Executive coach helping professionals who love gaming achieve their dream careers.

Let me level up your career game! I'm all about helping you turn your career dreams into reality. Let's take a pit stop to refuel and retune your career ambitions. Upon this journey, we'll come across:

- Your personal compass, syncing your career with what truly matters to you
- Our game map, plotting a course from your current position all the way to your dream level
- And the booster - the actions and energy that'll speed your career advancement. 

Let's power up and start levelling!

My own personal experience
* Video Game and Esports Leader - 6 Years
* Digital Advertising Agency Head and Entrepreneur - 10 years
* Senior Consultant - 10 years

Selected  Speaking Engagements, Panels and Interviews
* "Metaverse Opportunities for Esports and Music" - All That Matters
* "Esports - Future in Smart Cities and Blockchain" - SPECTRUM Global 
* "How to build a career in esports" - Singapore Games Association 
* "Beyond Gaming" - Yahoo Finance Singapore 
* "Future of Esports" - The Drum "Can Do" Festival 2020
* "Living the Gamer Dream" - Phillippines Youth Esports Program  
* "Mobile Games Takeover" Asian Pacific Broadcasters Tech Summit 2018 (APOS Tech 2018) 
* "Building an Esports Platform" - All that Matters 2018 

Selected Media Mentions
* "Why Singapore is important to the games industry" - NME.com - 
* "SEA Games features female-division Wild Rift Esports" - Yahoo News Singapore 
* "Marrying Esports and Music" - Marketing Interactive 
* "VALORANT Colleges and Cybercafes in the Phillippines" -SPIN Magazine
* "Riot Games and CTBC Partner Up for the Pacific Championship Series" - TechBeat
* "Esports - A growing digital playing field" - Singapore Sports Hub

Coach

Riot Games

* Launched and managed iconic esports across eight countries to serve 8M esports fans
* Led Esports for League of Legends, VALORANT, and Wild Rift Esports across Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau
* Created the three largest esports products in SEA, the League of Legends Pacific Championship Series, the VALORANT Championship Tour, and the Wild Rift Icon Series
* Executed global and regional esports events including Hyperplay, Rift Rivals, Mid-Season International 2019, and Wild Rift Horizon Cup 2021
* Sold Riot’s largest IP Licensing and Esports Sponsorship in Southeast Asia
* Managed relationship with Garena to publish League of Legends

Head of SEA Esports

Country Manager SEA

Country Manager Vietnam

Daybreak Digital

* Bootstrapped Daybreak Digital into one of Vietnam’s leading digital advertising agencies
* Build fun-loving, results-oriented and learning oriented work environment
* Recruit and develop talent in business culture, ethics and pro-active, open-communication management
* Manage all business development activities, including RFP responses, business pitches and conferences 
* Develop multi-channel marketing strategies utilizing events, PR, digital and social media for clients to introduce new services, sales promotions and generate deeper brand affinity
* Lead team to develop marketing strategies, design creative collateral, program microsites and Facebook applications and plan, book and manage cross-channel digital media
* Manage and partnered with event and advertising agencies including Grey Group, Saatchi&Saatchi, Hakuhodo, DatViet Media Group, Omnicom Media Group to deliver fully integrated campaigns via TV, print, PR and online channels
* Deliver mobile game installs on a CPI basis for VNG games via DSP partners
* Introduce new technologies, media products and platforms from region to Vietnam market

Managing Director

Edge Marketing Vietnam Ltd

Director of CRM and Digital

Admax Network

At Admax Network, we have built Vietnam's premier advertising network.  We partner up with the best websites in Vietnam and provide adserving to ensure great ROI, reaching your target market with the efficiency required to survive this economic downturn.

MD Vietnam

EXO Travel

*      Manage Marketing department for Exotissimo across Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand consisting of expatriates, locals and freelance writers to produce marketing and advertising materials
    *      Create, write and edit all B2B marketing materials, including Professional’s Guide, Tariff, Responsible Travel Guide, Destinations Newsletter, eBlog and monthly electronic newsletters
    *      Develop, manage and implement strategies for Internet and other emerging markets
    *      Coordinate and oversee development of Exotissimo print and on-line advertising across all five countries
    *      Issue press releases and liaise with journalists to establish Exotissimo’s leadership across the industry
    *      Develop and maintain strong relations with partners, including foreign tour operators, corporate clientele and local hoteliers
    *      Provide website content regarding industry news, hotel information, product updates and promotions

Marketing Manager

Lockheed Martin

*      Led and trained team of four engineers for the United States Air Force Global Combat Support System website, supporting over 1 million users using BroadVision and IBM WebSphere
    *      Implemented and wrote training materials for all Air Force content managers and staff
    *      Designed content management system between Air Force divisions and centralized portal operations

Framework Operations Manager

Deloitte Consulting

Clients – UBS, London, UK, Basel, Switzerland; Bayer AG, New York City, NY; Holcim Ltd, Toronto, Canada, Sprint Communications, Kansas City, Kansas
•	Coordinated and managed team of systems administrators, focused on change and project management to develop e-hosting platform for Sprint Telecommunications
•	Implemented and maintained configuration management and testing tools including ClearCase, ClearQuest, CVS and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe		
•	Designed and implemented web production environments for Sprint Telecommunications and Holcim Ltd at Genuity Webhosting 
•	Led systems management team performing builds, tracking changes and managing various environments 
•	Trained developers and testers in using automated testing tools from Mercury Interactive
•	Implemented and designed picking, packing and shipping processes using SAP R/3 Warehouse Management and Sales and Distribution

Consultant

SEA Esports and Gaming Expert | Launched League of Legends and VALORANT Esports | I help gaming professionals get career fulfillment with coaching

I help Gaming Professionals level up their careers and secure higher-paying roles.

Most of my clients are struggling with:

- Not getting recognized for their achievements
- Getting underpaid compared to their skills and market value
- Not knowing how to get a raise (but want one)
- Being unable to progress their career forward

And so, I take them through a process to land them at a higher salary role:

1. Understand your personal impact on the business
2. Define what you want in a new role
4. Create your own growth plan
5. Design a business case for your own growth/promotion
6. Build strategic alliances with stakeholders and decision makers
7. Execute and iterate

Using this process, I've helped 30+ gaming professionals level up:

- Helped David secure a 20% salary increase with 3 job offers in 2 months
- Guided Jeff to a senior producer role with a 15% raise in 4 months
- Assisted Zach in landing a director position at a studio 2 months post-layoff

If you’re a professional in the Gaming Industry who wants to land a higher-salary role,

Click “Book a Discovery Call” at the top of my profile to see how I can help you.

Chris T.

Rosendo Travieso ⭕️

BT Group

• Defined product vision, strategy, and roadmap for BT Active Intelligence Data and AI Products.
• Led and mentored a team to deliver valuable products, marketing strategies, and sales enablement plans.
• Collaborated with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Data Scientists to drive product innovation.

Head of Product Management - BT Active Intelligence - Etc.

Productia Consulting

- Define Product strategy, mission, vision, OKRs
- Build product culture 
- Manage Product teams 
- Recruit talent and expand teams.

Product Advisor & Fractional CPO 

Product Partners France

Co-Founder

Out There Media

Leading the definition and execution of the product strategy for a mobile AdTech scaleup.  The SaaS platform runs in 15 countries across Europe, Africa and AsiaPac to deliver innovative mobile advertising services to Ad Agencies, brands and Mobile Operators. Managing a high performing multinational team of Product Managers, designers and data analysts. 

• Implemented a product lifecycle management across development, design and data to deliver on the North Star product vision and roadmap. 
• Improved metrics of success (Audience engagement, CTRs and Ad completion)
•Implemented an AI conversational bot into the SaaS platform to increase engagement and attention value.   

Member of the Senior Leadership Team -reporting to the CEO.

Chief Product Officer

Responsible for the definition of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap execution of the NXT SaaS Platform across EMEA and APAC.

Defined and implemented performance KPIs to track usage, adoption, engagement and revenue growth delivering a CSAT of 90% and NPS 75.

Built and mentored a distributed agile product and experience team of 15 based in Paris, London, Frankfurt and Madrid. 

Reporting to the EMEA Chief Digital Officer.

Vice President Product

Momentum London

Mentoring support and product team training for high-tech scale-ups to expand and implement agile methodologies. 

Organised Product Masterclasses, Product and Business Model Audits and mentoring sessions.

Lecturer & Startup mentor

Kinetic Worldwide

Leading the product strategy for Out of Home programmatic planning, trading and analytics products suite of Out of Home AdTech solutions. 

•	Delivered the Programmatic Planning and Automated Trading global product with direct integration with Exchanges, PMPs, DMPs, Space, Route and WPP legacy billing systems (Kinetic Journeys/ Aureus 2.0+).

•	Owned the development of the global roadmap across EMEA.

•	Managed a team of product and UX designers together with an offshore development team.

•	Led the development of new standards and integration of OpenRTB across the advertising industry (OpenDirect, OpenData for OOH Performance).

•	 Digital Evangelist across Kinetic. Member of the Senior Leadership Team, reporting to the UK Chief Operating Officer.

Head of Advertising Programmatic Products

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield

Responsible for management of a portfolio of Retail Digital Products and Services to increase revenue, visitation and dwell at the Centres.  

•	Developed the digital products strategy and roadmap across EMEA for Online and Mobile applications achieving the digital transformation targets set by the business.	 

•	Supervised, mentored and coached a team of agile product and UX owners using agile tools. Delivered improved team productivity and reduced turnover. 

•	Designed, delivered and managed multichannel ecommerce products: Food Ordering, Smart Parking, Product Search, Bookable Services & Ticketing. 

•	Conducted competitive market research analysis and positioning. Identified key opportunities, segment & acorn targeting and personalisation to increase revenue growth.

•	Crafted the Value Report KPI dashboard to track all digital product measures of success, quality and performance metrics (revenue, funnel, AOV, etc.)

•	Delivered Product Search to increase visitation at the centres and generate affiliated revenues. 

•	Digital Evangelist across Westfield. Reporting to the CMO.

Head of Product Management 

Telefónica Tech

Global mobile products and services leader responsible for the vision, design and deployment of global mobile platforms (PaaS) to customers in 20 countries generating revenues in excess of €20m across the multinational segment P&L (Shadow P&L €680m). 

•	Managed and developed a large team of international product managers, UX designers and developers (UK & Spain) including training and performance reviews. Improved productivity by aligning documentation and ways of working with UK teams.  

•	Designed and deployed Telefónica Blue: a Secure Mobile HD Voice over IP mobile app with voice conferencing increasing MAU by 20% (1,700 users).

•	Deployed a Universal Wi-Fi mobile app (http://bit.ly/1c9vDuG); a zero-touch worldwide Wi-Fi aggregation app that allows using any commercial wi-fi service in the world. Monthly active users: 3,500+ lines.

Global Head of Mobile Products

Responsible for the product lifecycle management services for multinational products and services (B2B and B2B2C segments) supporting the multinational segment P&L. 

•	Launched the Managed Mobility Global Service in more than 20 countries delivering a YoY revenue uplift of 8%.
•	Improved the rating of the Global Mobile Services by Industry Analysts from Challenger to Visionary (Gartner). 

•	Produced all Sales & Marketing materials and technical presales support with the Head of Mobile. Supported consultative selling with Sales and Pre-Sales teams to achieve sales targets.

Managed Mobility Product Manager

O2 (Telefónica UK)

Served as product/project manager, designing and delivering Consumer Digital Products Portfolio Projects (B2C) for the O2UK residential market (Prepay+Contract). 

Achievements: 
•	Deployed the ‘O2 More’ (Priority) proposition, a permission-based advertising service using aggregated customer data to deliver targeted messaging and offers reaching 10 million customers by 2012.

•	Launched ‘O2 Bluebook’, a service that enabled customers to back up and store all the valuable information held on their mobile phones. The service managed to reach 500,000 users with 1.5m+ messages per day being submitted during peak usage of the service.

Senior Product Manager

CPO / VP Product | Product Leader | AdTech, Telecoms, Proptech

As the Head of Product at BT Active Intelligence, I lead the definition and execution of the product strategy for Location Intelligence products that deliver data services to Transport, Government and Ad Agencies and brands in the UK. 

I have over 10+ years of experience in building and managing data-driven products and teams in the AdTech, Telecoms, and Proptech sectors.

My core competencies include product lifecycle management, product roadmap definition and delivery, global team management, agile methodologies, UX and CX design, web and mobile apps, and multilingual communication. I am passionate about creating products that solve real problems, generate value, and delight customers. 

Fluent in English, Spanish and French.  

Skills
• Product Management
• Innovation and Strategy
• Product Roadmap definition and delivery
• Global Team Management (OKRs setting and Performance Reviews)
• Agile experience as Product Owner (Scrum, XP, Kanban, Jira, Confluence)
• UX experience and CX design (Figma)
• Web and Mobile Apps (iOS, Android) 
• Multilingual

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