Mev-Rael

Innovation, Product Management, UX Consultant

Mev-Rael London

May 2019 - Present
Taipei, Taiwan

Help teams:

* Increase ROI of innovation and make it clear, measurable, predictable
* Deliver Product-Led transformation
* Define a winning SaaS, platform or marketplace strategy
* Eliminate gap and friction in collaboration of cross-functional teams
* Hire Empowered Product Leaders and coach your product squads
* Hire Empowered Product Marketers, Designers and Engineers and coach your Agile team
* Facilitate workshops, discovery, innovation, design sprints
* Optimize processes, manage projects, scrum, save time and money
* Deliver a visual actionable PRD and specification which teams will actually read
* Gain insights from market, trends, competition, customers and drive CX up
* Gain 100% clarity
* Launch digital products successfully

Warsaw Startup Adviser

WeWork Labs

July 2019 - August 2019
Taipei, Taiwan

Advised idea and pre-seed stage startups and organized a workshop at WeWork Labs Warsaw.

Head of Product, Product Management Consultant

Closers.com, Dan Lok Companies

July 2018 - May 2019
Taipei, Taiwan

- Online marketplace and SaaS to connect sales teams with businesses on win-win relationship
- E2E PLM, Hired, coached, lead entire startup cross-functional team from scratch to 10
- Delivered 3 Business Models, 3-years Strategy, Pitch Deck, Roadmap, PRD, High-fidelity Figma Design, prototype
- Researched US/CA/UK/AU markets, competitors
- Conducted customer interviews, UX research
- Facilitated personal development, agile, design thinking, lean startup workshops
- Managed P&L, Financial forecasts, burn rate
- Organized executive meetings, calls, managed stakeholders, delivered reports, PowerPoint/Google presentations
- Managed Operations, Set up and automated Slack, Figma, Miro, Analytics, Emails, G Suite
- Created and managed community in Facebook Group, LinkedIn page
- Defined Success Metrics, North Star, OKRs, Metric Tree
- Launched Alpha and Beta of closers.com with 20 sales leaders, 300 closers already on board

Product Management Consultant

Gamico Inc

August 2018 - September 2018
Taipei, Taiwan

- Blockchain online marketplace, SaaS for gaming, e-sports, Discord chatbot to help casual gamers earn money
- Introduced and delivered Product Requirements Document (PRD)
- Introduced Business Model Canvas (BMC), researched HK, US, EU markets, competitors, delivered additional business models
- Introduced Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Data-driven Product Management
- Established modern product development and DevOps process, and coached Dev team
- Optimized design process working with external agency (Lead designer: We so happy to have you on board Mev)
- Interviewed potential customers by attending local meetups and online to gain more insights

Product Management Consultant

Torre Technologies Co.

April 2018 - July 2018
Taipei, Taiwan

- Torre Jobs, Torre Bio, Marketplace, AI-driven professional network and jobs portal in LATAM and NA
- Introduced Product Requirements Document (PRD) and minimized the gap in collaboration of cross-functional teams
- Improved tech and design process resulted in faster onboarding, higher clarity, security, quality, more free time
- Delivered market research and plan how product and UX can be improved to attract and delight more customers globally.

Founder, CEO, CTO

Bunny AI

January 2016 - June 2018
Taipei, Taiwan

- Online marketplace for local services, AI social search engine, SaaS for local SME
- Built brand, social search engine, data pipeline and NLP from scratch;
- Launched and pivoted 5 times. Time-to-get-job-done went down from days to seconds. 500k businesses in DB. 200 Users. 5k searches with 20% conversion rate.
- Built, influenced, lead team of co-founders, freelancers and interns from 0 to 10;
- Got us into one pitch competition;
- Exhibited at Web Summit 2017 ALPHA (3% startups accepted);
- 99% positive user's and potential customer feedback;
- Was tested and used all over the world with 0 marketing budget

Tech Lead & Product Manager

GLC Glücksburg Consulting AG

January 2015 - December 2016
Taipei, Taiwan

- Travel marketplace to connect German customers with experiences across EU (Before AirBnb Experiences launched)
- Before started working on a new project - estimated and calculated entire project, each feature and what it would cost in a very long spreadsheet up to each feature. Calculation turned to be 100% precise.
- Launched new travel system for existing customer base from scratch and coordinated stakeholders, design agency and our tech team using JIRA, Trello, G Suite, Slack, Google Analytics, Adobe Suite
- Software Architecture, Database Design, PHP, Laravel, MySQL
- Team Management, Daily Scrum

Web Development Teacher

Self-Employed

January 2014 - May 2015
Taipei, Taiwan

- Curriculum design, development, implementation
- Teaching HTTP, W3C Web Standards, Web Sockets, Security/XSS/SQL Injection, Web Accessibility
- SDLC, Introduction to Software Engineering, Architecture, Design Patterns, Clean Code, OOP, SOLID, MVC
- Teaching backend, PHP, SQL, Database design, MySQL, APIs, Redis
- Teaching SSH, Unix, Terminal, Sockets, Daemons, Servers, Cloud, Microservices
- Teaching frontend, HTML, CSS, SASS, Bootstrap, SVG, JavaScript, Build tools
- Teaching basics of QA, TDD
- Teaching Git, Agile project management, team-work
- Designing tests

Co-Founding CTO

WeThree UK

June 2014 - December 2014
Taipei, Taiwan

- New web development agency
- Built, coached team of engineers, designer, set up agile, scrum process, project management, business analysis
- PHP, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, Bootstrap, jQuery
- Developing from scratch and launching events, ticketing marketplace (Similar to Eventbrite)

Legal and Administrative Assistant

The State Chancellary of the Republic of Latvia

December 2013 - February 2014
Taipei, Taiwan

Assisting Latvian Valdis Dombrovskis' Cabinet of Ministers and State Chancellery Legal Department in reviewing, analyzing legal contracts, law projects and administrative work.

Freelance Web Developer

Freelance

January 2007 - January 2014
Taipei, Taiwan

- Business analysis, Gathering requirements, documentation, Tech Spec writing, maintenance
- Software Architecture Design, System Design, Diagrams, Microservices, UML
- Clean code, OOP, SOLID principles, Functional programming
- QA, Manual browser testing
- PHP, Drupal, WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel, Symfony Development
- HTML, CSS, SASS/Gulp/Grunt, SVG, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery development
- Website optimization, Build process optimization, asset minimization, SEO
- Git, SSH, Unix, Ubuntu, Hosting, AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean
- Security, Hashing, SSL, SQL Injection, XSS attack prevention
- Web Accessibility implementation.
- APIs, PayPal, Stripe, payments, SMS, PDF, Social authentication, Image processing, Charts
- Open-source, Web Standards, Laravel Core, Bootstrap Core contributor, BunnyJS author, #1 on Google Search
- JIRA administration, agile, kanban, scrum, code reviews
- Warehouse management system, Government, LMS, Corporate websites, Landing pages, Hospitality, Travel, Healthcare, Media/Magazine/Design, Education, eCommerce stores

Retail Sales Representative

Family Business

January 2001 - January 2011
Taipei, Taiwan

- Born in a poor family without a father. Started working early as a kid and selling apparel, foods on old markets.
- For over 10 years never sold a single product below price tag. Contrary - sold many products for more $ than they originally were.
- Berries, mushrooms picking in forests.