Lucas Merdinian

* Product Strategy & Market Positioning: Conducted thorough market (Cloud HPC, AI for simulation, ...) and competitor analysis (alongside team members and interns) and helped to build out the company and product's positioning. * Feature Discovery & Corporate Fit: Led several feature discovery and specification process aimed at improving product fit for corporate clients (for example, IAM, monitoring). * Enabling Product Team: Helped to develop the product team by producing a skill grid, demonstrating some best practices and helping to increase the team's overall product development knowledge. * Roadmap & Process Efficiency: Currently led product roadmap and vision activities for cross-functional alignment, while leading an effort to develop a common discovery and delivery process across the team.

* Contributed to defining the product squad's strategic direction, applying best practices from prior roles to foster clear objectives. * Focused on enhancing collaboration between business and technology teams to streamline workflows and improve alignment. * Conducted product discoveries, navigating evolving priorities to identify potential areas for development. * Utilized this period for focused reflection and in-depth study of advanced product management principles

* Product Strategy & Vision: Led extensive product discovery and identified & validated several key strategic opportunities, which led to successfully launching two serverless compute products/features with 15% MoM growth for 1 year. * End-to-End Product Leadership: Managed the end-to-end product life cycle from solution concept and story mapping to market launch, ensuring adequate documentation and communication (webinars and conferences) for wider adoption. * Roadmap Ownership & Market Impact: Had an impactful role on the company Serverless Roadmap. Worked on defining product positioning, value propositions and personas with Product Marketing while leveraging key usage metrics user feedback to support decisions and enhance market impact. * Team & Process Building: Contributed to the growth of the Product team (hiring and onboarding), and helped to enhance the product/feature launch process to better prepare the team to market and succeed.

Leveraged strategic and digital transformation consulting expertise to guide startups and large enterprises (transport, energy, shipbuilding, aviation) through complex challenges, developing robust analytical, strategic problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills vital for product leadership. Key contributions included: * Product Ownership & Digital Transformation: Acted as Product Owner for an internal data sharing platform in the rail sector, driving its development and adoption to enhance data accessibility. * Strategic Data & Innovation: Defined and supported the implementation of data strategies and innovative tools (e.g., PoC on graphs for ecosystem analysis), enabling data-driven decision-making and digital transformation within large organizations. * Cross-Functional Influence & Process Optimization: Led change management initiatives for open innovation systems, streamlined business processes, and defined critical KPIs to support strategic growth and operational efficiency. * Team Development & Mentorship: Contributed to firm-wide growth by actively training new consultants on company methodologies and tools, demonstrating early leadership and mentorship capabilities.

- Change Management in an Energy Company - PMO for the rédaction of Capgemini’s European Energy Market Observatory (2016)

As an intern in the technical consulting team, worked on a solution to include content from Box to Atlassian’s Confluence. Also created tutorials (videos, articles, presentations) on the company’s IT tools. Created a benchmark of applicant tracking system.

Practical training period in a hospital laundry. Assisted technicians in their interventions on machines and took part in the maintenance of the installation.