The story so far...
I’m an entrepreneurial Product Manager, a software engineer, a designer and digital marketing expert with over 20 years’ experience helping businesses in the real world.
I don’t easily fit into a pigeon holes…but then neither do the challenges facing your business. My cross-domain expertise affords a perspective and insight which is usually achieved in multi-disciplinary teams.
Skills
I’ve worked in an interesting variety of roles and I love learning new skills. As a result, I have a broad skillset which I’ve summarised below. All of these skills have been used in a commercial setting.
BUSINESS SKILLS
Product management | Product strategy | Product ideation | Product backlog refinement | Product roadmap management | Analytical skills | Strong mix of technical and business skills Strong written & verbal communication skills | Outsourcing | Management experience | Agile (Scrum) | Lean (Kanban) | Waterfall project management | Digital marketing & advertising | Online analytics | Market research | Stakeholder management | Vendor management
TECHNICAL SKILLS
User testing (AB & multi-variate) | Hands on full stack development experience | Strong technical communication skills | SQL & NoSQL databases | Firebase, Google & AWS cloud platforms | Website conversion and optimisation | Technical SEO | PHP | Python | Javascript | HTML | CSS | CMS customisation (Wordpress, Joomla, Shopify, Jekyll, Ghost) | Mobile app development (iOS & Android) | Design (UX, UI, motion & 3D) | Wireframing & prototyping (Sketch, Invision, Balsamiq)
SOFTWARE
JIRA | Trello | Asana | Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, XD) | Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint) | Google gSuite | Git