Michael Jung Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Slate is a boutique product development consultancy that designs & builds digital products for some of the world's largest businesses.* Oversee digital product ideation and execution for Slate digital transformation engagements (cloud-native backend, mobile, and Web MVPs), with international teams of 5-15 designers, engineers, QA, and DevOps* Recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and operations for product and technical staff, including recent company expansion into Singapore* Product requirements gathering, product and development roadmap planning, sprint cycle activities, user story & acceptance criteria writing, user interviews, user testing, analytics planning, product release coordination and notes, on-site implementation and user testing, day-to-day project and budget management, client relations* Resource planning and financial projections for presales and client engagements* Author company playbook of tools & best practices

Greater Los Angeles Area

UI/UX and frontend engineering for MVP of matchmaking/dating platform.* Wireframes and HTML/CSS builds for web consumer frontend* Twitter Bootstrap frontend engineering on top of AngularJS and Parse.com for administrative backend

Los Angeles, Ca

Interim product lead for Ginger, a SaaS asynchronous communication app.* Execute SaaS playbook/growth hack-style activities* Gather customer feedback and determine product roadmap* Lead implementation of enhancements and fixes* Customer support

Los Angeles, Ca

Created initial market research, financial projection, user stories, and wireframes for early-stage startup.

West Hollywood, Ca

Led the ground-up creation of Evite Postmark (www.postmark.com), Evite’s premium online invitations and correspondence service. Launched a successful Q4 2011/Q1 2012 public beta with a fully-functional, revenue-generating business. Responsibilities included initial market research and competitive analysis, business modeling and forecasting, UX/wireframing/specifications, hiring & managing resources, managing the product backlog, setting up operational processes, and a few bug fixes.

Provided strategy, design, management, and technical services to clients including Maxim Digital, Hachette Filipacci Media, BUZZMEDIA, Fabric Interactive, Weplay.com, PureVideo Networks, Local.com, and Placebase. Projects included: experimental search/aggregation engines for Maxim and Car and Driver magazines; UX design of penny-auction application for Fabric; design and CMS conversion for Premiere magazine; social application for Woman’s Day; iPhone Web applications for Maxim, Woman’s Day, and Car and Driver magazines; interim product management for www.celebuzz.com; UI and visual designs for Placebase’s Pushpin and PolicyMap marketing front-ends.

Led startup product management and remote development teams in creation of scalable Web publishing, user-generated content, and live video streaming platform for deploying action sports- and sports-related content portals. Created platform specifications, internal workflow, and operational processes. Led relaunch of www.motocross.com on new platform, increasing traffic 400%.

Concepted and produced wireframes & design prototypes of Work.com next-generation business-to-business product. Produced visual re-designs of Business.com search engine & B2B directory. Re-designed interface for Business.com Advertiser Center, increasing online lead inquiries by 200%. Supported marketing with design of e-mail marketing, print advertisements and trade show assets.

Designed information architecture, interface, and search logic for Citysearch.com cityguide. Designed architecture and CRM prototypes for pay-per-click local advertising product. Led product development of cityguide editorial lists, increasing ad revenue by 11%. Assisted in development of Ticketmaster ticket resale pilot program (now TicketExchange). Designed and developed websites for Citysearch’s radio, television, and event partners.