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Mev-Rael

Innovation, Product Management, UX Consultant
Philosopher-Doer | Creative Sales UX Digital Product Leader | Innovation Consultant | Business Designer | Experience Strategist | SaaS
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Mev-Rael London
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San Francisco Product School
London, UK

Skills

Competitive
Team Player
Innovation
Creative
Coaching
Leader
Digital Transformation
Consulting
Marketing
Nomad
photoshop
intelligence
research
analysis
strategic thinking
Product Management
Product Design
Product Marketing
Operations
Executive Management
Recruiting
Software Architecture
Software Engineering
Information Architecture
Wireframing
microsoft office suite
Photography
SQL
Python
JavaScript
HTML5
CSS3
PHP
Node.js
Strategy
Business Development
Administrative Assistance
Artificial Intelligence
Art
Fashion
Elearning
ECommerce
E-commerce
E-Learning
B2B
B2C
Marketplace
SaaS
Travel
Game Design
Quality Assurance

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Latvian
Professional
Chinese
Beginner
French
Beginner
Polish
Intermediate

Work experiences

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Innovation, Product Management, UX Consultant

Mev-Rael London

May 2019 ~ Present
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
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Warsaw Startup Adviser

WeWork Labs

Jul 2019 ~ Aug 2019
2 mos
Advised idea and pre-seed stage startups and organized a workshop at WeWork Labs Warsaw.
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Head of Product, Product Management Consultant

Closers.com, Dan Lok Companies

Jul 2018 ~ May 2019
11 mos
- 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

Aug 2018 ~ Sep 2018
2 mos
- 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
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Product Management Consultant

Torre Technologies Co.

Apr 2018 ~ Jul 2018
4 mos
- 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.
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Founder, CEO, CTO

Bunny AI

Jan 2016 ~ Jun 2018
2 yrs 6 mos
- 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

Jan 2015 ~ Dec 2016
2 yrs 0 mos
- 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

Jan 2014 ~ May 2015
1 yr 5 mos
- 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

Jun 2014 ~ Dec 2014
7 mos
- 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)
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Legal and Administrative Assistant

The State Chancellary of the Republic of Latvia

Dec 2013 ~ Feb 2014
3 mos
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

Jan 2007 ~ Jan 2014
7 yrs 1 mo
- 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

Jan 2001 ~ Jan 2011
10 yrs 1 mo
- 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.

Kid Entrepreneur

Self-Employed

Jan 2004 ~ Dec 2008
5 yrs 0 mos
Game, Level Design: - Own 3D RPG Game Design, Story, Gameplay, Quests, Abilities, World, Characters - Level Design and scripting for Half-Life 1 Engine games. Arts: - Started first own business as a middle school student and was selling homeworks in arts to other kids

Educations

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San Francisco Product School

Non-Degree Program (e.g. Coursera certificate)
Product Management

2018 - 2019

Riga Technical University

Bachelor’s Degree
Computer Science

2008 - 2010
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