Jason Novich, Product Manager at Unitronics, provides insight into some of the latest industry trends and reveals how the company is getting ready for the fourth industrial revolution
Jason Novich
Experienced Product Manager / Owner | Agile Scrum / Technical Writer
Tel Mond, Israel
Freelancer
ABOUT
Experienced Product Manager / Owner | Agile Scrum | Backlog Management | IoT | Looking for my next opportunity
LANGUAGES
English
Native or bilingual proficiency
Hebrew
Full professional proficiency
SKILL DETAILS
Training
150 ₪
/ hr
Sales & Marketing Training
Designed, developed and delivered sales tools and sales training for sales staff and partners
Served as a representative at trade shows and standards conferences
Design and implementation of pre sales training for distributors and clients (B2B)
Prime point of contact for distributors and clients for all technical issues pre and post sale including installation and performance tuning (B2B)
Served as a representative at trade shows and standards conferences
Design and implementation of pre sales training for distributors and clients (B2B)
Prime point of contact for distributors and clients for all technical issues pre and post sale including installation and performance tuning (B2B)
Senior Executives
150 ₪
/ hr
Senior Product Managers
I have over 15 years of product management experience ranging from hardware to software (Client/Server, Mobile Apps, SaaS) in a wide range of products and services from satellite communications to business logic software than runs the cloud to defining development environments.
Sales & Marketing
150 ₪
/ hr
Customer Service & Support
Prime point of contact for distributors and clients for all technical issues pre and post sale including installation and performance tuning (B2B)
Consulting, designing, implementing, customizing, and supporting IT infrastructure solutions including hardware, software and networking products
Consulting, designing, implementing, customizing, and supporting IT infrastructure solutions including hardware, software and networking products
Marketing Strategy
Responsible for prioritizing and communicating customer product requirements that corporate development and business strategy
Define new and maintain existing product positioning, pricing strategy, and execute product release and launch for the B2B market
Define new and maintain existing product positioning, pricing strategy, and execute product release and launch for the B2B market
Corporate Branding & Identity
Develop and implement corporate business strategies (B2B) by creating structured hardware and software specific marketing plans and support for sales opportunities
Competitive analysis and product positioning.
Competitive analysis and product positioning.
Translation
150 ₪
/ 250 words
English Translation
I am a native English speaker with many years of translation expertise. Almost all of my translation experience is from the business world from inside international companies that required documents, emails and other content translated into US Standard English.
Writing & Editing
150 ₪
/ 250 words
Business Plan Writing
Develop and implement corporate business strategies (B2B) by creating structured hardware and software specific marketing plans and support for sales opportunities
Marketing Writing
• Responsible for generation and maintenance of marketing and sales collateral, competitive analysis, product positioning, and product roadmaps
Technical Writing
Managed in house and outsourced technical writers. Collaborated, authored and edited user guides, release notes and installation guides. Created, and edited API guides.
Technology
150 ₪
/ hr
Project Management
Certified Agile Scrum Product Owner
Certified Scrum Master
Waterfall Project Management
Certified Scrum Master
Waterfall Project Management
Internet of Things / IoT
Jira
Software & Programming
150 ₪
/ hr
Product manager
Specify market (B2B) requirements for current and future hardware and software products by conducting market & competitive research that drive hardware/firmware development and technical documentation teams
Develop and implement corporate business strategies (B2B) by creating structured hardware and software specific marketing plans and support for sales opportunities
Define new and maintain existing hardware and software product positioning, pricing strategy, and execute product release and launch for the B2B market
Worked closely with R&D teams to manage development schedule to meet market defined product release windows, and to meet target development and production costs
Designed, developed. and delivered sales tools and sales training for sales staff and partners
Develop and implement corporate business strategies (B2B) by creating structured hardware and software specific marketing plans and support for sales opportunities
Define new and maintain existing hardware and software product positioning, pricing strategy, and execute product release and launch for the B2B market
Worked closely with R&D teams to manage development schedule to meet market defined product release windows, and to meet target development and production costs
Designed, developed. and delivered sales tools and sales training for sales staff and partners
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
August
2010
-
Today
Owner and Founder
O2 Product Management- Outsourced product management and consulting
July
2017
-
April
2018
Product Manager / Product Owner
Tiba Parking Systems , Petach Tikva, Israel- • Creation & prioritization of product specifications / user stories based on customer requirements
- • Building and maintaining product line software and hardware product roadmaps
- • Work closely with QA & engineering to deliver products that meet customer requirements
- • R&D project prioritization based on customer requirements vs. time to market
- • Managed in-house and outsourced technical writers
- • Software R&D backlog grooming
December
2015
-
December
2016
Product Manager
Unitronics- IIoT integration through SQL client built into the PLC, UI Improvements and enhancements that could save developers up to 25% of their UI development time.
December
2015
-
November
2016
Product Manager
Unitronics- • Strategize, and evaluate emerging technologies in Industrial IoT, M2M, SaaS and Industry 4.0
- • Manage and author Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) software requirements
- • Software R&D backlog management based on user stories
- • Building and maintaining product line software and hardware product roadmaps
- • Management, maintenance and positioning of the Unitronics developers market
- • Competitive analysis and product positioning
- • Marketing collateral such as sales presentations, brochures, data sheets and trade show concepts
- • Responsible for finding OEM/White label solutions to be included in the product catalog
- • Managed technical evaluation of OEM/White label solutions through both the local and remote technical support team
COURSES & CERTIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
September
2007
-
December
2008
MBA
University of Maryland College Park
September
2001
-
December
2004
M.Sc.
University of Maryland College ParkVOLUNTEER WORK
January
2010
-
January
2013
Bicycle Patrolman
Israel Police- Responsible for patrolling areas where patrol cars were not able to go. Assisted in security for the Purim parade.
ARMED FORCES
October
1995
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February
1996
Corporal
Armored Infantry and the Navy Computer Unit- Armored personnel carried driver
published by Jason Novich
LINKS
o2pm.com
O2 Product Management
O2 Product Management is an outsourced product management company complementing your often overworked and time strapped product management staff. Sometimes crucial lengthy, complicated, and often mundane tasks are sent to the bottom of the priority list in favor of what is needed immediately.
O2 Product Management will help you to maximize your product management efforts by utilizing our skills in key areas such as creation and delivery of sales tools, competitive analysis, white papers, technical training and other marketing collateral.
13 SKILLS
150 ₪
/ hr
Training
150 ₪
/ hr
Senior Executives
150 ₪
/ hr
Sales & Marketing
150 ₪
/ 250 words
Translation
150 ₪
/ hr
Software & Programming
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