Coco Howe
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
New Orleans, LA, United States
Toptal member since June 10, 2021
Coco is passionate about creating scalable products positioned for growth. Her background as a product manager, business owner, and CEO allows her to work with stakeholders in an empathetic way. She co-founded and built a fine arts marketplace and has since been approached to sell the business with a projected 10x growth by the end of 2021. Coco brings software development expertise to the table, enabling her to plan product roadmaps and roll up her sleeves to build out products herself.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Product Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Leadership
- Product Design
- Product Development
- Product Vision
- Software Engineering
- User Experience (UX)
Work Experience
Co-founder and CEO
The Poppy Society
- Dveloped the idea for The Poppy Society, built our website, and created a comprehensive business plan for launch. The Poppy Society is an online marketplace for fine, original art.
- Sold over $200,000 worth of fine art from over 20 artists within eight months of launch all through bootstrapping.
- Approached by potential acquirers to purchase the business and project 10x growth by the end of 2021.
Product Manager and Software Engineer
rasa.io
- Used TypeScript, Python, Inky, SQL, and other languages to build the rasa.io self-service platform.
- Led the UI/UX team by creating low-fidelity wireframes, designs, and style guides for the rasa.io platform.
- Established best practice guides for the entire front-end codebase.
- Developed Google Analytics dashboards to track user behavior on various components of the platform.
- Led daily scrum for the entire development team and served as scrum master.
- Used React Native to create the rasa.io mobile app on iOS and Android.
Technical Product Manager
iSeatz
- Oversaw software development project and served as product manager in charge of delivering a multimillion-dollar portfolio of projects.
- Managed a diverse multidisciplinary team across multiple locations.
- Managed internal deployments and production releases for customers as well as internal products.
- Managed architecture service layer products including migration plans and maintenance.
Account Manager
Lucid
- Managed 18 supplier accounts and grew vendor relationships through API integration support and management.
- Collaborated with project managers and the development team to execute opportunities for supplier accounts.
- Led the Salesforce adoption initiative for the partner operations team.
- Opened Chinese, African, and Latin American supply on the Fulcrum Exchange, facilitating 12,000 completed surveys in 2017.
Project History
The Poppy Society
Launched and run my own business, The Poppy Society. As CEO, I manage my team as well as over 20 artists and drive the vision of the company.
The Poppy Society is an online marketplace for fine, original art. I developed the idea for The Poppy Society, built our website, and created a business plan for launch. We have sold over $200,000 worth of fine art from over 20 artists within eight months of launch, all through bootstrapping. We have been approached by potential acquirers to purchase the business and project 10x growth by the end of 2021
Education
Certification in Software Engineering
Thinkful - Remote
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration & Economics
Washington and Lee University - Lexington, Virginia, USA
Skills
Tools
Slack, Zoom, Jira
Paradigms
Agile Product Management, Agile, Scrum
Industry Expertise
Fine Arts
Other
Google, Product Management, Web Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Business, Software Engineering, Web Development, App Development, Leadership, Product Vision, Product Design, Product Development, Project Management, Account Management, Sales, Client Relations, API Integration, Salesforce, CEO, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Art
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