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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Developing the world’s most user-friendly product for ESG reporting, leading a team of 6 product managers and 4 BAs and 4 designers.
• Achieved 10X growth in user licenses (from under 300 to 3000+) over 24 months through strategic enhancements, including a carbon calculator, materiality capabilities and a suite of APIs
• Introduced a new product tier and featureset focused on enhancing our penetration in the privateequity sector, and increasing YRR by 10% in its first quarter
• Spearheaded pilot programs with Coca-Cola, HSBC and Standard Chartered, introducing our softwareto 100+ organisations over 12 months
• Pioneered AI-driven innovations, prototyping internal tools for data extraction & document analysis aswell as customer-facing features such as an AI-powered ESG assistant chatbot

London, England, United Kingdom

• Building Buyapowa's product team and elevating their market position and readiness for acquisition. Initially a 12 month fixed term contract.
• Established product processes from the ground up, hiring and leading a team of 2 PMs with a focus onprioritisation of tactical enhancements in line with founder’s long-term exit strategy
• Executed a complete mobile-first redesign of the user journeys, leading to an 14% increase inconversion and an 11% drop in yearly churn
• Spearheaded the expansion into the US market, securing contracts such as T-Mobile, Boost, Sprint,and Verizon, via absorbing a competitor and their featureset

London, United Kingdom

• Building Darwin, the world’s premiere benefits management platform, focusing on US market expansion and growing into Mercer Marsh’s flagship benefits product.
• Executed a comprehensive overhaul of the benefits selection experience, integrating features critical toour introduction to the US market and activating 100+ accounts in the region
• Spearheaded the UX research project covering US-based health insurance requirements; running anend-to-end design sprint with stakeholders from our new parent company
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams across engineering, design, and commercial to ensurestrategic business objectives are captured in the product roadmap

London, United Kingdom

• Transitioning a team from waterfall to agile while redeveloping the internal platform used for box office, reservations, scheduling, and CRM.
• Transitioned the core legacy product team; moving from waterfall to scrum within 3 months
• Executed complete rebuild and infrastructure upgrade, eliminating 95% (>7 hours) of weekly downtime
• Reduced booking and scheduling issue by 80% through specialised team modules/features

London, United Kingdom

• Managing the data team supporting FusePump’s two main SaaS product offerings for clients such as Nestle, Nokia, John Lewis and Microsoft. This included:
• Overseeing continuous development of scraping technologies for retailer websites
• Real-time scraping of data for 100K+ products across 30+ countries and 1000+ retailers for mobile applications and webstores
• Designing client-facing process improvements through further product developments
• Acting as strategic technical lead for all activities regarding products for Nestle and MicrosoftAchievements:
• Established a full-time data team from the ground in under 6 months to fulfil business needs

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for an end-to-end product development lifecycle, from proof of concept to shipping a final version of a custom e-commerce mobile application for Nestle. This included:
• Requirements gathering, scoping and product workshops interfacing with a non-technical client team of stakeholders and marketers
• Managing a mobile development team (iOS/Android/Python) of 9 developers, taking stories and features from ideation to release
• Ownership over the entire agile process and how it translated into the business, from sprint ceremonies to quarterly business reviewsAchievements:
• Delivered £3.5m project for release within 18 months - a shopping app for Nestle across 18 markets and their entire product portfolio
• Developed spin-off products from the main app that leveraged existing data streams

London, United Kingdom

• In a dual role, led data analytics initiatives and managed Agile project/product development. Key accomplishments include:
• Fostered development of bespoke data analytics solutions, integrating machine learning algorithms to enhance predictive analysis capabilities for sales and logistics.
• Managed the development and launch of a mobile app for Affinity Water surveyors, significantly improving the productivity of on-site checks through enhanced data capture and analysis.
• Retrofitting machine learning algorithms used for automated trading to do long-term predictive analysis for sales and logistics
• Developed the data team into a department which later broke off into its own separate business, now Informed Actions (informedactions.com)

• Responsible for the delivery of a large-scale migration project, decommissioning internal billing systems for the accounts of the White House, Pentagon and Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as the development of tools to.
• Acting as SCRUM master for my first project in the business, leading a team with 10+ years’ experience to deliver internal application enhancements to save the business £1.4m per year
• Received Verizon’s Outstanding Achievement Award in my first quarter for "diplomatic management in difficult situations"

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Concentration In Technology Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Industrial Engineering