Hi, I'm Marcus, a
PRODUCT MANAGER, SOLUTION ARCHITECT, ITERATION MANAGER, PROJECT MANAGER
based in Brisbane. A specialist in early stage product concept and development.
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I have spent the last 15 years developing, leading and building successful software teams, projects and products.
I have extensive Product Manager, Delivery Manager and Solution Architect experience working for a range of start-ups, SMEs, large enterprises and government organisations.
I am passionate about leading product direction and development and working closely with commercial teams in order to shape a product's vision and validating its value to real users.
I am currently the co-founder and "product/solution guy" at Focal Labs, a service based start up enabler, looking to support MVP development and commercial momentum for early stage concepts.
I'm the "product guy", CTO and co-founder at Holoscribe an early stage startup with the mission to become the next evolution in digital publishing, allowing content makers to easily create holographic content, without needing developers.
I co-founded and launched Immersive. An innovative publishing platform for journalists and freelance storytellers. I led the product vision and development team in taking the concept from MVP to a beta launch in less than 6 months. Immersive has been rebranded as Shorthand Social.
Envisioning Discovery Build MVP Launch Continuous Improvement.
My Lead UX Designer on Immersive has described some of this process in far greater detail, so in the interest of re use please check out Woz's version of events here.I co-founded, built the team and managed Shorthand - an enterprise digital publishing tool - taking the startup from concept to international commercialisation, that now boasts a client list of UK's leading media and publishing outlets, from the BBC, the Guardian, ESPN, The Times, The Financial Times, Hearst Magazines and Trinity Mirror, as well as organisations throughout Europe, Australia and the US.
Envisioning Discovery Build MVP Launch Continuous Improvement.
As the Delivery Manager at 4impact I was responsible for assurance governance of the solution delivery engagement, and managing the clients and consultants participation in the engagement. The key objectives were:
As the Solution Architect at 4impact I was responsible for architecting high level solutions during the pre-sales phase, estimating enterprise solution projects, recruiting teams for solution delivery. And performing solution options analysis and leading the solution architecture within an agile delivery team.
Lead Developer on a Payment Gateway web service interface built for Mastercard Australia to support Server hosted dynamic currency conversion and 3-D-S security.
An Enterprise Solution Architect in the Strategy and Architecture division with a focus on consolidation and simplification of all internal system to system and interfaces and public facing inter agency interfaces to adhere to standards based web services with a single enterprise data model.
Lead Analyst/Developer on an inter department web service integration layer to provide vehicle registration and driver licensing information to other authorised Queensland Government agencies.