Eric Kovar
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Eric is a senior product management professional with a proven track record of success in multiple industries. He's worked with both Fortune 100 companies in Manhattan and startups in San Francisco. Eric has been featured in the NY Daily News, CB Insights, and USA Today for product innovation.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Senior Technical Product Manager
Gartner - Digital Markets Non-Engineering
- Redesigned the user journey and increased page views by a thousand per day.
- Mentored offshore engineers and Scrum Masters of all levels.
- Led the redesign of one of the main pages for user testing.
Senior Product Manager
McKinsey & Company (via Toptal)
- Launched the MVP of an internal McKinsey financial data visualization product that could replace excel.
- Helped design an application that reduces the current manual two-week data collection and analysis process down to two days.
- Led a cross-functional team of partners and engineers from seven countries and had a budget of $100K+ per week.
Senior Product Manager
Startup Client
- Worked side by side with a brilliant female founder and helped her turn her vision into a software platform and product that saves lives worldwide.
- Led the team of engineers and designers as we designed, built, and launched an MVP for User testing.
- Led the worldwide team that launched the V1 product in the critical care space.
Senior Product Manager
Pfizer (via Toptal)
- Acted as a product manager for the Digital Companion team at Pfizer. Helped recruit, train, and coach a cross-functional team that developed the product roadmaps, release plans, and Jira use and reporting that is now the standard at Pfizer.
- Led and coached senior managers (10-20+ years at Pfizer) as they learned to design, build, and launch new digital products in their capacity as stakeholders.
- Served as part of the leadership team for the digital transformation. Provided coaching, seminars, and team-building as an additional scope.
- Involved in a project with hardware that collected data passively from users that were used later as part of a data science project to inform providers.
Senior Product Manager
Startup Client
- Developed a computer vision system for a retail environment that recognized customers and sent them texts.
- Led a very successful project that produced excellent data.
- Oversaw the project that was terminated due to data privacy issues at that time.
Operations Officer and Manager
Sun Bank Data Center
- Managed the Sun Bank's data center and improved the level of service from 67% to 96%.
Project History
Launched Internal Data Visualization Product for McKinsey
Led the MVP launch of an internal financial data collection and analysis product that reduced the existing manual process from two weeks to two days.
Product Manager for a New Pharma Product Launch
Part of the Pfizer's new digital leadership team that is launching 15 new digital products to match with new drugs to be released over the next 3-5 years.
Serve Anywhere
CB Insights recognized the hospitality product I designed for innovation and called it one of the 89 applications reinventing the restaurant industry.
RadiusBlue
One of the first web applications to learn about customers through posts on Facebook and use it to better serve them.
Some of the technologies used include HTML, CSS, JS, Python, SQL, iOS, and Java.
Sitehound SDK collaboration
Created a computer vision product for the retail industry.
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Finance
University of Florida - Gainesville, FL
Honors Engineering Program in Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh, College of Engineering - Pittsburgh, PA
Certifications
HTML, CSS, JS, Python, SQL
Coursera
Harvard Book Award
Harvard University
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