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Croatia

Pioneered AI-driven legal tech solutions, overseeing the creation of platforms that transformed legal services. Fostered a culture of innovation, leading to recognition as an industry leader in legal tech.

Guided tech startups and growth-centric companies towards scalable success, achieving an average revenue growth of 30% for clients through strategic consulting and operational optimization.

Irvine, CA, US

Founded and spearheaded the development of connected worker solutions, enhancing workplace safety and operational efficiency. Led the company to become a key player in promoting workplace safety through innovative technology.

Toronto, CA

Led product strategy and operational excellence, integrating customer feedback to launch innovative product lines across health tech, fin tech, legal tech, and consumer tech, significantly enhancing market position and user experience.

Paris, Ile-de-France, FR

Women in Tech® is an international organization with a double mission: to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology. The organization focuses on 4 primary areas that are a call for action: Education, Entrepreneurialism, Social Inclusion, Science & Innovation. The aim is to educate, equip and empower women and girls with the necessary skills.

Oak Brook, Illinois, US

Partnering with passionate business owners to help them grow and overcome complex problems through advising and mentoring.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Partnering with passionate business owners to help them grow and overcome complex problems through advising and mentoring.

Amsterdam, Nederlands, NL

As Chief Product Officer at Polaroid, I led the strategic direction for mobile product strategy, defining a 3-5 year roadmap, product positioning, market fit, and Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies for both hardware and software. My leadership was instrumental in establishing strategic partnerships, enhancing execution quality, and delivering three hardware.

Shenzhen, CN

• Advised General Manager and Executive team on business functions and operations. Designed and launched product strategies, roadmaps, expenses, pricing, and value proposition for open market expansion in North.
• Defined successful e-commerce product strategy.
• Executed competitive analysis of open market for U.S. and defined products portfolio for National Retail channel.

Shenzhen, CN

• Analyzed and revamped European Product Marketing and CTS team for improved efficiency and global alignment. Managed product costs and base price setup and control. Led 65 people and 9 direct reports.Selected.
• Achieved faster, more cost efficient delivery of product to market.
• Established 2017 product and marketing strategies.
• Enabled consistent GP across all countries.
• Devised and launched products allowing company to introduce fewer SKUs at same time in multiple countries.

Shenzhen, CN

• Managed scalable division of 140 professionals and 7 direct reports. Determined and assisted with business strategy including product roadmaps, costs, and budgets. Led and coached management team handling operations.
• Built flexible organization to support business needs without affecting quality and delivery performance.
• Expended market to Canada with lineup of Smartphones and feature-phones across Tier 1 & 2 carriers.
• Developed self-certifying LAB – T-Mobile Approved in Seattle.
• Achieved first place in product quality and execution with multiple Tier 1 carriers.
• Established local engineering and project support teams in California, Washington, Kansas, New York, Florida, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Shenzhen, CN

• Established division supporting technical and project management tasks to qualify, certify, and introduce mobile handset devices with Tier 1/Tier 2 and MVNO carriers in U.S. and Canada. Identified required.
• Expanded staff from 5 to 80 including 9 direct reports.
• Achieved major milestone for Alcatel by recruiting top talent and delivering first lineup of Alcatel mobile phones to U.S. Tier 1 carriers.
• Delivered first phone launches for AT&T (feature and Smart Phone), Sprint (Smart Phone), and T-Mobile (feature and Smart Phone), plus phone lineups for Tracfone including VZW certified Smart Phones.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Evaluated and chose suppliers and participated in product roadmaps. Interviewed, hired, trained, and supervised 10 staff to cover engineering and project management of wireless terminal requirements development.
• Selected SIM vendors and designed/developed unique SIM profiles.
• Designed SIM Roaming application (Dual IMSI)
• Enabled WIND market launch with portfolio of nine mobile phones.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Served on technical PMO team overseeing core network data center deployment projects, value added service program, and terminals/SIMs initiative.Selected Contributions:
• Launched successful deployment of four core network data centers and seven value added services on time and under budget.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Managed all aspects of new service development and product management initiatives related to Blackberry Services, VISTO Mail, and other managed email and communication services. Responsibility included projections and.
• Successfully launched new Blackberry Messenger services and VISTO Mail.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Led development and certification of multiple mobile devices through entire project life cycle idea, review, design, development, launch, closure, and reporting. Supervised cross-functional teams to guarantee project.
• Served as primary resource for supplier research, development, and terminal development/product marketing divisions.

Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR

While at Samsung, I was a member of the IT/IS team responsible for supporting the Samsung Canadian organization. In my role, I was responsible for supporting projects related to IT infrastructure deployment, systems management and a supporting role in design and build of the new data centre. The assets inventory and purchase of new technologies was also a.

Executive Leadership, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Engineering Diploma, Cnet - Networks Engineering

Pmp, Project Management

Certification, Project Management

Umts Protocols/Hsdpa/Hsupa