Karen Taggart
Technical Product Owner Dir Of Special Initiatives In Product Development
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolKaren Taggart is a versatile Technical Product Owner and Director of Special Initiatives with 15+ years of experience blending product management, customer success, UX, and fundraising across nonprofits, government agencies, and Fortune 500s. She excels at translating ambiguous problems into clear requirements and prioritized roadmaps, using agile and lean practices to maximize user value and team autonomy. Her background spans hands-on roles from CRM and donor segmentation to enterprise dev tools, giving her a rare fluency in both stakeholder-facing strategy and technical delivery. Known for driving continuous improvement and transparency, she repeatedly unblocks teams and scales processes that balance speed with quality. Based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, she brings a people-first leadership style informed by teaching and coaching experience, plus a love of data, nerd humor, and rescue dogs. Outside work she’s an avid runner and cyclist who cooks inventive vegan meals and channels her advocacy into practical organizational change.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MAT, Museum Education, MAT, Museum Education at The George Washington UniversityHigh School - Science and Technology, High School - Science and Technology at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBA, American Studies, BA, American Studies at Hampshire College
Github Skills (50)
database-migrations10
continuous-deployment10
maintenance10
postgresql10
continuous-integration10
continuous-testing10
mysql10
mariadb10
database-administration10
db210
continuous-delivery10
liquibase10
java10
oracle10
sql10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kataggart/liquibase
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Main Liquibase Source
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
mysqlsqlomsdatabaseliquibase
LeafyG/github-pages-with-jekyll
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
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