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Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Location
Sofia, Bulgaria
Toptal Member Since
September 12, 2019
Mariush is an experienced product manager with a strong technical background. He's launched several B2B products in different fields and has worked both for startups and large multinational enterprises. His areas of expertise are cloud computing, APIs, SaaS services, NLP, and chatbots. Mariush is passionate about creating empathy for the customer's needs in the engineering team that delivers the product to the market.
Project Highlights
Sitefinity MVC Framework
Successfully delivered an almost failed project following an aggressive schedule with a weekly release cycle.
Connecto Bot Builder
Led the product definition and delivery of the MVC
vCloud Availability
Led the requirements analysis, key feature validation, and beta program with hundreds of participants
Expertise
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager
2018 - PRESENT
VMware
- Shipped major product releases over a 6-month cadence that proved to be widely successful.
- Validated key features with top partners and customers.
- Increased product usage/revenue with a monthly average of 15% over a period of nine months.
- Accelerated customer adoption which doubled the number of customers over a 6-month period.
Product Manager
2017 - 2018
Connecto.ai
- Created a structured product definition within the first three weeks of joining the company.
- Defined and delivered an MVP which was immediately adopted for one of the flagship projects of Viber.
- Established very good relationships with customers and partners.
Product Manager
2014 - 2017
Progress Software
- Led a winning streak of over 30 consecutive releases of the Sitefinity MVC framework that turned customer perception from quite negative to strongly positive.
- Raised the framework adoption for new projects to 50%.
- Shipped key features like starter kits and add-ons, data APIs, and multipage forms.
- Gained recognition with key customers and partners as a trusted and reliable member of the product team who understands problems and takes action.
- Introduced new processes and best practices for planning and developing product features.
Product Manager
2013 - 2014
Telerik
- Introduced a process for planning releases and managing cross-product dependencies.
- Improved cross-team communication and coordination.
- Defined the MVP for on-premise delivery of the SaaS-based mobile application development platform.
Country Manager, Bulgaria
2011 - 2013
ProPeople
- Managed the operations in the Sofia office of over 50 people.
- Implemented new processes for workload capacity planning and reporting.
- Introduced Jira as a system for managing the daily work process.
- Increased team capacity and improved efficiency.
Development Manager
2006 - 2011
Playtech
- Managed a department of up to 60 people consisting of several teams in a dynamic multinational company.
- Established, adopted, and continuously improved work processes based on corporate experience and local expertise.
- Acted as a primary point of contact for product management, operations, problem management, and incident management.
- Drove employees' professional development and career growth.
- Played a key role in recruitment, performance evaluation, and employee retention processes.
Project History
Sitefinity MVC Framework
Successfully delivered an almost failed project following an aggressive schedule with a weekly release cycle.
The Sitefinity MVC framework was a new way to develop web applications based on Progress Sitefinity CMS. The project consisted of customizable components that enabled developers to implement modern development practices with their work with the CMS.
Connecto Bot Builder
Led the product definition and delivery of the MVC
The Connecto Bot Builder platform is a SaaS application oriented towards marketers willing to build a chatbot without coding.
vCloud Availability
Led the requirements analysis, key feature validation, and beta program with hundreds of participants
vCloud Availability is a solution that enables cloud providers to offer a disaster recovery service to their customers.
Education
1999 - 2003
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree in Business Administration
Sofia University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Certifications
JULY 2020 - PRESENT
Pragmatic Certified Product Manager
Pragmatic Institute
JUNE 2018 - PRESENT
Pragmatic Marketing Certified — Level III (PMC-III)
Pragmatic Marketing, LLC
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