About Me
Hello! I'm Zac, born and raised in Colorado. I am currrently working as a VP, Product Manager for an institutional investing platform, Tradeweb. I am a passionate about building software that makes a difference for my clients, whether it's a sleek new feature, a robust API, or an intuitive user interface. I'm always eager to learn new technologies and improve my craft.
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family, riding my mountain bike, and skiing. On the weekends in the winter I spend my time coaching a group of competitive mogul skiers at Winter Park Resort.
Experience
My Expertise
Problem Solving
Leadership
Organization
Developing with AI
Agile / Scrum
Adobe Application Suite
Figma
SQL
Vice President, Product Management
Jun 2023 - Present
- Product Manager/Owner for institutional investing platform
- AI powered prototyping to validate ideas, gather feedback, and speed up development
- AI powered creation of internal tools to automate tasks and improve efficiency
- Collaborate with stakeholders and business owners to define technical requirements and product roadmaps
- Led the full SDLC of new features, improving the user experience and increasing revenue
- User Experience Design for new features and product improvements
- Solutioned and assisted on production issues
Business Analyst
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
- Collaborated with product team to define technical requirements and project roadmaps
- Analyzed feature requests and prioritized them based on business value
- Worked with developers to estimate feature development time and cost
Tradeweb
Vice President, Product Management
Jun 2023 - Present
- Product Manager/Owner for institutional investing platform
- AI powered prototyping to validate ideas, gather feedback, and speed up development
- AI powered creation of internal tools to automate tasks and improve efficiency
- Collaborate with stakeholders and business owners to define technical requirements and product roadmaps
- Led the full SDLC of new features, improving the user experience and increasing revenue
- User Experience Design for new features and product improvements
- Solutioned and assisted on production issues
Business Analyst
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
- Collaborated with product team to define technical requirements and project roadmaps
- Analyzed feature requests and prioritized them based on business value
- Worked with developers to estimate feature development time and cost
CGI
Senior Consultant
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
- Senior consultant for implementation of State and Local Government HRM/Financial Systems
- Building and maintaining project team backlog. Assessing and determining requirements and priority for backlog items.
- Led the Security/Workflow implementaion team
- Scrum Master of multiple teams for software implementation project (Security/Workflow, Robotic Process Automation)
- Developed VBA data transformation tools to assist across multiple projects
- Supported multiple projects simultaneously across the U.S.
- Assisted with project and contract decisions
- Technical and Functional work on multiple projects
Consultant
Jun 2016 - Jan 2020
- Developed knowledge of a client's industry, customers, organization and business objectives in order to help the client in a problem-solving role.
- Assessing user requirements, procedures and problems to create or improve our applicaiton.
- Collaborated with system developers and designers to identify, diagnose, and document problems and errors in specific components of the application.
- Aligned with business analysts and developers to design applications for client projects.
- Created tools for data analysis and data transformation using VBA and SQL
- Completed quality assurance testing in an agile environment
Winter Park Resort
Competitive Mogul Ski Coach
Nov 2013 - Present
- Coaching athletes to improve mogul skiing techniques
- Fostering a positive and supportive environment for the athletes
- Upholding the team values of Integrity, Excellence, and Team
Colorado State University
B.S. Business Administration - Computer Information Systems
Aug 2009 - May 2013
- Completed a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Information Systems.
- Played for the CSU Men's Lacrosse Team
- Held the VP, Travel & Safety Officer Position for the team
Projects
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 portions of 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
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 - Visualizing the current integrations / configurations for customers - Testing external connections.
React
TypeScript
Firebase
Vercel
Breeze - Reunion Planner
My mother-in-law was helping to plan a family reunion using the typical tools of spreadsheets 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!
Traka
As coaches, we track athlete focus and progress throughout the season, we were doing this in a spreasheet 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!