TravelLocal

Promoted into a Head of Product role and joined the company leadership team

Key achievements
- Managing and coaching a team of 2 Product Managers and UX & Design lead
- Outlined long term Product Experience Vision
- Defined and beginning to deliver on product strategy for merging TravelLocal and DE based trip.me businesses
- Continual collaboration with internal functional teams
- Pushing the product-led growth mindset throughout the business
- Owning key strategic objectives from concept to implementation

Head of Product

Recruited as the first Product hire in a scaling travel business.

Key achievements 
- Established foundational Product practices including A/B testing, outcome-based focus, and user research 
- Implemented learnings from customer interviews and discovery processes across customer, internal and B2B products
- Set up first customer research through an external agency which led to the hire of our first UX designer
- Defined key customer journey metrics
- Procured appropriate product management tools
- Introduced and set up initial OKR framework

Product Lead

JUST EAT

The purpose of this role was to ensure that the problems, challenges and business needs of a particular market were understood, validated and communicated back to the global business. The role required engagement at all stages of the product development lifecycle across business functional groups and senior stakeholders in multiple locations. 

Key responsibilities
- End-to-end product management of consumer-facing and B2B products in a global marketplace
- Engaging with stakeholders across multiple functional groups to understand business challenges
- Working collaboratively with internationally distributed development teams, UX and business intelligence
- Managing and validating requests for product change from internal stakeholders
- Prioritising change with data and outlining potential business value and impact
- Monitoring the performance of products in market
-­ Defining future product improvements through research and discovery processes
- Managing a team and processes for the reporting of bugs and support requests

Senior Product Manager

This role combined business analysis and project management with the goal to internationalise customer facing and internal UK software products. The role involved defining and managing international requirements and work-streams with an offshore development team.

Key responsibilities 
- Business and product analysis for an eCommerce platform from an international perspective
- Project management for delivery of software updates and releases
- Launch of first international iOS and Android apps
- Release management
- Defining business priorities and requirements for offshore development team
- Sprint planning and process improvement 
- Stakeholder management

Internationalisation Lead

A Quality Assurance role testing customer facing and internal software on an eCommerce platform. 

Key responsibilities
- Testing customer facing website and back office administration software.
- Integration testing between multiple applications across a core platform. 
- Continuous Integration using tools such as SVN and TeamCity.
- Sprint planning, defect logging and tracking using Jira.
- Documenting functionality and processes on internal Wiki.
- Managing test environments.
- Writing test scenarios in BDD format using tools such as Cucumber and Ruby Mine.

QA Engineer

TalkTalk

A Quality Assurance role testing telecommunication hardware and software being distributed to in excess of 4 million customers

Key responsibilities
- Testing Web UI and installation CDs for connectivity device management.
- Designing, executing and managing test cases.
- Defect logging and tracking using Jira.
- Documenting functionality and known issues for handover to Customer Support Centre before release.
- Managing test environments.
- Escalating risks and concerns to business stakeholders.

A Quality Assurance role testing a CRM software tool in English, French and German for European Call Centres supporting in excess of 5 million customers

Key responsibilities
- Testing Web Applications built in house to meet new business objectives whilst phasing out legacy software.
- Ensuring all new software features were tested independently and regressed as part of a monthly release schedule.
- Estimating future work requests by considering level of effort.
- Test case management using HP Quality Centre.
- Raising defects and assigning to in house development team.
- Leading a wide range of software projects from a QA perspective escalating risks and concerns.

First Choice

A Quality Assurance and System Analysis role supporting a suite of travel booking software for a travel agency network of over 400 retail sites.

Key responsibilities
- Designing and executing test cases based around functional requirements.
- Defect logging and tracking using 3rd party tool.
- Liaising with 3rd party software supplier to ensure defect fix and resolution.
- Attending user groups to discuss then review business requirements.
- Software release process management.
- 24 hour system support and maintenance.

Systems Administrator

Key responsibilities
- First line support for the infrastructure, hardware and software issues for a travel agency network of over 400 retail sites.
- Meet all agreed SLA’s regarding issue logging, escalation and fix times.

IT Support

An experienced Product Management professional with a demonstrated history of working in multiple sectors and businesses of varying scales across international markets. Both customer centric and data led with a passion for solving complex problems with simple solutions.

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