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Ta’ Xbiex, MT

Ta’ Xbiex, MT

London, GB

• As the CPO at Begame Group, I formed part of the senior management team, having accountability for the performance of the company’s products and leading the product team (covering product management, product design.
• Defining and championing the company’s product strategy (B2C & B2B).
• Managing the overall product development roadmap and establishing the key priorities.
• Defining the various product lines/verticals and establishing resource allocation for each.
• Defining and optimising the product organisation and processes, as well as identifying and championing the tools and services required to support product operations.
• Driving a data-led approach to product development through user and competitor research and testing.

Ta’ Xbiex, MT

• As the Product Director for new markets, I formed part of the management team responsible for launching operations in new markets to fuel business growth. Within this team, I was primarily responsible for the.
• Conducting market and competitor research to identify key success factors and local preferences for the product.
• Contributing to the development of business cases to evaluate the attractiveness of various markets where Betsson Group did not yet operate.
• Evaluating whether to launch operations in new markets using our own technology or with third-party providers (or a mix).
• Scoping and defining the launch plans for market entry.
• Building up, coaching and managing the new product team responsible for this area.

Ta’ Xbiex, MT

• As Director of Platform Product at Betsson Group, I was leading a team of product managers, product owners, delivery managers and content managers who were responsible for the product management and development of our.
• Managing and leading the product team (team size: 40).
• Working across the organisation to establish and maintain priorities for product development.
• Defining product strategies for our sites, apps and backend platforms.
• Establishing objectives and goals for product development.
• Leading make or buy decisions and the evaluation of third-party products.

Ta’ Xbiex, MT

As the Head of Product at Betsson Group, I was overall responsible for the product management and optimisation of the group’s sites and apps. I led a team (18 people) of product managers, product owners and content managers working in this area across all product verticals. As such, my responsibilities in this role were similar to those described above in.

Ta’ Xbiex, MT

• As a Senior Product Owner at Betsson, I was responsible for the development of a new mobile sportsbook product. My responsibilities included:
• Managing and prioritising the product backlog
• Defining user stories and acceptance criteria
• Working closely with the development teams on the product development
• Working with UX & UI gurus to deliver wireframes and designs, and to optimise the user experience, flows and interfaces
• Identifying and building cases for new product features and improvements

Ta’ Xbiex, MT

• As a Senior Project Manager at Betsson, I was responsible for delivering large and strategically important projects in the company. My typical duties when leading a project were as follows:
• Managing and owning the entire project life-cycle from inception to post-launch support.
• Acting as the interface between the Technology and Business teams.
• Forming and leading cross-functional and geographically dispersed project teams.
• Conducting business analysis and project scoping activities, including requirements elicitation and documentation, process modelling, and running gap analyses.
• Developing project budgets, timeframes and plans for senior management approval.

London, GB

As a senior executive, I would continue to manage projects as in my previous role, but was given additional responsibilities with this promotion as follows:- Team lead, with five project managers / business analysts as direct reports.- Recruitment and mentoring of new team members.- Responsible for overall project governance, programme management and.

London, GB

Forming part of Vodafone's Technology department, the Demand & Project Management team was the link between the Technology department and the rest of the organisation. The team was primarily responsible for the overall planning of projects to be delivered for the rest of the organisation, including the project management of such deliveries, defining the.

USA, US

• Alert eBusiness (now part of Deloitte Digital) was one of the most popular web development and design companies based in Malta. While at Alert, I worked as a software developer on a number of web sites, web.
• Software development using VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Web Services, AJAX, XML, HTML, CSS and database technologies (SQL, Views, Stored Procedures).
• Database Administration with SQL Server 2000 / 2005.
• Server Administration with Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 / 7.0.
• Content management systems (CMS).I would also eventually become the de facto development team lead within a few months of joining, with additional responsibilities:
• Training and mentoring of new recruits to the development team.

Betklass was a small online gaming company which operated in the Italian market. I started working for Betklass on a part-time basis, before switching to full-time when I finished my student job at Anvil. For most of my time at Betklass, I was the sole IT person in the company. The job mainly involved software development for the web site and backend.

I was employed by Anvil (later acquired by Ion Group) on a student contract where I worked on their Denarius product - which was an extremely complex financial trading system used by some of the world’s major banks, such as Barclays and JP Morgan. I was mainly involved in developing test scripts and bug fixing, using Perl, C++ and UNIX.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Mba, E-Business

Bachelor Of Commerce (Hons), Management

Bachelor Of Science, Business And Computing