Veteran tech product manager for hire. I've launched many products/services (for users ranging from bond traders to truck drivers), the best known being Sympatico, which I co-founded. I'm market/customer/user-centric and am a Lean Startup advocate. I have a heavy technical background (Waterloo CS degree; co-author of Deutsche Bank's former global risk control system) and work closely with developers to make the customers/users happy. Project management testimonial: “nothing falls through the cracks”. Hobbies: I'm creating my own product and am a product advisor to a few startups.

Product Management/Development Consultant @ Available for short- and long-term engagements. I've done work for, among others, Reuters, Canada.com (via Cossette Communications), Bell Sympatico, Rogers Cable Internet (via Certainty Solutions), The Globe and Mail (via Blue North Strategies), Freeplay Energy, and Trinity Apparel Group. From November 1993 to Present (22 years 2 months) Toronto, Canada AreaProduct Development Advisor @ Interaxon is a world leader in brain-sensing technologies. It's historically done custom work, and I advise the company on the creation and ongoing development of its first product, the Muse meditation aid. From June 2011 to Present (4 years 7 months) Toronto, Canada AreaChief Product Officer @ Not your average daily-deal company, it sold iPads for $10 (limited quantity). I helped FabFind turn its innovations into things that buyers and businesses could easily understand, appreciate, and use, plus contributed to the development team. FabFind was acquired by TeamBuy. From October 2010 to August 2012 (1 year 11 months) Toronto, Canada AreaProduct Manager (contract) @ I worked with this world-leading news-aggregation company (now wound down) to improve its consumer product and initiate its business products. Pilot customers were Macleans.ca for automatic generation of a Winter Olympics section and TheGlobeAndMail.com for the G8/G20 Summit. From January 2010 to August 2010 (8 months) Director, Email Services @ Working with a Scrum agile team, I was the product manager for the OpenSRS Email Service (millions of mailboxes under management through hundreds of ISP and webhost resellers) and the OpenSRS Personal Names Service (surname-based email addresses). Unfortunately this position was cancelled in a 15% layoff at the bottom of the recession. From March 2008 to November 2008 (9 months) Product Manager, Software @ I worked with the owners of a clothing business to define, build and launch an automated-tailoring product, The Fitter, that revolutionizes made-to-measure clothing. In 2006, Holt Renfrew rolled out the system to all their stores across Canada. From January 2003 to May 2005 (2 years 5 months) Internet Business Strategist @ I advised client firms on what to do on the Internet, using my understanding of what works there and what doesn’t. Beginning with high-level objectives, I produced solutions covering aspects from business models down to website information architecture. Clients included Starwood Hotels and InspectValue.com, the first online vehicle inspection service. (And then the dot-com crash happened.) From October 1999 to November 2000 (1 year 2 months) Co-founder and CTO @ I co-founded the world's first mass-market Internet service: a combination of the Sympatico Internet service (Canada's largest) and Sympatico.ca (Canada's most popular web portal). I co-wrote the business plan in early 1995, including a remarkably accurate forecast of the development of the Internet and its business implications. I worked with Bell Canada, BCTel (now Telus), and MT&T (now Aliant) to rapidly create their first consumer Internet services (fastest product launch in Bell's history: eight months), and with other phone companies to integrate their services, creating the only service to cover every province and territory. I made it easy to use by non-techy users, including automated configuration of the user's computer during signup, and was involved in everything from editing the user's guide to being a model in the ad campaign. I led the technical development of Sympatico.ca and its related sites such as Canada411, and pioneered website personalization (the Sympatico home page may have been the first high-volume web page to be dynamically generated). From January 1995 to July 1998 (3 years 7 months) Project Manager @ I managed the development of a PC LAN-based system to process purchases of Canada Savings Bonds. I was responsible for the entire product development lifecycle, from initial product specifications through design, development, user documentation, testing, launch and customer implementation. This product was used to process all bonds sold by Canada Trust and National Trust, among others. From 1992 to 1993 (1 year) Manager, Product Development / Product Manager, Fuel Delivery @ I headed the development of a breakthrough PC-based product that managed truck-mounted computers through mobile data, for tasks such as delivering home heating oil. Handed a rough prototype, I transformed it into a solid product that achieved nearly 100% share wherever actively marketed. I was responsible for product feature set, software development, user documentation, and customer implementation and support. From 1990 to 1992 (2 years) Director of Technology @ I was recruited into this senior management role at this joint venture of Ericsson and Rogers Wireless, to establish and lead the technology side of this new systems integration startup specializing in mobile data. I developed the company’s expertise in mobile data systems and related software, hardware, and communications technologies. I became a national technical expert on the Mobitex mobile data system. From 1989 to 1990 (1 year) Various @ I held a series of increasingly senior systems development roles, starting with programming custom applications (often OLAP) in APL for customers in a range of industries and ending with developing complex products for the international financial services sector. I coauthored Deutsche Bank's global risk control system ($trillions annually), built up and managed a department of 15 containing 4 project teams, and following our acquisition by Reuters led the first large project for our new parent. From 1983 to 1989 (6 years)

M.Math - incomplete, Computer Science @ University of Waterloo From 1981 to 1982 B.Math, Computer Science @ University of Waterloo From 1976 to 1981 Lower Canada College, Montréal From 1969 to 1976 Group leadership training @ Gestalt Institute of Toronto From 1998 to 2002 Rohan Jayasekera is skilled in: Product Management, Product Development, Software Development, Start-ups, Programming, SaaS, Agile Methodologies, Web Development, Web 2.0, Team Management, Social Media, Copy Editing, Daily Deals, Gestalt Psychotherapy, Socionomics