first booking platform for visiting nurse services.

The visiting nurse program covered approximately 200 square miles with 25 nurses and a separate call center where appointments could be booked. At the start of the project, booking was handled via a spreadsheet with no access to real-time data, resulting in poor usage and customer dissatisfaction. With a business case to increase service utilization and customer happiness, we built a custom solution that integrated Google Maps API with Google Calendar API, a proprietary CRM system, and a back-end administrative tool that allowed for real-time booking and adjustment of demand based on location. Utilization increased nearly 90 percent and cancellation rates decreased. Customer satisfaction vastly improved.

Real-time Call Center Dashboard

Led design, development, execution, and implementation of a proprietary executive dashboard.

This proprietary executive dashboard visualizes call center activities in real time. Call center data reported through the Five9 platform is constantly refreshed and displayed as charts. The high-level view displays activity such as call volume, outbound vs. inbound volume, and customer-reported satisfaction. Drilldowns show the success rate of individual agents, including outbound connection, call time, customer-reported satisfaction, and other factors. Historical charts can be accessed to see daily final reports and can be exported to PDF.

Web-based Client Intake Form

Spearheaded the design and build of a custom weight loss coaching intake form that increased user uptake by 50%.

I began with product vision and business goals. I created user journeys, designed each use case and user story, developed a sprint plan and intake questions, and ensured information security.

The development was outsourced to a 3-party web design firm that built the form in HTML5. Each response pathway leads to a set of criteria, and based on the responses, an outcome is selected. When the outcomes are combined, a recommendation engine creates a custom program from a set of options.

Executive Coaching Software | via Toptal

Carried out discovery, design, and MVP development of an executive coaching platform.

I managed a team of designers and developers to design and build a new mobile-first executive coaching platform. Also, I coordinated all project activities and interacted with C-level leadership to ensure product quality and timely delivery. I developed internal-facing tools and worked on B2C and B2B.

Technologies used included React, Ruby on Rails, and AWS.

Agile Transformation of Development Teams

Headed the Agile transformation of a health IT startup, immediately increasing team productivity by 60%.

I led the Agile transformation of development and product teams at a health IT startup. The teams were poorly organized and were not communicating across products despite the need to collaborate on critical features. Development resources were consistently used to develop the same feature twice, and data was not being smoothly passed between key applications. Deadlines were being missed due to the lack of understanding of volume and dependencies. In addition, the lack of transparency led to stakeholders constantly changing requirements due to a lack of fixed work and KPIs.

I moved the entire team into a Scrumban setup and began tracking all activities with user stories, epics, and backlogs in Jira. Also, I implemented daily standups and PO meetings, as well as a review cycle, retrospectives, and an overarching scrum cycle that allowed stakeholders to see the progress of work when requirements could no longer be changed and what KPIs the project was being measured against. The productivity increased by 60%, and the team morale vastly improved.

Geolocated Appointment Management System

Led design, build, development, testing, and implementation of a new appointment management platform for 30,000 users and millions of customers.

Visiting nurse services provide senior care over large areas, requiring coordination of resources. At the time the project started, customer cancellations and no-shows were at an all-time high.

Our business case demonstrated that geolocation and integration would increase service utilization and customer happiness.

We built a custom solution that integrated Google Maps API with Google Calendar API, a proprietary CRM system, and a back-end administrative tool allowing real-time booking and demand adjustment based on location.

At the start of the project, booking was handled via a spreadsheet with no access to real-time data, resulting in poor usage and customer dissatisfaction. Cancelations, customer service, time management, and geolocation of services were handled via three separate teams with no connections. Utilization increased by nearly 90%, and cancellation rates decreased by 50%. Customer satisfaction tripled. As a direct result, revenue projections increased by almost 30%.

Professional Bull Riding (PBR) Official App

Led the design, development, and launch of the PBR official app.

I headed the 0-1 pitch, design, and build of the integrated mobile event experience for Professional Bull Riding (PBR), including mobile app and interactive gaming components. The engagement was five times that of comparable experiences.

Barrett-Jackson Mobile App

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/barrett-jackson-live/id6444820540

Designed, built, and launched the Barrett-Jackson mobile app.

I designed and built the first-ever mobile application for Barrett-Jackson, the world's largest car auction.

The app included:

• Custom APIs to integrate into the Barrett-Jackson automobile database and serve real-time bid data to the mobile application.
• Integrated to real-time television feeds and enabled streaming directly to the mobile apps.
• Overlayed bid and automobilia data on real-time video feeds, combining proprietary design and data.
2009 - 2011

Master's Degree in Public Health (MPH)

Benedictine University - Illinois, United States

2009 - 2011

Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)

Benedictine University - Illinois, United States

MARCH 2021 - PRESENT

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

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