Seasoned Product Manager with demonstrated experience developing product roadmaps and leading cross- functional software teams from prototype to release.
Specialties:
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product management
- Requirements solicitation and prioritization with internal stakeholders and customers
- User Experience-centric product design
- Offshore team coordination
- Agile product owner (Scrum, Kanban)
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Financial Services software design
- Search engine architecture
Senior Product Manager, API @ From March 2015 to Present (10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Product Manager, API @ From October 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 6 months) Senior Product Manager @ Product: SaaS-based Personal Finance Management
- Gathered use cases and requirements from large-scale financial institution customers
- Delivered functional specifications and visual prototypes that serve as the blueprint for engineering and QA teams
- Coordinated activities across all teams involved with each release (QA, engineering, professional services, customer service) to ensure product is successfully built and released
- Provided product training for sales, training, professional service, and customer service teams
- Maintained product features backlog for Personal Finance Management product
- Tracked major competitors in financial software space and delivered competitive analysis to pre-sales and strategy teams From November 2012 to October 2013 (1 year) Senior Product Manager, Platform @ Product: Technical configuration tool
- Gathered detailed use cases and requirements through regular on-site visits, virtual meetings, and Customer Advisory Board sessions
- Delivered prioritized, detailed features roadmap (broken down into themes and milestones) that is actionable by product teams
- Established success criteria for each milestone within the product roadmap as a means to measure developmental progress
- Led a cross-functional team (5 engineers, 3 QA, 1 UX designer, 1 doc specialist) to iteratively develop features, resolve technical debt, and fix product defects
Product: Web-based Business Analyst configuration tool
- Formed a features discovery team (2 engineers, 1 UX designer) to develop initial prototype of web-based Enterprise Platform Configuration tool for Business Analysts
- Delivered internal product prototype demonstrations to product stakeholders
- Established and drove Agile (Scrum, Kanban) processes used during software development lifecycle
- Maintained tactical features backlog (whiteboards, AgileZen) during each Scrum sprint From October 2010 to July 2012 (1 year 10 months) Senior Product Manager, Information Access @ Product: Enterprise search engine
- Delivered strategic product roadmap for enterprise search product and search-related tools
- Prioritized and categorized product features into company release schedule
- Drove competitive messaging used by Sales and Marketing teams highlight product strengths
- Speaker at Enterprise Search Summit trade show
- Created and managed major and minor release system for Information Access group products
- Led a multi-location product team (San Francisco, Germany)
Product: E-mail filing and archiving engine
- Delivered regular product demonstrations to prospects and customers
- Coordinated tactical feature roadmap with partner vendors
- Led a multi-location product team (San Francisco, Sydney) From November 2008 to September 2010 (1 year 11 months) Enterprise Architect @ as Technical Project Manager (FEMA):
- Led cross-functional team (engineering, business analysts) to build a grant records management system for a grants effectiveness assessment initiative at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
as Technical Project Manager (NLRB):
- Delivered project requirements and timeline with key stakeholders at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and managed daily activities of cross-functional project team (Siebel, Documentum, business analysts, QA) From December 2007 to October 2008 (11 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaEnterprise Architect @ - Designed, developed, and released primary intranet search engine used by all employees of U.S. Department of State for unclassified intranet content retrieval
- Planned and delivered systems integration/implementation projects to U.S. Federal agencies From October 2000 to December 2007 (7 years 3 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaSenior Sales Engineer, Enterprise Service Bus products @ - Set up and delivered product Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product demonstrations to prospective Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) customers as part of technical sales team From November 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Software Engineer @ Implemented customized medical records systems on-site, trained medical staff on system use From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Greater Pittsburgh AreaSoftware Engineer @ Designed, developed, and released financial record keeping applications for use by financial analysts From 1998 to 1999 (1 year) Greater Pittsburgh AreaSoftware Engineer @ - Facilitation of group design sessions with key stakeholders, designers, and engineering leads
- Design and creation of UI mockups
- On-site customer technical support for client From February 1997 to March 1998 (1 year 2 months)
B.Sc., Information Decision Systems, Industrial Management @ Carnegie Mellon University From 1992 to 1996 Derek Fung is skilled in: Requirements Gathering, Release Management, Agile Methodologies, Integration, Software Development, Cloud Computing, SDLC, Requirements Analysis, Software Engineering, Java, Enterprise Software, Scrum, Kanban, Platform Architecture, Software Configuration Management