Teresa Torres

World Pulse

Board Member

Product Talk

I help digital product teams adopt continuous product discovery practices including a regular cadence of customer interviews, rapid prototyping, and assumption testing. I emphasize strong critical thinking practices to ensure there is a strong connection between what the teams are learning in their research activities with the product decisions that they are making. 

Recent clients include: Allstate, CarMax, CapitalOne, Snagajob, Spotify, among others.

Product Discovery Coach

Master of Science in Learning & Organizational Change at Northwestern University

Instructor, Designing Solutions for Organizational Effectiveness

Executive Learning & Organizational Change Program at Northwestern University

Instructor, Co-Creating Change

Kindling

Advisor

AfterCollege

- Relaunched www.aftercollege.com to move away from traditional search and toward career exploration and discovery to better meet college students needs. 
- Repositioned employer products away from transactional job listing-based recruiting and toward on-campus relationship-building recruiting.
- Grew engaged users by 65% month over month and reduced audience churn by 3x.
- Redesigned product email strategy tripling MAU in first quarter.
- Introduced user-centered, hypothesis-driven product development practices.
- Launched content marketing strategy targeting college students (blog.aftercollege.com) and employers (employers.aftercollege.com).

Vice President, Products

Affinity Circles

Affinity Circles was acquired by Mingle LLC. 

Affinity Circles operates exclusive social networks for over 150 university alumni associations, professional organizations and honor societies, connecting 18 million members.

President & CEO

- Led an operational turnaround by focusing on core products, implementing new sales and account management processes, growing a key channel partner relationship and reducing operating expenses. 
- Extended operating runway from months to sustained profitability.

Vice President, Operations

- Drove product vision, strategy and execution for 2 revenue-generating product lines, including a social networking platform used by Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Purdue and 150+ other organizations and a corporate recruiting solution used by Google, Merrill Lynch, UBS and dozens of other Fortune 500 clients.
- Drove product discovery through client interviews, user research, usability studies and traffic analysis. 
- Managed a 4-person team of product managers and an interaction designer.

Senior Director, Product Management & User Experience Design

Become, Inc.

Become.com provides shoppers with product research and price comparison.

- Led design on core product from site launch to 3.5 million monthly unique visitors.
- Drove product discovery through user research, usability studies and site traffic analysis.
- Led design and development of key-performing features from concept to launch: “Suggest as You Type” Search Suggestions, “My Favorites” shopping cart, innovative shop filters including Find by Color and community-based shopping lists.

Product Manager / UI Designer

HighWire Press

HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, is the online publisher for over 1400 journals, books, reference works and other scholarly publications.

- Lead interaction designer for several Knowledge Environments (i.e. research collaboration communities) for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Oxford University Press and the International Bone and Mineral Society.
- Managed client design projects from concept to launch.
- Drove the design and implementation of several core features that became part of the Knowledge Environment platform including a suite of personalization services (i.e. saved searches, research folders, etc) and an innovative virtual journal that pooled topical articles from multiple publications.
- Implemented a robust template system that allowed diverse Knowledge Environments to maximize shared code while accommodating customizations.

Interaction Designer

As a product discovery coach, I help product teams make better decisions about what to build. I teach them how to:
- Identify clear business outcomes 
- Uncover unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires
- Discover the right solutions that deliver both business value and customer value

My book Continuous Discovery Habits has sold over 100,000 copies, we've taught over 15,000 students from 102 countries through the Product Talk Academy, and reach 100,000s of product people through our free blog posts and social media content.

If you aren't satisfied with how your teams decide what to build, get in touch.

I help digital product teams adopt continuous product discovery practices including a regular cadence of customer interviews, rapid prototyping, and assumption testing. I emphasize strong critical thinking practices to ensure there is a strong connection between what the teams are learning in their research activities with the product decisions that they are making. 

Recent clients include: Allstate, CarMax, CapitalOne, Snagajob, Spotify, among others. 

OCTO Technology

Consultant senior

Arval BNP Paribas Group

Organisation Team Topologies, Coaching des Product Owner et d’une trentaine de développeurs
Pour les managers :
•	Formation Team Topologies
•	Application de Team Topologies sur un sous périmètre d’Arval

Pour les Product Owner, Business Analyste, accompagnement sur l’affinage des user stories et l’utilisation 
•	Mindset Valeur Métier
•	Example Mapping pour illustrer les règles métier avec des exemples concrets
•	User Story Mapping pour visualiser les éléments à forte valeur ajoutés

Pour les développeurs d’accompagnement sur les valeurs et les pratiques suivantes :
•	Mindset Software Craftsmanship
•	Test-Driven Development (TDD),
•	Clean Code,
•	Pair programming.

Agile Coach & Technical Coach 

42skillz

Se libérer par ses compétences.
Le binaire c'est pour les machines. 
Le Code c'est pour les gens.
Nous, on s'occupe des gens.Nous sommes des développeurs expérimentés et passionnés. Nous pratiquons et enseignons le TDD, BDD et le DDD en entreprise.

Co-Founder

Crédit Agricole CIB

Agile Coach & Technical Coach

Comet Meetings

Training DDD  - Production-ready Domain-Driven Design

Program

Module 1 (Scenario):
- Introduction
- Domain-Driven Design a brief tour
- Process EventStorming
- Introduction to the Bounded Context pattern and context mapping

Module 2 (Model):
- Software design level EventStorming
- Example mapping
- Responsibility Driven-Design based on CRC cards

Module 3 (Model-Driven Design through Code probe):
- Coding Lab 1: Implementing a bounded context using Outside-in TDD
- Coding Lab 2: Supple design - Make the potential of the model clear

Module 4 (Deep modelling):
- Coding Lab 3: Deep Model - refactoring to deeper insights

Module 5 (Production Ready):
- Coding Lab 4: Ports and Adapters aka Hexagonal architecture - Protecting your bounded context domain model

Training Domain-Driven Design - Production-ready Domain-Driven Design - 2 days

Back Market

Realization: DDD Strategic Training

Day 1 -  Big Picture Workshop
•	Introduction
•	Domain Driven Design, a brief tour
•	Domain‐Driven Design Strategic
•	Event Storming ‐ Big Picture workshop ‐ Improve your organization
•	Retro
Day 2 – Process & Services Workshop
•	Recap Day 1
•	New semantics for more explicit modeling
•	Event Storming ‐ Process Modelling ‐ Design service collaboratively
•	Event Storming ‐ Software Design ‐ Design key software behavior
•	Retro
Day 3 Design Modeling Workshop
•	Recap Day 1, Day 2
•	Context Mapping ‐ Bounded Contexts Relations ‐ Patterns Illustrated
•	Example Mapping Workshop ‐ Software Design ‐ Invariants Illustrated
•	Responsibility Mapping Workshop‐ Software Design ‐ Projection Behaviors on Entities
•	Retro

Training EventStorming for Trainers for 3 days

Betclic Group

Pour les Product Owner, Business Analyste, accompagnement sur
•	Mindset Valeur Métier
•	Example Mapping pour illustrer les règles métier avec des exemples concrets
•	User Story Mapping pour visualiser les éléments à forte valeur ajoutés

Coaching de 30 développeurs sur les valeurs et les pratiques suivantes :
•	Mindset Software Craftsmanship
•	Test-Driven Development (TDD),
•	Clean Code,
•	Pair programming.

Coach Software Craftsmanship

Cdiscount

Pour les Product Owner, Business Analyste, accompagnement sur
•	Mindset Valeur Métier
•	Example Mapping pour illustrer les règles métier avec des exemples concrets
•	User Story Mapping pour visualiser les éléments à forte valeur ajoutés
Coaching de 30 développeurs sur les valeurs et les pratiques suivantes :
•	Mindset Software Craftsmanship
•	Test-Driven Development (TDD),
•	Clean Code,
•	Pair programming.

La Française

Coaching de 30 développeurs sur les valeurs et les pratiques suivantes :
-	Mindset Software Craftsmanship
-	Test-Driven Development (TDD),
-	Clean Code,
-	Pair programming,
-	 Refactoring Legacy Code,
-	Domain-Driven Design (DDD).

ENGIE

Coaching de 30 développeurs sur les valeurs et les pratiques suivantes :
-	Mindset Software Craftsmanship
-	Test-Driven Development (TDD),
-	Clean Code,
-	Pair programming.

1: With over 30 years of experience in software development and architecture, I am passionate about helping developers and organizations create high-quality software and work differently. I co-founded 42skillz, a company that provides training, coaching, and consulting on test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), legacy code refactoring techniques, and domain-driven design (DDD) with an extra soul.

Summary 2: As an agile coach and technical coach, I leverage my expertise in parallel computing, C#, and Java to deliver engaging and practical sessions with live-coding and concrete examples. I am also a speaker, a Microsoft MVP .NET since 2008, and an organizer of the BDD Paris user group. My mission is to share my knowledge and experience with the software development community and to promote the values and principles of software craftsmanship and XP practices.

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