Product Manager at NYSE Euronext
Greater New York City Area
Product Manager at NYSE Euronext
Greater New York City Area
Product Manager with experience designing and executing complex web application projects. Skilled at researching business goals, gathering requirements, developing specifications, communicating and clarifying specs with technical and creative teams, and managing the process from inception to launch to support.
Responsible for project definition, documentation, management, and analysis for 5-10 concurrent projects, and establishing resource allocations between those projects.
Managing project portfolios and pipelines
Establishing project and business line processes
Technical skill
Liaison from product to sales and support staff
Analyzing product impacts and success
Technical staff resource planning
Managing 10-20 person cross functional teams
(Public Company; NYX; Financial Services industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2008 — May 2009 (10 months)
* Developed specifications, managed technical effort, and created training plans for the first B2B contract system at TheLadders. The system will process millions in bookings in 2009, using a customizable price book managed by sales leadership
* Created high level process for offline management of product types not yet supported by core systems. This process, supported by custom SalesForce.com applications, handled more than $250k in orders since September.
* Partnered with team leads in developing a new agile development process for the product and tech teams in the Enterprise business line. This process will be used to manage the projects for 15-20 product, development, creative, and quality assurance resources.
* Worked with business owners to scope and prioritize a multi-year project to rearchitect all backend B2B systems. Developed a phased plan to achieve the full scope, and created specifications for the first first phase, to be executed in Q1 of 2009.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
September 2007 — August 2008 (1 year )
* Developed product plan for redesign of guest site for recruiters
* Designed the user experience and specifications for the beta SmartMatch product. SmartMatch streamlines recruiting by delivering matching candidates for a recruiters job posts.
* Managed product development of ResumeViewer, a patent pending technology for viewing candidate resumes online without downloading or opening MS Word.
* Developed tools for managing tech team workloads that have since been adopted by Development Managers.
* Internal marketing and training for new projects with customer support and sales teams
* Managed pipeline of marketing projects and ongoing maintenance work
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Development of financial services software, from requirements to implementation. Building and testing the desired system with the Provenir software. Instructing client developers in using Provenir software. Managing and troubleshooting Provenir architecture and software. Configuring server oriented architecture based systems. Assisting with quality assurance and performance assessment of systems developed. Developing user interfaces for end users in the MyProvenir software package, as well as HTML, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, and XSLT.
Projects:
Navy Federal Credit Union
Built an auto-decisioning engine, call center and auditor interface, and credit bureau management software.
Education Finance Partners
Created a CRM system as well as a customer facing web interface for loan applications, with innovative best practices now used throughout Provenir projects. See the web app at https://secure2.educationfinancepartners.com/ProvIM/ .
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — January 2007 (8 months)
Research, product development for stealth startup with global representation. Responsible for PHP/MySQL development of various web application features. Also working on using AJAX to provide a richer user experience. Contributed to design and framework decisions in all parts of the application. Participated and helped coordinate with an international team for meetings and work using a variety of technologies: IRC, BaseCamp, and Wiki.
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — May 2006 (9 months)
Developing data recording and data mining tools. Creating data visualizations and human readable output. Implementing natural language generation in an artificial intelligence system. On the fly classification and scoring of data.
BS , Computer Science , 2002 — 2006
Notable course work - Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Term Paper: Interactive Voice Response Systems; Language and Context, Term Paper: Designing Play by Play announcer systems; Operating Systems Design and Theory, Projects: multithreading and multiprocess execution, linux kernel process scheduler rewrite and patch, virtual filesystem implementation; Database Management Systems; Artificial Intelligence; Formal Languages and Automata; Syntax
User interface, artificial intelligence, game design, linguistics, natural language processing, web 2.0 tech, social networking, emerging technologies