- An agile Product Manager with a software architecture and development background - ability to quickly assimilate new complex concepts and explain in simple terms - recognised for analytical skills and clear communication, both verbally and in documentation - experience working on innovative projects operating in complex environments with rapidly changing business needs - well versed all phases of the software development lifecycle - stakeholder engagement skills and experience in facilitating workshops, - key skills: requirements gathering and analysis, user story and acceptance criteria definition, specification writing and data modelling - highly organised, results focused, works well under pressure and reliably delivers to tight deadlines Tools, methodologies: User Research, Stakeholder management, Process modelling, Impact mapping, Story mapping, Data modelling, Data analysis, User Stories, Feature grooming, Technical specification, QA, Agile Scrum, Lean, SQL, UCD, BDD, TDD, Gherkin, UML, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Google Apps, Development technologies: PHP, Python, Javascript, HTML/XHTML, OO, Web Services, MySQL, Postgresql, CouchDB, Oracle, Zend, Django, Flask, Magento, Prototype, jQuery, Angular

Product Manager @ My responsibilities are to apply Agile principles, practices, and techniques to ensure the optimal delivery of technical products which are simple, intuitive and have maximum revenue potential. - Owning the strategy and roadmap of Essence’s in-house online marketing campaign management system. It supports ~50 different data source and reporting platform integrations. Ingests and reports on data of 5.5m trafficked ads targeted to more than 140 markets resulting in avg 180m daily unique ad views. - Capturing and prioritising product backlog, working with business stakeholders and end users across 5 continents to improve business processes and identify solutions of high value - Defining and tracking product performance KPI’s - Managing two development teams in London and New York; Just-in-time feature grooming in close collaboration with developers to clarify edge cases and ensure each requirement has clear acceptance criteria. - Facilitating real-time problem solving and resolution of any issues that are blocking engineers during implementation - QA of all features, support rollout and training From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) London, United KingdomAgile Business Analyst @ Working on a large re-build of an internal management platform and date warehouse with stakeholders across different parts of the world As a lead BA, responsible for - stakeholder analysis and management, - requirements workshop organisation and facilitation, stakeholder interviews - requirement analysis, user story writing, validation and communicating to development team - ensuring successful collaboration between product owner, ux designers, solutuion architects, data analysts, developers, testers and training managers From July 2012 to September 2014 (2 years 3 months) London, United KingdomFounder @ Business process analysis, process automation, requirement gathering, data modelling, achitecture design as well as solution implementation From July 2012 to June 2013 (1 year) Web Consultant @ Systems architecture, Development and Maintenance of in-house Marketing Campaign Management System, Integration with SAP and other proprietary third party systems From July 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 1 month) Nice Area, FranceSenior web developer @ Development and maintenance of CSM (Zend Framework) and e-commerce web sites (Magento), social network integration. Development of iGoogle Gadgets, Google App Engine web services for use on YouTube channels/Facebook applications From January 2008 to July 2011 (3 years 7 months) web developer @ Technical Project Lead, e-commerce data integration, development and maintenance of e-commerce websites From 2007 to 2008 (1 year) Web developer @ From September 2006 to December 2006 (4 months)

BA, Information Technologies @ Vidzemes Augstskola From 2002 to 2006 Computer Science @ Växjö University From 2004 to 2005 IB, Music, Maths, Economics @ Lester B Pearson College of the Pacific From 2000 to 2002 Product Management Bootcamp @ General Assembly Zanete Hussain is skilled in: jQuery, Agile Methodologies, PHP, E-commerce, MySQL, Software Development, Web Development, Zend Framework, Python, Business Analysis, User Interface Design, CSS, HTML 5, SQL, JavaScript