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Senior level business professional with 23 years international product/project management experience in the Internet and software industries; 20 years experience working in a cross-functional environment with remote multicultural teams; 20 years experience working closely with senior executives.Demonstrated strengths:• Strong strategy, analytical, and communication skills. • Significant theoretical; as well as, real world experience in building and launching world-class products using Agile development methodology, Waterfall/PMI methodology, as well as a hybrid of both.• Successfully combining knowledge of product life cycle and project management, customer requirements/user focus group feedback, and data analysis to formulate a strong product strategy and clear product vision.• Translating user requirements into product features; writing industry-standard Product Requirements Documents including wireframes and sitemaps.• Solid managerial experience establishing an environment with high standards and strong focus on both process and results.• Substantial direct product development experience with social networking, personals, and dating sites; adult sites; real-time chat and video-chat applications; local events and business directories; and digital media products. Significant familiarity with the implementation of web analytics and SEO.• Versed in the North American Internet marketplace (USA, Mexico, and Canada) as well as several European and Latin American markets.• Extensive globalization, localization, and translation process know-how. • Ability to work in both virtual and multicultural cross-functional environments including sales, marketing, senior executive, customer support, and engineering teams dispersed in remote offices. • Ability to solve complex issues to achieve objectives and deliver results on multiple projects in a complex, fast-moving environment.

Listed skills include Product Management, Competitive Analysis, Product Development, Strategy, and 15 others.