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Eric Weiss

Verified Expert in Product Management

Product Manager

San Diego, CA, United States

Toptal member since February 24, 2020

Expertise

Product Owners Agile Product Management

Bio

Eric is a CTO with an MBA in entrepreneurship. He's worked at major tech companies like Sony and Qualcomm, he's been CTO of fast-growing tech startups, and for the past two years, he's been consulting full-time as a product strategy consultant. Eric has helped dozens of companies, from fledgling startups to Fortune 100 companies, gain maturity in their leadership, product strategy, and agile development process.

Project Highlights

Sony Playstation 3 Network Platform

Managed product requirements, specifications, and execution for server-side components of the Playstation Network Platform.

Expertise

Agile Coaching
Agile Product Management
Leadership
Product Management
Product Owner
Product Ownership
Scrum Coaching
Scrum Master

Work Experience

Product Strategy Consultant

2018 - PRESENT

Full Cycle Product Development

Provided fractional CTO and product development consulting to software technology companies of all sizes.
Built technology products in a variety of roles that transformed companies into streamlined and effective organizations with a shared purpose.
Focused on user-centered design, UX processes, roadmap planning and execution, Agile software development processes, leadership and professional development, software and systems architecture, software development best practices, and scaling processes and infrastructure.

Chief Technology Officer

2015 - 2018

Rock My Run

Served as the CTO for Rock My Run, a platform for curated, biometric adaptive music to enhance exercise performance. With a team of professional and celebrity DJs creating seamless mixes designed for exercise, and technology that can measure your pace and heart rate to match the tempo to your steps and exertion level, Rock My Run has been scientifically proven to improve performance by up to 35%. It's also just a really cool app for finding great music.
Defined the product roadmap.
Implemented an agile software development methodology.
Planned and managed release cycles.
Developed software components for our iOS, Android, and server platforms.
Integrated third-party SDKs and APIs into our stack.
Managed relationships and development schedules for our SDK customers.

Intellectual Property Intelligence Engineering Lead

2007 - 2015

Qualcomm

Led Qualcomm's intellectual property business intelligence team, developing strategic business applications supporting one of the world’s largest patent portfolios with over $7.8 billion in annual licensing revenue.
Developed industry-leading analytics, predictive models, and machine learning algorithms to help drive Qualcomm's strategic patent portfolio, leveraging QlikView, SQL, Informatica, Netezza, TM1, Java, and C# .NET.
Delivered Qualcomm’s Executive Dashboard as the lead technical architect, by spearheading monthly meetings with the CEO, CFO, CIO, president, and general counsel. Owned executive customer engagement, product roadmap, requirements specification, development schedule, and release schedule.
Acted as the scrum master and product owner for agile software development teams.

PlayStation Network Platform Product Manager

2005 - 2007

Sony Online Entertainment

Managed product requirements, specifications, and execution for all server-side components of the Playstation Network Platform, including application controllers, content management, payments, security, infrastructure, and networks.
Drove successful global product infrastructure development, launch, and operation of the PlayStation Network Platform, a $1.96 billion business, as the lead project manager to the CTO.
Managed launch of several global online game products with over one million active subscribers, by owning business partner engagements with Sony global headquarters, and managing product infrastructure specifications, schedules, capacity plans, and inventories.

Project History

Sony Playstation 3 Network Platform

Managed product requirements, specifications, and execution for server-side components of the Playstation Network Platform.

Managed product requirements, specifications, and execution for all server-side components of the Playstation Network Platform, including application controllers, content management, payments, security, infrastructure, and networks.

• Drove successful global product infrastructure development, launch, and operation of the PlayStation Network Platform, a $1.96 billion business, as the lead project manager to the CTO.
• Managed launch of several global online game products with over one million active subscribers, by owning business partner engagements with Sony global headquarters, and managing product infrastructure specifications, schedules, capacity plans, and inventories.

Education

2005 - 2007

Master's Degree in Business Administration

San Diego State University - California

1999 - 2004

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

University of Florida - Florida

Skills

Tools

Jira

Paradigms

Agile UX, Agile Product Management

Industry Expertise

Music, Health & Wellness, Exercise & Fitness

Platforms

Mixpanel

Other

Scrum Master, Scrum Coaching, Product Owner, Agile Coaching, Product Ownership, Product Management, Product-market Fit, Product Research, UX Research, Leadership, Strategy, Chatbots

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