Philippines

Generalist Product Management

Customer Experience (CX)

Technical Product Management

Platform Product Management

Group Product Management

Project Management

Architectural Engineering

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Kevin Sebastian

Senior AI Product Manager

Usability Testing

Partnership

Product analytics

Product strategy

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Forecasting and reporting

Market research

User research

Product roadmap

Trello

Youtube

ChatGPT

Docker

Figma

GitHub

Glassdoor

Jira

GitLab

I accommodate part time mentorship sessions with the goal to give back to the professional community and also to learn from these coaching sessions!

As Lead Product Manager for Sprout Ecosystem and Integrations, I am focused on maximizing the value of Sprout's Core Services by hooking them up to the rest of the external SaaS Ecosystem.

I coach and grow a team of Product Managers that work on specific solution areas from Legacy App, Core Service API development, Core Platform (iPaas solutions), Fintech Integration until specific Client and Partner integration apps. 

I work with the Chief Product Officer and Business Unit Heads of Growth in aligning Product Strategy to our overall business strategy for Sprout, not only to maintain Sprout's dominance in the Philippine market in terms of Core HR and Payroll solutions, but to also grow the number of adjacent problems that we solve pertaining to Employee Lifecycle Management.

Handles various Product and/or Platform development as well as client project projects as Delivery Lead and/or Product Owner.

Working on cool technology solutions revolving around insuretech, which includes (but not only) electronic point-of-sales solutions, Platform/Product Software Enablers, Embedded Insurance (marketplace) platform and Analytics framework.

Part of the Delivery Hub senior team that's working on cross project resource allocation, process improvements & day to day operations.

•	Works with other Product Owners and Architects to define and execute the product roadmap.
•	Accountable for the assigned feature bundle within the product.
•	Responsible for aligning the product backlog with customer needs and ensuring the delivery of end-to-end integrated features. 
•	Member of the agile team responsible for defining user stories and the definition of done.
•	Coordinate team dependencies with other agile teams whether inside or outside the own development unit.
•	Ensures product development and maintenance are being executed efficiently. This includes refinement of internal specifications, acceptance criteria, test strategy evolutions, and trunk management.
•	Review product KPIs and trigger necessary actions if needed.

Similar technologies used with R&D Engineer for LTE position but with more responsibility in leading the team in providing technical solutions to meet feature delivery timeline.

Acting as Scrum Master on top of development work. Responsibilities include: 
•	Coaching the organization about scrum.
•	Facilitating scrum ceremonies.
•	Representing the team in scrum and other process related meetings.
•	Guiding the team on effective work practices.
•	Ensuring that the backlog is refined, estimated and fine grained.
•	Helping the rest of the team reach it’s potential, for them to execute in the highest efficiency possible.

•	Responsible for code maintenance (JAVA, XML) of the parameter validations domain of the site manager.
    •   Creates test automations and performs manual module testing to ensure code quality per delivery
    •   Develops scripts using Python to automate tasks.

•	Involved in the end-to-end process of SW feature development (C++): feature owner team meetings, specifications reviews, various forms of planning, feature impact analysis, code design and implementation, code reviews, entity integration and verification support, maintenance and post-delivery bug (“pronto”) handling.
    •	Writes test automation code for multiple levels: Unit Test, Module Tests, System Component Test, Plane Integration Test and UTE cloud-based testing environment.
    •	Responsible for code maintenance in specialized domains, which includes adaptation of interface or framework changes, fixing memory leaks and fixing reported bugs (“prontos”) by verification teams.
    •	Performs root cause analysis for discovered issues and proposes action items.
    •	Ensures quality of deliverables by practicing effective methodologies, whether it’s Nokia specific mode of work or practices used by the software development community (Agile scrum, Test Driven Development, Extreme programming, etc.)
    •	Responsible for sharing technical expertise with other engineers.
    •	Had experience doing development work in multiple software domains that performs the following: Cell calculation service, OBSAI-RP3 and CPRI routings and scheduling, m-plane controller for synchronization, fault management, commissioning data management and transport software interface.

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