Tony Pagliocco, Product Manager in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Tony Pagliocco

Verified Expert  in Product Management

Product Manager

Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since
February 12, 2021

Tony is an executive/director-caliber product management leader and coach with 20 years of experience leading product management and development supporting the implementation of innovative products. He has worked with global companies in leadership roles such as Boeing & Hasbro, working with multi-million dollar budgets delivering products reaching millions globally. Tony also has a strong startup and technical background that allows him to lead requirements, vision, and roadmaps end to end.

Project Highlights

Boeing AnalytX Self-service Analytics
Led a team of 38 to synthesize all data analytics resources across Boeing into one guided and self-service platform partnering with Google, Tableau, Dataiku, IBM, and all divisions of Boeing (commercial, space, defense).
Boeing - Project Palladium
Led implementation of a product-centric model for tools and digital solutions to ensure global adoption of product management best practices across Boeing IT, Boeing Commercial Air, and Boeing Defense.
Wizards Prize Payment System
Led the ideation, feature development, technical delivery, and go-to-market for an improved prize payment system for our 30 million players globally, reducing turnaround time of receiving payment for money won from six months to three days.

Expertise

Work Experience

Chief Product Offcier

2021 - PRESENT
RAI Digital
  • Engaged as a member of the C-level executive team, led the buildout of the framework and methodology for the multi-national product management and consulting team specializing in analytics, data governance, and B2B, B2C, and B2G digital products.
  • Facilitated the ideation, research, design, and delivery of a government analytics platform that incorporates data virtualization, predictive, and prescriptive tools for a government ministry of one of the largest countries in the GCC.
  • Developed the design and implementation of an enterprise data governance function for a leading KSA healthcare holding company to align with national data management standards.

Product Management Executive Consultant

2020 - 2021
Hello Chef
  • Led the creation, implementation, and design of a companywide eCommerce feature development process.
  • Built a collaborative, feature prioritization process that allowed tactical focus and reduced ideation churn by 65%.
  • Created specifications, metric requirements, and training for a company-wide agile delivery lifecycle.
  • Built out a 2-year feature list to reduce churn by 5%, and increase retention and conversion rates by 3 - 5%.
  • Delivered key insights into numerous areas of the company that provided a potential 1.2 million AED reclamation.
  • Developed a customer analytics strategy with AWS, Segment, and Mixpanel to refocus company analytics.
  • Provided key support to the data analytics team on best practices for structure and unstructured data models.

Head of Product - Global Analytics Platform and Solutions

2018 - 2020
Boeing
  • Led the management and hiring of 23 senior product managers for Boeing Commercial and Boeing Defense analytic products.
  • Managed day-to-day cadence, prioritization, requirements gathering, and product management oversight of 27 key AI/ML and analytic products while managing a total studio of over 85 people in a cross-team product studio.
  • Delivered a part price prediction modeling tool that saved Boeing Commercial Air $35 million in 2020 procurement costs.
  • Owned the portfolio product roadmap for the Boeing AnalytX team and built out KPIs and OKRs on business verticals.
  • Developed a product management transformation leading Boeing Enterprise as the subject matter expert on product teams.

Senior Digital Product Manager - eSports

2013 - 2018
Hasbro - Wizards of the Coast
  • Served as head of product research, requirements, implementation, and go-to-market execution of the Wizards Prize Payment tool for Magic the Gathering that validated results, mapped payments, and reduced payment time from three months to 3-5 days.
  • Prioritized and created requirements for new features and bug prioritization for our Wizards Large Tournament Reporting software (WLTR) that is the primary operational tool for our 70 professional-level events paying over $5,000,000 yearly.
  • Acted as principal researcher of competitive analysis use cases, structure variants, and developed the implementation plan for the Magic Professional League, which will be the eSports platform for Magic the Gathering, in partnership with Twitch.
  • Led project management, story generation, requirement development, and prioritization as product owner of a service-oriented architecture single sign-on (SSO) account system for 25 million players and merged 14 legacy systems into one cloud-based system.
  • Independently advocated and facilitated a divisional Scrum and Kanban transformation coaching for six global operations teams.

Director of Digital Products

2011 - 2013
Digital Research, Inc.
  • Managed a team of researchers, developers, and data analysts doing quantitative and qualitative market research for global brands.
  • Led the development of online survey creation, data automation, and database integrity validation tools.
  • Led the production of Waggle, a white label SaaS tool for analyzing customer sentiment and building data segmentation models.
  • Integrated company-wide agile project management (Scrum) and quality assurance tools to improve reporting and delivery.
  • Developed product specifications, use cases, and technical implementation of an in-house survey and data sentiment tool.

Director of Product - Web

2007 - 2010
SheKnows
  • Managed a 40+ member cross-functional product team to increase traffic from three million to 49 million/month.
  • Prioritized backlogs and product roadmaps for the engineering and design teams in line with advertising campaign schedules.
  • Designed requirements and led the delivery of custom CMS and video analytic tools that integrated an ad reporting dashboard.
  • Oversaw all aspects of the product, mentored department heads, product management, and content operations, negotiated between sales and brand owners, owned sign-off on all new releases, product strategy, and direction.
  • Collaborated with C-level executives to deliver success metrics including audience development, product quality, and user engagement.

Boeing AnalytX Self-service Analytics

Led a team of 38 to synthesize all data analytics resources across Boeing into one guided and self-service platform partnering with Google, Tableau, Dataiku, IBM, and all divisions of Boeing (commercial, space, defense).

Boeing AnalytX utilizes aerospace expertise with data-based information to give predictive and prescriptive decision support to optimize Boeing's operation and mission. Applications using Boeing predictive analytics give users a glimpse into more time to evaluate, plan and manage solutions for manufacturing and supply chain resources.

Boeing AnalytX offers three interrelated categories of analytics-enabled products and services customers may easily mix and match to meet needs and goals.

Digital Solutions–a set of analytics-enabled software applications addressing the needs of the crew and fleet scheduling, flight/mission planning and operations, maintenance planning and management, and inventory and logistics management.

Analytics Consulting Services–a group of aviation, business, and analytics professionals who are ready to help customers improve their operational performance, efficiency, and economy.

Self-Service Analytics–this feature opens up the data behind the digital solutions for customers to explore and discover new insights and opportunities using Boeing provided analytics tools, which are powered by smart analytics, AI/ML to achieve enterprise-wide data literacy.

Boeing - Project Palladium

Led implementation of a product-centric model for tools and digital solutions to ensure global adoption of product management best practices across Boeing IT, Boeing Commercial Air, and Boeing Defense.

Project Palladium is an initiative focused on product alignment that will act as a catalyst for change while recommending strategies to increase efficiency, drive quality, and improve the experience of Boeing teams and those who consume Boeing's digital products and services.

Utilizing best practices in product management, TOGAF, IT4IT, TBM, and Agile to drive the business forward, Project Palladium's value was centered on reducing time to market, cost of delivery, end-user experience while increasing the partnership of digital transformation and organizational health.

Wizards Prize Payment System

Led the ideation, feature development, technical delivery, and go-to-market for an improved prize payment system for our 30 million players globally, reducing turnaround time of receiving payment for money won from six months to three days.

The WPPS was created from a glaring need derived from frequent customer interviews and customer satisfaction data regarding payment timing for prizes at our global events.

I led the research, problem statement, use case, and executive approval presentation to develop a system that would utilize microservices and a third-party payment e-wallet to improve our turnaround time and reduce manual labor.

When launched, this payment system reached 30 million players globally. It was localized in nine different languages to provide the optimal onboarding experience and contributed to a 5-10% participation growth bump at our international events.
2023 - 2023

Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Administration (MBA)

Nexford University - Washington D.C., USA

2018 - 2021

Master's Degree in Public Policy

University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth - Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA

1994 - 2001

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Arizona State University - Tempe, Arizona, USA

JANUARY 2018 - PRESENT

Microsoft Data Science Professional

Microsoft

JANUARY 2018 - PRESENT

Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Professional

Scaled Agile, Inc.

JANUARY 2015 - PRESENT

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

JANUARY 2007 - PRESENT

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

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