About Me
Hello! I'm Zac, a Colorado native currently working as a VP, Product Manager for Tradeweb, an institutional investing platform. I am passionate about building software that makes a meaningful difference for clients and delivering value at a rapid pace, and I'm always eager to learn new technologies to sharpen my skills.
I bring nearly 10 years of experience driving cross-functional software delivery, product strategy, and user-centered design. I have a proven track record of leveraging AI prototyping and behavioral insights to build intuitive platform experiences. Throughout my career, I’ve become well-versed in leading the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), fostering collaboration across engineering and design teams, and optimizing discovery workflows to maximize conversion and business impact.
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family, mountain biking, and skiing. During the winter weekends, you can find me at Winter Park Resort coaching a team of competitive mogul skiers.
Experience
My Expertise
Vice President, Product Management / Product Owner
Jun 2023 - Present
- Drove product strategy for an institutional investing marketplace, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align actionable roadmaps with shared goals.
- Championed AI-enabled prototyping and continuous experimentation to rapidly validate hypotheses, reducing development cycles by 2 weeks and accelerating the rollout of new features.
- Led the full software development lifecycle for scalable platform features, applying user-centric design to improve discovery workflows and drive user conversion.
- Translated complex customer needs into intuitive, scalable UX solutions that built user confidence and improved the overall platform journey.
Business Analyst
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
- Analyzed behavioral insights and business value to prioritize roadmap features and optimize broader product strategy.
- Partnered with engineering to define technical requirements and estimate development cycles, ensuring timely delivery of high-impact features.
Tradeweb
Vice President, Product Management / Product Owner
Jun 2023 - Present
- Drove product strategy for an institutional investing marketplace, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align actionable roadmaps with shared goals.
- Championed AI-enabled prototyping and continuous experimentation to rapidly validate hypotheses, reducing development cycles by 2 weeks and accelerating the rollout of new features.
- Led the full software development lifecycle for scalable platform features, applying user-centric design to improve discovery workflows and drive user conversion.
- Translated complex customer needs into intuitive, scalable UX solutions that built user confidence and improved the overall platform journey.
Business Analyst
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
- Analyzed behavioral insights and business value to prioritize roadmap features and optimize broader product strategy.
- Partnered with engineering to define technical requirements and estimate development cycles, ensuring timely delivery of high-impact features.
CGI
Senior Consultant
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
- Led cross-functional workstreams across multiple Agile/Scrum teams, managing product backlogs and prioritizing features based on measurable business impact.
- Aligned engineering and business stakeholders across distributed U.S. markets, fostering inclusive discussions on product priorities and trade-offs.
- Spearheaded the design and rollout of scalable software solutions (Financial, HRM, RPA), translating complex operational needs into actionable development plans.
- Led the rollout of internal automation tools to resolve system inefficiencies, reducing data-loading time by 30% and significantly improving cross-team velocity.
Consultant
Jun 2016 - Jan 2020
- Delivered impactful software solutions by championing shared goals across engineering and design workstreams.
- Applied deep user-centered thinking as the UI/UX designer, partnering with engineering to design and deliver intuitive software upgrades.
- Communicated complex ideas with clarity, presenting data-backed solutions to clients and optimizing system functionality alongside developers.
- Leveraged SQL and Agile testing frameworks to identify inefficiencies, automating workflows and iterating on solutions to maximize value delivery.
Winter Park Resort
Competitive Mogul Ski Coach
Nov 2013 - Present
- Deliver actionable feedback to refine athlete's mogul skiing techniques.
- Cultivate a supportive, high-performance team culture that encourages resilience, goal-setting, and continuous improvement.
- Model and instill core values of Integrity, Excellence, and Teamwork through active leadership and mentorship.
Colorado State University
B.S. Business Administration; Computer Information Systems
Aug 2009 - May 2013
- CSU Men's Lacrosse Team (Student-Athlete): Competed at the collegiate level while successfully balancing demanding athletic and academic schedules.
- VP, Travel & Safety Officer: Directed complex team travel logistics, coordinating itineraries, transportation, and accommodations for a large roster of athletes.
Noteworthy Projects
Breeze - Reunion Planner
My mother-in-law was helping to plan a family reunion using the typical tools of spreadsheets, emails, and Google docs. The constant loss of information, searching back through emails, texts, forms, etc. was frustrating. This made me want to simplify the process by creating a web application to allow for easy planning and organization of the reunion. What started out as a web app has evolved into a mobile app as well which is now Breeze - Reunion Planner. Check out the app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store!
AI Prototyping & Prototyping Hub
Part of our job as product managers is to create prototypes to test ideas and gather feedback from stakeholders I started creating these prototypes using AI which has sped up development time, as we are able to get feedback earlier in the process and the development team is able to leverage the code to build out the production feature. For these Prototypes, I created a tool to act as a hub for prototypes the product team has created using AI to allow for stakeholders to interact without having to clone the repo and run the code locally. This allowed for useful, iterative feedback on new designs prior to the development team needing to build out the feature.
React
TypeScript
Firebase
Vercel
Cursor
Internal Tools
Creation of internal tools to assist our admins with numerous tasks from data analysis to automation of data entry and reconciliation. Tools include: - Data analysis tool for data being ingested into the system - Track, identify and fix issues with data before clients are impacted - Visualizing the current integrations / configurations for customers - Giving our Integrations team an easy way to understand all our integration capabilities - Testing external connections - Ability to test connections to external systems before needing to get the development team involved
React
TypeScript
Firebase
Vercel
Cursor
Traka
As ski coaches, we track athlete focus and progress throughout the season, we were doing this in a spreadsheet each week and sharing the videos in another application. We thought there had to be a better way, so my brother and I created an app for managing, communicating and organizing sports teams. Check out the app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store!