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Matthew in a few words
I'm an endlessly curious, mission-driven, and highly organized product leader with a decade of experience building, leading, and teaching product and programs in B2B and B2C SaaS environments.
Most recently as VP of Product at Maestro, I built and scaled the product organization and core roadmap covering 30 personnel, putting in-place processes, reporting, data analytics, and communication standards, whilst building a positive culture across the organization. Prior to this I left a legacy at Ubisoft of a portfolio of highly valuable and widely used B2B and B2C product solutions, serving and capturing data from millions of users a year, as well as
cultural events and team discipline that continue to this day.
My mission is to find creative ways to analyse and solve problems for value-driven outcomes, and get my teams and organisations intrinsically motivated, through empathetic leadership, clear vision, and a relentless focus on helping them understand the "why" behind the product strategy.
I'm great at getting results through trust and empowerment, and driving comminication, collaboration, and transpareny to build alignment around the vision and strategy. I've years of experience being a hands-on leader with an owner and entreprenurial mindset, rolling up my sleeve to work on execution as well as defining strategy and making tough decisions.
Experience
- EFREI ParisGuest Lecturer - Product ManagementNovember 2022 - Today (2 years and 6 months)Paris, France
- EdviceExpert ConsultantSeptember 2022 - September 2022Expert consultant to indie gaming startups, creating and delivering experienced-based webinars, helping them apply my expertise directly to their productions and practices.
- MaestroVP of ProductOctober 2020 - January 2022 (1 year and 3 months)Remote, OR, USALed the core product roadmap for the heavy build and investment phase of reinventing the company from B2B to B2C, achieved within 12 months. Built a multi-cultural and gender diverse product and design team, managing 6 product squads, overseeing 30 personnel. Achieved a +/-5% month to month delivery consistency through creating organization wide workflow and communication processes, championing roadmap transparency, product metrics, and interdepartmental collaboration. Reduced the onboarding process by 50%, decreased support contacts by 90%, and removed 100% of sales touchpoints for new subscription clients. Created and drove mission-based OKR's for the product and design organization, with a top-down and bottom up product strategy stack. Created analysis and functional mapping of competitors products to inform strategy, highlight opportunities, and deliver a better experience.
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Education
- Master of Project ManagementUniversity of Sydney2011Masters, Project Management
- Bachelor of ArtsThe University of Queensland2005Bachelor, Arts - Psychology, Cognitive Science
- Bachelor of BusinessThe University of Queensland2005Bachelor, Business Management
- Product Management AI SpecializationDuke UniversityCertificate course in Machine Learning foundatins, AI Projects, and Human factors in AI
Certifications
- Learn SQL courseCode Academy2022
- Product Analytics - MixpanelProduct School2023