April Rose Reyes-Kho
Product Owner/Manager
Cebu
Summary
With 8 years in Product Owner/Management spanning multinational remote startups in AU, VN, Europe, and Southeast Asia, plus prior 8 years as a C++ Software Engineer. Proven success in dynamic startup settings, driving product strategy, product discovery, roadmap, and defining product specifications while fostering stakeholder collaboration. Skilled in people management and team leadership.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
17
17
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Product Owner
Employment Hero
10.2021 - Current
- Manage scrum team of 6 engineers based in Vietnam
- Prioritize backlog, refine scope, and detail acceptance criteria
- Create product requirement documents, conduct product discovery
- Participate in A/B Testing and Beta testing interviews
- Execute user acceptance tests
- Create mock-ups in collaboration with UX designers
- Gather user insights from Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support teams
- Write knowledge-based articles for customers.
- Conducted data-driven analysis to measure product success metrics
Head of Product
HReasily
04.2021 - 10.2021
- Managed a team of 7 Product Owners and 2 UX Designers
- Conduct 1 on 1 coaching
- Perform annual performance evaluation
- Coach and conduct training workshops for the Product team
- Manage quarterly product roadmap planning
- Collaborate between CTO, Customer Success, Sales and Partnerships
- Create a competitor analysis report enlisting 10 direct competitors
- Analyzed product insights based on data analytics
- Create a statement of work documents for project costing
- Produce weekly internal release notes
- Interface with clients on project timelines and feature requests.
Senior Product Owner - Payroll Squad Lead
HReasily
08.2020 - 10.2021
- Coordinate product strategy across 5 different payroll regions in Asia
- Monitor progress and completion of features between 3 Product Owners
- Senior Product Owner for the most profitable market SG
- Create PRD documentation in Confluence
- Create User Stories with UI mock-ups and Acceptance criteria
- Conduct product review and acceptance testing
- Conduct scrum ceremonies with my scrum team
- Manage priorities of incoming bug tickets from customer success teams.
Change Leader - Technical Project Manager
Nokia
02.2018 - 06.2020
- Coordinated internal projects across 5 Team Leaders in 4 active projects
- Managed 3 internal projects for a tribe of 120 employees
- Monitored metrics and KPIs across the tribe
- Conducted Agile Training for 200 employees.
Product Owner
Nokia
04.2015 - 01.2018
- Prioritized product backlog for 2 Products (LTE / WCDMA)
- Facilitated Sprint ceremonies for 3 Scrum teams
- Monitored progress of 3 major project milestones from ideation to release.
C / C++ Senior Software Engineer - Scrum Master
Tieto
06.2012 - 03.2015
- Was assigned 2 domain modules for both LTE and IHSPA project
- Automated unit test cases with more than 40-70 test cases in total
- Served 2 Scrum teams as a Scrum Master on top of development tasks.
C / C++ System Engineer
KYOCERA Global
11.2010 - 06.2012
- Implemented and maintained code for Printer Drivers.
C / C++ Junior Software Engineer
Seiko Epson Corporation
09.2008 - 10.2010
- Implemented and maintained code for POS systems.
Barista
Starbucks
08.2008 - 01.2009
Logic Design Engineer
Alliance Software Inc.
06.2007 - 03.2008
Education
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science -
University of the Philippines
01.2002 - 04.2008
High School - undefined
University of San Carlos
01.1998 - 04.2002
Elementary - undefined
University of San Carlos
01.1992 - 04.1998
Skills
Team Management
Product Discovery
Requirements Gathering
Team Management
Competitive Analysis
User Acceptance Testing
Scrum Methodology
Wireframing and Prototyping
Feature Prioritization
Product Metrics Tracking
Websites
Certification
Certified SAFe 4 Program Consultant - Scaled Agile, Inc., 05/01/20, 05/01/21
Timeline
Product Owner
Employment Hero
10.2021 - Current
Head of Product
HReasily
04.2021 - 10.2021
Senior Product Owner - Payroll Squad Lead
HReasily
08.2020 - 10.2021
Change Leader - Technical Project Manager
Nokia
02.2018 - 06.2020
Product Owner
Nokia
04.2015 - 01.2018
C / C++ Senior Software Engineer - Scrum Master
Tieto
06.2012 - 03.2015
C / C++ System Engineer
KYOCERA Global
11.2010 - 06.2012
C / C++ Junior Software Engineer
Seiko Epson Corporation
09.2008 - 10.2010
Barista
Starbucks
08.2008 - 01.2009
Logic Design Engineer
Alliance Software Inc.
06.2007 - 03.2008
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science -
University of the Philippines
01.2002 - 04.2008
High School - undefined
University of San Carlos
01.1998 - 04.2002
Elementary - undefined
University of San Carlos
01.1992 - 04.1998