Experience

FatCat Coders

• Serbia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Product Officer

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  Belgrade, Serbia FatCat Network is a family of services designed to help companies scale their growth. We're experts with a proven track record of delivering platforms and products people enjoy using. It does not matter if you have a napkin sketch or product that needs to scale up. We can help.



ryd

• Germany
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Owner

  • Apr 2021 - Jul 2022

  Belgrade, Serbia



TradeCore

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager

  • Dec 2019 - Jun 2021

  Belgrade, Centralna Srbija, Serbia Overseeing the banking-as-a-service platform. Working with the business on evaluating the potential partners and vendors, creating integration feasibility studies. Actively participating in the sales activity by holding demos and as the primary point of contact of the product and engineering department. Providing the material for customer presentations. Closely collaborating with the Product Owners in backlog prioritization and validation of the solutions in the early stages to ensure alignment… Show more Overseeing the banking-as-a-service platform. Working with the business on evaluating the potential partners and vendors, creating integration feasibility studies. Actively participating in the sales activity by holding demos and as the primary point of contact of the product and engineering department. Providing the material for customer presentations. Closely collaborating with the Product Owners in backlog prioritization and validation of the solutions in the early stages to ensure alignment with the overall product strategy. Overseeing the three cross-functional teams, identifying cross-team dependencies and enduring deliverables consistency with the rest of the platform. Parallelly working as the Product Owner for the Digital Banking and Payments product verticals. In the process of transition from tactical toward strategic role. Key Accomplishments: -Successful launch of a new product verticals -Contribution to closing multiple customers

• Product Owner

  • May 2017 - Dec 2019

  Belgrade, Serbia Driving the development of the crypto/equity trading platform and the showcase mobile applications. Often went beyond the primary role, and actively participated in the sales, support and marketing activities. Acted as a development team lead until the position was filled. Actively advocated toward agile/scrum process introduction. Key Accomplishments: - Successfully launched an investment platform - Onboarded and launched multiple customers - Scalable platform, capable of… Show more Driving the development of the crypto/equity trading platform and the showcase mobile applications. Often went beyond the primary role, and actively participated in the sales, support and marketing activities. Acted as a development team lead until the position was filled. Actively advocated toward agile/scrum process introduction. Key Accomplishments: - Successfully launched an investment platform - Onboarded and launched multiple customers - Scalable platform, capable of supporting various use cases - Hired and formed the Product team - Contributed to scale-up of the team and product



LoveStocks

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services

• Product Owner

  • Jun 2017 - Dec 2017

  Belgrade, Serbia



HTEC Group

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Owner

  • Nov 2016 - Jun 2017

  Belgrade, Serbia Communicating broad vision and providing detailed requirements from stakeholders to local development team - making sure there is enough room for team's creativity and full team engagement. Introduced Product Owner role in HTEC and joined one of the biggest project in the company. Developed an intimate understanding of stakeholder's needs through collaboration and self-driven learning about shipping industry. Guiding development team and stakeholders through best Agile and Product… Show more Communicating broad vision and providing detailed requirements from stakeholders to local development team - making sure there is enough room for team's creativity and full team engagement. Introduced Product Owner role in HTEC and joined one of the biggest project in the company. Developed an intimate understanding of stakeholder's needs through collaboration and self-driven learning about shipping industry. Guiding development team and stakeholders through best Agile and Product Development practices increasing ROI in early project stage. This being my first time working in an outsourcing company was a great learning experience how outsourcing companies works in general. Key Accomplishes: - Being the part of the team that launched product after 2 months - Guided thoughtful scope reduction maximizing ROI - Project recognized as the "best organized" within the company wit Show less



TCP's Humanity Scheduling

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Owner

  • Sep 2014 - Sep 2016

  Belgrade, Serbia Drove the product vision from an early stage - from concept to technical implementation, leading the product development of next generation scheduling software. Worked closely with external (enterprise customers) and internal (Sales, Marketing, Support, Customer Success, Business Representatives, Technical Architects, Designers, Developers) stakeholders making rational decisions and aligning priorities through negotiation supported by Data Analysis. Highly specialized in… Show more Drove the product vision from an early stage - from concept to technical implementation, leading the product development of next generation scheduling software. Worked closely with external (enterprise customers) and internal (Sales, Marketing, Support, Customer Success, Business Representatives, Technical Architects, Designers, Developers) stakeholders making rational decisions and aligning priorities through negotiation supported by Data Analysis. Highly specialized in product analytic tools, 3rd party partners integrations and customer onboarding experience. Directly communicated with enterprise customers (such as Tesla Motors, Lululemon, British Council, Home Credit, etc) providing the solution suitable for them and for thousands other small business. On multiple occasions temporarily switched to role of Engineering Lead, Agile Coach and Scrum Master being actively involved in setting up development processes and best engineering practices. Key Accomplishes: - Leading the product with continuously growing MRR. During this period Sales team raised their monthly selling record multiple time. Boosted Trial to MQL conversion rate over 200%. - Increasing referral rates, and maintaining customer satisfaction level over 98%, bringing the churn rate to all time minimum. - Applied and influenced DDDM practice - Drove implementation and integration of tools currently used by Sales, Support and Customer Success teams, increasing their performance. - Designing and specifying key features - Successfully managed multiple teams, including the "Core team" incorporated by functional team leads.

• Sales Operations Engineer

  • Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

  Belgrade, Serbia

• Software Quality Assurance Engineer

  • Oct 2013 - Jun 2014

  Serbia Devised procedures to inspect and report quality issues. Monitored all operations that affect quality. Assured the reliability and consistency of production by checking processes and final outputs. Position included manual testing, writing test cases and automated tests. Accomplishes: - Established Quality Assurance department - Learned best quality assurance practices and tools - Hired and trained future team leads

• Development Support Team Lead

  • Jan 2013 - Sep 2013

  Belgrade, Serbia Primary role was to be the bond between clients, support, and development team. The first point of contact for all 3rd party API consumers, responsible for maintaining API documentation, suggesting the best approaches for partners use cases, influencing the API development road map through this collaboration. Managed local development support team and remote support team located in Pakistan.

• Web Developer

  • Apr 2012 - Sep 2013

  Belgrade, Serbia Junior full-stack web developer. Worked with various technologies that include MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.