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Jean-Christophe VanderstraetenJV

Jean-Christophe Vanderstraeten

Senior Product Expert

€680/day
Bruxelles, BE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Jean-Christophe

💪🏼 As a Product Management expert with over 15 years of experience, I have refined my skills in discovering, developing and delivering digital products across a diverse range of companies, spanning various industries.

🎯 My goal is to assist startups in accelerating their growth and enhancing their product quality.

❤️‍🔥 I am passionate about crafting innovative products that address industry challenges through the synergy of people and emerging technologies.

🙏 Furthermore, I greatly value fostering a work environment that emphasizes transparency, dedication, humility, kindness, and the personal fulfillment of those I collaborate with.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Dutch

    Basic

Can work on-site
Bruxelles (up to 50km)

Experience

  • GAMBIT Financial Solutions
    Product Owner
    October 2022 - Today (3 years and 8 months)
    Liège, Belgium
    The Gambit Wealth Platform is a platform managed by Gambit and deployed in the cloud that exposes APIs for financial institutions to build their own customer journey for investment recommendation services. As a dualoop consultant
    ● Helped the organization transition from a project-based delivery into a product and value-oriented culture
    ● Established and stabilized SCRUM practices with related events & artifacts in the team
    ● Responsible for maintaining the roadmap of the team, keeping the product backlog prioritized and ready for development, balancing competing demands and bugs keeping track of the business goals
    ● Collaborating and mitigating dependencies between teams (developers, business analysts, architecture, infrastructure, external stakeholders) to ensure timely readiness and successful delivery of product features
  • dualoop
    Senior Product Consultant
    September 2021 - Today (4 years and 9 months)
    dualoop is a consulting firm specialised in Product Management. Supporting, advising, coaching and training people & companies of all sizes & shapes, dualoop offers short or longer term services such as product department audit, product department design or reorganisation, individual or group coaching, interim CPO roles and staffing operational roles (product manager, product researcher, product owner, etc.). Besides the consulting activities, dualoop also invests in inspiring early-stage startups. As a consultant, available for missions with services like:
    ● Understanding and representing the user and/or buyer's needs
    ● Monitoring the market and developing competitive analyses
    ● Defining the product vision, strategy and roadmap
    ● Aligning stakeholders around the vision for the product
    ● Prioritising product features and capabilities
    ● Works closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met
    ● Acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner, Product Manager, Product Consultant, Agile Coach or any assimilated role and function Other internal achievements inside dualoop organisation:
    ● Publishing regular Product Management articles on other product expert websites
    ● Developing the internal knowledge base & the dualoop product framework related to product delivery practices
    ● Engaging with the dualoop PM community and actively participating in bi weekly dualoop Intervision sessions, one-hour "peer coaching" with a bunch of product experts that put their brain power together to crack each other's problematics
  • KITAMU
    Co-Founder
    March 2021 - March 2023 (2 years)
    Belgium
    KITAMU is an online food catering platform (take-away and delivery) and best sellers are also distributed in retail shops. With regular menu updates, the ambition is to provide people with local, healthy and quality food.
    ● Online brand creation and product portfolio positioning
    ● Built organic and paid marketing campaigns on targeted audience through social media
    ● Managing supply and delivery chains with high cost-optimisations constraints
    ● Partnering and products distribution agreements with retailers
    ● Implemented production setup and processes to meet food industry regulations (AFSCA)

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Education

  • Bachelor of Business
    Facultés universitaires 'Notre-Dame de la Paix'
    2013
    Bachelor's degree, Business/Managerial Economics
  • Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
    Ecole Pratique Hautes Etudes Commerciales (EPHEC)
    2009
    Bachelor in Computing Technology, Computing Technology

Certifications

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSOP I)
    Scrum.org
    2016
  • Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations
    Vanderbilt University
    2013

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