ABIE JOSEPH

LexisNexis is a leading global provider of legal, government & corporate information solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the identification and prioritisation of projects/initiatives for this portfolio and related portfolios.
• Ensure that major initiatives and deliverables meet and exceed customer requirements.
• Scope and plan approved projects (MVP plus roadmap) and drive them from ideation to GTM/launch by collaborating with stakeholders in an Agile methodology.
• Develop project plans, approach and associated artifacts (requirements, imperatives etc)

Isentia is the biggest SaaS platform that provides cutting-edge media intelligence and insights solution, driving decisions and opening possibilities in over 13 markets across Asia Pacific.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to Business Case and Product Roadmap with Product Director and business stakeholders for the Asia Pacific region.
• Translate the discovery findings to a business case and roadmap by conducting workshops internally to align with business goals.
• Work with UI researcher, clients and sales to identify pain points.
  Write User Stories, manage backlog, conduct grooming sessions and be the point of contact between business and tech.
• Perform QA and sign-offs on deliverables to ensure quality is up to defined standards.
• Report, measure success, opportunities and gather feedback from clients, sales and internal stakeholder.

Key achievements:

• Handling key strategic initiatives with investments of more than AU$4M with return of over $8M+ (cumulative) in winning/retaining clients.
• Delivered a real-time Data Analytics platform in just 8 weeks partnering with engineering, UX, design and marketing which helped retain key clients valued over $500,000 to help reduce churn.
• Built business case with the Product Director that outlines the Why, What, How and Who to determine if a project is worthwhile pursuing.
• Delivered the mobile app, which was an important part of the company goals in 2 months with a very lean team for the ANZ & SEA market.
• Delivered strategically important product, 'Stories', with Machine Learning in its core to help comms professionals take informed decision.

Sonicjobs is UK's #1 app only startup for jobs in restaurants, bars, pubs and hotels.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and liaising with the founders to meet the business objective.
• Design, manage and implement new features for both mobile apps (employer and job seeker) including wireframes, user stories, enhancing the apps further by conducting feedback workshops to identify key action points and areas for enhancements.
• Managed interaction between third party vendors and websites.
  Testing and performing QA checks on the apps regularly.
  

Key achievement:

• Increased the user base from around 1000 downloads to more than 10,000 downloads in the span of 6 months by strategizing and prioritizing pain points and UX bottlenecks to improve the overall usability of the apps.

Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt Ltd is a fintech company that offers customized services like utility bill payments, domestic remittances, white label ATM etc with GTV over US$1.3 billion.

Responsibilities:

• Ideating, managing, prioritizing and executing product requirements with user and business feedback.
• Effective & accurate documentation of ideas, concepts and design levels in formats that are easily understood by all.
• Key contributor in the team that launched one of India's first pre-paid debit card in collaboration with Reserve Bank of India.
• Managing various services ranging from airline booking, domestic remittance, bus booking and loan products successfully.

Key achievements:

• Launched a nano credit loan product for blue collared workers.
• Launched India's first prepaid card for blue collared migrant workers to push banking adoption.
• Made key product enhancements in the remittance platform that increased GTV by well over US$50 annually.

Stepathlon is a wellness startup providing a fun, engaging and interactive race around a 'virtual world', which motivates and encourages you to be more active every day. It has engaged over 500,000 participants across 65 countries.

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements from the sales and business development team.
• Create prototypes of features and write user stories and discuss the requirement with the team.
• Talking to customer to get their feedback and help better the product by constant enhancements and iteration.
• Ensure all the IT operations are smooth and the development deadlines are met with.
• Responsible to amend process flows and timelines for each functionality.

Key achievements:

• Launched the engagement platform that was used by over 500,000 participants from more than 65 countries from ground up.
• Developed the mobile apps for the website within a week's time in all 4 platforms, which includes Android, iPhone, Blackberry and Window.

Zapak Digital is an online gaming portal with over 100 million game downloads.

• Development and maintenance of the core services of the gaming platform in Java
• Overall development, maintenance and implementation of the business logic.

Times of India is one of the largest media conglomerates in the world with annual revenue exceeding US$1.5 billion.

• Designing and developing the core business logic of the Application.
• Writing code using open source technologies using object oriented methodologies.