Omar Zawia Product Design & Ownership

User first, remote first experienced and results-driven professional with a strong background in technical product ownership, spanning over 5 years in the software industry. Skilled in delivering innovative solutions and driving business growth, I have successfully contributed to various domains including social trading apps, igaming products, and the casino and sports affiliation industry.

Team Strategy

As team leader, I orchestrated the setup of high-performing cross-functional Scrum teams, optimizing collaboration and efficiency.

Product Design

User-centric product ideation and vision strategy and implementation, aligned with business goals. Cross-team collaboration for achieving efficient product design lifecycle.

Product Integrations & Migrations

Third Party product analyses and integration on top of current business infrastructure. Product tech stack migrations

Technical Approach

Business to technical requirements. Leadership of technical teams through tech feature and technical resolutions.

About Me

With a keen interest in user experience, I grew a distinct passion for graphic arts and web development. Going on to my first freelance venture in 2010 with two other fellow students, I provided online system design and development. My commercial experience led me to empathize and comprehend the challenges in the various teams in an Agile environment, such as the back-end team, designers, marketing, affiliation department, CRM, DevOps, and others.

Being a certified Scrum Product Owner and working as a technical Product Owner in Agile teams, I gained valuable experience and skill in adopting the methodology in improved technology throughout the whole SDLC. I worked with stakeholders, product teams, design, and development to create processes for the collection and communication of requirements to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable system behaviour.

Languages I Speak

Below are the languages I am fluent in to a certain level.

Maltese- Fluent

Speak - Write - Read - Understand

English - Fluent

Speak - Write - Read - Understand

Italian - Fluent

Speak - Write - Read - Understand

Arabic - Conversational

Speak - Read - Understand

Spanish - Beginner

Read - Understand

Industry Journey

10 years of commerical experience as a UX/UI researcher, developer, designer, product ownership and team leadership

Raketech2022 - current
Redacre2020 - 2022
Azure Services2018 - 2020
EEL2016 - 2018
Digital Brands2016 - 2017
Deloitte2015 - 2016
GFI2014 - 2015
Mifrosoft Malta2013 - 2014

Some of My Projects

MAILVISE

Mail made easy. An email management system for the creation of campaigns.

Mailvise is a SaaS for building email templates. Build in AngularJS, mailvise is a component based campaign builder

TradeOr

Crypto, Forex and Stock trading application

TradeOr is a social trading app to trade from day to position trading to copy trading.

LoudBet

Igaming affiliation product, focusing on onsite entertainment for converting users

LoudBet is an igaming affiliation product promoting Geo-based operator offers and onsite slot free play

MyMobileLine

A custom built service site for social communications

Mymobileline.com helps you find comfort with another person or your happy ever after.

N'JOY

A wordpress app with leveraged UX and simplified subscription process

N'Joy is a driving tuition school in Malta for learning how to drive automatic and manual small vehicles

Promovise

Promovise is a showcase of my works, articles and interests in technology, UX, travel, affiliation and more. Stay tuned for more to come 🙂

10 YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Acquired Skills

With over 10 years of experience through design, development and product ownership, today I focus on the delivery of high impact products with strong user experience.

From product and feature ideation, goal alignment and communication, requirements gathering and translation to leadership through user research, design, developing, testing and releasing bespoke products. An experience gained both with new products and jumping onto ongoing projects.

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Recognitions

Certifications acquired by Omar Zawia Abela

Leadership

Distributed Management
DM
Distrubted management By Remote How Academy
Gap Analyses - Self Organisation - Empathy
Remote Goal Setting & Exploring Prioritization
Morningness Eveningness Test and Pomodoro Technique
Remote Decision Making - Communication
Digital Collaboration
Stress Management - Stay Motivated - Mativate Others
Self Care

PO

Professional Scrum Product Owner
PSPO
scrum.org
Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework
Empiricism, Scrum Team, Events, Artifacts
Developing People and Teams
Self-managing Teams
Managing Products with Agility
Forecasting & Release Planning, Product Vision, Product Value, Product Backlog Management, Business Strategy, Stakeholders & Customers

Compliance

Anti-Money Laundering
AML
EU Anti-MoneyLaundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing. Skill cast Group Plc
Identify money laundering and terrorist financing and how it takes place
Conduct proportionate, risk-based customer due diligence (CDD)
Identify common red flags and take appropriate action
Recognise when and how to seek advice and report suspicions
Fulfil your obligation not to tip off anyone suspected of money laundering or terrorist financing

What Is Product Ownership

At promovise.com, I discuss the role of the agile product owner and the importance of it. Learn more by clicking the below button.

Works On Dribble

Here are some samples of projects that I contributed within the team to vision and design or built all by myself for leading products.

VIEW MY DRIBBLE

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What People Say About Me

Here is what past managers, team leads, colleagues and employees have to say about my work, leadership and communication skills.

How I Approach Product Design

Approaching product design as an Agile PO involves understanding user needs, collaborating with stakeholders, and prioritizing value. Create clear user stories, work closely with designers and developers to build prototypes and MVPs, and iterate based on user feedback. Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement, regularly reviewing and adapting the product backlog to meet evolving requirements and market trends.

  • Product Ideation & Vision

    Extensive industry research and market analyses. This will inform the ideation of the product and its ambitious objectives. This is a playful step for me, where with the discovered stakeholders, we let our creativity go wild and big. A clear product vision is then defined and aligned with business criticality. How do you align with the business? Here a clear value proposition defines the benefits and value for the target audience and product USPs. Here, we identify risks and mitigate them.

  • Prioritization

    Based on their strategic importance and potential impact on achieving the product goals, a roadmap of features, enhancements and important milestones is clearly defined and feedback loop is created with all relevant stakeholders. Stories are mapped to their epics which are derived from objectives and key results. My key role to facilitate this process flow from objectives to actionable tasks loaded onto iterative models.

  • Design & Development

    Experienced leading sprint planning, story mapping, the art of writing value, achievable sprint goals, story weighing, WSJF, writing spikes, crafting SAFe enablers, aid the technical team to identify technical debt and retrospect. This stage is one of the most difficult yet most rewarding of the product design process. Here a healthy, fully functional lifecycle is to be planned, communicated, lead built and managed to ensure product requirements are analysed, tested, designed, developed, tested and delivered. How do you ensure quick SAFe feature delivery?

Slots & iGaming

Slots & iGaming

Affiliate / Operator
FX, Stocks, Crypto Trading

FX, Stocks, Crypto Trading

Broker
Online Security

Online Security

Service Provider
Sports & Lottery

Sports & Lottery

Affiliate / Operator
Timesharing & Chartering

Timesharing & Chartering

Operator
SaaS

SaaS

Microsoft

Latest Blogs

Enjoy more of my content in my promovise blog.

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What Are User Stories?

September 29, 2022/

Section #1. What are user stories? Talking about the different story types and giving real world user story examples. We…

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