MY JOURNEY IN PRODUCT
Hi there!
My name is Adil Haris and I'm a Product Manager. If this were a normal portfolio page, I'd want to give you a grand introduction about myself with some mind blowing facts about how I made the world spin the other way round. But this is not a normal page. This is a page where I tell my story; to both you and myself.
My objective in maintaining this is three:
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Have a space where I can reflect on what I have done as a PM and how I have created impact.
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Have a place where people can get to know my professional career as quickly and easily as possible.
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Win you over as an employer or as a client.
Hope you enjoy the sober grays, the surprising whites and the bright greens. Cheers!
CORE COMPETENCIES
#YesILikeBlankSpace
Product
Vision, Strategy, and Roadmaps
Software Pricing
UX
User Interviews and Usability Testing
Mockups and Wireframes
Technology
Data Analytics
Requirements and Technical Writing
Interpersonal
Leadership
Public Speaking
INDUSTRY
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Healthcare
5
years of experience building products and services for customers
2
years of experience working in and managing a remote team
11
products, projects and services delivered to customers as a product consultant
8
traning and keynote presentations given Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
. 2020 .
The year I chose to take a break, study, and grow.
Master of Science in Product Management
School of Computer Science and Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
January 2020 - December 2020
Master of Science in Product Management
School of Computer Science and
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
January 2020 - December 2020
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Courses: Data Analysis and Visualisation, Human-Computer Interaction, Service Design, SaaS Metrics and Pricing Strategies, and Platform Design, Managing People and Teams, and Marketing, Branding and Business Fundamentals
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Digital Service Innovation: Ideated a new digital service through a complete iteration of a lean product lifecycle - from analysing market opportunities, interviewing customers, modelling finances, and testing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Visit Audionet!
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Product Roadmap: Consulted and aligned the founders to a modified COVID-19 Product Vision, Strategy, and Roadmap that all project stakeholders can use to capture the future direction of the project.
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Software Pricing: Devised a tier-based subscription pricing framework for the product by segmenting customers by dollar value attained against willingness-to-pay and formulated prices and business rules at each tier.
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Usability Testing: Grew the marketplace platform to the first 100 vendors with continuous conduct and integration of feedback from over 40 usability tests and customer interviews.
Product Manager - Internship
Los Angeles, California
May 2020 - August 2020
Product Manager - Internship
Los Angeles, California
May 2020 - August 2020
. 2019 .
Launching a remote internet consulting business and gaining independence
Self-Employed Product Consultant
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
January 2019 - December 2019
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Entrepreneurship: Ideated, wireframed, designed, and launched a personal Blockhain consulting website, and consulted over 30 paying customers on lean product development by directing 5000 monthly readers from my blog to the website.
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Data Analytics: Leveraged demographic and geographic data of website visitors to write blogs tailored to my audience. Generated insights from A/B tests and website heatmaps; iteratively optimized the website to increase bookings by 15%.
Technical Product Manager
Kuala Lumpur
February 2019 - December 2019
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Product Requirements Documentation: Prioritized features from the roadmap and wrote detailed personas and user stories for the Radioloegex Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that was referenced by the engineering team.
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Distributed Ledger Architecture: Architected the Radiologex distributed ledger on the Multichain Blockchain. Designed the incentivization strategy and token economics for the native RDX security token that attracted early network validators.
Instructor
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
March 2019 - July 2019
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Course Design: Directed a team in creating a Cyptocurrency training course. Created the syllabus, course outline and delivery schedule and led the content creation working closely with the leadership and design teams.
. 2017 - 2019 .
Transitioning from a software engineer to a consultant to a product manager
Product Management Lead
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
August 2018 - January 2019
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Business and Technical Documentation: Led a team of business analysts in drafting whitepapers and sales collateral, and prepared detailed user stories and Business Requirements Documents to support web and mobile engineering teams.
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Cross-functional Collaboration: Ensured timely delivery and customer satisfaction by collaborating cross-functionally with design, software development, QA, and marketing teams to successfully service four client projects.
Blockchain Technology Consultant
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
August 2017 - August 2018
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Negotiation and Verbal Communication: Educated over 10000 attendees over 8 keynote presentations on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency technology negotiating two new software service deals in the process.
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Process Optimization and Problem Solving: Built a project onboarding tool that eased requirements gathering and reduced engineering delivery timelines from 2 months to 7 days by leveraging code templates on recurring development requests.
Blockchain Technology Consultant
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
March 2017 - August 2017
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Leadership and Project Management: Managed a team of developers to successfully prototype a digital asset platform on the Ethereum Blockchain. Demoed and successfully pitched to clients for Sterling landing them a new long-term contract with Dubai Financial Markets
. 2015 - 2017 .
From the novelty of Blockchain to the robustness of Enterprise Java, diving deep into code
Software Engineer
Chennai, India
August 2015 - March 2017
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Full-stack Web Development: Developed a proof-of-concept that evaluated the feasibility of using a Blockchain in trade settlement. Led the demo to senior management and succeeded in raising $200,000 in funding.
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Java and J2EE Development: Developed and deployed 26 new feature user stories for a corporate actions product in collaboration with a global agile team.
. 2011 - 2015 .
The case of the Indian kid who actually wanted to become a computer engineer
Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering
Chennai, India
August 2011 - May 2015
A four-year technical engineering degree which provides a holistic overview of all concepts in Computer Science including but not restricted to Data Structures, Algorithms, Systems Design, Computer Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Relational Databases and Programming in Java and C++
