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Here's my experience so far

Browse through my experience and qualifications, or download a copy of my resume to get a quick overview. For a more in-depth look my work history, feel free to download my Curriculum Vitae (CV). 

Experience

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Director of Product Management 

Union Realtime (Managespace)

New York City, US (Remote)

URT's ManageSpace is a B2B SaaS property management product that provides clients with an all-in-one integrated and extensible platform for their daily operational needs. Ready for it to be out-of-the-box or customizable according to the business needs.

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Directed the design and execution of the ManageSpace B2B PropTech Management Platform, positioning it to capture a significant share of a $1.5 billion market.

Stepped into an interim engineering manager role, boosting team morale to ultimately enable successful showcasing of the product at Las Vegas conventions

 

Demonstrated strong leadership during two pivotal restructurings, maintaining team morale during the challenging times

Nov 2023 - Jun 2024

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Senior Technical Product Manager

Union Realtime (Managespace)

New York City, US (Remote)


Conducted in-depth interviews with over 30 early-stage users, a significant achievement given the pre-launch status of our product. This direct feedback was crucial in understanding user needs and expectations.


Developed comprehensive product roadmaps and user personas based on real user data, which directly informed the Figma-based designs for our user experience (UX) team that drove the requirements for the development team.


Led the design and iteration of user interfaces, ensuring that our product aligns with the identified needs and preferences of our target audience, setting a strong foundation for future user satisfaction and product usability.

Jun 2021 - Nov 2023

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Product Manager

Occupyd

Edinburgh, UK

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Occupyd is a C2C 2-sided commercial property marketplace platform for British independent and corporate businesses spanning from restaurant owners to salon and beauty roomowners, to everything under commercial real estate. Due to the nature of this business during Covid, this business pivoted and is now known as Obvlo. 

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Set up and streamlined KPIs to align with monthly OKRs and analyse and present data in a weekly product meeting to monthly tactics and adjust accordingly which has yielded to 120% over OKR target


Documented product requirements to use them for leading ideation workshops, iterate features with designers and developers before, updating documents after implementation


Created initial UX flows and product documentation to manage the UX/UI designers and software engineers for a 4-month platform redesign

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Jan 2020 - Jun 2021 

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Product Owner

Arcadis (Formerly IBI Group)

Toronto, Canada

Arcadis' TravelIQ is a B2B SaaS white-labelled transit management platform that connects with 50+ APIs including Waze, Weather Network, Road Conditions, etc. for US and Canadian governments and private sectors alike. 
 

Led and supported special projects ranging from $50,000 to $5 million products with its end-to-end product lifecycle in a fast-paced and scaling incubator  within an international firm 


Coordinated meetings with multiple stakeholders and reviewed and reduced  backlog tickets by 30% ensuring that business objectives were met 


Wrote and coordinated feedback on business cases and product prioritization  using KPIs and OKRs 


Conducted usability testing and analyze trends using Google Analytics 
Responsible for rolling out new functionalities and bug fixes across all clients 

 

Apr 2018 - Jan 2020

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Business Analyst / Project Manager

Ontario Government - Ministry of Education

Toronto, Canada

Worked on an online form-building product that is white-label for different sections of the Ontario Government, primarily the Ministry of Education.

Supported  the development and implementation of business goals by gathering requirements, designing mock-ups, and leading the dev team to deliver 5 modules of an in-house framework system 


Proactively improved the customer experience by developing and leading a 10-month product strategy focusing on usability and user experience 


Illustrated a strong project management experience and delivered 2 product  releases 1 month earlier than the original deadline 

Apr 2017 - Apr 2018

Skills

Technical Skills

Education

Information System and Design

University of Toronto

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Master of Information

2015 - 2017

Toronto, Canada

Designed a process mining model for online communities that was presented at the iSchool Conference in 2017 


Published an original peer-reviewed article in iJournal by integrating data mining within a data warehouse using Python to extract and evaluate posts from a Personal Finance Canada sub-Reddit to understand online behaviours 


Contributed to a feasibility study for a social innovation site using design research and usability studies 

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Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

Sociology Major with Global Development Minor

Queen's University

2011 - 2015

Kingston, Canada

Dean’s Honours List, GPA 3.85


Completed a semester abroad at the University of Manchester 

Volunteer

Volunteer Consultant 

CatchaFire

Apr 2022 - Present

Online

Work with nonprofts to help solve their website, technical, and system issues. These projects range from IT & website audits to analyzing data and building a scalable database.

Completed 9 projects and have been able to save a total impact of $5,000

Provided Figma prototypes to several organization, one was able to revise their
website according to the 1-hour workshop

Certificate

AI for Product Management, Pendo

Certificate of Product Management, General Assembly

Introduction to Generative AI, Google

Languages

English (native)

Spanish (proficient)

Tagalog (native)

Paola is a constant source of enthusiasm and inspiration. In her role as Product Manager she brought this enthusiasm every day and inspired the team to work more effectively. She has an excellent grasp of business requirements and communicates them effectively to the team. She is able to efficiently manage shifting priorities to ensure the team are delivering their absolute best within tight timeframes. 

Above all, Paola was a pleasure to work with and I would not hesitate to recommend her.

Lee Chiswell

Head of Development, Advanced

Lee and Paola worked together on the same team

Darren Scrine

Principal Technical Consultant, Softwire

Darren managed Paola directly

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