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Faz Assadi

Dublin,CA
Faz Assadi

Summary

Accomplished VP of Product Development with a proven track record at Oracle, adept in AI and Automation and excelling in building high-performing teams. Spearheaded digital transformations and innovative SaaS solutions, enhancing product performance and scalability. Known for strategic leadership and a keen focus on customer satisfaction, driving significant advancements in enterprise software design and innovation.

Overview

25
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Charles Schwab

VP of Product Development
06.2019 - 04.2024

Job overview

  • Creating UX design systems to expedite the development of front-end applications that are consistent, intuitive, performant, and easy to use, Saving 70% in development cycle.
  • Building a modern content management system (CMS) to allow timely and consistent messaging and content to be delivered to clients at the right time and place.
  • Digital transformation of legacy account opening and related services, resulting in much higher engagement and new account creations.
  • Building a high-performing team by hiring, mentoring, training, and retaining top talent.
  • Building a productive and effective development process by introducing rapid prototyping and bringing on glass early for fast refinements and improvements. Shortening the product development cycle by 50% and saving many $100K.
  • Built a consistent prioritization process across siloed organizations to achieve full alignment and collaboration, resulting in achieving short-term and long-term goals more efficiently.

Oracle

VP of Product Development
02.2017 - 05.2019

Job overview

  • Leading the engineering team to build the Oracle CX Unity platform.
  • CX Unity is a unique approach to managing customer data that enables organizations to deliver an experience that is timely, relevant, and consistent across known and unknown interactions.
  • Building a common UI components library that can be used by different products across the group (using JET, React, Backbone, Ruby, Bootstrap, Java, and JavaScript).

Leading Oracle Marketing Cloud engineering and technical architect teams to achieve:

• Deep integrations between OMC products

• Automated user and account provisioning.

• Application performance optimization

• Data integration and customer 360

• Implementing and up-taking Oracle core

technology (e.g.) Security, Identity

Management, Metering services, OCI, ...)

• Building dashboards and enabling SSO

across OMC products.

• Building security compliance and.

contributing to the core Identity

Management product..

  • Cultivated strategic partnerships with external stakeholders to enhance product offerings and expand into new markets.

Oracle

VP, Cloud Social Media Development
09.2013 - 01.2017

Job overview

Leading an innovative team to:

  • Built unified and global social platform by integrating 3 acquisitions with Oracle home grown social product in less than 9 months.
  • Integrate with many popular social networks around the globe (FB, LI, Twitter, WeChat, Instagram,....)
  • Integrate with Oracle (CX), Customer Experience, and Marketing Products.
  • Incorporate AI to improve predictability.
  • Growing mindshare by 30% in one year/
  • Enabling platform to support high-volume transactions and performance, going from 100K TPS to Millions
  • Collaborate with customers, sales, and analysts to build competitive and modern solution resulting in improving sales by 25% in one year.
  • Increase transaction security, reliability, and privacy through prevention, protection, and response.
  • Building a responsive design and a configurable dashboard using Ruby, Java, Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Backbone, JavaScript, Angular, Bootstrap, and React web components.

Oracle

Sr. Director Product Development HCM/Talent Suite
01.1999 - 09.2013

Job overview

    Responsibilities:

    • Design and Development of Performance Management, Goal Management, Career Development, and other Talent Products.
    • Integration with other HCM products (HR, Compensation, Recruiting, ...)
    • Oversee the Project Manager for redesigning and implementing new generation UIs for all HCM products to make them simpler and more modern (Fuse Project).
    • Executive sponsor for the customer early adoption program to ensure 100% customer satisfaction and success for new Fusion customers.
    • Built a brand new Time and Labor product in two different tech stacks (OAF and Fusion ADF) from the ground up.
    • Built global development teams from scratch, ensuring a high level of productivity in a short period of time (in India and China).
    • Led the development of the product roadmap and the transition of legacy systems to the Oracle Time and Labor Product.
    • Led performance, reliability, and scalability (PSR) for the HCM product suite.

Education

QMW, University of London
London, UK

Master of Science from Human Computer Interaction
12-1994

University Overview

QMW, University of London
London, UK

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
09-1993

University Overview

Skills

  • AI and Automation
  • Product performance and scalability
  • Competitive analysis
  • End-to-end enterprise SaaS software design and development
  • Agile methodologies
  • Building high-performing teams
  • Digital Transformation
  • Innovation management
  • Customer and escalation management
  • UI Design and Design System
  • Content Management System

Certification

No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions - MIT Professional Education

Languages

Persian
Full Professional

Interests

  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Solving puzzles
  • Hiking, Playing Tennis and Pickleball
  • Reading


Timeline

VP of Product Development
Charles Schwab
06.2019 - 04.2024
VP of Product Development
Oracle
02.2017 - 05.2019
VP, Cloud Social Media Development
Oracle
09.2013 - 01.2017
Sr. Director Product Development HCM/Talent Suite
Oracle
01.1999 - 09.2013

No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions - MIT Professional Education

QMW, University of London
Master of Science from Human Computer Interaction
QMW, University of London
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
Faz Assadi