Joe M.

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About Joe M.

About Me If I could describe myself in 3 words, it would be GROW-never stop learning (Product and Personal), ACTION-Bias for Action RESPECT- take pride in doing a great job Passionate about understanding customer needs and delivering solutions that address worthwhile problems. Driven by an inate desire to help make people lives better, easier, less painful and delightful. All in on mission, my motivation is greater than just shipping software. My leadership style and approach LEAD-Roll up your sleeves and play in the mud, be an example, nothing is beneath me. WHY-Align stakeholders and teams around a mission and BIG why. PLAN-Rally around the tactical and strategic plan, validate your big leap assumptions. PEOPLE-People first, engage team members with energy, inclusiveness, and fun. ACTION-Make decisions that advance the cause, consider context and all inputs. WORK HARD- remove barriers, grind, do what you need and if it not enough do what you must! My Superpowers Idea generation- I generate and seek great ideas and best practices from everywhere. Product intuition- I submerge myself in the users world to gain deep customer empathy. Truth seeker-I start with an hypothesis and drive to validate and iterate on problems and product concepts. Comfortable with ambiguity- Find the north star and chase it. Sweat the details- Great product come from flushing out all the big and small details A few of my favorite thought leaders: Malcolm Gladwell Simon Sinek Ken Norton Marty Kagan Ben Horowitz Sachin Rekhi Professional Skills Product Strategy, Vision & Roadmap Development, Software development Methodologies- Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Product Launch and go to market, People leadership, Market segmentation, Distributed teams, Building and scaling teams, Team management/leadership, Data driven decision making, MVP definition and validation Domain Experience and Specialties fin-tech,e-Commerce, marketplaces, cloud computing, Servers, private and public clouds, virtualization, containerization, datacenters, payments, online and mobile banking, banking and financial services, lending origination, card services, transactions disputes and workflow orchestration When Not Working In the kitchen getting my Mise en place On the soccer pitch coaching or refereeing On the trails hiking or riding In the backyard building stuff I enjoy meeting new people and hearing new perspectives. Reach out if I can volunteer on your mission, want to talk to me about emerging tech, creating software products or soccer.