Damir Matas Email & Phone Number

Serbia

Wyoming, United States

I work to keep solutions simple, both in design and code. While very diverse, my aesthetic approach often involves a distinct sense of play, aiming to make fun functional. My work strategically elevates brand offerings by distilling core messaging down to its most precise and freshest visual form.

Belgrade, Serbia

• Responsible for strategic direction, roadmap prioritisation and product discovery for a new Lottery platform.• Head of several Product streams, working with 2 distributed teams across 3 regions.• Grew new Authorisation and Authentication solution for a iLottery platform, aimedat the North American market.• Created vision for new Web Backoffice, getting buy-in from senior stakeholders,and collaborating with UX, Data Science, & Engineering, to help bring it to life.• Working closely with Sales, SE’s, and Outbound PMs on docs, messaging, and collateral.

• Led complete rebuild and redesign of an Online Gaming system for international lottery clients. The system was deployed with our clients in Spain and Tunisia.• Rebuilt and launched new Retail gaming system for our British Columbia customer. Working with retailers on UX research and development teams to support new workflows in the POS terminals.• Maintanence of the existing Retail Product Stream: Player Acount Managment, Retail Finance Management system, Wallet service and Access service.

Belgrade

•Defining the product backlog and managing the strategic roadmap of key deliverables•Creating spec docs and keeping them updated •Working with Design and UX teams to ensure good usability •Collaborating with business stakeholders across different departments, gathering and prioritizing business needs for system solutions•Writing product (system solution) requirements into Minimum Viable Product (MVP) • Participating in Sprint planning, Backlog refinement and all related activities with the team • Improving team’s development practices and tools (continuous delivery, one click releases, introducing Jira etc.)

Serbia

- Leading a team of designers, game designers and developers as a Scrum master- Establishing a complete vision for the games developed in the studio- Implementing Agile & Scrum as a workflow- Tracking the Product backlog and prioritizing features- Determining the delivery dates and releases for our iOS games- Reastablishing the value for the end user based on testing sessions- Managing promotional campaigns - Managing the ROI for each game- Market research & business strategy improvement - Managing freelancers and third-party developers

Belgrade

- Project management of all gaming projects (Flash & HOPA games for PC)- Reporting to international clients weekly- Implementation of new PM tools and Scrum methodology- Managing the ROI of every project- Negotiating with game publishers - Writing User stories, planing Sprints and tracking the Backlog- Creating release plans and establishing delivery dates

Belgrade

- Creating and prototyping mobile products for the telecommunication industry- Leading and managing client projects through each stage of the process involved in building and launching dynamic, digital content for mobile operators and other clients- Seeking opportunities to further increase the portfolio of products - Developing mobile solutions and strategies for clients - Design, development and implementation of complete digital solutions for clients (web, wap, apps, social media...)- Negotiating with content aggregators- Planing mobile marketing campaigns - Collaborating with outsourced designers, developers, studios - Preparing project evaluation and usage statistics reports- Budgeting and financial control of the projects

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Anthropology

Spanish Language