Alex Ivanovic Email & Phone Number

Eumundi, QLD, AU

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I help tech companies build strategy & vision, long-term roadmaps, design products, manage product & dev teams, build business cases for funding & growth, show ROI and build strong delivery-oriented cultures.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for strategy, budget, hiring/staffing of three teams
• Lead the day-to-day vision/roadmap/planning/execution/backlog of two teams, leading the fastest growing line of business in the organization
• Lead projects from idea through market validation, competitive analysis, financial forecast/impact projection, exec approval, implementation, cross-department go-to-market activities & launch
• Released 20+ features and products with several major releases measurably moving engagement & revenue metrics
• Coaching & mentoring direct reports in product management discipline & managing career progression

• Manage scrum teams to deliver:
• Virtual Terminal - An owner-first credit card (fintech) payment solution
• Subscriptions & Recurring Revenue Reporting
• Advanced Reporting Tools
• Time Tracking & Project Workflow tools for Digital Agencies
• Contributor to company culture by pitching & gaining approval for quarterly Product Development "Innovation Days" and a follow-up contest "Innovative Tech Trials" where participants showcase projects

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed Data Engineering team to build new batch data-pipeline for processing financial & subscriber information
• Centralize data from operational and production databases as well as 3rd parties into central data warehouse (Redshift) organized in star-schema fashion for consumption by the organization's analytics, finance.
• Define ETL processes to generate meaningful & clean data for consumption via reports

Toronto, Canada Area

• Startup validation/testing: uncovered a unique, un-penetrated opportunity in hyper growth market: 3D printing
• Responsibilities included all non-technical aspects of launching a new software business including: Prototyping & Validation, Product management (Vision & Roadmap); Marketing, Design (UI & UX), Business Development.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed development team to drive hyper growth of the theScore iOS app, leading to #1 iTunes ranking in the Sports category. Introduced several new features including new leagues, statistics & a customized fan experience
• Established successful product & tech stack (including new REST api) allowing the company to scale quickly by having other digital platforms follow suit (e.g. Android)
• Built & launched two additional Top 3 iTunes apps from the ground up: Sportsnet for iPhone & Sportsnet for iPad

Toronto, Canada Area

• (Acquired by theScore 2012)
• Inducted into Apple's App Store Essentials Hall of Fame, 2012
• Received Apple's Sports App of the Year award, 2011
• Re-launched theScore Mobile from the ground up including design, interface, API and backend to grow the user base from ~300,000 active monthly users to ~3M+
• Accountable for all areas of product success including launch, product & service quality, growth and on-going daily management of development
• Managed 10-12 person engineering team including front end developers (iOS), backend developers (Ruby) as well as designers (in house and freelance). Responsible for team management including interviewing, hiring.

Waterloo, ON

• New product launch: BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365
• Patent Granted from US Patent Office for tablet-sized devices detailing interaction of virtual keyboards for mobile use cases
• Managed relationship with Microsoft (key strategic partner) on aggressive supportability target for Microsoft Exchange 2010 with BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0
• Ongoing product management responsibilities for in-life BlackBerry solution of Microsoft Exchange, servicing 40M+ active users including understanding customer pain-points, triaging bugs, launching iterative solutions
• Defined requirements for first release of Microsoft SharePoint client for BlackBerry after extensive research in focus groups with high-profile customers, competitive analysis & market research

Mississauga, ON

• Provided consulting services to SNC Lavalin within a multi-disciplinary team of Software, Mechanical & Civil Engineers
• Optimized piping network for a Venezuelan Potash Mine doubling yield capacity
• Deliverables included changes to annual operating costs, materials specifications, and new system design featuring a booster pump and reconfigured piping layout

Waterloo, ON

• Developed app using Browser Push technology to actively deliver product-roadmap information 2000+ internal stakeholders
• Hosted webinar for the BlackBerry Extensibility Council consisting of executives from Fortune 50 customers; as well as external webinars to 120+ viewers
• Defined requirements & distribution strategy for release of BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1.
• Lead product manager for successful go-to-market launch of BlackBerry’s support for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 in BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1