Technical Product/Project Manager

  • I am an experienced IT product and project manager with over 20 years experience.
  • I am consultative and focused on business goals and measurable outcomes.
  • I am confident, well organised and great with people.
  • I combine hands-on day-to-day project execution and strategic vision.
  • I specialise in web and e-commerce applications
  • I have start-up experience having founded my own web development company


About Me


I have been using the web since 1992, only a few years after its invention. I got a mac with internet access and it quickly grew into a time-consuming hobby. I spent hours learning to program, downloading files and fixing network connections. I realised my skills could be used to help others and landed a holiday job as an internet help-desk assistant and trainee developer with a local software company. I found that I enjoyed designing and coding but also had a knack for speaking with customers, understanding their problems and solving them. At the time, I hand-coded web pages in HTML myself, crafting images from tablet sketches and creating forms using database and server scripts. Now, after years of experience, I still love creating web products but mainly do this through speaking with business people to understand their needs and goals before translating these for development teams who create and maintain the code.

Business Analyst/Product Owner


I have experience as an agile product owner and an IT business analyst, specialising in gathering and managing business requirements across the life-cycle, including :-

  • Product Vision/Objectives
  • Roadmap
  • User Journeys
  • User Story Definition/Prioritisation
  • Test Plans
  • Backlog Management
  • JIRA Workflow Set-up/Guidelines 
  • Launch/Release Management
  • Product Help Guides/Training 

I am a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO.)

Agile Project Management/ScrumMaster


I am experienced in both agile and waterfall project management techniques and have the following Certifications :-

  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • Prince 2 Practitioner Certified


Technologies


I bring over 20 years professional experience working with web and software technologies, backed-up by a 2.1 Computer Science degree from Warwick University in the UK. I also stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends through social media, blogs and community events. Here are some of the technologies I have worked with in the past :-

  • Java - Java (J2EE), CORBA, Javascript
  • .NET - C#, MVC, SQL Server, Web API
  • API - REST/SOAP
  • Databases – Sybase, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server,Marklogic
  • LAMP - Linux, MySQL,Apache,Php,Perl
  • CMS – Wordpress, SiteCore, MySource Matrix, Blogger
  • Semantic Web - Triplestore,RDF,SPARQL
  • Mobile - (iOS/Android)
  • Retail – EPOS
  • Cloud – Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google GCP
  • IBMi, iSeries, AS400

UX/UI Design


I have experience with the following techniques for user experience (UX) and UI design :-

  • Sketching/Paper Prototyping
  • Wireframing using Balsamiq
  • HTML Prototyping using Axure

Measurement/Analytics


I have experience using the following products to track and measure website improvements :-

  • Google Analytics 
  • (including A/B testing.)
  • Webtrends

Industries


I have worked across the following industry sectors :-

  • Travel
  • Media/Publishing
  • Music
  • Mobile Telecommunications
  • Start-up
  • Finance and energy
  • Retail
  • Healthcare
  • Charity
  • Social enterprise
  • Sports
  • Consulting


Talks


APIs and Science Publishing, Mashery Business of APIs Conference, London, October 2011 - https://vimeo.com/33752404

What a software house should take into account when moving/transitioning
customers from on-premise to the cloud

Contact Me


Email: chandran doT honour1 aT gmail doT com



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