Katherine Brown
About Katherine Brown
Katherine Brown is a Product Owner at Curve Dental, where she has worked since 2021. She has extensive experience in agile project management and software engineering, having held various roles at notable companies including United Farmers of Alberta, NovAtel Inc., and WestJet.
Work at Curve Dental
Katherine Brown has been serving as a Product Owner at Curve Dental since 2021. In her role, she collaborates closely with the UI/UX team to optimize user workflows and enhance the overall user experience. She is responsible for release management, which includes overseeing beta version launches and creating release notes for concurrent releases. Katherine has led the successful delivery of a tech-stack upgrade and two third-party integration projects from start to Beta. Her contributions have significantly increased the velocity of the Finance team by 50% and the Insurance team by 100%, while also reducing the number of new bugs reported by customers.
Previous Experience
Before joining Curve Dental, Katherine held various roles in prominent organizations. She worked as a Senior Scrum Master - Technical Lead at United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative Limited for six months in 2021. Prior to that, she served as a Scrum Master at Decisive Farming by TELUS Agriculture and ExxonMobil in 2020. Katherine also spent three years at NovAtel Inc. in multiple roles, including Scrum Master, Technical Lead, and Verification Engineer. Her career began at NovAtel Inc. as a Test Automation Engineer from 1999 to 2001.
Education and Expertise
Katherine Brown holds a Bachelor of Science in Geomatics Engineering from the University of Calgary, which she completed from 1996 to 2001. She has pursued further education in various fields, including Accounting Analytics at The Wharton School and Marketing Analytics at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Additionally, she has obtained several professional certifications, including Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I), and Professional Scrum with User Experience (PSU I) from Scrum.org.
Skills and Tools Utilized
In her current role, Katherine utilizes Pendo for feature tagging and guides to measure feature usage and gather customer feedback. This approach allows her to validate solutions and assess the value delivered to customers. Her experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum practices enhances her ability to manage projects effectively and improve team performance.