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Cardano FoundationDirector of Products Web3
Aug. 2023 - Jan. 2025London, England, United KingdomDriving L1 & L2 blockchain and Web3 adoption in existing industry verticals and looking for opportunities to create scalable and operational resilience infrastructure. Working with partners to find strong product market fit and easing the transition into decentralised Web3 solutions using education and implementation success stories.
Input Output (IOHK)Head of Product
Jan. 2022 - Aug. 2023London, England, United KingdomLeading over 70 people in a scaled agile framework(SAFe), managing 8 product verticals with a $25million budget. Products ranged from lightwallet (lace.io), Dappstore, DEX aggregation, lending protocol, multichain integration, ZPK chain sync, and data availability layer. Key skills: 1. Creating highly functional teams/squads
2. User research and story mapping
3. Cross-functional Go-to-market plans
4. Event storming
5. C-suite reporting
Input Output (IOHK)Group Product Manager Web3
May. 2020 - Jan. 2022London, England Metropolitan AreaResponsible for improving the accessibility and ease of integrations for institutional-grade clients, including exchanges and fortune 500 companies. Leading with the client in mind and thinking how to contribute to my client's roadmap to make their vision a reality. Also working on a new product line for improving customer accessibility and experience for the masses under the motto "Making decentralise finance easy".
Input Output (IOHK)Technical Business Analyst
May. 2019 - May. 2020London, United KingdomCardano is a groundbreaking proof-of-stake blockchain network, being developed into a decentralized application (DApp) development platform with a multi-asset ledger and verifiable smart contracts. Built with the rigour of high-assurance formal development methods, Cardano aims to achieve the scalability, interoperability, and sustainability needed for real-world applications. Cardano is designed to be the platform of choice for the large-scale, mission-critical DApps that will underpin the economy of the future. In this context, I’m looking for new best in class products needed to support and facilitate the economy of the future.
German Kraft BrewingInterim CTO
Aug. 2018 - May. 2019London, United KingdomGerman Kraft is a fast growing, multi-million pound, Craft Brewery that has embraced Tech and great Beer. My role included developing and launching a Beer App during 2019 & Co-hosting Tech meets. Key Responsibility
1. Technology roadmap; outlining short and long term strategic direction planning for the technology development with in German Kraft and team of 60. Working out enterprise level IT architecture for the next 5 years 2. Leading development team; leading three development teams on AWS, blockchain and web development for the short to mid-term prioritisation 3. Project organisation; training and structuring the various teams to work in an agile working environment and the subjugate responsibilities. 4. Technical Oversight of German Kraft App and roll out. 5. Co-organising App user meet up groups and feedback sessions
DLT.partnersTokenomics expert (remote)
Jul. 2018 - May. 2019London, United KingdomWe are a fast-moving, highly agile team based in London and San Francisco working together internationally on disruptive technology projects, (Data, DLT, AI, IoT, etc.) for our clients. As a team, we are working on some of the most exciting "stealth" start-ups that currently exist in the UK and the US We have an extensive practical business and technical experience. Some of our specializations include: Business Planning
* Use case validation & business plan development
* Early stage innovation and strategic business development
* Growth execution planning, logic and modelling
* All stages of Initial Coin Offering projects, from inception to completion
* Infrastructure Planning
* Security, legal and compliance
* Smart contracts & machine learning (ML) recommendations
* Analysis of existing hidden data revenue opportunities in mature companies
* CRM design & implementation, ERP/Shop design and roll-out
* Data analytics and storage
* Go to Market Partnering & Execution Support
* Territory representation
* Sales and marketing strategy, pipeline organization & tactical roll out
* Technical partner execution evaluation & validation
* Global marketing, press & public relations partnering
* Marketing and communication strategy & tactical roll out
* Human resource growth partnering, training and oversight
BlockpassProduct Manager
Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2021London, United KingdomBlockpass is a leading financial compliance RegTech service covering KYC, KYO, and KYD. In addition, they have built a multi-million pound SSI:DID tech lab with Edinburgh University. My role was leading the Go-to-Market and outlining the launch strategy. Key Skills:
1. Create go-to market strategy; 2. Defining target costumers for Blockpass hitting the 100K users;
3. Consulting management; advising senior management;
4. User journey, and A-B testing;
5. Business analysis and resource allocation of $10m dollar business. 6. Determining overhead and price point analysis.
7. USP development; formulating the unique difference between Blockpass and the rest of the space. Giving direction on the technology roadmap in order to maximize their user experience/market share
NaorisBlockchain Expert
Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019London, United KingdomNaoris is the world’s first holistic blockchain-based cybersecurity ecosystem, bringing a game-changing solution to address 35 years' worth of industry practice through the unrivalled security of a distributed consensus backed rule system. Key Responsibly
1. Develop investor confidence and belief in the company’s vision and strategy for delivering shareholder value 2. Manage equity research and investor relationships 3. Provide insights on market activity and present them to the leadership team 4. Analyze and present financial trends, competitor behaviour, shareholder issues, and anything else that could impact the business 5. Liaising with Regulated Entities and Banks on the Naoris offering
VyouProduct Manager
Oct. 2017 - Aug. 2018London, United KingdomVyou is a platform that makes work, work. We are redefining personal development coaching to make it easy, accessible and affordable for everyone by blending complex psychology frameworks with breakthrough tech. The result? Real-time insights, personalised support and tools needed to manage Work Energy levels. When Work Energy is high, we love what we do and our productivity skyrockets. 🚀🚀🚀 2. Technology roadmap; outlining & executing short and long term strategic direction planning for the technology development within VYOU. 3. Working out enterprise level IT architecture for a 5 year project 4. Support in tender offer for government grants, creating needed documentation for application. Presenting and pitching the technology. 5. Leading development team; structuring the IT architecture and data governance for GDPR compliance. Rapid prototyping the first iteration of the product for investor use.
SYNCOInterim CTO
Jun. 2017 - Nov. 2017AsiaSynco is an Asia based Digital Advisory company specialising in the funding and roll out of Blockchain and High Impact Projects. Raised over $200m for Tech companies during 2018 Key Responsibility
1. Created the digital transformation process where operational execution of their event, media and incubator process was automated
2. Created a digital framework on standardized execution. 3. Due to the massive success of the company I worked on diversifying their product portfolio to match the ambitious growth of the company.
4. Reporting to CEO w/large teams involved
Anthos AmsterdamDIGITAL TRANSFORMATION MANAGER
Jul. 2016 - Sep. 2017Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsAnthos is a multi-billion pound boutique family office specialised in long term investment strategies of broad asset mixes. Key Responsibilities & Achievements 1. Leading three interdisciplinary scrum teams for the "operational excellence" project in anticipation of MiFID II. transformation budget was 5 million Main three project where: 2. Upgrading our accounting system in order to incorporate workflows for various reporting processes. This is a large scale IT endeavour where I work with this IT teams to back test and integrate the new features of the Sophis software. 3. Implementation of FX (Forein Exchange) execution desk, Working closely with our counterparties to set up the system and have a stable workflow 4. Implementing a cross-asset class analysis platform that can generate exposure data for traditional and non-traditional asset classes. Working closely with Risk, MO, BO and FO to match user requirements. On top of that working closely together with our Data science and SQL engineers. 5. Priority for these projects where set due to the higher demand for reporting and data transparency in MiFID II that Anthos couldn't meet at the time. All three projects where successfully implemented and as a result, the overhead on operations was reduced by 10%, and the data accuracy and timeliness was increased by 15%.
TE ConnectivityContinuous Improvement Manager
Dec. 2015 - Jun. 2016Den bosch, the NetherlandsCreating insight on the allocation of resources for the Advance development team from a data analytic point of view. Target is to optimize the go-to-market time for proved concepts.
On top of that focusing on smoothing out departmental transfers of ready to market products
TE ConnectivityStrategic Human Resource Project Manager
Aug. 2015 - Jan. 2016Den Bosch NederlandIn an ever more competing labor market where the highly skilled are getting harder and harder to find, companies have to take action to select the 'right person for the right job'. My function is too align company strategy and HRM policy in order to attract that right person, at the right time. For this multiple actions have to be taken. In the first place we need to extract the maximum potential of our current workforce and at the same time recognize our weaknesses in order to attract the right skills to overcome these. I think in our current labor market this will be an interesting challenge and i'm looking for to meet this head on.
TE ConnectivityProduct Development Engineer
Dec. 2013 - Jul. 2015's-hertogenbosch, the netherlandPreforming electrical tests on the Ariso contactless connector Research and corrective actions on failing samples
Communication with production chain for fault prevention(LEAN, 6SIGMA)
Assessing test equipment
DLLCredit Analyst
Mar. 2013 - Jan. 2014Eindhoven Area, NetherlandsCreating credit-rating reports of companies to asses possible risk when supplying them with lease constructions for various objects.
StarbucksTrainee engineer roasting process
May. 2012 - Jan. 2013Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsMy bachelor thesis at Starbucks Ltd was to up date one of the packaging machines in there production chain. The result was an production increase of 5% at equal (if not less) deviation in product weight. As an additional, I listened the operators and used their feedback to designed a HMI that was easy to operate, which in turn reduced start-up time by 80% and prevented setting errors.
Hogeschool van AmsterdamMarketing and communication faculty of engineering
Dec. 2011 - Sep. 2012Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsOrganizing information days for future students so they can make an informed choice for their careers.
Promoting the platform 'Girls in Engineering', getting young woman interested in engineering.
Creating a Student/alumni network for the Faculty by means of user generated content.
Hogeschool van AmsterdamBoard member of the representative council
Aug. 2011 - Sep. 2012Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsAdvising on new and existing policies effecting students and employees. Voting rights on financial policy and implementation of education laws of the Netherlands.
Hogeschool van AmsterdamJudicial Law Clerk
Apr. 2011 - Sep. 2012Amsterdam, LeeuwenburgCreating minutes for the representative council and advising senior management on their position.
Hogeschool van AmsterdamBoard member of the council of representatives for the faculty of Engineering
Aug. 2010 - Sep. 2012hogeschool van Amsterdam, weesperzijde 190Consulting on the policies with in the faculty of engineering. Having voting rights on the new curricula of the associated courses. Advising senior management on implementing new and existing policies.
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