- Started my tech career in Customer Success
- Lived primarily on the West Coast of the United States
- I love product management but also coding
- Self taught for all things engineering
- React & Redux
- Bootstrap / Material UI
- Javascript / Typescript
- MySQL / Postgres
- Chai / Mocha
- Heroku
- AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Code Deploy, Route 53)
- Git
- Learn another language (Go, Ruby)
- Become more proficient working with AWS RDS
- More CI/CD skills
- Start more open source projects
- Contribute to other open source projects
- Product Roadmap management
- Negotiation / Collaboration with revenue teams
- C-suite presentations internally & externally
- Persona Creation and Updates on new information / market changes
- Conduct conversations with current, former, and prospective customers to get feedback
- Transparent communication with engineering teams so they understand the problem and which persona we are building for
- UX & minimal UI design skills to prototype
- Minimal understanding of how product analytics can inpact roadmap decisions
- Mentor current Product Managers or people interested in breaking into the role
- I try and not pressure eng teams with delivery dates to give them creative freedom to explore solutions
- Better UI understanding & principles to follow
- Advocating for the Engineering teams at the C-suite internally
- Understanding of product analytics and how they can / should impact our roadmap
- Story telling skills
- I can never figure out what to cook for dinner, I created a website that generates a meal every day for various diets to take the choice & options out of it and just let this system pick for you - https://saltoast.com/
- I really enjoy reddit & ⚽, So I created a website where fans can upload goal highlights. Those goal highlights can then be used in their club's subreddit. How that works is I built a reddit bot that listens to a specific request and then use the goal highlghts data to make comments within reddit - https://www.reddit-goalbot.com/