Hello! I'm zouber. I have been working in the field of technology startup for 10 years. I have 5+ years of product / project managing experience, participated in the design for 4 products, 3+ years of experience in Agile development (by using Scrum framework), and I've founded 2 companies.
I am passionate and experienced about business strategic thinking, user behavior analytics, team building and market researching, combine those proficiencies with my background in computer science, I believe I can make some contributions in this position.
I'm a technological optimist, which believes that technologies can make our life better. We are now facing a great paradigm shift, the only thing I am sure of is that I need to get myself ready by improve my proficiencies constantly and ride on the wave by joining an outstanding technology startup!
Skills / Tools
Project Management
3 years of experience with Agile/Scrum development
Product development and launching processes (using GAE)
Prioritize product features (Product Backlog)
Product specs writing
Development schedule and risk management
User-centered design
User research / User interview
requirements analysis
Personas
User stories
User flow
Prototyping / Wireframe
Business
Market & competitor research
Strategy Map
Business Canvas
Lean Startup / MVP
Pricing Strategies
System Dynamics
Programming skill
Google App Engine / webapp framework / Django
Python / Beautiful Soup
Selenium
Javascript / jQuery
Apache / PHP / MySQL
Git
C / C++
Growth strategy
Define product objectives, key results and metrics
Find effective growth strategies by experiments
Data analytics tools(Google Analytics, Amplitude)
Team Management
Coaching Leadership
Nonviolent Communication
The Coaching Game
1:1 Meeting
Cross-functional collaboration
Cognitive psychology / Cognitive bias
Education
National Chiao Tung University, master’s degree of Computer Science, 2006 ~ 2008
Learning Science and Technology Lab
Main research area including: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Game, Social Simulation.
Topic of my thesis was "Collective opinion and attitude dynamics dependency on informational and normative social influences", which combined computer simulation methodologies and social psychology theories to discuss emergence or flip of public opinions.
My thesis was published in the journal "Simulation" in 2010 (pdf).
National Central University, bachelor’s degree of Mathematics, 2001 ~ 2005
Major in mathematics and computer science
Joined the student association of math department and took a part of the math summer camp in 2002 .
Play table tennis for the varsity for 2 years, leader of table tennis team of math department for 1 year.
Work Experience
Bounty Hunter, Scrum Master / Project Manager / Technical Leader, Oct 2016 ~ Nov 2019
Product / Project Management
As a scrum master, I facilitate the scrum process, e.g. remove the impediments we facing and share my insight with team members during retrospective meeting.
Make sure each sprint task finished on schedule, especially when there are urgent request from our project customer.
Hold daily scrum everyday to keep synchronous with team members.
Design the test cases with QA team
Improve the testing process by consult other software startup and read related books.
When serious bug happen, discuss the ways to avoid it happen again with related engineers.
Collect feedbacks/requirements from our customers, users or colleagues. Identify the issues, design a solution, and turn them into wireframe and specification document.
Assist PO to manage product backlog and sprint backlog.
Team Management / Communication
1:1 meeting every two weeks / performance review every six months with my team members (5~7 people), to identify the difficulties they facing and discuss how to improve with them.
Information system design
Design automatic mechanism to replace human work (e.g. search on the web for the creative competitions).
Design the online review system for creative competition, it let the judges can browse and score the works online.
Design the website architecture of debut (a recruitment platform for student).
Market research / Strategy / Data Analysis
Participated in annual strategy discussion with co-founders
Checked the data of creative competition over the pass 3 years to analyze our market size and growth potential
Analyze the sales data over the pass 3 years to find possible problems
Competitor / pricing strategy analysis
Project
Clarify the technical requirements with salesperson and project manager, and discuss the solution and schedule with our CTO.
Draw system flowchart to make those complicated system function (e.g. online payment) easier to understand
Major achievements
As a scrum master, I improve the sprint completion rate from 50% to 90%.
The system was buggy for a period of time, I try to overcome this challenge by consulting technical leaders of other software startups, and read several classic books about testing, and finally we reduce bug rate by 50% by raising coverage rate of unit test, adopted automatic end-to-end testing, code review and error monitoring software.
I design the online scoring system which help judges to score in a more convenient way. And this system made our product more differentiated (at least 5 iconic creative competitions used this system).
Draw system logical flowchart (e.g. online payment), to make sure that all team members can collaborate base on the same understanding, which improve efficiency.
Answer the strategic questions (e.g. Does the market of creative competitions decline? How should we adjust our strategy? Are there any behavioral changes about our customers these years? What's the difference between ourselves and other competitors?) by analyzing customer data and creative competitions data for the past 3 years
Develop new customers, make profit from licensing agreement.
Promote our IP called "Banana Man" by various way, e.g. online videos, live broadcasts, flash mob, campaign of department store... etc, I planned and executed all of these by myself.
Propose new business models.
Major achievements
I concluded a licensing deal with an agriculture cooperative, which made tomatoes packaged with Banana Man's package appeared on the PX Mart (one of the biggest chained mart in Taiwan).
I constructed the story settings of Banana Man's world and the standard operating procedure of Banana Man's puppet performance.
I wrote a book with my boss, which collected marketing(by IP characters) case studies around the world and analyzed the trends about IP licensing.
I planned and execute 5 Banana Man's fan meetings in Global Malls all over Taiwan with over 1000 participants.
Have Fun LTD., CTO / Co-founder, Oct 2013 ~ Oct 2014
Implement a system (by Google App Engine) called Fanshop, which can help retailer build their website without any IT background, this system including: An online store, Product management, Stock management, Shopping cart, Member management, and customer can decide whether they want to customize layout of their online store or not.
Manage all the stages of product development by myself, including: drawing wireframe, documenting, implementing, testing, issue tracking, product backlog managing... etc.
We meet twice a week to discuss important issues, and work from home the rest of the weekdays.
Talk to our customers regularly to know what problems do they encounter, what function do they need, then we propose solutions accordingly.
Study the providing functions and subscription plans of our competitors
Our task today is to find singular ways to create the new things that will make the future not just different, but better -- to go from 0 to 1. The essential first step is to think for yourself. Only be seeing our world anew, as fresh and strange as it was to the ancients who saw it first, can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future.
Zero to One, Peter Thiel
More about me
Thank you for your time :)
I hope that I will have the chance to talk with you soon!