Hands-on Product Management Leader - new ideas, compelling consumer experiences, end-to-end execution
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Senior Director of Product Management at Yodlee
- Past
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- Director of Product Design at Yodlee
- Design Director at TeamSphere Interactive
- Education
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- Harvard University
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Cindy Alvarez’s Summary
Creative product management executive with over ten years of accomplishments in bridging business objectives, technology, and user experience to launch successful products relied upon by Fortune 50 customers and millions of end user consumers.
+ Combines demonstrated product management leadership experience with a strong hands-on technical background in interaction design and web product development process
+ Uniquely skilled at germinating new ideas, building successful cross-functional teams, and fostering a culture of consumer-driven product development and user experience innovation
+ Equally comfortable delving into product requirements with hard-core engineers as presenting to executive-level customer decision-makers and industry analysts
Career spans product management and design work for Bank of America, American Express, Fidelity Investments, America Online, Sega of America, and many other Fortune 500 companies.
Cindy Alvarez’s Specialties:
+ Cross-functional team communications
+ Offshore team management
+ Consumer user experience and interaction design
+ Agile product development and collaboration with engineering and architecture
+ Bill payments and personal finance domain expertise
+ Rapid prototyping and user testing methodologies
Portfolio: http://www.cindyalvarez.com/
Cindy Alvarez’s Experience
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Senior Director of Product Management
Yodlee
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
September 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Yodlee provides web-based banking software to the world's largest financial institutions, including Bank of America, American Express, Citigroup, and Fidelity Investments. Product suite is actively used by over 3MM end-user consumers worldwide and encompasses online services for personal finance, bill payments, mobile banking, and funds transfer.
Have held responsibility for global teams up to 15 strong owning the user experience and common platform for the entire Yodlee product line, encompassing multiple product management, product design, and technical publications teams. Teams are based in Redwood City, CA and at the company’s offices in Bangalore, India. -
Director of Product Design
Yodlee
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 2002 — September 2006 (3 years 10 months)
Led 7-person design team handling all aspects of user experience, interaction design, and user research for the entire suite of Yodlee products. Hired as company’s first dedicated software design professional.
Led product design and requirements for industry-changing Yodlee MoneyCenter suite. Customers currently include Bank of America, Scottrade, and Compass Bank. The Bank of America-branded service won a Best of the Web award from Online Banking Report when it launched in 2006. -
Design Director
TeamSphere Interactive
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1999 — November 2002 (3 years 11 months)
TeamSphere was a venture-backed video games tools and development company that enabled video game publishers and developers to quickly and cost-effectively add persistent online features and premium services to their console, PC, and mobile games. Customers included SEGA, Vivendi Universal, and ESPN Videogames.
As one of three founding members, responsible for interaction design, visual design, and information architecture for web-based software platform used by hundreds of thousands of consumers. Conceived and designed an innovative co-branding engine for which a US patent application was filed. Supervised junior interaction designer. Provided leadership without direct authority over engineering team.
Cindy Alvarez’s Education
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Harvard University
B.A., Psychology, 1993 — 1997
- Activities and Societies:
- Harvard Computer Society
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Hispanic IT Executive Council, San Francisco Women on the Web, BayCHI
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