Product, Tech & everything in between.
About Zackie
I'm a highly experienced Product Owner. I'm energetic, engaging and passionate about digital products. My style and experience quickly builds rapport with the business to help articulate the Product Vision.
I have a has a strong track record in delivering successful native and responsive web applications across industries.
● Proven track record of taking product concepts through to fruition via product life cycle methodology (Ideation/discovery/delivery/operation)
● Experienced Product Manager working closely across different teams including developers, QA and Project Managers/Scrum masters.
● Capable of formulating and implementing product road maps based on business strategy and product vision
● Demonstrable knowledge of formalising a product backlog and effective prioritisation of sprints based on product vision
● In depth knowledge and practitioner of Scrum as an iterative and incremental Agile software development framework
● Capable of interpreting market trends through the use of competitor analysis, industry research publication and analysis of ad hoc data
● Sound analytical skills and the ability to create and analyse reports using SQL and Excel
● Good understanding of web analytics using tools such as Google analytics, Omniture (Sitecatalyst) and many others
Current and previous occupancies
Working as the Product Owner representing the best interests of our clients to build user stories and sprint goals that align to the product vision
Representing ANDigital as an expert in Digital and eCommerce functional and design capability, helping our clients to create and deliver outstanding product
Designing compelling and commercially viable customer experiences, crossing multiple digital and eCommerce channels
Working with other scrum team members to Identify the technology solutions required to deliver the digital experience
Liaising between client and third parties as required to deliver exceptional digital and eCommerce products
Working within a high performing multi-discipline team, from user experience and creative to development and testing.
As a Product Owner at Foosle I was responsible for delivering incremental value based on the product roadmap, the product vision as well use feedback from both end users and senior stakeholders in the business. I also serve as the hub of expertise in how users navigate and utilise all online features, including mobile and standard web platforms.
Getting SMB's online is a rapidly growing market. Basekit is a British-founded tech start-up, now with over £15M of VC funding and more than 100 partners, we are the leading and fastest growing OEM web presence platform, allowing service providers to access and monetise this exciting market opportunity.
As Product Account Director I was responsible for all BaseKit's existing global partners. My objectives were to help our partners become successful through maximising their revenue generation and ARPU, optimising their opportunities to sell and up-sell and retain customers with differentiated offers, customer service and optimising customer purchase flows.
As a Product Owner at TMDR my role consisted of:
• Being responsible for applying product positioning for assigned vertical brands, horizontal brands and inventory products across the TMDR business
• Managing the product proposition and roadmap at both a portfolio and brand level and ensure this is accurately and effectively communicated internally and externally
• Ensuring that key clients’ needs are properly identified, scoped and accounted for and evangelise to those clients on new product development
• Ensuring that candidate needs are properly identified, scoped and accounted for on new product development
• Conducting product awareness training for sales teams, both as refreshers and during launch/rollout of new products
• Supporting the directors in driving the strategic and process activity of the TMDR business
• Working with product development to generate new product/new market ideas, develop business cases, and analytically process ideas originating from across the TMDR business
• Evaluating opportunities for development based on client and candidate requirements and competitor activity
• Recognising new market opportunities for the product and maximize usage and revenues by defining, executing and analysing customer (voice of sales) and market research
• Identifying target customer segments and develop compelling value propositions to meet the needs of each segment, working with Marketing
• Planning the launch of new features work with product development to manage the timely launch of new products & product features to the business through personal actions and driving the activity of virtual teams
• Identifying and validate market trends that are creating new market opportunities
• In conjunction with the Head of Product and the Directors, design strategies to capitalise on these opportunities
• Sizing initial opportunities and write proposals on new features, market opportunities and client requests for submission to the Programme Board
As Product Owner I was responsible for:
- End-to-end responsibility for the coordination of marketing and ongoing development of 123-reg products.
- Measuring and analysing KPIs and driving the success of products, and the writing and dissemination of reports to the key stakeholders across the business.
- Writing product specifications through the determination of customer and business requirements.
- Providing input for marketing campaigns to increase sales, customer awareness and engagement.
- Providing ideas for new products and for the further development of existing products to extend market reach.
- Working as a product owner ensuring continuity of optimum product performance both in financial and operational aspects.
Hobbies and interests
Ju-Jitsu
In 2016 I started training in traditional Japanese Ju-Jitsu. The art has really grown on me to the point where I'm now also training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ).
Ju-Juitsu teaches patience, humility and resilience. It's a great activity and I would most encourage any one to try it it.
I have also started a Ju-Jitsu community on meetup.com. The primary aim to create a community for fans of Ju-Jitsu, students practicing Ju-Jitsu and anyone who is interested in learning more about Ju-Jitsu.
I'm all about creating a vibrant Ju-Jitsu community. The community consists of monthly open mat sessions for people of all skills levels to join in and have fun. The aim is to also have social gatherings with fans of the sport. www.meetup.com/this-is-ju-jitsu
