Omar Zawia Product Design & Ownership
- Product ideation and vision
- Ownership of the product design and lifecycle
- Team strategy and leadership
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.
- Agile Oriented
- User experience enthusiast
- Experienced in various industries
- Certified Scrum PO
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
Sports, Lottery & Casino Affiliation
TPO for these products. Strategised the migrations, feature release and scrum team
Crypto, Forex & Stocks Social Trading App
PO for tradeor.com. A social trading app with crypto transactions
Time Sharing and Chartering
Front-end lead developer for the time sharing, sports car and yacht chartering
Online Gaming Operators
CRM product owner for quasar gaming and ovocasino online gaming operators
Some of My Projects
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.
Recognitions
Certifications acquired by Omar Zawia Abela
Leadership
Distributed ManagementPO
Professional Scrum Product OwnerCompliance
Anti-Money LaunderingWhat 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.
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.
"During his time within the company as a web designer/integrator, Omar has proved to be an enthusiastic and dedicated employee with reliable work habits and goal-oriented. Omar was a diligent, competent employee who satisfactorily performed his tasks in a timely effective manner. I believe he would be capable employee in any organisation"
"As Operations Manager, I was always impressed with Omar’s attitude and competencies. During the time spent working closely with me, Omar worked very hard and displayed strong reporting skills, logical thinking abilities, and the ability to work well with teams. He consistently completed tasks assigned by the leadership team on time and without errors with excellent quality. I am convinced that Omar will be an important asset to any employer"
"I had the pleasure of working with Omar as the Product Owner for my team at Red Acre. He has impressive skills honed over his seven years of experience. He brought those skills to bear as the Product Owner at Red Acre. He quickly adapted to new software and technologies, communicated business requirements and helped the team create innovative solutions. What stood out to me most was his ability to collaborate effectively with others. I would highly recommend Omar for any product innovation role. He has a wide range of skills, a keen eye for detail, and a collaborative approach, that makes him an asset to any team"
"During our time together, Omar showed the ability to prioritize important features for stakeholders while delivering them in a safe and timely manner. Omar understood stakeholder requirements and translated them into actionable product roadmaps. Beyond his technical expertise, Omar's communication skills were always clear, concise, and transparent in his communication with both internal and external stakeholders."
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
FX, Stocks, Crypto Trading
Online Security
Sports & Lottery
Timesharing & Chartering
SaaS
Latest Blogs
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