Director, Product Management
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Director of Product at MyWire
- Past
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- Senior Product Manager, Local Search at Yahoo! Inc.
- Senior Product Manager at MetroWize
- Technical Lead at Cacheon
- Software Engineer at Autodesk - Developer Consulting Group
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Shawn Bolan’s Summary
Possessing over 12 years of of product management and direct product engineering experience at both successful internet start-ups and established corporations such as Yahoo, Autodesk, and IBM.
I have managed product life cycles (SDLC) from ideation, gathering requirements, defining user experience, all the way through to implementation by cross-functional, Agile scrum teams.
I earned a Computer Science & Electrical Engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I also acquired management and marketing expertise through courses taken at M.I.T. Sloan Business School, having earned a minor degree in business economics
Shawn Bolan’s Specialties:
product management, Agile, JIRA, Scrumworks, user interface, product requirements and design, roadmap, Web 2.0, SEO, Google Analytics, Adwords, Adsense, building user community, UGC, Visio, Java, Javascript, AJAX, C++, Photoshop Swing, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS, mySQL, Wordpress, Excel, Powerpoint, Bugzilla, Scrumworks, wiki, metrics, statistical analysis, KPIs
Shawn Bolan’s Experience
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Director of Product
MyWire
(Internet industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Providing high-level product requirements and use cases for engineering, user experience, and QA. Partnering with project management and engineering to ensure timely and orderly execution of product plans in short Agile development cycles. Interfacing with external partners (asset providers, authors, and publishers) to advance the MyWire publishing platform for professionally generated content. Leading site team to build engaging authoring environment and end user experience.
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Senior Product Manager, Local Search
Yahoo! Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
April 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Senior Product Manager of Front-end team and User Community for Yahoo Local search service ( http://local.yahoo.com ). Prioritized, iterated, and measured impact of new website features. Enhanced usability of Local site to foster community & connections among users.
* Leading cross-functional Local product team (user interaction, graphical design, web developers, QA) through successive Agile development sprints. Results: significantly increased review and conversational UGC through feature enhancements and enlarged first-time and repeat submitters in user community, particularly (1)grew coverage (businesses bearing at least one user review) by 81% and (2)increased engagement (users with over two reviews) by 42% during last half of '07; (3)increased business owner sign-ups for paid listings by 30%
* Increased referral traffic to property via SEO enhancements and a hyper-local editorial program featured on Yahoo's main Front Page portal -
Senior Product Manager
MetroWize
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Product manager defining and designing the customer-facing aspects of the MetroWize web application. Responsible for identifying and specifying features and user interfaces to improve the experience of users. Drove priorities and requirements through the product development lifecycle. Worked closely with engineering to plan feature priorities and defect workarounds. Worked closely with executives to improve product positioning and plot go-to-market promotional activities. Advised on applicable technology standards (blogs, RSS, usability & user experience standards).
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Technical Lead
Cacheon
(Computer Software industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years)
* Engineered graphical user interface front-ends from start to finish for company’s main product line, Cacheon Migrator. Product management and requirements, design/architecture of client-side applications, rapid prototyping, implementation in Java Swing & Eclipse, usability analysis.
*Undertook chief responsibility for design and construction of front-end for company’s flagship application, a J2EE application code “Migrator”. Achieved third-party integration of Migrator into IDEs such as JDeveloper & Eclipse. Performed backend integration and enhancement of data models.
* Technical lead for the UI team through complete project iterations: managed scheduling and requirements
* Cemented a major company deal with Oracle by integrating product into the Oracle JDeveloper environment in time for major JavaOne conference debut. Oracle subsequently launched a campaign and consulting practice centered on the Cacheon Migrator. -
Software Engineer
Autodesk - Developer Consulting Group
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
*Developed customized applications for products AutoCAD and Mapguide GIS. Wrote C/C++ code for AutoCAD modules. Employed technologies: Java, C++, C, Win32, MFC, COM, VB, VBA, ASP, JavaScript.
*Extensive client management in providing professional services to premier developer support network. Supported and trained 3rd-party developers in their commercial programming projects. Generated well-documented prototype applications. Debugged and engineered workarounds for product defects. Extensive travel and experience delivering effective presentations
Shawn Bolan’s Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. , Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, minor in Economics
- Activities and Societies:
- Society of Women Engineers
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Shawn Bolan’s Interests:
travel, Europe, French, music, dance, hiking
Shawn Bolan’s Honors:
National Merit Scholar
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