Jose del Corral

Lead the entire product lifecycle from strategic planning to product deliver, working with product managers to build robust product roadmaps and timelines.

Heading the product management team to develop and execute the product innovation strategy.

• Continuously improving the product launch process in partnership with Project Management and Marketing Communications.
• Expanding the presence of Engadget through all consumer markets, including mobile apps, gaming, video platforms and VR

Product Lead of AOL tech/Verizon, including:

• Engadget: A blog focused on obsessive coverage of consumer electronics and technology.
• Joystiq: A blog for news and information on the video game industry.
• TUAW: The Unofficial Apple Weblog for all things Apple and beyond. Key responsibilities:
• Define and represent the product roadmap.
• Own the vision, design, and execution of the product.
• Manage launches of new releases coordinating teams.
• Effectively communicate projects progress within the organization
• Define, launch and maintain iterations of the product.
• Growth and increase performance for every single property.
• Analyze potential partner relationships for the product.

My main tasks as a product manager are:

• Define product strategy, roadmap, launch and go to market strategy.
• Manage the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
• Define and simplify projects in order to create MVP products.
• Deliver product requirements documents with prioritized features and corresponding justification.
• Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product.
• Drive a solution set across development teams.
• Manage launches of new releases coordinating teams.
• Effectively communicate projects progress within the organization.
• Track, measure and take decisions related with the impact of the most important kpis related with the product.
• Manage sprints based on agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban,

I work as part of the Design Team, involved in visual and developer tasks, helping the other teams to build some semantic and organized code. As a Senior User Interface Developer, I've been involved in the redesign of the Spanish social network Tuenti.com, my main responsibilities were:

• Build and develop a new framework for the future Tuenti.com
• Clean and refactor the existing framework.
• Work with other designers as part of the Studio team researching and building the skeleton of the new structure of Tuenti.com.
• Improve the mailing system

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Leading the Front-end team performing the following taks:

• Working directly with project and product management
• Contributing to documentation (instructional, pitch and technical specification)
• Providing accurate timing estimates on work
• Discussing technical solutions with clients and providing innovative new ideas to solutions.

Product Manager of the web area in the Universidad Europea de Madrid performing the following tasks:

• Planning and implementing all aspects of the company’s design and development of new products.
• Planning project timelines
• Managing project budget
• Assembling and coordinating project staff
• Facilitating team and client meetings effectively.
• Holding regular status meetings with project team.
• Managing day-to-day client interaction and expectations.

I have over 10 years experience working in corporate environments. My skill-set includes Accessibility, AJAX, CSS, HTML, JavaScript and Usability.

Vogue is an American fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 23 national and regional editions by Condé Nast. As a Freelance User Interface Developer I've involved in the spanish redesign of Vogue during 2010, my main tasks were:

• Create clean, fast and well-documented front-end code
• Work directly with the engineers and designers

• Creating html and css for the J&T Redesing - Writing clean and standard code - Implementing and coding the new design

Working with Designers and the UX Team performing the following taks: - Producing clean, fast and well-documented front-end code - Working directly with the engineers

• Creating pixel-perfect html/css web sites
• Working with distributed control version like Git
• Developing webs with web standards
• Working and developing directly inside the Ruby on Rails projects

• Producing clean, fast and well-documented front-end code - Creating pixel-perfect html/css web sites - Integrating Drupal and Joomla systems

• Admin and update the computer network - Help and support people problems related with the network

Baruch College Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance