Matthew Crocker

Product owner of a web-based travel booking platform, reporting to the CEO. Daily tasks: - Roadmap implementation and definition, industry and competitor analysis - Gathering user requirements, feature concepting and design, writing user stories, UX design, creating wireframes - Running an agile web development team, sprint planning, daily scrums, task prioritisation - Testing user stories, verifying implementation, managing releases, following customer satisfaction

Global product management for Lumia smartphones with sales volumes in the tens of millions and business cases in the hundreds of millions of dollars. - 2nd product manager for Lumia smartphones 530 and 550 - In-market product manager for Lumia smartphones 630 and 635 - Responsible for Lumia product specification webpages on www.microsoft.com - Lead a large project to transform internal ordering and factory fulfilment processes for supplying seeding devices to the regions for the press at sales start

Key achievements: Product management for Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 smartphones, the flagship model Lumia 920 and the mid-range Lumia 820. - Specific responsibilities included sales packaging, retail display models, variant management - Helping with sales force training - Participating in product announcement events

- Responsible for the user interface English language content that appeared on Nokia Symbian phones. My work was translated into 44 languages, sold in millions of smartphones and contributed significantly to the usability of the phones. - Leadership of a team of copywriters to completely renew the UI tone of voice based on the brand guidelines

Vodafone is the seventh most valuable brand in the world operating telecoms networks in more than 30 countries. Headquartered in the UK, Vodafone employs over 100,000 people serving over 400 million customers. My responsibilities and achievements were: - Sales management with an annual target of €3 million+ - Managing a store and team of 11 people - Won ‘Assistant Store Manager of the year – South West Region 2009’

Vodafone is the seventh most valuable brand in the world operating telecoms networks in more than 30 countries. Headquartered in the UK, Vodafone employs over 100,000 people serving over 400 million customers. My responsibilities were meeting my personal sales targets, customer help and support, training new colleagues, and support the team running the retail store.

Member of a small group responsible for the tools, processes, and communications associated with third tier product support for customers of Nokia's NetAct mobile network management system.

Responsibilities: Member of the Symbian OS localisation and internationalisation team, responsible for language variant test management for the Nokia 9210 Communicator. This included recruitment of a large team of testers, induction, training, and people and task management. Key achievements: Innovation prize for reinventing the company's thinking around language variant testing.

Working on various engineering research and development programs for environmental products during the summers while at university. - Final summer project was a business plan for a new water monitoring product based on market research and prototype trials.

Electronic engineering, radio engineering, digital signal processing, Control systems