Marcin Tandecki
Product Manager
My passion and focus lie in the area of user experience.
I believe that beyond a rich set of features, a successful product hinges on an intuitive interface to realize its full potential. Balancing usability and functionality guides my approach to developing outstanding products and user experiences. With 20 years of expertise in Product Management, UX/UI design, front-end development, prototyping, and UX research, I possess the skills necessary to craft beloved products throughout the entire lifecycle of software development.
Professional Experience
ITNETSYS
Apr 2018 - Current
Freelance Designer, Front-end Developer, and Product Manager
- Gathered and analyzed detailed business requirements to understand our clients' needs, allowing our teams to create products customized to their often complex needs.
- Working closely with the design and development teams in order to define and design the appropriate interfaces to satisfy the intricate requirements while providing intuitive interfaces for end users.
Mobials / AutoVerify
Sept 2020 - Jun 2023
Product Manager (Saas)
- AutoVerify Research Suite (AVR)
- Ensured AutoVerify's market leadership status via continuous product enhancements and maintenance.
- Introduced new products aimed at expanding the capabilities of the AutoVerify ecosystem for our clients.
- Maintained the profitability of our product suite by fostering strong relationships vendors and clients.
- Blue Auto
- Increased conversion rate from website visit to vehicle purchase by 300% in less than 1 year.
- Continuously improved the quality of the leads generated through the use of various data points and the implementation of A/B testing, user behaviour studies, and customer interviews.
Cerebri AI
May 2016 - Apr 2018
Senior UI Developer / Product Manager
- Created intuitive interfaces to help users visualize large sets of data, aiding complex decision-making.
- Continuously enhanced product functionality and ease-of-use while to ensure ongoing growth.
Kijiji Canada / eBay
Jul 2012 - Apr 2016
Product Developer
- Researched the feasibility of new features and products based on data analytics and user feedback. Quickly validated the proposed solutions by building high-fidelity prototypes.
- Facilitated usability tests including: question preparation, test moderation, remote observation, and generating reports outlining the results of such tests.
Senior Front-End Developer
- Developed an award winning front-end framework consisting of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The use of the framework by the development team served to speed up future development and maintain code consistency.
- Rebuilt the entire UI during the migration of the site from a shared, global platform to a new custom built one.
- Post migration, I led the hiring process and hired suitable candidates to help grow the front-end team.
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Employment History (continued)
Trapeze Media
May 2011 - Jul 2012
Lead Front-End Developer
- Mitsubishi Motors Canada
- Built new pages and updated existing ones in accordance with strict company-wide, corporate standards.
- Adhered to strict QA requirements, which included support for several (at the time) legacy browsers.
- Royal LePage Commercial
- Developed a map-based lookup utility for Royal LePage's commercial property listings.
- Heavy use of Google's maps API, including additional features and plugins.
Digital Cement / Pitney Bowes
Jul 2007 - May 2011
Intermediate / Senior Front-End Developer
- John Hancock - Coach's Corner
- Lead the front-end team in the development of a feature-rich website.
- Maintained strict cross-browser compatibility, including legacy browsers.
- General Mills
- Created pages based on Photoshop designs using jQuery, XHTML, CSS.
Content was eventually moved into a Sitecore CMS, and developed using XSLT.
- Converted all flash content into HTML/CSS/JavaScript in order to make website mobile and SEO friendly.
- Kraft Canada / US / Australia
- Populated and maintained content in Microsoft CMS, and trained new staff on these processes.
- Built weekly emails adhering to strict QA guideline, reaching up to 1 million users/week.
Smart Web Pros
UI Design and Development
- Led client conversations establishing requirements of the objectives from a front-end point of view.
- Provided guidance on best practices and web standards during the design phase.
- Designed and developed websites for clients satisfying business and design requirements.
Graphic Design
- Designed graphics for digital display as well as print and advertising. Some of the designed material included: flyers, stationary material, billboards, magazine ads, Yellow Pages ads, brochures etc.
Education
Skillset
Product Management
- UX Research
- Prototyping
- A/B Testing
- Usability Testing
- Product Lifecycle
- Product Strategy
- Personas
Methodologies
- Agile
- Dual-Track Agile
- Scrum
- Lean
- Kanban
- Waterfall
Web Development
- CSS3
- LESS/SASS
- PHP
- HTML5
- APIs
- JavaScript
- Git
- React
- SEO
- MySQL
- UX/UI Design
- Responsive Web Design
Software
- MS Office
- G Suite
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Photoshop
- Figma/Canva
- FigJam/Miro
Interests
- Photography
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
- Finance
- Psychology
- Music
- Travel
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