LenderClose recently announced Product Manager Kent McDonald and Delivery Lead Ryan McDonnell have joined its team.
“We are very excited to welcome two extremely talented individuals to our team at LenderClose,” LenderClose Vice President Andrew Deignan said in a release. “Kent’s reputation for leading product teams in delivering value precedes him. Having someone with his level of talent will be an asset in ongoing product initiatives.
“We are also pleased to have Ryan join us,” Deignan added. “With just two years in the industry, he already has impressive achievements to his name. We’re building a strong, diverse and autonomous product team that can accelerate innovation and respond to a fast-changing market.”
The company said McDonald will ensure products check viability and value boxes by developing a deep knowledge of how LenderClose clients and users interact with the fintech’s iterative products.
McDonald has more than 20 years of experience in business analysis and product management. He founded KBP Media, a business analysis and product management resource center for product owners, business analysts and product managers.
McDonald’s extensive background involves working with agribusiness company Corteva to rebuild a core system, which led to a significant reduction in manual processes and cost of errors. Prior to his work with Corteva, McDonald consulted with AgileAlliance, a conference management system.
LenderClose said McDonnell will use his expertise in stakeholder communication, project and product management to collaborate and co-create products with designers, developers and clients. As delivery lead, he will help manage and coordinate software initiatives while simultaneously enhancing the LenderClose client and product development team experience.
McDonnell is a business analyst who most recently served as an agile team member within a large-scale remediation effort at a Fortune 100 company through consulting firm Keyot. At Keyot, he honed skills in prioritization, data integrity testing and implementation of system enhancements.
Prior to his work for Keyot, McDonnell was an IT delivery intern at Land O’ Lakes, Inc., where he worked on an Oracle Fusion ERP upgrade, a JD Edwards ERP testing for upgrades and managed an offshore team for test script automation.