Manuel Arrabal

Head of Product @ CHECK24 ES based in Madrid, Spain

✉ Email / 🌎 Website / 💼 LinkedIn / 💻 GitHub

💭💻🚀 Experience

Head of Product @ CHECK24 (Dec 2019 - Present)

• Continually analyze product performance and market trends in order to identify opportunities.
• Develop new designs and functionalities taking into account both user satisfaction and the optimization of the web or our applications.
• Prioritize and coordinate the implementation projects of the new functionalities with all the areas involved.
• Carry out daily user tests (user testing’s) both manual and automated on the different types of devices to ensure the proper functioning of both general and new features developed.
• Cooperate closely with the IT teams regarding the maintenance of the relevant pages and tools, from the point of view of product management.
  
  

Team lead @ Kleding.nl & Fashiola (Jun 2017 - Dec 2019)

• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.
• Align the project with the different stakeholders (Development, SEO, SEA and Business)
• Conflict resolution.
• Estimation and planning. Preventing and removing impediments.
• QC / QA
  
  

HEAD of mobility, APP and Front-end @ Rastreator.com (Oct 2012 - Jun 2017)

• Definition of the mobile strategy of the web platform.
• Development and growth of the PPP.
• Coordinator of the Front-end team.
  
  Head of Multi Product team (2016)
• Definition and launch of new products.
• Management of the daily relationship with the different partners.
• Business analysis.
  
  Technology manager (2012-2014)
• Management of new agreements with partners.
• Creation of new IT processes.
• IT support.
• Management of Test and Production systems.
• Collection of requirements.
• Writing of functionalities.
• Quality review of the developed applications.
  
  

📌 On The Side

Co-founder - Dulces & Co @ Dulces & Co (Dec 2019 - Present)
Handcrafted pastries and baked goods 🍰🍪

Commercial director @ [Marvel informática] (2010-2012)

• Manage employees, keeping them on a path toward long-term goals and boost morale, in addition to fostering talent and encouraging employee retention.
• Develop leads, focusing on growing the company’s sales and customer base, and lead generation plays a key role in this strategy.
• Prepare promotional and marketing materials to give to current and potential clients.
• Use my experience and knowledge to identify potential legal, financial, or sales issues.
  Technician (2007-2010)
• Setting up workstations with computers and necessary peripheral device.
• Checking computer hardware (HDD, mouses, keyboards etc.) to ensure functionality.
• Installing and configuring appropriate software and functions according to specifications.
  
  

Assitant @ International Congress of Mathematicians (2006)

• Collaborate with the organization, helping the Congress attendees.

Sport assistant @ F.E.D.C. (2001-2006)

• Collaborate with the athlete, taking charge of setting up the adaptation of the stand and helping him/her with the location of the target, the remaining time, etc.
  
  

🎤 Public Speaking

• Cloud Leadership Forum 2014 (Madrid & Barcelona, Spain, 2014)
• IX Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información RECSI 2006 (Barcelona, Spain, 2006)
  
  

💻 Programming Languages

• PYTHON
• PHP
• C++
• FORTRAN
• MATLAB
  
  

🏆 Accomplishments

Employee of the year @ Rastreator.com (2013)

💬 Languages

Spanish: Native
English: Professional working proficiency
German: A2.2 Goethe Institut

🎓 Education

The Hero Camp Product Analytics
The hero camp - Madrid, Spain (2024)

Thiga Academy
Thiga

• Product Designer (2023)
• Lead Product Training (2023)

ThePowerMBA and Harvad Businness Publishing Education
ThePowerMBA (2022)

European Scrum Expert Scrum Foundations
European Scrum - Madrid, Spain (2020)

The Hero Camp Digital Product Manager
The hero camp - Madrid, Spain (2018)

Udacity Educational organization
Udacity

• Intel Edge AI Scholarship Foundation Course, OpenVINO Fundamentals (2019)
• Bertelsmann Data Science Challenge Scholarship (2018)
• Android Development for Beginners (2017)

Securízame
Securízame

• Análisis Forense
• Hacking Ético
• Hardening de Sistemas Windows y Linux e Infraestructuras
  

Universidad de Vigo Experto en gestión de la seguridad de la información
Universidad de Vigo (2012)

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