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. 

WESTFINANCE

J'accompagne l'équipe de développement nouvellement formée de West Finance afin de développer une application de gestion pour de la vente immobilière. J'aide l'équipe à travailler sur la compréhension du besoin des utilisateurs, à faire des choix techniques. J'ai également rempli le rôle de PO pendant quelques mois afin d'accélérer la livraison d'une première version de l'application.

Technical Agile Coach

Burrito Consulting

As a Consultant Architect, Tech Coach and CTO, I help teams deliver software more efficiently.

I can join your team and work with you, sharing what I know about carefully creating software that will stay manageable for the future. We'll probably speak about communicating with the rest of the company and your users, how to deliver features in small batches, testing, design, architecture, and a lot of other stuff I'm passionate about.

I'm also available as a consultant. We'll spend a few days together finding a solution for an issue you have, reviewing architectural decisions to ensure you're heading in the right direction according to your goals, or discussing ways your team can improve and better deliver value for the business your working for.

Software Architect, Tech Coach, CTO Consultant

Burritalks.io

Curating interesting video talks for software developers and all people working in software companies.

Basically, I watch talks while eating burritos, decide if I like them, create an abstract, add them to the website and bother people around me until they take a look at them.

Content Curator

Wakam

Je collabore avec une des équipes de Wakam, une compagnie d'assurance, pour retravailler l'architecture et la manière de tester une application s'appuyant sur l'Event Sourcing et une blockchain.

PlayPlay

As a Craft Coach, I train PlayPlay teams via monthly code katas.

Kiplin

J'accompagne l'équipe de Kiplin dans la transformation de son SI afin de mieux prendre en compte l'augmentation de la taille de l'équipe et la complexité grandissante de la solution actuelle.

- Facilitation d'ateliers d'Event Storming afin de mieux comprendre les différents besoins servis par la solution et de déterminer une possible nouvelle architecture
- Refonte de systèmes existants
- Introduction et amélioration de tests automatisés
- Développement de nouvelles fonctionnalités
- Pair programming avec des membres de l'équipe pour introduire de nouveaux concepts et pratiques, tels que la programmation réactive et le refactoring.

Agicap

Je suis intervenu quelques mois chez Agicap afin des les aider sur une nouvelle ligne produit en tant que développeur.

- Développement d'API
- Discussions autour de l'architecture et des découpages possibles de la solution

Développeur senior

Convelio

I helped the team at Convelio move a core part of their system from a legacy piece of software to something more manageable.

To do this, we've introduced testing and oriented-object programming best practices. With my teammate, we created a communication channel between the tech team and the rest of the company to create a more collaborative working environment, understand their challenges and work on the most important thing.

Lead Software Developer

Evaneos

My role as a Coach at Evaneos was to help teams sustainably deliver value. I work hand in hand with team members to identify what should be performed to efficiently achieve the company goals without compromising quality and long-term throughput.

I shared design and architecture principles and testing patterns with other evaneossians. I firmly believe that long-term outcomes and a sustainable pace can only be achieved with technical excellence. We also identified what could be improved in the team workflow and how to maximise value creation.

I intervened as an architect to guide the company in making the right choices about structuring the IT landscape.

I also helped the company define its goals for future years by facilitating meetings about strategic decisions and OKR creation.

Craft & Architecture coach

As a Tech Lead, I managed multiple teams, up to 6 front-end and back-end developers. Together, we worked on several critical parts of the company system, with projects varying from internal tools creation to user-facing systems and legacy remediation.

I also ensured that we worked hand-in-hand with our Product Manager, UX Designer, and Business People, by facilitating workshops and improving our workflows.

As a manager, I ensured the team members kept learning and growing in their roles.

Tech Lead - Software Architect

I was in charge of building tools for our internal users and improving our customer flow by focusing on our needs and identifying areas of improvement in how we work.

I was also helping the team grow by sharing good practices around OOP design, testing strategies, and API design. I introduced Domain Driven Design in the company and had a crucial role in creating a learning organisation. I helped set up learning spaces such as code katas and was the host of the bimonthly internal conferences for tech teams for almost my whole time in the company.

This led me to start talking at conferences as well on testing and code quality subjects.

Software engineer

Association Bring Music

Live concert organisation aiming to promote local artists.

Founder & treasurer

Après plusieurs années chez Evaneos, depuis sa phase de start-up à celle de scale-up, j'ai décidé de devenir indépendant. Mon but est d'aider des équipes à atteindre leur plein potentiel, à produire des logiciels qui répondent aux véritables besoins de leurs utilisateurs de manière continue, tout en gardant un rythme soutenable.

Je m'intéresse depuis de nombreuses années aux pratiques et idées qui vont dans ce sens :

- Domain Driven Design
- Agile principles
- Continous Delivery
- Test Driven Design
- Behavior Driven Design
- Refactoring
- Legacy remediation
- Testing
- Hexagonal Architecture
- CQRS
- Event sourcing
- Event Storming
- Team Topologies
- Product Management
- Strategy

Je suis persuadé que c'est la rencontre entre un véritable problème, une organisation adaptée, un produit bien pensé et une tech de qualité qui permet de créer de la valeur pour les utilisateurs. Une partie de mon rôle est de mettre en relation les différentes compétences des équipes de mes clients, de leur ouvrir des portes vers d’autres idées, afin de faire émerger les meilleures solutions possibles.

J'accompagne également des équipes au quotidien, en tant que CTO, Architecte, ou en tant que coach. J'anime des katas et des séances de mob programming pour faciliter le transfert de connaissances au sein des équipes et la montée en compétence de chacun. L'idée est d'aider les personnes avec qui je collabore à grandir, à découvrir et à s'ouvrir à de nouvelles choses, aussi bien sur le plan technique que sur le maniere qu'ils ont de travailler ensemble.

Je peux également intervenir plus ponctuellement pour faciliter des ateliers afin d'aider à mieux appréhender les différents besoins qui doivent être servis par le logiciel, permettre les discussions d'alignement nécessaires entre différentes parties prenantes ou encore pour déterminer quelles sont les améliorations possibles en termes d'organisation et d'architecture.

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