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Alex Gandu

Santa Cruz De Tenerife

Summary

+12 years of experience as a product manager and entrepreneur with a strong background in software, business, and mobile gaming industries. Skilled in developing innovative solutions that effectively address customer needs while optimizing costs through exceptional design. Data-driven and strategic professional with a track record of achieving remarkable market penetration and successful product launches.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Manager

Opera Software
06.2022 - Current
  • Increased product adoption by identifying customer needs and developing innovative product features.
  • Improved user experience by collaborating closely with design and development teams on UI/UX enhancements.
  • Mentored junior Product Managers in effective project management techniques and industry best practices.
  • Managed product roadmaps, aligning with company goals and ensuring timely delivery of key features.

Lead Product Manager

Rentuu
09.2020 - 05.2022
  • Collaborated with clients and stakeholders to translate their version into product requirements based on target audience and industry standards, successfully adapting to different markets in EU.
  • Created and managed product roadmap and backlog while being able to quickly adjust priorities based on current needs.
  • Helped improve white label process and reduced by 4x the development effort needed to release to production new marketplace.
  • Improved conversion rate and shopping cart value by redesigning checkout flow based on user-testing and analyzing data.

Senior Project Manager

Crowdbotics
03.2019 - 09.2020
  • Managed the development process for multiple web/mobile projects using prebuilt components/libraries from React Native, Node.js and Django.
  • Created the product requirements based on the client needs and targeted audience, while managing the budget and maintaining a profit margin of over 50%.
  • Hired developers/designers based on the project requirements/technologies and ensured requirements are fully understood; thus reducing the time needed to go to market.
  • Helped other PMs with scoping, budgeting and removing/anticipating bottle-necks down the road, by properly researching and planning ahead.

Senior QA Engineer

Lowe's
12.2017 - 12.2019
  • Created and executed a set of repeatable test cases for mobile and web applications, using TestRail and other QA tools.
  • Wrote technical documentation for new features/products and worked closely with the development team to test them.
  • Monitored and tested various third party tools and created confluence and matrix pages to ensure that the correct functionality is maintained.
  • Managed to avoid having any medium or critical bugs in production by properly executing the regression tests and reporting all issues found on the test environments.

Mobile Games Producer

Idea Studios & Transylgamia
06.2015 - 03.2019
  • Created GDDs, road-maps and wireframes based on targeted audience and client requirements.
  • Worked closely with the team to tweak/improve all aspects of the games, while following an Agile Scrum methodology and coordinating teams us to 10 members.
  • Based on data/market analysis research, helped launch successfully a couple of games with millions of downloads on GooglePlay and AppStore.
  • Acted as a game designer to balance the economy and difficulty of the games, thus increasing DAU/MAU, retention rate and session duration, which maximized the Average revenue per user (ARPU) and Lifetime value (LTV).
  • Integrated and managed different ad-provider platforms for a series of mobile games with the monetization based on ads, increasing the revenue month by month.

Project Manager

Connatix
07.2013 - 06.2015
  • Handled client communication and proposed UX and design solutions to improve the products.
  • Created product requirements documentation for digital projects based on the businesses needs and industry standards.
  • Managed teams working Agile Scrum in weekly iterations while following the software development best practices, thus increasing velocity by aprox 30%.
  • Handled demos and production releases while ensuring a high quality standard for each delivery.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Faculty of Civil Engineering

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Skills

  • Working Cross-Functionally
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Lead and influence without authority
  • Analytical Skills and being Data Driver
  • Communication and Customer Interaction
  • Agile and Scrum

Accomplishments

    Won multiple a game jams, one organized by Ubisoft.

Languages

  • Romanian

  • English

  • Spanish

Timeline

Senior Product Manager

Opera Software
06.2022 - Current

Lead Product Manager

Rentuu
09.2020 - 05.2022

Senior Project Manager

Crowdbotics
03.2019 - 09.2020

Senior QA Engineer

Lowe's
12.2017 - 12.2019

Mobile Games Producer

Idea Studios & Transylgamia
06.2015 - 03.2019

Project Manager

Connatix
07.2013 - 06.2015

Bachelor of Science - Faculty of Civil Engineering

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

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