Nick Boccone Email & Phone Number

Canada

I’m a growth nurturing and decision-making product leader who is driven by achieving collaborative business goals, especially those that make a positive impact on the greater-good. I have significant experience as a successful team-builder and implementing product strategy in entrepreneurial, fast-paced environments. Seeking a Head of Product or similar.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for leading product vision, strategic roadmaps, UX/UI design, delivery, quality assurance, software engineering and site reliability engineering. As the products subject matter expert, led technical.
• Delivered on innovative product roadmap backlog, vision and product strategy using agile scrum methodology–increased the product portfolio from one to four within 18 months
• Managed RFP and persuasive presentations to win the $40MM WestJet enterprise airline account with 1.5MM users
• Restructured the organization for 10% profitability improvement
• Successful negotiation of Aeroplan B2B contract terms, improving revenue by $500K+/year
• Initiated a revised product go-to-market strategies for a 25% increase in revenue and sales growth potential

Toronto, Ontario

• Technical leadership, process engineering and giving the technical team the time and space to develop world-class technology.As part of the executive leadership team, led team growth from 1 to 14 with responsibilities.
• Customer-facing in all business acquisition and won the competitive $100MM Aeroplan loyalty program through strong verbal and written communication skills and strength of product operations processes while growing.
• Increased business transaction volume by 24% through continual product development–affiliate earn and promotions
• Built financial products that extended into alternative payroll through identifying opportunities with a key fintech client
• Expanded to Australian market while ensuring technology successfully scaled as a global product
• Led execution of greatly improved platforms APIs product documentation, reducing technical support requirements by 23%

1380 Rodick Road, Suite 300

• Responsible for the design, development and implementation of organizational information systems, compliance, software applications, product operations, application development and IT support and infrastructure..
• Collaborate with executive management and senior representatives in other departments for business alignment
• Manage all IT vendors within budget
• Plan and implement enterprise IT systems in support of rapid business growth
• Assess and recommend improvements to current information technology systems to reduce costs, decrease risk and/or improve efficiency
• Ensure maximum uptime of systems while limiting expenditure

Markham, Ontario, Canada

• Managed a team of software engineers, systems administrators, project managers and QA members, providing leadership which led to improved collaborative teams and product innovation.
• Worked in close collaboration with key clients and users to rapidly add valuable product features
• Introduced product sprint planning and agile development practices and improved output by 8% within the first 3 months
• Added emerging technologies to improve security, resilience and monitoring while reducing operating expenses by over 30%
• Introduced continuous integration and product life cycle workflows for improved quality and time to market product release

1681 Langstaff Road, Suite 15

• Spearheaded and set the strategic approach for flagship employee recognition SaaS platform — gathered business requirements, led design, prototyping, product strategy, product roadmap, and product development through.
• Worked in close collaboration with key clients and users to rapidly add valuable product features
• Introduced product sprint planning and agile development practices and improved output by 8% within the first 3 months
• Added emerging technologies to improve security, resilience and monitoring while reducing operating expenses over 30%
• Introduced continuous integration and product life cycle workflows for improved quality and time to market product release
• Planned, deployed and maintained highly available infrastructure (AWS, hybrid, on-premise) for over 50 web-based products

Taking a small company with some tremendously advanced ideas on technology infrastructure, cloud computing, open-source tech, devOps and wearing several hats to nurture the business.Specialization in on-demand cloud computing architecture and technical consulting.

• Led fifteen Account Managers and Account Directors.
• Created sales measurement tools, reporting tools and key performance indicators.
• Developed and maintained positive, high-level relationships with client base.
• Worked with sister companies and executives to deliver enterprise solutions.
• Prepared annual departmental budget and forecasts.
• Identified and targeted growth potential clients.

• Elected to Executive board.
• Collaborated with Executive Committee on strategic direction and charter of organization.
• Developed membership value propositions and increased membership by 35% in first year.
• Integral in the development of all communication materials including website.

• Instrumental in process development for newly formed division.
• Successfully managed pilot projects for The Beer Store and Sears Canada.
• Maintained timely and accurate sales forecasts monthly/annually.
• Lead role in development and management of Rogers interactive digital kiosk networks.
• Actively involved in all stages of new business and content development.
• Collaborated on all creative development.

• Led three account managers providing pre-press, digital and print solutions for Sears.
• Implemented turn-key digital signage network in two flagship Sears stores.
• Introduced video creation and webcasting media to Sears.
• Increased sales by 14% in first year of managing Sears interactive requirements.
• Provided timely and accurate sales forecasts monthly/annually.

• Led four account managers on Sears Catalogue pre-press business (7,000 pages annually).
• Oversaw the placement and transition of 62 Sears Associates into the Pi Media environment.
• Instrumental in creating best of breed process workflows.
• Managed $19 million sales in first year of Sears catalogue contract.

• Recruited an account team to provide improved service-levels for Sears Canada Retail.
• Led four account managers on Sears Retail business (produced over 4,000 pages annually).
• Managed sales of $21 million annually.
• Instrumental in reducing production timelines by over 20%.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for client management of all print marketing materials and process management.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Introduced and implemented the first fully digital workflow for Sears retail print materials reducing time to market by 45%.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Managed a team of project coordinators and met strict deadlines for 8000+ catalogue pages produced annually.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Collaboration, creative copywriting and strategy, pitch meetings, supplier briefs and work review.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Collaboration, creative writing and proofreading to deadlines.

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