Product Manager Technical

Akbar Starkley, akbar.starkley@gmail .com www.linkedin.com/in/akbar-starkley

TECHNICAL PRODUCT & PROGRAM MANAGER

Innovation-driven engineer and Technical Product Manager with a passion for building technology that serves everyday people. Ten+ years of cross-functional team leadership with hands-on experience launching consumer and software products, and services. Excellent business acumen, communication skills, industry knowledge, and project management expertise. Leads diverse teams to outperform market leaders.

● Market Research & Analysis

● Product R&D

● Requirements Gathering

● Go-To-Market Planning

● Forecasting

● A/B Testing

● Agile / Scrum / Kanban

● Product Roadmaps

● SaaS Solutions

● Metrics Gathering / Monitoring

● Process Development / Improvement

● Measuring Customer Engagement

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

Electrify 2025 - Cleantech 2016 - Present

Product Manager Washington, DC

● Electrical Power System R&D

● Filed non-provisional patent application for novel electrical power system Wind Salt - Mobility Solution for B2C 2012 - 2016

Product Manager New York, NY

● Sold thousands of units of Wind Salt alum deodorant through online and retail

● Gained top position in search on key partner site through SEO, within 4 months of launch

● Brand development

● Social media marketing

LocalLegal - On-demand Legal Services 2010 - 2012

Product Manager New York, NY

● Mobile application & enterprise software development Loomia - Content Recommendations for Online Media Publisher 2007 – 2009 Product and Partner Manager San Francisco, CA

● Senior Manager: a key contributor to the company's strategic direction and the product roadmap

● Partner Manager for top media publishers: The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Time-Warner, et al

● Sales Engineer: Presented to clients teams, reduced the time to deploy by 93% over 5 months Fog City Sales - Classifieds with Maps 2004 - 2007 Product Manager San Francisco, CA

● Software Development Manager: led a team of 10 engineers to develop the production version

● Software Developer: developed classifieds enterprise prototype with .NET General Dynamics 2002 -2004

Software Engineer Scottsdale, AZ

● Software Integration & Test: co-authored and executed a test plan for a system with more than one million lines of code with guaranteed traceability to system requirements.

● Automated Testing: team lead with budget responsibility

● Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Administrator: installed, configured, and maintained network monitoring

Motorola 1998 -2002

Software Engineer Scottsdale, AZ

● Developed SEI CMMI Level 5 object-oriented software on UNIX (Solaris): C, C++, Java, Perl

● Designed and built communications architecture prototypes with Remote Method Invocation

(RMI), Java Native Interface (JNI), and Java Messaging Service Raytheon 1989 - 1996

Systems Engineer in Test Goleta, CA

The United States Air Force 1984 - 1989

Avionics Communications Systems Specialist George AFB, CA EDUCATION

Arizona State University 2002

Masters of Business Administration, Magna Cum Laude Tempe, AZ

University of California Santa Barbara 1998

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering (BSEE) Santa Barbara, CA

Community College of the Air Force 1987

Associate of Applied Science (AAS)

Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician Montgomery, AL

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