Testimonial Donut

Helping you convert leads to customers with easy to collect and display video testimonials on your website so sweet you can't resist.

Co-Founder

Founderoo 

Helping share the stories and wisdom of founders from all walks of life.

Ignition

From impressive online proposals to automated engagement letters and payments, Ignition frees you up to focus on what matters most - your clients.

Principal Product Manager

Kaddim

Kaddim is a document and information collection platform designed to help businesses save time, improve customer experience and ensure the security of client data.

Invoice2go

Invocie2go (acquired by Bill.com) is the all-in-one solution for small businesses. Manage customer relationships, send professional invoices and estimates, accept payments and have an online presence.

Senior Product Manager

Sypht

Sypht helps businesses unlock the potential of data hidden in documents by using the latest in machine learning to automatically extract and interpret key data to power business processes and decisions.

Airtasker

Responsible for partnership projects, with a focus on developing and delivering solutions and products that leverage the Airtasker platform in collaboration with strategic partners.

Manager (Partnerships) - Product and Strategy

1981 Consulting - www.1981consulting.co

1981consulting seeks to provide services and support to startup founders who may be lacking expertise in areas such as technology, legal, financial, marketing, and fundraising. If there are special requirements beyond our expertise, we engage and project-manage experts from our network of industry leaders in each field, allowing you to receive preferential servicing and pricing.

Director

ResMed

Responsible for the development of new medical device products and the lifecycle management of existing products.

Product Development Manager

Working in product development as the technical lead in the Respiratory Care division on the development of new and innovative ventilation platforms for the treatment of respiratory disorders.

Systems Engineer (ventilation products)

In the absence of a project manager I served as both the project manager and systems engineer for a NPD project; the development of an IoT medical device platform which was successfully launched globally.

Acting Project Manager

Product Life Cycle Engineer

Gammasonics institute for medical research

Gammasonics is an R&D institute, focused on delivering innovative radiation detection technology. My role as project engineer included various responsibilities such as research, engineering, verification and working with suppliers. I gained experience conducting product development in a bootstrapped high achieving environment.

Project Engineer

I interview/study successful founders + share their stories. Product at Ignition. Founder at Founderoo, Testimonial Donut + Kaddim

I love building products and studying entrepreneurs.

Farzan M.

Asseti

Head of Product

Gladly

Gladly allows Gen Z to monetize every one of their skill
- They can turn any skill into bookable side hustles.
- They can get booked directly from their social media

Advisor

Why the Click

Personal project aimed at helping people and companies understand users and user behaviour.

Chief Curiosity Officer

Loopit.co

• Identified and launched new expansion offerings which included taking company into the US
• Built the product and design ways of working
• Delivered on company strategy, aligned product and roadmaps
• Identified core customer needs, pains and opportunities
• Helped define personas and user engagement profiles

Successes
• 35% of new revenue is now from US
• Expanded integrations and partnerships into the US
• Company wide product wiki (vision, roadmap, metrics, comp analysis, segmentation, ways of working, prod guides, comms etc)

Head of Product and Growth

Archistar.ai

• Scaled the product, design and data teams
• Delivered on company strategy, aligned product squads and roadmaps
• Built the product roadmap, squads and ways of working from the ground up
• Scaled the culture and processes of the business, rolling out product and feature OKRs, product All Hands, cross squad retrospectives and more
• implemented behaviour and engagement based product analytics and insights
• Identified core customer needs, pains and opportunities
• Helped define personas and user engagement profiles
• Identified and launched new expansion offerings

Successes
• Customer engagement: Increased MAU by 300%
• NPS: >40
• Churn: Reduced by 45%

Chief Product Officer

Hutly

• Released Australia’s first Living Contract® platform in real estate using blockchain tech (Etherium layer1)
• Responsible for building product squads, 
• Setting up procesesdiscovering opportunities, experimenting solutions, defining roadmaps etc
• Understanding and specialising in block-tech technology

Successes 
• Customer adoption: >800 new users per day
• NPS: >40
• Identified new expansion offerings
• Conversion: 48% 3rd party offering conversion rate

Exit:
Was unable to relocate to QLD due to family reasons and stepped down from the role

We Discover

• Co-founded this UX consultancy agency
• The agency specialises in product research and design 
• Set up company-wide processes, practices, offering
• Led the biggest projects on portfolio
• Clients include: Qantas, Vodafone, TafeNSW, Finder, Corelogic, Hireup etc

Successes
• Listed in AFR Fast 100 2020
• 2017 TAR: $250k > 2020 TAR: $3.5m

Co-Founder / Head of Product and Growth

• Led strategy behind IAG's 'Edge' innovation initiatives.
• Managed and lead product development teams
• Modelled and implemented new innovation framework

Successes
• Launched 3 products (Sharecover, Insurance4that, Beam) in 5 months to market)
• 2017 TAR: increased ARR by $1.6m

Exit:
left the company along with 35 members of my team due to companywide restructure

Head of Product and Growth - Edge Innovation lab

Consultant

UX Architect and lead consultant working with numerous agencies such as Vivant, SMS MT, Valtech, Bites group & NEOC. My role was to help the agencies identify and deliver better customer insight driven experiences using Design Thinking and Lean UX frameworks.

My work ranged from CX strategy, discovery (identify and validating customer and business problems) all the way to designing solutions (wireframing, prototyping, experimenting and user testing).

UX Lead

M&C Saatchi Australia

Clients: Optus, Dick Smith, Commonwealth Bank, Freedom, Woolworths and Nissan

UX Architect & Art Director

I'm an enthusiastic Product Leader with a knack for sparking innovation and steering growth through thoughtful product strategy, development, and meticulous execution. With a career spanning over 15 years in product management and design, I've led teams to create standout products that really resonate with users and exceed their expectations.

At heart, I'm all about shaping visions for products, laying down the roadmaps, and guiding our teams through the ups and downs of the product development journey. I have a keen eye for understanding what customers truly need and face, and I'm passionate about using Agile methods to bring to life products that not only solve problems but also make a real difference in the market.

I pride myself on my strategic thinking and my knack for communication, which helps me get everyone—be it our team, stakeholders, or our customers—excited and on board with our product vision and the journey ahead. My track record for spotting and capitalizing on market opportunities is something I'm really proud of, showcasing my role as a leader who's always looking ahead and ready to innovate in the product space.

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