High-energy, self-driven product and technology professional with exceptional communication skills and an extensive background in the following broad-based competencies:
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
PRODUCT OWNER
TECHNOLOGY MGMT
REQUIREMENTS MGMT
TEAM INTEGRATION
TECH PROJECT MGMT
PROCESS DEFINITION
AGILE DEVELOPMENT
An experienced leader in the integration of multi-site and multi-cultural teams with dissimilar processes Proven ability to cultivate business relationships with key decision makers and lead projects on a global basis to achieve corporate goals Expertise in User Story development and management
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Director Product Portfolio Planning
Aristocrat Gaming Technologies
Las Vegas, Nevada
02.2023 - 05.2024
Responsible for the high-level pre-project, pre-business case product specifications and market analysis for new product opportunities
This required working closely with the product management, development and commercial teams as well as with operators within the industry to build a high-level definition of the product opportunity and to obtain estimates related to its development and deployment
The role additionally required working with the Commercial and Finance teams to build a preliminary value statement for each opportunity
Global Sr. Director Business & Technical Requirements Management
IGT (GTech/Spielo International/Atronic)
Las Vegas, Nevada
01.2002 - 01.2023
Direct the elicitation of Business Requirements and the development and management of all Technical Requirements, Player UI and Protocols (SAS & G2S) for much of the IGT product portfolio with a multi-site team of Business Systems Analysts
Management of global department spanning 10 countries and 90 team members
Development and management of all departmental budgets
Mentoring of new members of the department
Work across departments, to develop and manage strategic plans, strategies, and processes
Work with the development and business partners to ensure fulfillment of all business, technical, and jurisdictional requirements, as well as User Stories and Use Cases for R&D and Client Delivery projects
Work as part of IGT’s RFP response team, defining the functional gap between the customers requirements and IGT’s base products
During customer delivery projects, work directly with the customer and the development teams to scope out and fully define all customer driven changes and enhancements to the systems and gaming machines that are in scope for the delivery
Management of the INTELLIGEN Player UI during customer delivery projects based on the customer requirements and product in scope for each delivery
Global Product Line Manager – Server-Assisted Gaming
IGT (GTech/Spielo International/Atronic)
Managed the development of the Business Case for the global Server-Assisted gaming product line within an international multi-site, matrix organization
Drove the build vs. buy decisions, business case adherence, content management, and business requirements specifications for the product line.
Managed the development of all product User Stories related to the operation and management of the product.
Department Manager/Lead Engineer – Technical Product Requirements
IGT (GTech/Spielo International/Atronic)
Manage a multi-site (Graz Austria and Scottsdale Arizona), multi-team department consisting of engineers and specialists in order to define and manage the jurisdictional and technical product requirements and solution descriptions for all gaming machines and casino bank controllers
Enea OSE Systems – Technical Product Manager
Enea Teksci
01.1994 - 01.2002
Company Overview: Enea Teksci is an international engineering consulting company that specializes in the development of high-availability embedded systems
Position entailed managing team of engineers in Sweden, France and Russia that operated outside of the standardized development organization at OSE Systems
These teams primarily developed and supported board support packages that were OSE compliant as well as developed architecture ports for the OSE Delta RTOS
The primary work location was in Sweden
Enea Teksci is an international engineering consulting company that specializes in the development of high-availability embedded systems
Boeing/NASA - Sr. Software Engineer
Enea Teksci
Houston, Texas
The project was to provide a real-time simulation of the Russian supplied Command and Control elements for the International Space Station
This simulation was then used to test against the US Command and Control units
The work location was split between Moscow, Russia and Houston, Texas
Motorola – Sr. Software Engineer
Enea Teksci
Designed and developed real-time embedded and workstation-based software for the Iridium Satellite that implemented hardware tests covering the system level requirements for the Iridium Communications Satellite computers
Education
BS -
Western Washington University
Pragmatic Marketing Product Management Training -
GTech Global Leadership Development Management Training -
Skills
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Problem-Solving Skills
Versatile Team Player
Collaborative Leadership
Effective Organization
Effective Communication
Timeline
Sr. Director Product Portfolio Planning
Aristocrat Gaming Technologies
02.2023 - 05.2024
Global Sr. Director Business & Technical Requirements Management
IGT (GTech/Spielo International/Atronic)
01.2002 - 01.2023
Enea OSE Systems – Technical Product Manager
Enea Teksci
01.1994 - 01.2002
Global Product Line Manager – Server-Assisted Gaming
IGT (GTech/Spielo International/Atronic)
Department Manager/Lead Engineer – Technical Product Requirements
IGT (GTech/Spielo International/Atronic)
Boeing/NASA - Sr. Software Engineer
Enea Teksci
Motorola – Sr. Software Engineer
Enea Teksci
BS -
Western Washington University
Pragmatic Marketing Product Management Training -
GTech Global Leadership Development Management Training -
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Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform